In the 1880s, quarterly reporting by railroads and other transportation companies were common.
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Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2026
From the railroads of the 1800s to power grids, aviation, the telephone, the integrated circuit, the internet and now artificial intelligence (AI), private capital has financed wave after wave of progress.
In Southern California, cliffs could erode more than 130 feet by the end of the century, and the consequences of erosion have already proved to be severe on major roads, railways and other critical infrastructure.
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Rosanna Xia,
Los Angeles Times,
14 July 2026
Across Africa, governments have spent decades announcing ports without thinking about connecting railways, highways without paved feeder roads, and pipelines without ancillary terminals.
In parts of Uvalde County, muddy floodwaters covered roads and fields and rose nearly as high as houses' rooftops, according to a video posted by Texas Department of Public Safety.
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Bill Chappell,
NPR,
16 July 2026
Bulldozers shuffled right through the rubble to make roads that cut Gaza into separate sections.
Grab bars — rails attached to walls, particularly in bathrooms — help provide balance and prevent falls, preventing serious injuries, said Jim Christian, founder of the effort to push Medicare to cover the devices, Safety Bars for America.
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Panashe Matemba-Mutasa,
Mercury News,
13 July 2026
That has left developers with no option other than to construct elaborate guardrails that prevent injected prompts from forcing LLMs to go off the rails.
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