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...bought Santa Fe in 1995, while Union Pacific merged with Southern Pacific earlier this year. Each control over 30,000 miles of track. The news pushed CSX stock down four percent in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange, but lifted Conrail by 20 percent. The merger will depend on approval from Conrail shareholders, who would receive $92.50 in cash and CSX stock for each share, and the U.S. Surface Transportation Board. After approving two mega-mergers in as many years, the board is unlikely to block this one. Some layoffs are anticipated from the consolidation...
Whether customers embrace the new services, however, may depend as much on technical issues as on cost. Gamers hooked on such "twitch" titles as Quake and Duke Nukem live for lightning-fast action. This is easy to reproduce on high-speed office networks; it remains to be seen whether it can be delivered over standard modems and phone lines. "The allure of being in front of those 30 million people is awfully attractive," says Bob Huntley, president of DWANGO, a network gaming operation. "But I wouldn't put Doom or Duke Nukem on the Internet...
...warn first-years that fulfilling the Core is trickier than it seems. Planning to meet requirements is well and good, but don't depend on being able to carry out your plans...
...PBHA as a non-profit corporation has fiscal controls that depend only on its internal governance and accounting staff," said PBHA treasurer Roy E. Bahat '98. "Judith Kidd is not the first and final word on PBHA's fund management...
...ages and variations in sea level of hundreds of feet, there are limits to the conditions they can tolerate. For example, they cannot build reefs in water colder than 60[degrees] F or in murky depths. They live in symbiotic relationships with colonies of tiny algae called zooxanthellae that depend on the sun for photosynthesis. Unfortunately, the fact that they gravitate toward sunlit shallows has made reefs easy targets for plunder...