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...Porter Square station will link the western end of the Red Line with a commuter rail service that extends to the New Hampshire border, said MBTA Board of Directors member Judith Robbins...
...their own fees; he also admits that the financial institutions face a bad public-image problem. Says he: "If you maintain a balance under $100, banks should charge you $10 a month. But if they do that, they'll be run out of town on a rail." Indeed, the new fees have infuriated politicians and consumer advocates. They maintain that the charges usually hit individuals with $1,000 or less in their accounts, while wealthy depositors pay almost no fees and receive lavish services. Contends Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America: "We are witnessing...
Passing through the lock takes only a few minutes. No sooner have the gates closed behind it than the Peckinpaugh begins to rise, buoyed by the water pouring into the rectangular lock enclosure until its rail towers above the head of the lock keeper. A moment later, the lock's forward gates swing open and the ship sails on, a full 16 ft. higher than it was when it entered. Ahead of it stretches the Erie Canal, as straight and flat as a highway...
...furniture, designed during the Depression, was intended for particular buildings. A chair made for the Finnish civil guard headquarters is blunt and homely, but utility was the point: half a dozen or more could be stacked up for storage. A stacking armchair designed in 1929, its rear legs, back rail and arms a single piece of bent wood, is swanker, a kind of streamlined Thonet. Yet despite the curvature, it is still a plain old chair, a clunky seat stuck onto four legs-a goat just beginning, it appears, to turn into a gazelle...
...idea of a circular escalator seems simple enough, but the design problems were daunting. The challenge was to lift passengers up and around without tilting them, throwing them against a rail or squeezing them off the tread as it narrows while going around the turn. Complicating the problem were some basic laws of physics that say the two handrails must move at different speeds to match the motion of the twisting stairs. Still, the results look surprisingly conventional: a conglomeration of chains and sprockets and comblike metal plates ingeniously designed, machined and arrayed. The finished escalators will move...