Word: freights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ponder New York City all day without associating it with Thomas Wolfe, and San Francisco for a month without thinking of Tony Bennett, but Chicago is the Hog Butcher and "player with railroads and nation's freight handler." Though the trains don't run, and though the hogs are gone...
...claims that the merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific would force out competition in the 25 states the two railroads serve. With the completion of the deal, just two railroads, the combined UP-FP and the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe, will control more than 90 percent of all freight traffic west of the Mississippi. Several smaller railroads had opposed the merger, and federal regulators had called the deal "the most anti-competitive rail merger in our history." But Union Pacific lawyers successfully argued that the deal would result in greater efficiencies of scale and improved service. "The fear...
...claims that the merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific would force out competition in the 25 states the two railroads serve. With the completion of the deal, just two railroads, the combined UP-FP and the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe, will control more than 90 percent of all freight traffic west of the Mississippi. Several smaller railroads had opposed the merger, and federal regulators had called the deal "the most anti-competitive rail merger in our history." But Union Pacific lawyers successfully argued that the deal would result in greater efficiencies of scale and improved service. "The fear...
...only April, but already the steamy air hints of the long, hot summer and the big, nasty mosquitoes ahead. A Union Pacific freight train rumbles and clanks along the adjacent railroad tracks--a tortoise to the hares inside Baylor Track Stadium, located in the deceptively named Beverly Hills area of Waco, Texas. It is a place with streets so mean that God would probably hesitate before parking here. It is the place where the greatest athlete in the world trains...
...WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT AN ERROR that appeared in your article "Hauling UPS's Freight" [BUSINESS, Jan. 29]. A graphic accompanying the story identified UPS as the "biggest contributor" to the Coalition on Occupational Safety and Health. In fact, UPS did not make any financial contribution to that organization, although we have contributed to the support of other efforts on OSHA reform. Also, you did not point out that the Teamsters' PAC fund (the Teamsters represent 170,000 UPS employees) spent $8.5 million in the 1993-94 election cycle, more than twice UPS PAC spending for the same period...