Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major cities, which will be hurt by a proposed cancellation of revenue-sharing funds from Washington. Chicago stands to lose $55 million for its school system, which is already so strapped that teachers suffered four payless paydays last winter. Cleveland may have to buy fewer buses and rapid-transit cars; Miami fears its parks will deteriorate without federally paid help; St. Louis may be forced to stop serving free meals to the elderly poor...
Under questioning from the prosecution, McGaw said she told Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) police the man was "5 feet 9 inches, wore a black knitted cap and that he was Black and that's about all I said," adding that she did not discuss his build...
...docket for April 3, 1980 listed nearly eleven cases. The eleventh case was that of Emeka Ezera '81, charged with "larceny from the person," arresting officer Pond of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), and Heins as prosecuting attorney...
...wage-price freeze, permanent controls on oil prices, "an end to the current crazy policy of high interest rates," cutting subsidies to agribusiness to "yield cheaper food," national health insurance to "calm fevered medical costs," and a shift from spending on the war budget to such items as mass transit and energy conservation...
...convinced that less military spending is essential, and that emphasis on mass transit systems and energy conservation are highly desirable, but the reasons for this conviction are not economic but philosophical...