Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Giuliani, "because he agreed with the Broken Windows theory." Sure enough, as arrests for small offenses rocketed, New York's streets became notably more civil. Then Maple, who has been Bratton's aide-de-camp and crime strategist since Bratton was slashing subway crime as New York's Transit Police chief in the early 1990s, proposed an intriguing corollary to the theory...
...firebug antics on the MTV cartoon show Beavis and Butt-head and the traffic-dodging pranks in Disney's 1993 film The Program. This time, however, the filmmakers appear to have been warned. Jack Lusk, senior vice president in charge of movie permits for New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority, says the MTA cooperated with the filming, but not with the token-booth scenes. "We objected to the torching of the booth," he says. "We said the torching was not central to the movie, and that it was a dangerous thing to do and could lead to violence...
...protest began on Nov. 24 with a one-day general strike by civil servants. The movement snowballed when employees of the debt-ridden national railroad, protesting plans to restructure the company, launched an open-ended work stoppage. They were soon joined by mass-transit workers, mail sorters and state utilities workers. The result was cities snarled with traffic jams and millions of people forced to walk, bicycle or hitchhike to work. The economic cost to the country is hundreds of millions of dollars...
Amalgamated Transit Union...
Well, what can Harvard do to increase transit time without decreasing class time? It could adopt a staggered class schedule. This means that as the day progresses, classes start later into the hour. This is implemented at other Ivies, like Cornell, which actually affords a 20 minute break between each class. Of course, the Cornell equivalent of going from the Science Center to the top of Lamont involves crossing tundras and scaling frozen waterfalls...