Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equipment. Officials of the railroads involved in the latest derailments insisted that they had taken all possible precautions. Said Donald T. Martin, an executive with Family Lines System, which operated the train that derailed in Waverly: "We do our utmost to keep our track and roadbed in good shape. We had inspected the track at Waverly two days before the accident. But there is no way to tell when a wheel will break. There's no way to tell when the metal will get tired...
...federal experts say that U.S. railroads, except for the handful that are in sound financial shape, simply cannot afford to keep their equipment properly maintained. Observed Raymond James, chief counsel and acting director of the Federal Railroad Administration's Safety Office: "The railroad system does not generate enough income to sustain itself. What gives first is maintenance, and it's getting worse." Despite a 10% increase in freight rates in 1974 and an annual expenditure of $9 billion in maintenance, the railroads since that year have reduced a backlog of $4.1 billion in needed repairs by only...
This week the U.N. Security Council will take up the Rhodesian question, and probably will denounce the Salisbury plan. Yet the more the settlement takes shape, the more denunciations of it by outside governments will be questioned. Neither Washington nor London was prepared to oppose it openly, though in the past both had maintained that any new government in Salisbury would have to include the Patriotic Front if the war was to be ended and if Soviet and Cuban influence was to be kept out of the area...
When the Yankees convened an early, optional training camp for pitchers and catchers, Lyle was, as usual, absent; for Free Spirit Sparky spring always comes late. He needs less time to get in shape than most pitchers and has used the delay to concoct elaborate arrivals, threatening to land on the pitcher's mound in a helicopter or hobbling to camp swathed in plaster of paris casts. But this year, Steinbrenner decided to exercise his Prussian sense of humor. He castigated the pitcher to reporters on the grounds that Lyle had a contractual obligation to report to camp early...
...NINE DAYS the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote on the much-publicized Core Curriculum program. The outcome of that vote will determine the basic shape of the "Harvard education" for years to come, just as the General Education proposal did after its institution in the '40s. While it is true that the new proposal will not affect the educations of anyone now in the College, students should realize that the Core will affect the Class of '83--and many subsequent classes. The fact that the Core will not affect us does not mean current undergraduates should ignore this...