A recent editorial discussing a labor-management agreement reached between the Southern Pacific Co. and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers has been criticized on the grounds that it was not based on complete information.

The situation with regard to the Southern Pacific was therefore a special one and not necessarily applicable to other situations in other industries.

The passage of the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Acts was made possible by the absence of Southern congressmen and senators who had opposed the measures in the 1850s.

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

It is surrounded by the southern waters of the World Ocean – alternatively ( depending on source ), it is washed by the Southern ( or Antarctic ) Ocean or the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

* 1945 – Stu Cook, American singer and musician ( Creedence Clearwater Revival, Southern Pacific, and Creedence Clearwater Revisited )

The province's mainland away from the coastal regions is not as moderated by the Pacific Ocean and ranges from desert and semi-arid plateau to the range and canyon districts of the Central and Southern Interior to boreal forest and sub-arctic prairie in the Northern Interior.

There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda ( also known as the pygmy blue whale ) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

It is part of many ecoregions, including Costa Rican seasonal moist forests, Bocas del Toro-San Bastimentos Island-San Blas mangroves, Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves, Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves, Central American dry forests, and Talamancan montane forests.

In the Victory At Sea suite, Richard Rodgers wrote " Beneath The Southern Cross " to depict the battleships in convoy and the loneliness of the sailors in the Southern Pacific during World War II.

Carson City's population and transportation traffic decreased when the Southern Pacific Railroad built a line through Donner Pass, too far to the north to benefit Carson City.

( See The Modern Corporation and Private Property The well-known Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision began to influence policymaking and the modern corporate era had begun.

" Refusing to give a literal reading to the state-granted charter of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which specified that the company could " collect and receive such tariffs ... as it may prescribe, Hughes contended that this clause " necessarily implies that the charges shall be reasonable and does not detract from the power of the State ... to prescribe reasonable rates.

In 1885 the Central Pacific Railroad was leased by the Southern Pacific Company.

Technically the CPRR remained a corporate entity until 1959, when it was formally merged into Southern Pacific.

) The original right-of-way is now controlled by the Union Pacific, which purchased Southern Pacific in 1996.

The Union Pacific-Central Pacific ( Southern Pacific ) mainline followed the historic Overland Route from Omaha, Nebraska to San Francisco Bay.

El Niño – Southern Oscillation ( ENSO ), or El Niño / La Niña – Southern Oscillation, is a quasiperiodic climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years.

The Caltech Beavers compete in 13 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division III's Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

The constellation was also used on the dark blue, shield-like patch worn by personnel of the U. S. Army's Americal Division, which was organized in the Southern Hemisphere, on the island of New Caledonia, and also the blue diamond of the U. S. 1st Marine Division, which fought on the Southern Hemisphere islands of Guadalcanal and New Britain.

The club gained professional status on 12 December 1898, in the same year that they were admitted into the Southern League's Second Division.

In 1902 – 03 they won promotion from this division, entering the Southern League First Division.

The teams participate in the NCAA's Division III and in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

And in Division II St. Joseph's, University of Indianapolis and University of Southern Indiana have added their own successes to the legend of Indiana basketball.

On 16 January, the first IRA division – the 2nd Southern Division led by Ernie O ' Malley – repudiated the authority of the GHQ.

All of the above were part-time activities he assumed in conjunction with his primary position as Director of the Computer Networks Division (" Division 7 ") of the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.

They participate in the NCAA's Division III and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.

They are currently members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) of the National Football League ( NFL ).

Following the expiration of the original ARPANET contract with the U. S. federal government, the Internet Society ( acting on behalf of the IETF ) contracted with the Networking Division of the University of Southern California ( USC ) Information Sciences Institute ( ISI ) to assume the editorship and publishing responsibilities ( under the direction of the IAB ).

Thus, the Fifth Division was at Al-Ubayyid in Kurdufan ( Central Command ), the Second Division was at Khashm El Girba ( Eastern Command ), the Sixth Division was assigned to Al-Fashir in Darfur ( Western Command ), the First Division was at Juba ( Southern Command ), and the Seventh Division was at As Shajarah just south of Khartoum ( Khartoum Command ).

Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific started as a single Pacific Coast Division until dividing in 1966.

The Midwest Division consists of Arkansas, Southern Illinois, Western Iowa, Kansas, Northern Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Western Tennessee.

The Great Lakes Division consists of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Lower Peninsula of Michigan, and Southern West Virginia.

Southern Burma consists largely of the western slopes of the Bilauktaung, the highest part of the Tenasserim Range, which extends southwards forming the central range of the Malay Peninsula.

Simplified climatic map of Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa consists of the Sahel and the Horn of Africa in the north ( yellow ), the tropical savanna s ( light green ) and the tropical rainforest s ( dark green ) of Equatorial Africa, and the arid Kalahari Basin ( yellow ) and the " Mediterranean climate | Mediterranean " south coast ( olive ) of Southern Africa.

The Southeast Division consists of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, and Southern Virginia.

The Southern Range consists of a broken line of hills with a maximum elevation of.

The bulk of Western Australia consists of the extremely old Yilgarn craton and Pilbara craton which merged with the Deccan Plateau of India, Madagascar and the Karoo and Zimbabwe cratons of Southern Africa, in the Archean Eon to form Ur, one of the oldest supercontinents on Earth ( 3 – 3. 2 billion years ago ).

The Austrian Alps which cover the majority ( 62 %) of Austria's land mass, consists of most of the Eastern Alps together with the northern edge of the Southern Alps in the west and south of the country.

Longitudinal circulation consists of two cells, the Walker circulation and El Niño / Southern Oscillation.

One of the centerpieces of the collection is a partial recreation of the 17th-century ostrog ( fortress ) of Ilimsk, which consists of the original Spasskaya Tower and the Church of Our Lady of Kazan transported from the flooded ostrog in the mid-1970s, to which an exact modern copy of another tower of the ostrog and the Southern wall of the fortress were added in the early 2000s.

Southern California consists of a heavily developed urban environment, home to some of the largest urban areas in the state, along with vast areas that have been left undeveloped.

Southern California's population encompasses eight metropolitan, or MSA, areas: Los Angeles County and Orange County together make up the Los Angeles metropolitan area ; the Inland Empire consists of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties ; the San Diego metropolitan area ; the Bakersfield metropolitan area ; the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura metro area ; the Santa Barbara metro area ; the San Luis Obispo metropolitan area ; and the El Centro area.

Today, the league consists of eight teams in a region stretching from Delaware to South Carolina, and is divided into a Northern Division and a Southern Division.

Southern Broadway's season consists of several large scale productions on the stage of the Enterprise Performing Arts Center with dinner theaters in between in the historic Hildreth Brother's Building on Main Street.

It is also home to the Southern Raiders a class C school that consists of students from Barneston, Holmesville, Blue Springs, Wymore, and Liberty.

This " Desert Triangle " consists of The Ridges in Summerlin South, Southern Highlands Golf Club in southwest Las Vegas, and MacDonald Highlands in Henderson

To the north, the desert leads into the Kaokoveld ; the dividing line between these two regions is roughly at the latitude of the city of Walvis Bay, and it consists in a narrow strip of land ( about 50 km wide ) that is the driest place in Southern Africa.

The new nation of Ecotopia consists of Northern California, Oregon and Washington ; it is hinted that Southern California is a lost cause.

The mountain's summit is coated in a dense stand of Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest, which consists primarily of two evergreen species — the red spruce and the Fraser fir.

The Bible Belt consists of much of the Southern United States extending west into Texas and Oklahoma.

The conference was founded in 1915 and it consists of twelve small private schools which are located in Southern California and organized into nine athletic programs.

It consists of six provinces and seven cities, namely, Biliran, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Samar, Samar, Southern Leyte, the cities of Ormoc City, Baybay City, Maasin City, Calbayog City, Catbalogan City, Borongan City and the highly-urbanized city of Tacloban, the regional center.

His best-known compositions include The Time Curve Preludes, 24 short pieces for piano which critic and composer Kyle Gann has described as the first work of postminimalism, and Southern Harmony, which consists of 20 pieces for an eight-part chorus and employs features of shape note singing and minimalism.