Word: mta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support Gov. Dukakis' bill," said Nancy A. Finklestein, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA). She added that the association had influenced the proposal's content before it was made public, reportedly forcing the Governor to drop a proposal to increase the time for teachers-to receive tenure from three to five years...
...Robert R. Kiley. The only candidate who is not a Boston native, Kiley is also the only contender to have had significant experience in administration. He was White's deputy mayor from 1972 to 1975 and helped implement court-ordered busing in 1974. He managed the MTA for four years under Governor Michael S., Dukakis's first administration, but was fired when Edward J. King replaced Dukakis in 1979. The fact that the 46 year-old Minneapolis native has only lived in Boston for 10 years may hurt his September showing, especially in low-income and ethnic neighborhoods, still strongly...
Though the pitch was not phrased in exactly that way, the MTA did indeed offer last July to lease two vacant subway tunnels to "an imaginative entrepreneur." Now Vital Records Inc. of Raritan, N.J., thinks that it has enough imagination. The company, which stores financial records on computer tapes and microfilm for 50 of the largest U.S. corporations, proposes to convert the tunnels into a vast underground filing cabinet...
Budd, an American subsidiary of Thyssen AG, a huge West German steelmaking firm, has lost five other rail-car contracts in the past two years to Canadian, Japanese and Italian competitors. Budd has done business with the MTA for two decades, and is to deliver 316 subway cars in 1984. The company said that as a result of losing the latest contract it will lay off up to 40 engineers and cancel plans to hire 550 workers in New York...
...Civil Defense Chief William Codd outlined a proposal to move more than a million residents to West Virginia, if given 72 hours' notice of a nuclear attack. People would theoretically flee in sequence according to their zip codes; the estimated 330,000 Baltimoreans without cars would board MTA buses, already notorious for being late even on the most placid of days. Inexplicably, the proposal envisions at least 33,000 leaving the city armed with crowbars. Complained Councilman Dominic DiPietro as he stormed out of the meeting: "What a bunch of garbage...