Word: transit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...auto. Students are demonstrating to ban everything from pesticides to offshore oil wells. Well versed by now in the techniques of protest, they are even turning to the courts for help. A group of Washington law students recently brought legal action to force the capital's transit authority to muzzle the fumes from its diesel buses...
That is an increase of $1,259 in just two years, and it fails to take into account this month's 50% increase in the transit fare. Nearly three-quarters of the city's population live in families that earn less than $11,236. The bureau's "lower standard"-a subsistence budget allowing for only $1,022 beyond taxes and the utter necessities of life-is now up to $6,771. Yet the average wage for a production worker in the New York region last year amounted to only $6,527. In free translation, the Government...
...Authority is very pleased with the new cars," said MBTA general manager Leo J. Cusick. "And incidentally, these cars are the first aluminum transit cars to be built in United States...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) is installing 76 gleaming new aluminum subway cars on its Harvard-to-Ashmont "Red Line...