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Rather than any particular book, it is indeed these connections and correlations that should be the focus of the cultivated individual, much as a railroad switchman should focus on the relations between trains--that is, their crossings and transfers--rather than the contents of any specific convoy.

Waking the Switchman: The Benefits of Active Enforcement via

On September 2, 2010--the day after the Act became effective in New York--Earl Ives, an employee of the South Buffalo Railway Company, injured himself while working as a switchman with the railroad.

(28) With these benefits came many perils: "The injury rate among railroad employees in the late nineteenth century was horrific--the average life expectancy of a switchman was seven years, and a brakeman's chance of dying from natural causes was less than one in five." (29) President Theodore Roosevelt nationalized the issue in a 1907 message to Congress: "The practice of putting the entire burden of loss to life or limb upon the victim or the victim's family is a form of social injustice in which the United States stands in unenviable prominence." (30) Legislative intervention was soon to follow.

1967) (alleging that employer had a policy of making gender a qualification for a switchman position), aff'd in part, rev'd in part, 408 F.2d 228 (5th Cir.

The switchman's crew was responsible for spotting and securing rail cars loaded with coal before other workers rolled them down an incline to the dumpers, from which the coal was transported by conveyors to a pier for loading.

2, 1910, one day after New York state's new workers' comp system became effective, Earl Ives, a railroad switchman, sprained his ankle on the job near Buffalo.

Similarly, Corra and Wilier (2002:180) argue that a gatekeeper exercises power to control access to 'benefits', and 'acts as a switchman, determining whether clients can actively pursue benefits'.

and the film's working title, The Switchman, was dropped in favour of the switchman's actual name." (32) Paul Tomkowicz: Street-railway Switchman (1954) is still regarded as a NFB classic.

(26) Individuals who are found to be PTD receive benefits in a flexible manner as the benefits are based on the continuance of payments for this permanent and total liability by using the simple expedient of hiring another switchman." Slusher, supra note 15, at 328.

"Remember that part in The Little Prince where the switchman operates trains full of people who don't know why the hell they're on it?

"El Guardagujas" ("the switchman") is worth the price of admission for its commentary on the absurdity and uncertainty of human existence.

It all started circa 1955, when Jack was working as a switchman for the railroad.

has added three new models to its SwitchMan product line to help small businesses and consumers better manage the computer equipment that clutters their desktops.