Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) and the Amalgamated Transit Union meet Thursday with federal Department of Labor officials to try to resolve a dispute that has held up $30 million slated...
...binding referendum on tomorrow's ballot asks the "federal government to cease unnecessary spending on new military programs and, instead, to spend the funds for civilian needs such as construction of energy-efficient housing, mass transit, public education and health care...
...audience reminded Frost that the British government loses so much money on its major public industries because it took them over in their death throes--an argument known as the "turkey theory" and often used on this side of the Atlantic to account for the weakness of public transit systems. British Steel's decrepit capital plant makes Bethlehem Steel look like the cutting edge of the new technology, and U.S. producers struggle way behind their Japanese competitors. Can the Tories really believe that selling British Steel to the private sector would suddenly make them competitive? Who, for that matter, would...
Western intelligence officers believe that the Saudis, at least in the early days of the war, covertly cooperated with Iraqi forces to the extent of giving them the use of base facilities and transit rights for warplanes. That aid and comfort is thought to have dried up as the safety of the oil was placed above the desire to punish Iranian mullahs...
...Rowlands), so can they blame the film's failure on Cassavetes. Without actors, Cassavetes is thrown back upon his own technical resources, and he hasn't a leg to stand on. Camera work is repetitive and unimaginative. When he wants to evoke an urban mood, he gives us mass transit; there are more buses and cabs and subways in this movie than you would want to count. Oh, yeah, and a saxophone: urban, right? Cassavetes also wrote the script, and like many scripts written by ex-actors it is bad, plagued by longeurs of dialogue between...