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...movie has a carload of gay jokes, which is odd, since John and Jeremy's bonding is, well, not exactly homoerotic, more like the intimacy of college-prankster soul mates--fratonic. They may want to have sex with strangers, but they most enjoy being a team. And the most heartfelt I-love-yous the guys say are to each other. The script's burden is to pry the buddies apart and get them to chase women meaningfully...
There's more at stake than the fate of one railroad company or getting a carload of molasses to the supermarket on time. The nation's four largest railroads, UP, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, CSX and Norfolk Southern, are a linchpin of the U.S. economy; when they don't run smoothly, it's tough for the economy to grow. And lately, for companies whose bottom line depends on moving goods on schedule, the situation has become dire. UPS, the huge parcel service, was recently forced to shift some shipments to trucks. Dow Chemical, which supplies, among other things, chlorine...
...year feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate led to an explosion of female violence that was unprecedented for the Italian Mob. After exchanging slaps and threats at the local Lauro di Nola beauty parlor last Sunday, several female relatives from the Graziano family cornered a carload of women from the Cava clan and opened fire with automatic weapons. Three of the Cava women were killed and two were seriously wounded. After toasting their success with male relatives, the Graziano women were taken into custody by local police whose wiretaps had captured many details of the episode. Beyond...
...Cumbres Pass (elevation 10,015 ft). The second locomotive fires up in Antonito, Colo., and chugs southwest. It threads through two 360-ft.-long tunnels, one of which was blasted out of 1.7 billion-year-old rock a dizzying 600 ft. above Toltec Gorge. You won't find a carload of snakes like the one Indiana Jones encountered. But do keep your eyes open for deer, black bear, bobcat, mountain lion and eagles...
...think President Clinton has problems with the press? A 65-year-old Russian journalist detonated a carload full of explosives at the gates of the Kremlin late Wednesday. Officials say Ivan Orlov, who survived the attack, is insane. But the incident may simply be the latest symptom of Russia's social unraveling. "He hadn't been paid for months, although that's nothing unusual here," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "People are getting desperate, starting to point guns at their bosses to demand their salaries. Orlov's attack won't be the last such case...