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...four artworks--two sculptures and two murals--are part of a program funded by the National Urban Mass Transit Administration to "experiment with developing art planned specifically for the environment and cultural interests of a single community," Lombardi added...
National grants for the Arts on the Line program have expanded from the initial 1979 Harvard Square, Porter Square, and Davis station projects to include art development near 12 other MBTA stations. The project is funded by the Urban Mass Transit Administration...
...have damaged bridges, railways and hydroelectric dams. The distribution of food has been severely hampered, while repeated UNITA offensives have disabled the Benguela railway, which used to transport copper from Zaire and Zambia to the Atlantic. That disruption alone will cost Angola up to $100 million annually in unearned transit fees. UNITA claims to control at least one third of Angola, mainly in the southeast, although the government seems to retain its hold over the major towns...
Less than 24 hours later, after a transit stop in Paris, Andrei arrived back on Soviet soil and was surrounded by members of yet another international press corps. He said his plans were to return to school and possibly study to become an actor. If so, he would surely bring to class some firsthand knowledge of how it feels to be cast in a starring role...
...Japanese also used the oil shortages to make their industries more efficient. Large industrial firms in such sectors as cement, pulp and paper, and transit made major adjustments to comply with the government's demand for energy conservation. Many steel companies fitted blast furnaces with recovery turbines that use the pressure at the top of the furnaces to generate electricity for other steel-mill uses. Continuous casting, in which molten metal is formed directly into products for shipment and bypasses the cooling stages, helped decrease by 10% the amount of energy required to make a ton of steel. From...