Staggers Act

Despite the more than 60% decline in railroad employment since passage of the Staggers Act, most of our respondents in management denied any significant increase in workloads for laborers. We were told that while the production numbers were up, workloads have probably not increased much because the work has become less labor-intensive. Moreover, virtually all of the managers that we interviewed stated that the employment cuts after... 

American Association of Railroads (1999b), Staggers Act A Boon to Safety and Efficiency, http //www.aar.org/6518006bf25e ODenDocument. Washington, D.C. (accessed 5/16/99). 

The Staggers Act of 1980 which liberalized economic regulation of the industry also made it easier for large railroads to abandon operation of secondary and branch lines. While some lines were closed, many were sold to newly-formed companies. Many of these companies were non-union, and therefore could provide service at a lower cost primarily due to more liberal work rules. 

Microwave studies of equilibrium orientations of methyl groups show that the forces act like repulsions, i.e., the hydrogens are staggered with respect to the atoms at the other end, at least in ethyl chloride, methyl silane, methyl fluorosilane, and methyl germane. Where there are only two attached atoms at one end, one connected by a single, the other by a double bond, as in acetaldehyde, propylene, acetyl fluoride and chloride, one of the methyl hydrogens is opposite the double bond, i.e., eclipsed. 

Staggered-type electrodes, 9 137 Staggers Rail Act of 1980, 25 324 Stain bleaching, 10 284 Stainblockers, 9 190 Stain controllers... 

FIGURE 25-43 Two general pathways for transposition direct (simple) and replicative. The DNA is first cleaved on each side of the transposon, at the sites indicated by arrows. (2) The liberated 31-hydroxyl groups at the ends of the transposon act as nucleophiles in a direct attack on phosphodiester bonds in the target DNA. The target phosphodiester bonds are staggered (not directly across from each other) in the two DNA strands. (3) The transposon is now linked to... 

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