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Some legislators favored the move, others felt that throwing most of the state out of line with the rest of the Eastern Seaboard would disrupt the airline, television and other industries. More over, the action might be ruled a violation of federal law, which permits exemptions only if a state Governor applies to the President on the grounds of undue hardship or energy loss. In the end, the legislature as a whole took no action, but several members of Florida's congressional delegation have introduced bills in the House and Senate to repeal D.S.T...
...nation has lucked out on weather. Late fall and early winter were unusually mild across much of the country, especially the Eastern Seaboard, which faced the most serious shortage. For the heating season through Dec. 30, degree days (the basis on which oil companies calculate heating needs) nationwide ran 10% below normal. New England energy experts estimate that a prolonged Indian summer in that region held home heating oil consumption 7% below forecasts...
...this is good news for the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, especially New England, which relies heavily on tropical refineries for its supply of residual oil to run electric power plants, factories and ships. The little-known New England Petroleum Corp. (Nepco), which owns 65% of Borco (Standard Oil Co. of California owns the rest), is a leading supplier of residual oil and other petroleum products to electric utilities in the Northeast, including New York City's Con Edison. The company also owns a string of 250 gas stations in Eastern Canada, operates wells in Abu Dhabi and Texas, and claims...
...historian, Richard Maxwell Brown, writes that the Tea Party stemmed from a century-long heritage of mob violence in Boston. Discontent was rampant up and down the colonial seaboard after the British government granted the East India Company a monopoly on all tea exported to the American colonies; only in Boston did discontent manifest itself in violence. Boston's merchant class feared that the monopoly would, according to one patriot, "destroy every branch of our commerce, drain us all of our property, and wantonly leave us to perish by the thousands...
...Harvard baseball team is back, too. Last spring the herculean gladiators of the Eastern baseball world, who terrorized the entire Eastern collegiate seaboard with a fatal combination of hitting and invincibility and pitching finesse, who mechanically and mercilessly devoured every other college baseball team from Pennsylvania to New England (after an appetizer of Floridian spring vacation opponents), who scrambled, hustled, clawed and manipulated their way to 35 wins against only three setbacks in the course of the spring schedule, who lacerated each new opponent with the decisive and unalterable impact of a Watergate paper shredder, who achieved, succeeded, mastered...