Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long ago, a New Republic editor, seeking a name for a new column, glanced up from his paper while riding a New York subway and saw the words "Brooklyn Rapid Transit." He reversed the initials; thus TRB. The BRT has vanished; Strout, far from it. While his collected essays do not form a cohesive whole, they shine individually with the glimmer of a cynical idealist. He returns every week, brandishing only his intelligence and wit. But with those tools TRB has earned his royal...
...Boeing Vertol Company will repair and replace the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) light rail vehicles (LRV) on the Green Line, and give $40 million to the MBTA under a settlement reached last week...
...spent fuel rods, are stored under water in plant "swimming pools," but reactor operators are running out of pool space. Wastes that emit less radioactivity are placed in sealed containers and trucked to dump sites for burial. However, some of the containers have leaked, either underground or in transit, and dump sites have been closed in Hanford, Wash., and Beatty, Nev. This leaves only one dump in the entire country that still accepts nonmilitary atomic trash, and South Carolina Governor Richard Riley has closed that site, at Barnwell, to wastes brought in from out of state...
...Harvard and expansion a lot less than his colleagues, was the major driving force behind the city's involvement in a citizen's group lawsuit asking for an injunction against extension of the Red Line. Danehy is a neighborhood man at heart, and though he protested the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's project on technical grounds' he feared about crime and protecting Cambridge...
...handed out money to cover the growing deficit. Park won their cooperation with business-oriented policies, including major tax cuts establishing a "free trade zone" for banks and large businesses. To keep the city afloat on a declining tax base, Perk sold such municipal assets as the transit system, the sewer system, the stadium...