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Hopes of averting a nationwide rail strike dwindled yesterday, and the nation’s biggest freight railroads and their unions said they saw little chance of reaching agreement by the strike deadline of midnight tonight.
Two of the 10 rail unions reached tentative contract accords last week, and agreement with a third union, the American Train Dispatchers Association, was announced yesterday. But that leaves only one day of talks to reach an understanding with the other seven, an achievement both sides suspect is just about out of reach.
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On Friday, Secretary of Transportation Samuel K. Skinner said that the Bush administration was ready to help Congress move quickly "to fashion emergency legislation to forestall a disruption."
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