Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past three weeks, mudslides blocking further excavation have prevented the Morrison-Knudsen. Construction Company from working on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) Red Line extension tunnel...
...legislator for eight years, was the clear favorite. Frank had been endorsed by Drinan and Senator Edward Kennedy. Moreover, voters in the largely liberal district, which includes wealthy Boston suburbs and factory towns in central Massachusetts, liked the rumpled candidate's advocacy of more public spending on mass transit, senior citizens' programs, and housing for the poor...
...should be less of an ordeal. Although the outermost gates are a mile from the terminals, underground electric monorail cars will whisk people to the planes at 25 m.p.h. Expected to carry 250,000 riders a day, the airport monorail will be the nation's fifth busiest rapid transit system, ranking ahead of San Francisco's BART, which hauls 160,000 passengers daily. Moving sidewalks, computerized baggage handling, and a one-stop security checkpoint equipped with twelve electronic screening devices will also minimize the Hartsfield hassle. By 1985 travelers will be able to reach downtown Atlanta, nine miles...
...most people, going back to nature means eating sugarless cereal or using a low-suds shampoo that smells like an avocado. Few actually light out for the wilderness and set up housekeeping, and those who attempt this transit from civilization back to the primeval usually find that they cannot get there from here. That is the upshot of Author Elizabeth Arthur's first book, and it is not exactly startling news. But Island Sojourn offers something much more durable than a scoop; the book is a graceful meditation on survival, both in a harsh external landscape...
...Reagan plan would turn "back tax sources to the state and local governments as well as the responsibility for these program." In other words, cities would pay all the welfare costs of their poorest citizens and cover medicaid, mass transit, educational and numerous other expenses as well. Somehow, this program is supposed to bring America's cities out of fiscal crisis...