Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority announced that subway construction in Harvard Square "really is almost complete this time...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority announces that subway construction in Harvard Square "is really almost complete this time, seriously, fellas...
Supporters of the bill that tied up the Senate for 13 days said that the legislation, which will raise the federal gasoline tax from 4? to 9? starting April 1, would create 320,000 new jobs, extend unemployment benefits, help repair the nation's decaying highway and transit systems and cost the average motorist only $30 annually. It would also increase the maximum user fee for heavy trucks from $210 to $1,900 a year and permit the use of long double-trailer trucks on many state roads...
Even safer were the lawmakers who pushed last week for both a 5? increase in the gasoline tax to fund a highway and mass-transit rebuilding program, which had bipartisan backing, and a larger public works bill proposed by Democrats. The poll shows that 30% of Americans want only the highway-transit program, while 40% want both the road repairs and a larger jobs-creation program. One-fourth of the respondents rejected both of the proposals, while 5% cannot decide...
...economists were also dubious about a White House-backed plan that would raise the federal gasoline tax by 5? per gal., so that the revenues raised could be used to put 320,000 people to work repairing highways, bridges and mass-transit systems. While agreeing that such restoration projects were needed, the board members pointed out that the increased tax would probably reduce consumer spending and might destroy more jobs than it created. Said Heller: "This is an anti-jobs bill...