1.   The Metro subway system was operating only a limited schedule of trains, on portions of its system that are underground.

2.   Depend on the clean, efficient Metro subway system to get around.

3.   In Washington, Metro subway trains were running but not stopping at the Pentagon or Ronald Reagan National Airport.

4.   Metro subway cars were practically popping their seams with tourists throughout the weekend, and even those people found other things to complain about.

5.   Snow-clogged streets and an overburdened Metro subway system frustrated employees trying to get back to work in the aftermath of the east coast blizzard.

6.   Streets immediately around the Mall will be closed, and city officials have urged persons attending the celebration to use the Metro subway system.

7.   The Metro subway system was operating only a limited schedule of trains, on portions of its system that run underground.

8.   A citywide Metro subway strike, triggered by a fatal attack on a ticket seller, left about one third of the seats empty at center court.

9.   Officials who run the Metro subway system said a scuffle broke out between a transit officer and man on a train after the passenger pulled a knife and gun.