Word: transition
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also quite useful: the cool, clear water it impounds flows to some 2.4 million people and 75,000 businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the power generated by that water's downhill rush supplies electricity to such vital operations as San Francisco's schools, municipal-transit system and international airport. If the dam were removed, that water and power would have to be replaced somehow, which is why the Public Utility Commission's Leal considers the idea "just plain goofy...
Last week, when London's transit system was wracked by four bombs, New York and other U.S. cities responded again with a mighty show of force. The Coast Guard escorted Staten Island ferryboats. The chief of the New York City police department promised there would be an officer on every rush hour subway train "for the foreseeable future." In Washington, cops clutching MP5 submachine guns strode through subway cars, and Capitol police searched tour buses...
...some of Boston’s well-rested activists and lawmakers see a problem in shutting down Boston’s late-night transit, no matter whom and how many it served...
...March, before the Night Owl had been cancelled, Fiocchi authored a report defending the service. Her report noted that among the country’s eleven largest public transit systems, only Boston and Atlanta lacked 24-hour service during the weekend...
...Photos: London's mass transit system suffers four new blasts • Map: The July 21 attacks