Word: longests
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...opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, young Indy gallops toward a smoke-billowing circus train and leaps aboard. That engine and those tracks are part of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, a Hollywood favorite and the highest and longest narrow-gauge railroad in the U.S. But seeing it onscreen doesn't compare with riding it firsthand, as 70,000 tourists and train buffs do each year...
Nieuwenhuys was wrong about only one thing. We're not alienated at all. Here we are, roaring into the 21st century, powered by the longest economic boom in U.S. history, wired to the Web and to one another, thirstily consuming new technology even before we know how to use it. In the frenzy of perpetual motion we want to re-create the space around us, not as our only joy but because we can, and because that way it's our space. We're snapping up translucent blueberry-tinted computers, bubbled cars and little chrome cell phones as fast...
...38th day, the union officials said, "Let there be flight!" One of the longest and largest white-collar strikes in American history came to an end Friday when members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace reached a tentative agreement with aerospace giant Boeing over wages and benefits. The settlement, described by analysts as "generous" to the union, highlights both increasing competition for Boeing from the European aircraft consortium, Airbus, and a general corporate love affair with stock prices that appears to have pushed the issue of corporate costs into the background...
...used to do est. What's the longest you've ever held...
...Crimson enters the playoffs on a six-game winning streak, its longest of the season, which includes a 2-1 victory over the Bears in Providence. And Harvard hopes it will continue to improve on the ice during the mad month of March...