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Surely the American word "movie" is simply an abbreviation of "moving picture"?
It's true that Hungarian "mozi" (meaning "movie theater" or "the movies", not "[a] movie") is itself short for "mozgóképszínház" = "moving-picture theater" but I don't think there's any a priori reason to assume that the two derivations are correlated.
Hah. So, the thing is, Amtrak gets priority over freight trains so long as it is running according to schedule. Amtrak essentially never runs according to schedule -- many of its trains have 0% on-time performance -- so the freight trains end up getting priority, making Amtrak even later, and so on ad nauseam. Positive feedback loop.
For a second I was expecting this to be an April Fool's post about a "fast" way to calculate the inverse of the square root function, i.e. x*x :-)