Word: freighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson is playing its best basketball of the season and rolling over the competition like a freight train without brakes. With only seven regular season games remaining, Harvard seems headed for a second consecutive Ivy League Championship and NCAA Tournament berth...
...nasty fight over a railroad? Not since the robber barons has the ownership of a set of tracks been so contested. The target: Conrail, the once tattered collection of government-owned freight lines that was created in 1976 and went public in 1987. CSX Corp. agreed to buy Conrail last month for more than $8 billion in cash and stock. Rival Norfolk Southern swiftly countered with a massive all-cash bid for Conrail of $10 billion, or $110 a share...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "We must restore New York's port, rebuild its decaying infrastructure and complete the missing links in its freight-distribution network...if New York is to prosper...
PHILADELPHIA: CSX Corp. agreed to buy Conrail in a $8.4 billion deal that would form the nation's third-largest freight company. The new company will control some 29,645 miles of track serving most of the eastern U.S. The deal was cut as part of a push by CSX to stay competitive with rivals Burlington Northern and Union Pacific, both of which merged with rail systems in the past two years. Burlington Northern 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...
...vision of media goliaths creating proprietary content slanted toward proprietary programming and delivered to customers over proprietary pipelines. This, of course, is the antithesis of today's chaotic, freewheeling, radically democratized Internet. Oh, well. Information may want to be free, but it's the companies that are paying its freight that will have the final word...