Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Airlines would be permitted to raise fares as much as 10% in any one year, or cut them up to 20% in each of the first two years that the plan was in operation, without getting CAB approval...
...Starting in 1981 airlines could expand their route networks 5% to 10% a year by starting flights to cities that they do not now serve, without CAB...
...place of our eye, it should be a purely material object, a photographic plate that has watched the action, then what we shall see in the courtyard of the Institute for example, will be, instead of the dignified emergence of an Academician who is going to hail a cab, his staggering gait, his precautions to avoid tumbling on his back, the parabola of his fall, as though he were drunk, or the ground frozen over...
John Ludwig, an off-duty cab driver, felt a pain in his groin. "The wind was knocked out of me," he said. "I saw something fall from my pants. I picked it up and asked a policeman what it was. He said, 'Hey, that's the bullet!' " It had ricocheted off the wall, passing behind Ford within a few feet and hitting Ludwig, who was not seriously hurt...
...ECONOMIC CRUNCH of the seventies--producing many college trained cab drivers and dishwashers-- has not encouraged educated workers and students to organize against capital, nor has their education given them more humanistic values than their less-educated blue collar counterparts. The threat of further downward mobility has thrown students back to a petit bourgeois outlook. At more exclusive colleges like Harvard, the "new mood on campus" stands as a polite metaphor for a new isolation and an increased competition for the few types of work that are still independent...