Word: seaboard
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...striking Verizon workforce, thousands of requests usually filled by the Bell Atlantic-GTE offshoot went unanswered, even as company officials continued their talks with about 85,000 deeply disgruntled employees. The workers, who tend to the telephone needs of roughly 25 million Verizon customers, primarily along the eastern seaboard, are up in arms over the company's refusal to allow wireless employees to unionize. There are other labor issues at stake as well - forced overtime, job stress, outsourcing work to non-union contractors - but the spotlight remains fixed on workforce unionization...
Disaster-movie-type predictions that a potential undersea disturbance could unleash a giant tsunami, or tidal wave, on the United States' low-lying Eastern Seaboard are probably overblown. Sparked by a report in this month's issue of the journal Geology that researchers have discovered cracks in the continental shelf off Virginia, residents have been alarmed by visions of 20-foot waves heading toward North Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The scientists behind the report, however, are very cautious in saying that such an event is highly unlikely. "This is a possible disaster kind of scenario, but it's just...
Though Harvard posted no victories, each team began its season with solid performances, and the squads are looking forward to their eastern seaboard return when they take on Brown in the Stein Cup on April 15th...
...first place, academics at Harvard already operate a full seven minutes behind the rest of the Eastern Seaboard. As any undergraduate knows, a lecture, seminar or section which is billed to begin at three o'clock really kicks off at three-oh-seven. TFs and professors ignorant of the seven-minute phenomenon (more people who insist on living within their own time zones) succeed only in speaking to empty seats and causing embarrassment to those students who are actually in sync with the rhythms of their school. And because most Harvard students seem to be naturally late, the rule extends...
During the first half of the century, the American elite was a distinct, quasi-hereditary group whose members were all men, all white and almost all Protestant (quite often Episcopalian). They lived mainly along the Eastern Seaboard. They had gone to Ivy League colleges, and often, before that, to boarding schools in New England. They belonged to the same clubs, lived in the same suburbs and vacationed at the same resorts. They dressed, spoke and looked a certain way. They were of English or Scotch-Irish stock. Exemplified by Henry Stimson, who served as both Secretary of State and Secretary...