Sentences with word «railroaded»

Saloner, citing the wrongful termination lawsuit by a former professor who alleges the dean railroaded him out of the business school while sleeping with his wife, announced his resignation last month, on the same day Poets & Quants published a lengthy expose based on the lawsuit and the professors» divorce.

Buffett might have picked the wrong railroad to buy, but he knows a great business when he sees it.

The railroad's superior strength in Mexico isn't lost on Buffett.

The railroads, and especially Union Pacific, should quickly regain momentum — for three main reasons.

Berkshire owns more than 90 businesses such as the Geico car insurer, Dairy Queen ice cream and the BNSF railroad.

After years of flush times, it's unclear whether railroads will keep thriving, or whether Union Pacific will retain its status as the best managed of its peers.

«The Last Railroad Tycoon» by Shawn Tully, won the Travel / Transportation category for medium - sized publications.

Buffett already had stakes in a few major railroads, but he wanted to own one outright.

The railroad operator provides freight transportation services to 23 states, covering 2/3 of the western United States.

It's a network of railroads, oil pipelines, and other projects that runs northwest from China through Kazakhstan and Russia.

Trucks ship a ton of freight an average of 120 miles on a gallon of diesel fuel; railroads can move the same cargo 600 miles on that gallon.

Along with the hardware sellers, railroads, trucking companies, logistics firms and others that make up the supply - chain of the economy also faced the challenge of providing essential goods to Texas, the second - largest U.S. state.

But Buffett might have been even more successful had he stayed closer to home and bought the railroad with headquarters

The effort is already seeding power plants, railroads, and pipelines in emerging - market countries starving for such backbone investments.

Warren Buffett wanted to buy a railroad.

Best of all, the railroads enjoy a big, and growing, cost advantage over trucks for long - haul shipments.

When Knight took the CFO job at Union Pacific in 2004, UP was the least profitable major railroad.

Given the railroad's strong profitability, it's no surprise that Union Pacific has richly rewarded shareholders.

Then in 2010, when it bought BNSF, Berkshire split the B shares 50 - for - 1, letting more of the railroad's shareholders swap their stock for Berkshire stock if they wished.

That has drawn a lot of scrutiny to the railroads.

CBH Group has awarded its long - term grain rail contract to US transportation group Watco Companies, replacing QR National subsidiary Australian Railroad Group.

U.S. intermodal is the territory where railroads compete most directly with trucks.

The big belt pack — which UP developed and now licenses to other railroads — is just one example of how the carrier attacks costs.

Union Pacific owns a big chunk of Ferromex, or FXE, one of Mexico's leading railroads.

From the start of 2005 through the end of 2014, it delivered a total return of 746 %, or 23.8 % per year, compared with a 20.6 % annual return for the S&P railroad index and 7.7 % for the broader market over that time.

A profile on the late CSX CEO Hunter Harrison, a septuagenarian with a mysterious ailment whose plan for the railroad company ignited investor interest.

But sales at the company's most economically sensitive businesses, its manufacturing division and its railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe were both down.

Berkshire has more than 90 operating units, including large businesses such as the BNSF railroad, Geico auto insurance and Berkshire Hathaway Energy utilities, and smaller businesses making Dairy Queen ice cream, Duracell batteries, Fruit of the Loom underwear, Ginsu knives and the World Book encyclopedia.

There's a railroad track, but no station; once a day, La Bestia, a freight train known for carrying U.S. - bound migrants north, blows through.

April 23 - Canadian National Railway Co on Monday posted a 16.2 percent fall in quarterly profit as operating expenses shot up during the harsh winter, and the country's largest railroad cut its 2018 outlook as capacity limits strained its ability to meet high demand.

Union Pacific (unp), the largest railroad operator in the U.S., also makes Michael Reckmeyer's «nice» list.

Largest employers: State of Nebraska, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Bryan Health, U.S. Government, Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center, Burlington Northern Railroad, Kawasaki Motors Mfg. Corp. (KWHIY)

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy argued that the plan forced states like his own «to spend money they don't have, or else sell off highways and railroads to Wall Street.»

Rail traffic remained negative YoY, but still due to coal, while the diffusion index decreased considerably: The American Association of Railroads reported that total rail traffic was down -2.2 % YoY.

If Harrison is indeed installed as CEO at CSX, it will be no cushy gig: the railroad's revenue and earnings have been underperforming expectations, and its lingering operational inefficiencies have raised concerns among many investors.

Buildings collapsed and burnt, sinkholes opened up, railroad tracks and cable cars were damaged.

General Electric is looking to get out of the railroad business after a hundred years, according to The Wall Street Journal's sources.

In the late 1800s, the coast - to - coast railroad network linked US states, creating the world's first mass market.

Today it's a conglomerate of dozens of companies from car insurance company Geico to underwear maker Fruit of the Loom to railroad giant Burlington Northern.

Investors will also be watching to see if Berkshire's lackluster railroad business, BNSF, can continue to improve its revenue growth after seeing a 3 % revenue gain in the first quarter.

Improving its railroad lines would lower costs for doing business and attract more investors to its natural resources sector.

The first coin the younger Pogue bought was at an auction of the trove that belonged to railroad scion T. Harrison Garrett.

Railroad earnings were down as well, Buffett said that was because loads were down, especially from the energy sector.

He took over the top job as of Jan. 31, 2017, when Hunter Harrison abruptly left the railroad and was later hired by U.S. railroad CSX.

Others laid railroad track for 10 cents a day, while still others froze in the mountains because their wagon wheels broke.

Admittedly, after years of acquisitions, Berkshire's bottom line has more to do with the performance of the increasingly large companies it owns — including, for instance, railroad giant BNSF and Heinz — and less to do with the returns of its stock market portfolio.

«That these look more like railroads, as Charlie Munger said, and you have to believe that the historical skepticism that has been pounded into most financial analysts for decades is too negative.»

It's kind of like building a railroad track, but it's not like it's time for Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion, where we have the East Coast colonized, and now we want to colonize the rest of the country.

• Ferrocarril Mexicano, Mexico's largest railroad operator, is close to reaching a deal to acquire Florida East Coast Railway, a Jacksonville, Fla. - based rail system operator, for more than $ 2 billion, including debt, according to Reuters.

The railroad company also plans to match contributions given through its employee support network.