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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harrison ("Pete") Williams, has been a Democratic Senator from New Jersey for 21 years and one of the state's biggest vote getters. In that time he has faithfully and consistently backed organized labor. Aid to mass transit has been another favorite Williams cause. But for all his seniority (he chairs the important Labor and Human Resources Committee), the New Jerseyite is widely regarded as a weak Senator. He is shy and occasionally self-effacing. His colleagues-and the voters-respect his having defeated a serious drinking problem and talking publicly about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Among the Accused | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...strike began three days after public school teachers ended a two-week walkout to protest layoffs and delayed paychecks. Last December, Chicago Transit Authority workers walked out for several days in a contract dispute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chicago Firemen Strike For the First Time Ever | 2/15/1980 | See Source »

...Town News Agency will move into a newsstand on wheels Friday night to accomodate construction on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Red Line...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Out-of-Town News to Move To New Quarters on Friday | 2/12/1980 | See Source »

...transit freak," he says. "I'm seeing something I care about treated very shabbily--I really dislike watching the system fall apart...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: An MBTA Watchdog With Teeth: James Smith of the Advisory Board | 2/5/1980 | See Source »

...sees the advisory board as the public's advocate in the way the transit system runs...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: An MBTA Watchdog With Teeth: James Smith of the Advisory Board | 2/5/1980 | See Source »

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