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...the US freight railroad group with arch-rival Canadian National, people briefed about the matter told DD....
...A decade ago, Palau’s Rock Islands were a haven for travellers seeking solitude. The handful who made the trek would bond with nature in lagoons and diving spots teeming with rare fish....
...When he went himself, the trip from Chicago to the Pacific took two-and-a-half months by steamboat and ox-drawn wagon....
...Twenty years later, J Cooke & Co, the principal backers of the Northern Pacific Railroad, went bankrupt, setting off a chain reaction that caused the Panic of 1873....
...Above the news of Mr Erskine’s death on the front page of the Chicago Daily Tribune is an unrelated cartoon, which provides a reminder that technological forecasts are seldom on the money....
...“I prefer Detroit over Chicago,” he says, the place where many white Detroiters fled when their city’s decline seemed unstoppable....
...Its formal name is the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or Vix for short....
...———– Indies go mainstream I SELECTED AB INBEV ACQUISITIONS: Goose Island Beer Co, Chicago, acquired March 2011; Blue Point Brewing Co, Long Island, New Jersey, February 2014; Elysian Brewing Company, Seattle...
...Canadian Pacific, the rail company backed by Bill Ackman, the activist investor, on Monday accepted defeat for the second time in 18 months in an effort to take over a rival when it abandoned its pursuit...
...• Northern Trust has appointed John McCareins to lead its asset management business across the Asia-Pacific region....
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...In October last year, Canadian Pacific, one of Canada’s two main railroads, approached CSX, one of the two big railroads in the eastern US, about a potential merger. Talks quickly broke down....
...Designed by Germany’s Vosta and built by China Merchants Group at a cost of $130m, it can extract 4,500 cubic metres of sand and rock per hour....
...Milner also makes fascinating side excursions, for example into the ancient navigation systems that guided Polynesians around Pacific islands and into the way satnav affects the human brain....
...The US takes no position on the sovereignty of the uninhabited group of five islets and three rocks....
...In a rare example of open criticism against the Obama administration’s directive to airlines, Japan’s right-leaning Sankei newspaper said it would “undermine US-Japan co-ordination and benefit China”....
...… The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs, by Greil Marcus, Yale, RRP£16.99/$28 To veteran critic Marcus, rock claims to “divine all truths, reveal all mysteries, and escape all restrictions”: a kind...
...… Rock Stars Stole My Life! A Big Bad Love Affair with Music, by Mark Ellen, Coronet, RRP£18.99 Q magazine’s founder conducts a breezy tour through a life of rock journalism....
...In Beijing, some demonstrators threw rocks and water bottles at the Japanese embassy. Protesters chanted “Diaoyu Islands are China’s” and “Kneel down bastards”....
...“Security co-operation goes nowhere when populism overcomes pragmatism,” Mr Akutsu adds....
...Prof Bloom and his co-authors find uncertainty weighs on investment, hiring and output....
...By digging through coral rock and burying kitchen waste for compost they have managed to cultivate papaya and tamarind trees....
...The stations are a reminder of the present Iowa Interstate’s roots in one of the darkest chapters of US railroad history – the collapse into bankruptcy and eventual closure of the Chicago, Rock Island and...
...It operates a 22,000km network extending across Canada, and 16 states in the midwest and north-east US, centred on Chicago....
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