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Nominees rebuffed calls for slave reparations

(The following Associated Press article by Pete Yost was published in the January 5 online issue of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — As corporate executives, President Bush’s nominees for Treasury secretary and Securities and Exchange...

CSX Corp. to hold 4th quarter earnings meeting

(The following press release from CSX Corp. was issued on January 3.) RICHMOND, Va. — CSX Corporation will hold its fourth-quarter 2002 earnings meeting for analysts on Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. The meeting will be held in the JP...

CSX eliminates more than 100 jobs

(The following story by Bob Withers was published in the January 4 issue of the Herald-Dispatch.) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — CSX Transportation has furloughed 106 train service employees at various points along its C&O Division in the past four weeks, a railroad...

Port eyes partnership with Tropicana, CSX

PORT MANATEE, Fla. — Officials looking for ways to boost rail traffic here might ask Tropicana to carry more than juice on its trips to New York and Cincinnati, the Sarasota Herald Tribune reported. Next month, the port will participate in a state-funded study...

Snow may face questions on Virginia Utility role

RICHMOND, Va. — An extraordinary corporate civil war was under way, the Chicago Tribune reported. The chief executive of the Virginia Electric & Power utility was locked in a battle in 1994 with Thomas Capps, CEO of his parent company, Dominion Resources...

John Snow: Track of a crisis manager

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 1996 and 1997, CSX Transportation experienced a series of costly and embarrassing train wrecks, including one in Arlington that disrupted Virginia commuter service for a month. The Federal Railroad Administration concluded that some...

John Snow: A career as a window to the future

NEW YORK — Since the White House’s recent nomination of John W. Snow, the 63-year-old chairman of the railroad company CSX, to replace the ousted Treasury secretary, Paul H. O’Neill, analysts and economists have been trying to figure out what his...

Questions linger a year after CSX crash

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reportws that one year ago today, on a quiet Sunday afternoon, Richard Connolly was hosting a family Christmas party when he saw a runaway train roar past his River Street house “going 50 or 60 miles per...