Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buckley, a new Medford Police officer was the class president of the first graduates from the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority (MBTA) police academy. Their graduation, which was held in Sanders Theatre, had a unique Harvard flavor...
Afterwards, though there were plenty of tears and hugs. Even old-time police officials like Riley and the top brass of the MBTA police said they were moved...
...MBTA's fiery chariot cruised down Mass. Ave., leaving clouds of dusty diesel exhaust in it's nearly Olympian wake, a panic seized me. There was no end to Harvard. Johnston Gate turned into the Littauer Building, which blurred phantasmigorically and diabolically into the law school. I couldn't get out! The Center for Ukrainian Studies weighed like a 1,000-pound brick on my mind as the bus idled waiting for a traffic light to become green. North Hall, home to future jurists mocked my efforts at the next red, but, as the bus pulled off from the curb...
...world is sleeping soundly. Or so it must seem to "Antonio," as he leaves his Dorchester home (and a slumbering wife and three children) at 6:30 a.m. every day to take the orange and red MBTA trains to Harvard Square...
August of 1998 brought a new look to the Harvard Square's cylindrical kiosk, a landmark of the Pit. Apple computers gave this T elevator entrance a make-over with an oversized black-and-white "Think Different" advertisement for the company. One MBTA public affairs executive confesses, "It was kind of an eyesore right there. The Apple ad makes the entrance to the station a lot nicer." Another benefit? The MBTA receives $45,000 in revenue for each three month advertising cycle. Apple, in charge of the kiosk's upkeep, outfitted the cylinder with the latest in anti-vandalism technology...