Sentences with phrase «third rail»

And that is how this huge third rail of publishing myth continues on just as strong as ever, even though agents are not what they were simply fifteen years ago.

As prevalent and influential as they may be, rebates are treated as a kind of third rail in school food services.

Maybe over time it all changes and you see the burgeoning third rail of the independent voter, which is getting to be more and more important.

She says that before the recession, education funding had been a «bipartisan third rail,» immune to significant reduction.

Rather than grappling with ideals of beauty or touching the sometimes contentious third rail of identity politics in contemporary culture, artists seek refuge in the safety of suggestion rather than representation.

The tougher choices down the road could include major cuts in state education spending — the political third rail for many lawmakers; or what are euphemistically called «revenue enhancers,» also known as higher or new taxes; or a cap on state spending, which such powerful labor groups as the teachers and health - care workers unions fight against tooth and nail.

Gun control for Republicans in the Senate had morphed into a political third rail in recent years following the passage of the SAFE Act, a package of measures approved a month after a Connecticut shooting at an elementary school.

This case was thus two premises liability cases in one: first the case against the homeowner for allowing minors to use alcohol, and second the case against the regional rail line for still having an electrified third rail years after they had been removed from virtually every other system in the country.

But it was also shaped by the work of immersive theater company Third Rail Projects, whose best - known work Then She Fell lets 15 audience members explore a Lewis Carroll - inspired world.

THIRD Rail Limited, the new incarnation of AMX Resources, has secured three contracts to provide a wide area network over a broadband infrastructure to link all university campuses in Ghana.

Johnson backs reforming the horse carriage industry — a persistent third rail for city pols and a de Blasio priority.

Third rail heaters and snow melting equipment will also be deployed to keep trains moving, Cuomo said.

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(Calif.) Proposition 98, the unassailable third rail of California politics, may not have protected school funding as well as its architects had intended when they sold it to voters nearly three decades ago, new research suggests.

As the pub date for Third Rail approaches, Rory's proverbial platform is expanding.

When Third Rail comes out, I'll buy a couple of copies, because that's what you do to support a writer you know.

Then NBC / Universal Television optioned Third Rail for television.

Sealey's 2017 poetry collection, Ordinary Beast, runs on the charged third rail between daily propriety and unruly passion.

Travelers from North America consider Italy their second most highly ranked dream destination, and, among Rail Europe travelers, Italy is their top third rail destination.

The biggest third rail?

With his re-election campaign looming later in the year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo will deliver his annual State of the State Address on Wednesday, laying out his legislative priorities while avoiding directly touching an issue that has been a political third rail in the past: Congestion pricing.

I think there's a real concern — maybe over time it all changes and you see the burgeoning third rail of the independent voter, which is getting to be more and more important.

If these states stopped effectively double - counting their resources, they would have to change laws, upend traditional water rights and likely force farmers and cities to accept even more dramatic cuts than they already face — a political third rail.

Its use of batteries installed in each vehicle rather than an electrified third rail or catenary makes the corridor easier to maintain and cheaper to build — an advantage that will soon be replicated in the implementation of similar technology on tramways.

By Alissa Valeri Recently, Third Rail Projects» Co-Artistic Director Jennine Willett led a movement workshop for our Third Thursday open studio.

It's a third rail.»

In the mid-to-late 1990s, says MacKenzie, big companies «steered clear of [advocacy groups] like the third rail of the subway.»

By questioning, mocking and demystifying the world, funny women illustrate that humor is our culture's third rail: electrified, powerful and dangerous.

Putting a price on roads is often described — to mix transportation metaphors — as the «third rail» of Canadian politics.

«He doesn't need to touch the third rail of the artificial - intelligence controversy if he wants to be sexy.

In case you haven't been following this topic recently, it has become so contentious that it approaches «third rail» status in some media circles.

You're changing the way cities work, and that's fundamentally a third rail.»

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The dramatic fall from grace appears to have occurred when Facebook stepped on a third rail: the large - scale data collection by an outside party — Cambridge Analytica — without the company's knowledge, said Peter Crist, chairman of the executive search firm Crist Kolder Associates.

Anywhere else, this is the third rail, and it is just plain wrong.

You may even choose to purchase a third rail for the bottom of the bed to keep your baby from wriggling out of place when he or she gets a little older.

Attendees also got a first taste of Third Rail, a new restaurant opening up in the Roslindale substation in spring 2016.

It is sometimes called «the third rail of Alaska politics,» implying any politician who touches it dies.

Council members clearly understand that some form of infill would be a wise use of the «asset management matrix,» as Speaker Mark - Viverito referred to it, but politically it is a third rail.

«It may not be that interesting to somebody if they don't see a substation or they don't see cables going to a third rail, but if we don't maintain that, and that's a safety and reliability issue, then we could have a safety and reliability problem,» he said.

Furious commuters slammed the MTA this morning after a 30 - foot piece of the third rail's protective board came loose, slowing the commute from upper Manhattan and the Bronx.

Newsday calls on the Senate's Long Island delegation to «make a statement» by supporting Cuomo's proposal for creating a third rail for the LIRR, but several senators have already criticized the governor's entire $ 1 billion infrastructure project intended to boost air and rail travel in the suburban region.

«That was the third rail we couldn't touch,» a top staffer says.

Cuomo proposed a wish list Tuesday that included creating a third rail for the Long Island Rail Road between Floral Park and Hicksville along with related improvements.

Cuomo also underscored his previous announcements that proposed billions of dollars in construction programs, including an overhaul of Penn Station in Manhattan, a third rail for the Long Island Rail Road in Nassau County, a possible tunnel from Long Island to Westchester County, the Bronx or Connecticut, and a $ 26 billion capital program for New York City mass transit partly paid by the city.

«Anyone who doesn't, it's like touching the third rail of politics,» he said.

It included pitches for more than $ 100 billion in multi-year infrastructure initiatives - everything from a new train station in New York City, a third rail line on Long Island, to $ 22 billion for Upstate New York roads and bridges and $ 280 million for Upstate sewer and water projects.