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		<title><![CDATA[Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Michael Gambardella of JPMorgan. Michael Gambardella &#8211; JPMorgan Yes. Good morning. And congratulations on a good quarter, and especially good results on the cost side even at the site. Two questions, one, on the buyback of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:59:25 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Union Pacific Corp., Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator Instructions Our first question is coming from the line of William Greene of Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead with your question, sir. William Greene - Morgan Stanley Good morning. I'm just wondering if we can talk a little about incentive comp. Sorry I jumped...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:42:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Compliance won't come cheap: what EPA's Tier 3 and Tier 4 locomotive emissions standards mean for manufacturers and railroads]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1215/is_9_209/ai_n30916412]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published its first set of locomotive emissions regulations in 1998, manufacturers and railroads believed that by the time the industry was well on its way toward compliance, EPA would be working on additional standards. Sure enough, in 2003, EPA began development of a new...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Federally pre-empted cases could head to state courts]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4181/is_20080707/ai_n27903183]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals decision last week pitted the ability of accident victims to find redress for injuries against the separation of power between Congress and the judiciary.   The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said an amendment to the Federal Railroad Safety Act nullifies a judge's decision not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Federally pre-empted cases could head to state courts]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4185/is_20080707/ai_n27903222]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals decision last week pitted the ability of accident victims to find redress for injuries against the separation of power between Congress and the judiciary.   The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said an amendment to the Federal Railroad Safety Act nullifies a judge's decision not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Grade-crossing safety guides]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BFW/is_7_104/ai_n27963050]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Railroad Administration is distributing two resource guides to assist railroads, grade-crossing designers and state and local governments in making general safety improvements at highway-rail crossings and in establishing quiet zones where locomotive horns can be silenced. The Compilation of Pedestrian Safety Devices in Use at Grade Crossings provides...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MSU certificate program graduates inaugural class]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventeen participants of the inaugural session of Michigan State University's Certificate Course in Railway Management representing several railroads and a major railroad supplier graduated on June 20, following more than 160 classroom hours and 40 hours of independent study. The course was led by two well-known railroad economists, Robert E....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA["The organic law of a great commonwealth": the framing of the South Dakota constitution]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m6528/is_2_53/ai_n25401416]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]  Legal scholars have criticized the "poverty of state constitutional discourse" caused by its limited historical depth and by the absence of historical research into the people and events surrounding the framing of state constitutions. (1) James Gardner has found a "general unwillingness among state supreme courts to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wireless and railroads: a fresh look]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]  It has been a decade since representatives of the Class I's discussed wireless technologies for railroad operations. The results provided a then-definitive understanding of the railroads' requirements for wireless that subsequently supported the AAR's justification for RF spectrum in front of the FCC. However, the world of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NRC continues focus on safety, training; From lobbying in Washington to setting up training for employes in the field, NRC is working to help its member contractors get the job done safely]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BFW/is_5_104/ai_n25486776]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[RT&S asked NRC Chairman Manny Ramirez and President Chuck Baker about the past year and what they believe the future holds for the NRC.  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]  RT&S: Manny, you are in your first year as chairman of the NRC. How do you feel about the progress the organization...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Asian heritage from the transcontinental railroad to Yahoo!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5369/is_200805/ai_n25501414]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[MOST TEACHERS KNOW that in the 1880s, Chinese-Americans provided most of the manpower to build the western half of the transcontinental railroad, blasting rock and laying ties over the high Sierras eastward. Their work made the United States the first continent with a coast-to-coast railroad. ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hanover institute gives award]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, based in Hanover, has presented a Dutch railroad with a prestigious award for its schedule restructuring that improved on- time performance. Netherlands Railways was awarded the 2008 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The annual...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Warren Buffett and the Return of the Railroads]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=282]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sky-high energy prices, increasingly crowded commuter corridors, and worries about the environment are setting the stage for trains to thunder once again across the US moving commerce and people, predicts Harvard University professor John R. Stilgoe.  â€œTrain travel will supplant highway and air travel in the next few decades....]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Worker reaches $2.3M settlement with BNSF in St. Louis Circuit Court]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4185/is_20080411/ai_n25164545]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[An injured railroad worker has reached a nearly $2.3 million settlement with the railroad in St. Louis Circuit Court.   Thomas Joe Carney sued Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. in August 2005 over injuries he suffered while working as a railroad engineer.   According to an amended...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[THIS WEEK IN THE LEGISLATURE]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20080407/ai_n25348361]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Agenda    Today: The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee will debate a constitutional amendment to make it harder for petitioners to submit constitutional amendments.    Thursday: A plan to use increasing federal mineral lease revenues to fund longterm higher-education needs gets its first hearing...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[California container imports slump]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1215/is_4_209/ai_n25409481]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[At the California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, sources of large volumes of container traffic for Union Pacific and BNSF, imports of containerized freight were down 8.8% in both January and February, according to the Wall Street Journal. "The ocean-freight slowdown bodes ill for railroads, delivery companies, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Radio-free railroading: for Florida East Coast, electronic authorities are the way to go]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1215/is_4_209/ai_n25409509]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, many people have forgotten what life was like before cellphones. It's now within the realm of possibility that railroad field personnel will someday soon regard digital communications in the same light.  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]  "I'm lost without it." That's the opinion of one Florida East Coast Railway...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Passenger rail: a national priority]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1215/is_3_209/ai_n25409220]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Can the federal government make assisting the rail industry--passenger and freight--a national priority? Should it do so? And, perhaps most important, will it develop the will for such support?  Cynics might note two out of three isn't bad. But throughout 2007 and into 2008, the optimists shot for better...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Amtrak to increase security measures]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20080219/ai_n24316672]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers' carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.   The initiative, to be announced by the railroad on Tuesday, is a significant shift for Amtrak. Unlike the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Railroads and the economy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1215/is_2_209/ai_n24357767]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy may be sliding into a recession, but so tar the railroads have bucked that trend, posting strong fourth-quarter and full-year 2007 results. Late last month, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average took a disconcerting roller coaster ride and the Federal Reserve Board slashed the prime rate by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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