The second nationwide rail strike in six months ran too long last week (40 hours) to be called merely an inconvenience but not long enough to be remembered as a crisis. Among those hurt by the walkout were hundreds of thousands of metropolitan commuters who jammed buses and highways to get to their jobs, some automakers and other manufacturers, who began furloughing employees, and U.S. Congressmen, many of whom had to cut short their all-too-customary long weekends to get the trains moving again. They rushed through the sixth bill in the past...
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