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...Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, cancelled all its long-distance trips starting on Thursday because it operates on tracks owned by freight railroads outside the north-east....
...While space exploration used to be about state-backed programmes focused on national security, national pride and scientific research, the US started pulling back on centralised government control of space...
...At nearly 400ft, the new SpaceX rocket will eventually be taller than the Saturn V that carried Nasa’s Apollo missions to the moon, and its 33 engines will deliver twice the thrust....
...At current rates, the Big Three will control over a quarter of S&P 500 equity by 2028, up from one-fifth in 2018, according to a paper last year from the National Bureau of Economic Research in the US....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...(FT) A train to Yucatán A 1,460km, $7.9bn railroad through the heart of Mayan territory could carry more than 8,000 passengers a day to some of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations....
...Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, now provides around 32m passenger trips per year across 21,400 miles of routes, and is impressively semi-functional for a system whose notional funding...
...Three Chinese nationals working for the China Road and Bridge Corporation were last month charged in Kenya with attempting to bribe local officials investigating an alleged ticketing scam that was said to...
...“We know our passengers value having a second person on the train.”...
...Alex McCaskey, a researcher at the US energy department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, compares the current state of the art to the first efforts to program classical computers in the 1950s and early 1960s...
...Amtrak – formally the National Passenger Railroad Corp – is a government-controlled company, relying partly on funding from Washington....
...Out of sight of the disgruntled passengers, however, Amtrak’s engineers are being supported by some of the world’s most advanced technologies to prevent those delays....
...The first two to be privatised, say officials, will be the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation and the India Railway Finance Corp....
...In May 2015 eight died when a train operated by Amtrak, the national passenger railroad, crashed outside Philadelphia. Both were a result of trains taking bends at excessive speeds....
...Gleaming new Chinese trains were envisaged, whisking passengers and cargo along at 137mph on about 300 miles of track....
...“This defect didn’t pose a safety risk and the vehicles can continue to operate,” the company added....
...(MarketWatch, NYT) Food for thought TPP won’t tame China Gideon Rachman argues that Obama’s Pacific trade deal is “not a significant enough step to justify all the geopolitical hopes invested in it”, and...
...“This doesn’t change our plans.”...
...Not just individual bloggers and other self-publishers, but also companies and corporations....
...“Aviation isn’t going to be able to pick up the slack, nor is I-95. We’re locked in.”...
...Weirdly enough, the court’s wariness of extraterritorial jurisdiction partly comes from recently ruling in a finance-law case, Morrison v National Australia Bank, that foreign investors can’t sue foreign...
...process overseen by the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank’s private lending arm, during Mr Nasheed’s tenure....
...More passengers come aboard and deck after deck is added. The story culminates in a fold-out revealing the entire bus in all its 100-storey glory....
...Chavan Bhogaita, head of markets strategy at National Bank of Abu Dhabi, said: “This decision should help mitigate concerns in the market about Dubai’s cash reserves and access to funding in general....
...Corp (SAIC)....
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