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A closed entrance to the 45th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.. The 2005 New York City transit strike, held from December 20 through 22, 2005, was the third strike ever by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 against New York City's Transit Authority and involved between 32,000 and 34,000 strikers.
Mona Talat Diab is a computer science professor and director of Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute.Previously, she was a professor at George Washington University and a research scientist with Facebook AI.
History. The transit workers' contract was up for renewal in April 1980. Negotiations began on February 4, with the TWU initially demanding a 21-month contract with a 30% wage increase; they justified the hike by claiming that the cost of living had gone up 53% since the last contract negotiation, and their contract did not account for changes in the cost of living.
West Portal station. / 37.7409083°N 122.4659944°W / 37.7409083; -122.4659944. West Portal station is a Muni Metro station in the West Portal neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is built around the western entrance to the Twin Peaks Tunnel. The station consists of two side platforms, with the entrance at the western end.
The MTA purchased and took over subway, elevated, streetcar, and bus operations from the Boston Elevated Railway in 1947. [15] In the 1950s, the MTA ran new subway extensions, while the last two streetcar lines running into the Pleasant Street Portal of the Tremont Street Subway were substituted with buses in 1953 and 1962. [16]
Deaths in 2024. The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Grant Robert Sutherland AC (born 2 June 1945) is a retired Australian human geneticist and celebrated cytogeneticist.He was the Director, Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital for 27 years (1975-2002), then became the Foundation Research Fellow there until 2007.
Since March 2020, Siderovski has been Chair of the HSC Department of Pharmacology & Neuroscience at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. From 2012 to 2019, he was the E.J. Van Liere Medicine Professor and Chair of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience for the West Virginia University School of Medicine.