Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land, known as Parcel 1b. formerly served as the site of MBTA carbarns and was once slated to house the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. But a coalition of neighborhood groups fearing increased congestion in the Square forced the library project out of Cambridge--and onto Boston's Columbia Point--after prolonged negotiations...
...provided continuing entertainment for a city bored with, or unsalted by Celtic success. One could follow the drama, daily, on page one, or on a slow day in court, in Metro Region An envelope stuffed with 10 hundred-dollar bills--which James F. O'Leary, general manager of the MBTA, counted out one by one at the witness stand--and a little black case, a calculator case, containing syringes tainted with insulin--which von Bulow's stepson found in the accused's locked closet--became tangible symbols the masses could feel Frank J. Walters Jr., the 35-year-old assistant...
...LOUSE" as a daily cover decoration. (You can almost picture each rushing to a newsstand each morning, breathing a sigh of relief when it was the other's turn.) The two have suffered the trauma of seeing close relationships dissolve. A chief official and a young assistant of the MBTA, "close friends" of Locke, took the stand for the prosecution. Von Bulow's maid, his two step-children and his lover--the woman for whom he risked it all--gave testimony for the state...
Lewjean Holme, chief budget analyst for the Advisory Board said that approved of the additional funds is unlikely. She added that the MBTA should look to funding sources other that the Advisory Board, which provides roughly 30 percent of the $344 million budget...
...Advisory Board refuses to provide funds, riders will have to wait for action by the legislature or state courts. The New England Conservation Law Foundation has filed a suit with the Massachusetts Superior Court charging that the MBTA should have automatically implemented fare cuts because of the latest disappointing ridership statistics...