Word: northeast
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...Harvard table tennis team currently has about 20 active members, a mixture of undergraduate and graduate students. The team has made great strides since 1978, when Chaing led the team to the Northeast Intercollegiate Table Tennis Championship. Considering the primitive condition of its equipment, the squad's accomplishments are that much more impressive...
...companionship. Novelists Margaret Atwood and Robertson Davies are among his writing friends. Irving has two other homes, one in Vermont and the other from Vermont but in eastern Long Island. The wood-frame structure had been dismantled, transported to Long Island and restored among the summer retreats of the Northeast's most glamorous resort area. "I'm known as the eccentric bastard who moved to the Hamptons and brought his house with him," says Irving, a man who can take satisfaction in having done things...
...contrast to the last three seasons--when she qualified based on her performance in the Northeast Regionals--Papailias had to wait for a call from the NCAA committee this year...
...choice Miami-to-London route, and has transferred 20 airliners to Continental, another unit of Texas Air. Two years ago, Eastern sold its computerized reservation system to Texas Air for $100 million -- a price most industry experts said was too low. Last October, Eastern agreed to sell its profitable Northeast shuttle to Donald Trump for $365 million. Two days after the bankruptcy notice, Eastern Express, a Florida commuter airline owned by a Texas Air subsidiary, changed its name to Continental Express. Said J.B. Stokes, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association: "It was either make the stand now, while...
...were not the only ones swept up in the battle. As the strike strangled airline operations, 9,500 nonunion secretaries, ticket agents and other workers were laid off. Aside from making a handful of flights between Miami and Latin American cities, the airline concentrated its efforts on keeping the Northeast shuttle flying so that the cash-rich deal with Trump would not fall through. To attract passengers, Eastern offered a temporary fare of $12 for weekend shuttle flights from New York to Washington or Boston, a fraction of its usual rate of $69. The tactic worked: the first flights sold...