Word: railed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Neither sermons, warnings nor concessions, however, appeared to sway the workers. On Wednesday, 30 new factories were struck in Wroclaw alone, including the massive PAFAWAG State Rail Transport factory. Walkouts also shut down the H. Cegielski heavy-machinery plant in Poznan. The next day, new strikes also spread to factories in Slupsk, Bydgoszcz and Grudziadz. By then the unrest had reached virtually every part of the country. Apart from the willful stoppages, the interruption of transportation links and the consequent lack of parts and raw materials forced many nonstriking factories to close down...
...There are some things the Japanese have that we can't imitate. Their inventories come from plants that surround their auto plants. Ours come in on rail cars from South Carolina. But we can learn from the way they plan their business; the way they don't have labor-management squabbles; the way they can stop the line when there's something wrong with...
...White House will point to the $25 billion in programs to promote U.S. energy production and conservation that are already part of this year's Synthetic Fuels Corp. legislation. In addition, the President will promise to spend heavily for mass transportation and upgrade rail and port facilities for shipping coal. Three weeks ago, Carter told a meeting of the National Urban League that these energy proposals alone would create "literally millions of jobs...
There are other facets of the conventions the TV cameras ignore--the railroad press lounge in the Garden basement, for example, where employees of the railway lobby distribute free beer, sandwiches, and advice about the need for more government subsidies to the rail industry. But the biggest distortion of the TV broadcasts is their ability to add excitement where it doesn't exist, and paradoxically, to miss the spirit during the few moments of true emotion...
...place may not only be dull; it puts great pressure on the spine. Shifting the weight from one foot to the other also helps relieve the strain of standing in place. At a bar do what experienced patrons have long done: always keep a foot on the rail or a rung of the bar stool...