Word: transition
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...with filing cards. Each card represents a file that is not there because there is not enough room. These absent files have been sent to New Jersey, but 25,000 of them are hauled back every year. Near the door stand rows of shopping carts full of files in transit...
From Harvard Square to Porter and from Davis to Alewife, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) Red Line is looking and riding a whole lot better these days...
...year Governor's salary so the Happy Warrior could live "without bread-and- butter worries." Chadbourne, who died in 1938, admits he was miffed when Smith later refused to support a subway-fare increase, which would have hugely added to the value of Chadbourne's mass-transit stock...
...episode was brief but embarrassing. Leaders of the British National Union of Railwaymen last week called a strike against London Regional Transport. LRT runs the city's underground subway system, on which about 2 million passengers daily depend. Most of the transit union's 15,000 members, however, cavalierly dismissed the action, and more than 75% of the city's trains ran on schedule. The strike was abandoned after just eleven hours, a remarkable event in a country where strikes were once as traditional as afternoon...
...Leah, 67, are refugees from Hungary. When World War II broke out, he was running a raincoat factory and she was preparing to study chemistry. He was eventually shipped off to a labor camp, while she lived in Budapest in hiding. In 1949 they arrived in a transit camp east of Tel Aviv with two small daughters and $100. At first the Gottliebs tried to resume their trade, but they soon discovered that selling raincoats in dry, sunny Israel did not have much future. With $65,000 borrowed from Armin's brother in the U.S., the Gottliebs in 1955 bought...