Word: norfolk
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...team of technicians was dispatched earlier in the day from Norfolk, Va., to Bahrain to conduct an initial damage assessment and begin temporary repairs, the Navy added...
...issue is more than $50 million in compensatory and punitive damages claimed by 65 plaintiffs, following a train wreck in Sturgeon, Mo., on the night of Jan. 10, 1979. A tank car on a Norfolk & Western freight broke a coupling and derailed, spilling 19,000 gallons of orthochlorophenol. Sturgeon was evacuated for two days while the spill was cleaned up. Then Monsanto announced that the spilled chemical contained a minute amount of dioxin, the type designated as 2,3,7,8-TCDD and described as the most toxic synthetic chemical known to man. A mere thimbleful was involved. But because...
...Masai elder sat in the Lord Delamere Restaurant in the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi and explained that all animals are left-handed. It is true, said the elder, named Moses. Never get onto a lion's left side. A lion attacks to his left. All animals instinctively lead with the left paw, the left hoof, the left horn. Even cows are left-handed, said Moses...
While corporations have forged all sorts of improbable unions, none in recent years have tried to merge a railroad with an airline. Norfolk Southern, an East Coast railroad-holding company, may venture such a match. The company disclosed that it is considering acquiring Piedmont, the profitable North Carolina-based airline. Since 1981 Norfolk has owned more than 19% of Piedmont stock. It agreed five years ago not to buy more than 20.5% of the airline's shares, but that pact expired last week...
Industry observers were hard pressed to see the merit of such a merger. But in announcing its interest in Piedmont, the railroad may attract other bidders for the airline. Norfolk might then walk away with a handsome profit on its investment without ever having flown into the turbulent airline business...