Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael S. Dukakis joined local, state and federal officials in ribbon-cutting ceremonies for the opening of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) new Davis and Porter Square subway stations...
...first Red Line service to North Cambridge and Somerville, the Davis and Porter Square stations represent the latest accomplishments in the MBTA's $574 million northwest extension started six years ago. Two more mass transit stops and additional Red Line improvements will add the finishing touches to the 3.2 mile new subway to be completed by next fall, according to James F. O'Leary, MBTA general manager...
Medicaid, veterans' benefits, farm price supports. Civil service pensions, aid to mass transit, student loans. Plus . . . well, not defense or Social Security. But name almost any other federal spending program, and somebody in Washington was telling reporters last week that it might be cut deeply in the budget that Ronald Reagan will send to Congress early next year...
Budget planners are talking up such recommendations as a new attempt to slash or eliminate federal operating subsidies for mass-transit systems, enact new restrictions on Government-subsidized student loans, consolidate and reduce many federal grants to localities, and perhaps abolish the Department of Education. But they are pointedly not discussing any further slashes in programs such as food stamps and welfare that make up the so-called social safety net. Vows one planner: "There will be virtually nothing in this budget that can be construed as an attack on the poor...
...through the other side, taking its passengers to an unscheduled stop in the middle of a darkened tunnel. When the motorman backed up to see what had happened, the train slid through the station in the other direction as well. The ensuing snarl is supposed to have tied up transit officials and straphangers for hours...