Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trucking industry, which hauls about 75% of the nation's goods, projects that lower diesel-fuel costs will save it $7.7 billion this year. Bus lines and local transit systems will benefit as well. Theodore Weigle, executive director of the Chicago Regional Transportation Authority, estimates that the decline in diesel-fuel prices could save his agency as much as $7 million in 1986. But for American railroads, the oil-price drop is a mixed blessing. The good news is that most U.S. freight trains are diesel powered; at Norfolk Southern Corp., in Norfolk, Va., for example, executives expect that saving...
...than a bus to the plane, where she identified her luggage before boarding. She sat in seat 10-F, and during much of the flight kept the table down over her lap and listened to cassette tapes on earphones. After arriving in Athens, she spent seven hours in the transit lounge, leaving on a Middle East Airlines flight for Beirut shortly after the crippled TWA 727, on its return from Rome, made its emergency landing in Athens. On Friday, in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, a woman who identified herself as Mansur strongly denied that...
ATHENS, Greece--The prime suspect in the TWA bombing spent six hours in the Athens transit lounge and left on a flight to Beirut minutes before the crippled American jet made an emergency landing nearby, police said yesterday...
Kokkinakis said Mansur left the TWA plane at Athens, entered the transit lounge immediately and boarded a Middle East Airlines flight six hours later that took off for Beirut minutes before Capt. Richard F. Petersen landed the bombed plane...
Complaining that Pulley's cleanup ignored provisions against subcontracting union work, labor leaders rasped that the project, which saved the agency about $480, should have been cleared with them. Transit officials defended the agency's right to work with volunteers. When the eagle scout was summoned as a witness in an arbitration hearing last week, at least one union leader was faintly defensive. Richard Ries, business manager for Division 757 of the Amalgamated Transit Union and a former eagle scout, allowed that "it sounds like we're taking a broadsword to the scouts." But sometimes, he insisted, good deeds...