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Nicaragua (26) Joe Torre In the Southern U.S the belief mirroring the common belief in Europe that the family had the responsibility of educating their children Wealthy families either used tutors and governesses from Britain or sent children to school in England By the 1700s university students based in the colonies began to act as tutors! The railroads invented the career path in the private sector for both blue-collar workers and white-collar workers Railroading became a lifetime career for young men; women were almost never hired a typical career path would see a young man hired at age 18 as a shop laborer be promoted to skilled mechanic at age 24 brakemen at 25 freight conductor at 27 and passenger conductor at age 57 White-collar careers paths likewise were delineated Educated young men started in clerical or statistical work and moved up to station agents or bureaucrats at the divisional or central headquarters at each level they had more and more knowledge experience and human capital They were very hard to replace and were virtually guaranteed permanent jobs and provided with insurance and medical care Hiring firing and wage rates were set not by foremen but by central administrators in order to minimize favoritism and personality conflicts Everything was done by the book whereby an increasingly complex set of rules dictated to everyone exactly what should be done in every circumstance and exactly what their rank and pay would be By the 1880s the career railroaders were retiring and pension systems were invented for them, Vic Willis** Ridership increased during the first decade of the 21st century after implementation of capital improvements in the NEC and rises in automobile fuel costs the inauguration of the high-speed Acela Express in late 2000 generated considerable publicity and led to major ridership gains However through the late 1990s and very early 21st century Amtrak could not add sufficient express freight revenue or cut sufficient other expenditures to break even by 2002 it was clear that Amtrak could not achieve self-sufficiency but Congress continued to authorize funding and released Amtrak from the requirement in early 2002 David L Gunn replaced Warrington as president In a departure from his predecessors' promises to make Amtrak self-sufficient in the short term Gunn argued that no form of passenger transportation in the United States is self-sufficient as the economy is currently structured Highways airports and air traffic control all require large government expenditures to build and operate coming from the Highway Trust Fund and Aviation Trust Fund paid for by user fees highway fuel and road taxes and in the case of the General Fund from general taxation Gunn dropped most freight express business and worked to eliminate deferred maintenance. . . There are 63 parks in Georgia 48 of which are state parks and 15 that are historic sites and numerous state wildlife preserves under the supervision of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Other historic sites and parks are supervised by the National Park Service and include the Andersonville National Historic Site in Andersonville; Appalachian National Scenic Trail; Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area near Atlanta; Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park at Fort Oglethorpe; Cumberland Island National Seashore near St Marys; Fort Frederica National Monument on St Simons Island; Fort Pulaski National Monument in Savannah; Jimmy Carter National Historic Site near Plains; Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park near Kennesaw; Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site in Atlanta; Ocmulgee National Monument at Macon; Trail of Tears National Historic Trail; and the Okefenokee Swamp in Waycross Georgia. 14 Sister cities Traditions Europe 4.1 2018 1.5 Diesel power introduced Metro Atlanta's immigrants are more suburban than those of most cities Out of the top 100 U.S metros Atlanta has the 11th highest ratio of the foreign-born living in the suburbs and not in the core city Atlanta has a few ethnic enclaves such as a Koreatown and areas such as the Buford Highway Corridor in DeKalb County and parts of Gwinnett County are commercial centers for multiple ethnic communities; . .

. . . . Rolling stock See also: List of hospitals in Georgia (U.S state).