Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal regulatory system. Its argument is that freer markets and increased competition could lead to lower prices or better service in more than half a dozen heavily supervised industries, including airlines, railroads, trucking, natural gas, banks and utilities. White House free-marketeers have lambasted such alphabet agencies as the CAB, ice and FPC for acting as guardians of the businesses they are supposed to regulate. They have urged the creation of a national commission on regulatory reform, a sweeping proposal that has so far won little support in Congress and, predictably, even less from the agencies themselves. Undeterred, the Administration...
...Legislation that would give airlines and truckers less governmental protection against competition from new firms entering their industries, plus inducements to merge for greater efficiency and permission to alter some rates without CAB or ice approval...
...urge these bureaucracies to weigh the inflationary consequences of their decisions and 2) to maneuver for greater price competition within the existing rules rather than press for outright deregulation of entire industries. Later this spring, Ford plans to preach price-consciousness to the heads of the ICC, CAB, FCC, FPC, FTC, SEC, FMC, NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) and the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission...
Still, given the risks of robbery and the hazards of traffic, the true believers will not forsake their mounts for something better. In fact, there is nothing better. The bike rider may not get there as fast as in the cab or the family car. But along the way he is creating conditions of health, enjoying the weather and collecting some valuable human truths: every forward motion costs effort; balance means a total involvement in the task; energy has its limits; to stop precipitately is to court disaster; and, of course, a skill once learned is never quite forgotten...
...York City cab drivers did not have enough troubles with traffic, potholes and other cabbies, they are now being taught "better synergistic movement of the buccal cavity." In uddah woids, to tawk propah. Last week, at a seminar with an audiologist invited by the United Taxi Owners Guild, the hackies struggled like so many Eliza Doolittles to correct elided consonants, curdled diphthongs and other "substan-dardisms" peculiar to the area. If all goes well, they may give up on diction and speak only when spoken...