Word: transitional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon be given even greater independence to run various departments in the company or set up competitive ones. Within the immense federal and state governments, Macrae proposes a new form of market competition called "performance contracts." By this method, citizens will vote regularly for the private contractors-garbage collectors, transit companies and sewage disposal firms-that best deliver the services...
...Jersey; the Metropolitan Transportation Authority supervises commuter and mass transit. These agencies could serve as models for units to deal with other regional problems such as land use, air and water pollution and taxation. City Planning Commission Chairman John Zuccotti also contemplates a regional development authority that would plan orderly industrial growth and discourage one area from recruiting a business from another-a practice that wastes money and effort...
...between. During the midday break, they are paid time and a half for three hours that they may spend as they please: taking a snooze, going to the movies, tending bar. A more rational solution would be to hire part-time drivers for peak periods, but the Transit Authority claims that this would be even more expensive than paying employees for not working. The part-timers would have to be given all the hefty fringe benefits that the unions have wrested from the city...
...squads of gleaming new blue-and-white patrol cars, the Chicago police escorted Ford north out of the city. At one point his route paralleled the tracks of an elevated rapid transit line. To keep the platforms clear of people, the trains were ordered to stop between stations while he sped...
Another two buses took us to the Oakland-Alameda Country Coliseum, where the Oakland A's, formerly the Kansas City A's, formerly the Philadelphia A's, play. BART, the nation's newest rapid transit system, also goes to the Coliseum. But not on weekends, and not on weekdays after 8 p.m. We had to wait until Monday to see if the future worked...