1.   Cabral of the police unions association said he will urge municipal and transit officials around the country to refuse Benetton advertising on publicly owned buses and billboards.

2.   Several factors led officials to decide to close the station entirely, rather than doing the work piecemeal, according to transit officials.

3.   The difficulty of quickly escaping the subway and the ease with which biological agents can spread have long worried transit officials.

4.   There was even a move afoot, he said, by someone he could not remember to arrange a meeting between him and city transit officials.

5.   Transit Authority officials Tuesday refused to respond to the threat of cutting off financing.

6.   Transit Authority officials, who had braced for calamity along with the rest of the city, absorbed the fury and clung to a diluted, tenuous victory.

7.   It was just last week that transit officials from across the country gathered to discuss security, but they wound up focusing on concerns like pickpockets and assaults.