Word: transition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visits by the Queen to nearly every corner of the British Isles. The British Tourist Authority has issued a 32-page booklet listing scores of 25th-anniversary events before and after the national thanksgiving service at St. Paul's Cathedral on June 7. Even London's transit authority is getting into the spirit: a fleet of 25 silver-painted double-decker buses will tool around the city...
Most Secretaries of Transportation hail from states with urban rapid transit systems. Not Brock Adams, whose state of Washington has no doubt seen more people rolling logs down the Spokane River than cramming into a rush-hour subway. Nevertheless, Adams is reputed to know his stuff when it comes to transportation. Maybe that's why Carter chose...
...Many of these workers testified that they did not accept the graveyard shift jobs because they lived alone in Watertown and Someville, did not drive and would have to have used mass transit, and were afraid of coming in and out of Harvard Square in the middle of the night," Kuntz said...
...even the final surge could help Pittsburgh shopkeepers, whose business was curtailed 30% by a transit strike in early December. Downtown sales there finished the season 6% below last year. At the other extreme was New York's Tiffany & Co., which did not stay open Sundays and bucked the pattern of Gimbels, Macy's, Korvette's and other retailing giants. Sales were up 16% over last Christmas. Gloated Chairman Walter Moving: "Obviously Sunday sales have not been very successful because they have taken away from sales during the week...
Architects for the MBTA have submitted several versions of the proposal to the Urban Mass Transit Authority (UMTA), Mila Dixon, special assistant for communications for the Public Information Office of the MBTA, said yesterday...