Word: seaboards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southern railroad of Norfolk, Va. (The remaining 15% is owned by Conrail employees.) The $1.2 billion purchase would unite two of the three dominant eastern railroads and forge the largest U.S. freight line, with 34,000 miles of track. The third big railroad, CSX, which runs the Chessie and Seaboard lines, complained that the merger would create a giant that would flatten rivals like pennies on a rail. Some companies who ship by train agreed, contending that fewer railroads would mean higher rates. Railroad unions declared that the consolidation would cost thousands of jobs...
Bernal claims that by the end of the season at the Eastern finals, his team is swimming a race that they have mentally rehearsed thousands of times before. Last year, for example, his "weak team" placed first at the Eastern Seaboard Championships because of their mental preparedness, he says...
...result of its triumph before more than 50 fans at Blodgett Pool, the seven-time defending Eastern Seaboard Champion Harvard squad (now 2-0) reaffirmed its position as the Beast of the East and served notice to all that it's bigger and better than ever...
...didn't expect to beat them. "Navy Coach Lee Lawrence said after his squad's first loss of the year. "With the freshmen they have in this year and the returning lettermen, no one on the Eastern Seaboard can get within 20 points of them if he [Bernal] wants it that...
...This year we're reestablishing ourselves as the dominant force on the Eastern Seaboard...