Word: transition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) is expanding the Red Line, and has uprooted plenty of negative feelings along with the Cambridge...
Ricardo H. Coca, who moved to Brighton two months ago and commutes through the Square, said yesterday he's looking forward to a more convenient and comfortable transit system...
...even higher standard of living." The key is the encouragement of "productive conservation"; that is, using energy more efficiently. In the transportation sector, the Project, recognizing that the automobile is likely to remain an American fixture, recommends more stringent gasoline mileage standards instead of massive investment in mass transit. The government should grant very high tax credits to industry for mundane improvements like furnace maintenance, lighting adjustments, plugging leaky steam traps, recovering, installing insulation and developing more efficient technologies to replace the existing capital stock. Indeed, it's the very banality of such measures that is the primary problem with...
...board of directors of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) is scheduled to vote this morning on an agreement which would give Harvard about $1 million in exchange for contruction necessitated by the extension of the Red Line through Harvard Square...
...poor black suburbs outside South Africa's gleaming commercial capital, Johannesburg, has always epitomized the darkest side of apartheid. Since it was developed as a dormitory for black labor toward the end of the last century, the township has been largely lacking in basic necessities, including roads, transit faculties, plumbing and electricity. Indeed, Soweto's lack of lighting contributed significantly to the frustration that fueled the June 1976 riots that ultimately cost the lives of 600 blacks...