The final Northeast Regional train will depart Boston for New York at 1:40 p.m.

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Five regional train-operating companies would be responsible for both train and track operations.

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President Barack Obama sent 100 American military advisers to central Africa to help train and assist regional militaries pursuing Kony in 2011.

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If all this goes ahead, the industry would be run by four or five large regional operators in sole charge of train operations in their areas.

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Meade won a regional Emmy Award for her efforts covering the 1995 collision between a school bus and a train in Fox River Grove, Illinois, that killed seven and injured more than 24 teenagers.

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Though one train operator, Go-Ahead, has called for dismembering the network into four or five regional companies, there is little enthusiasm in the industry, and none in government, for further fundamental upheaval.

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The Soccer Czar instructs his regional leaders to cull promising young soccer players in the various Chinese cities and provinces, and arrange for them to train abroad at youth clubs in England (Liverpool), Brazil (Corinthians), and elsewhere.

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