"Emily truly has the mind of a historian, and the area she happened to pick is railroads," said Ted Bowen, customer service manager for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Metro-North Railroad, speaking unofficially (the railroad has no connection to the project).
One interested observer – he has no connection to the project, but did not want to be seen as experiencing Schadenfreude at an untoward competitive moment – suggested that the hand that struck director-writer Stephen Gaghan was his own.
And what kind of connection to the project is made by the community, so it becomes something that was not just done to them?" Mr. Botstein said students should first concentrate on community service within their own community.
The Brain Trust, for example, puts directors in a room where they receive uncensored feedback from their peers, with the goal of establishing a deeper emotional connection to the project they're working on.
The current plan includes a long dogleg to the east, through Palmdale, where officials have vowed to fight to maintain their connection to the project.
Babbitt's connection to the project is through the Washington, D.C., office of Latham & Watkins, a law firm with which he has been affiliated since January.
"This is an expensive form of harassment and the park residents are caught in the middle". Kohn said a petitioner in a California Environmental Quality Act case does not have to have a direct connection to the project, unlike in other cases.
The interviews, taking place between October 2009 and February 2010, covered employees' connection to the project, what they viewed the purpose of the project to be, how effective they found the project, what recommendations they might have, as well as any strengths or weaknesses they noted while working on the project.
