Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pick-up chugged along, with the cab humping upward every third beat somewhat like a caterpillar crawl. It was the single dirtiest vehicle I had ever ridden in--when I retrieved my bright-red backpack out of the back at the end of my ride, it had turned brown, brown with black racing stripes. Come to find out the driver carried his organic fertilizer around back there, mostly cow manure, that is, with pig and chicken droppings thrown in as a kicker. But you couldn't ask for a more pleasant ride--Mt. Pisgah National Forest, hills and dales, glinting...
...overbooking for years, had more time to rule on appropriate penalties for overbooking. But last week the Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Lewis F. Powell, ruled with Nader and the legions of the bumped. Their common-law right to sue, without further reference to the CAB, was affirmed...
...taxi ride is the chief means by which New York City tests the mettle of its people. A driver, for example, is chosen for his ability to abuse the passenger in extremely colorful language, the absence of any impulse to help little crippled old ladies into the cab, ignorance of any landmark destination, an uncanny facility for shooting headlong into the most heavily trafficked streets in the city, a foot whose weight on the accelerator is exceeded only by its spine-snapping authority in applying the brakes. Extra marks are awarded the driver who traverses the most potholes...
...sheer violence, the only sensible approach was to bring in a fleet of London taxis, which are wondrously compact and comfortable, can turn on a tuppence, and come equipped with diesel engines and drivers who say "Sir," "Madam," and "Thank you." Some New York operators experimented with a London cab in Manhattan eight years ago, but rejected it when they discovered that the passengers enjoyed the ride...
...concedes, a layman might have been too timid to make. At Massachusetts General, he learned that his problem was arteriosclerosis; a buildup of fatty deposits was obstructing two of the three coronary arteries. The suggested remedy: an operation that heart surgeons humorously call "a double cabbage"-from the acronym CAB (for coronary artery bypass). Though more than 90% of the patients who undergo such operations survive at least five years, Nolen knew that any heart surgery posed grave risks. While the surgeons do their work, the heartbeat must be stopped and the blood pumped by machine. Later, the stilled heart...