Word: transitioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Citing Cambridge’s transportation plan to integrate bicycle paths, pedestrian walkways and public transit, Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney presented the city an award for “smart growth” at a State House ceremony last month...
...once California gets its fair share from Washington, Arnold could direct the klieg lights where they really belong—on preparing California for the future, and abolishing confusing voter initiatives that mandate irresponsible spending increases and guarantee fiscal insanity. And he could target investments in classrooms and mass transit, fix a broken workers’ compensation system, and help attract back the jobs that are fleeing for less expensive states. But he cannot be The People’s Governor until he stops just acting to fix the people’s government...
...Proportion of Japanese women in their 20s and 30s who have been groped on Tokyo's transit system, according to a government poll...
...world's worst violator. The self-described human-rights champions who run South Korea these days will be shamefully AWOL in this fight, but that won't matter. South Korea's constitution offers citizenship to anyone who comes in from the North. If the U.S. can help arrange a transit route for refugees through China, the exodus will begin. When that happens, look for a better class of dictator in Pyongyang?just as the mass movements in 1989 improved the quality of governance in the former German Democratic Republic...
During the Ross’s transit through the Suez Canal, he writes in an e-mail, “the threat of RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] attacks or sniper fire is all too imminent... The canal is at points so narrow that standing on one of the banks, Johnny Damon could toss a baseball right through the Pilot house and out the other side. As well guarded as the canal is, it is still one of the most hair-raising events of the deployment because of the ever-looming possibilities...