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...US Customs and Border Protection on Monday closed railway bridges at the cities of Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, which respectively rank as the second and fourth busiest freight rail crossings with Mexico...
...As soon as you see our fabric, you want to touch it,” says Margaret-Anne Speirs, Bute’s quality manager, who has worked at the company for 30 years and now runs the laboratory, testing yarns and fabrics...
...They include employees of the largest carriers in North America, such as Union Pacific, CSX and BNSF, a business owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway....
...Fe and completed in 1778 (after the previous theatre burnt down)....
...previously been known as “medium density”....
...I flew in via Oslo and, after two-nights in a hostel downtown, booked an overnight in a yurt — known here as a lavvu — with Tromsø Lapland, a Sámi-owned tour company....
...Doubles at The Langham, which occupies 13 floors of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark skyscraper formerly known as the IBM Building, (and whose concierge can organise tickets and tours) cost from $445; see langhamhotels.com...
...entire block in a part of the Central Business District now known as the Sandstone Precinct, gets a new lease of life as Capella Sydney, perhaps the first truly splendid grand hotel in the city....
...In England, London’s O2 Arena, the venue formerly known as the Millennium Dome, suffered damage when a large chunk of its canopy roof was ripped off....
...(otherwise known as “poor doors”) to be able to fully control their portions of the development....
...The British Smaller Companies VCT has investments in Manchester, Preston and Nottingham. And it’s run by a firm called YFM, formerly known as Yorkshire Fund Managers. What more would you want?...
...In 2009 Berkshire announced the acquisition of railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $44bn including debt. The deal was paid with 60 per cent cash and 40 per cent Berkshire shares....
...That decline more than offset the improvement in underlying earnings at Berkshire, which owns railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe, insurer Geico and chocolate maker See’s Candies....
...Most operators have in the past two years embraced principles known as “precision scheduled railroading,” which entail rigid timetables, longer trains, thousands of idled locomotives and less labour....
...In 1878 a football club called Newton Heath LYR started up near Manchester’s newish railway line. Its players worked at the Newton Heath carriage works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company....
...They were left waiting, as the company did not disclose any share purchases during the quarter or a decision to buy shares over the weekend....
...Winslow used to be the busiest railway hub in northern Arizona....
...Bruntwood, a local developer, is working on a site formerly occupied by the BBC and has secured Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a tenant....
...At its centre is the four-lamp street light known as Reality Checkpoint, though nobody quite knows why. One theory is that it’s a 1960s thing, a waymarker for hippy acid-heads....
...Consider the BRI -- formerly known as “One Belt, One Road” -- which has, so far, been more of a boondoggle than a boon....
...“The groundwork for this case was set in two previous cases — Daimler AG v Bauman and BNSF Railway Co. v Tyrrell — in which the Supreme Court put limitations on the jurisdictions of state courts,” says Mr...
...Mr Wan will surely approve of my winner, a BNSF railway executive who told a conference: “We move stuff from one place to another.”...
...Today, I have set out an indicative 5-year path for departmental resource spending ”RDEL” as it is known to aficionados of public finance....
...railways and a string of US power companies....
...A model railway represents the Burlington Northern Santa Fe network. Sadly, there are no discounts on NetJets, the pay-per-flight private aircraft operator....
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