Word: railing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...briefly shut down when railway workers and the government clashed over how to distribute $6.3 million in pay raises. TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "the threat of a general transport strike . . . could affect Poland's national and defense interests." Translation: Do not fool around with rail links to East Germany, home of 19 Soviet divisions and the front line of Warsaw Pact defenses...
Service ceased on the subway, bus and rail lines of hte debt-plagued Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) a few minutes after midnight after state legislators failed to reach agreement on an emergency appropriation for the system...
...State Department of Public Utilities (DPU) also announced yesterday that it had arranged for alternative service for at least some of the 35,000 rail commuters who would be standed by the strike. The DPU said 360 buses owned by private firms would be available if needed, beginning on a limited basis today...
...WHEN America should be doing all in its power to nurture mass transit, the Greater Boston area this week faces the shutdown of its subway, bus and commuter rail service. The paradox presents an object lesson in the venal intricacies of Massachusetts politics; it represents as well an opportunity too good to miss for the transformation of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) into a stable transit network...
...which increases the thrust of the magnetic field by squeezing it with a carefully directed explosive charge, a technology pioneered during nuclear weaponry research. When the gun is fired, the electric surge ignites the near end of an explosive strip placed just on the outside of one of the rails. As the detonation speeds forward, faster than the blink of an eye, it presses one rail against the other, confining the magnetic field between them in an ever smaller space and imparting still greater velocity to plasma and projectile. Teams led by Physicists Ronald Hawke and Max Fowler have fired...