Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gray, windy morning in a dusty town near the Mexican border, a battered old van with VOLUNTEER BORDER RELIEF lettered in green on the side pulls up behind a supermarket. The figure who hauls himself from the cab looks like the local citizen most in need of relief. Ferree, 77, a stooped 6 ft. 6 in., has bowed legs, deteriorating teeth and a face that looks like an old rock weathered by dust storms. Indeed, he is the scavenger he appears; for 25 years he has scuttled through the alleys of Harlingen, scrounging loaves of day-old bread, wilting fruit...
...that class actions were frequently thrown out. Starting in the '50s, however, constitutional issues like desegregation and legislative reapportionment were successfully fought as class actions. Then, in 1967, the California Supreme Court swept away an important barrier to class actions on the part of consumers. A Los Angeles cab company was accused of rigging its meters to overcharge customers. In denying the charge, the company argued in part that the suit should be dismissed because it would be impossible to find and reimburse each passenger...
...similar defense had worked in other cases, but this time the court ruled for the plaintiffs. The company's meters were then adjusted below the proper level so that the cab riders as a group could recover what they had lost. Counterploys. With that decision, and a legislative loosening of other ground rules, California became the class-action capital of the states. At about the same time, Congress broadened the rules under which federal courts could treat class actions, opening the way for the consumer movement, environmentalist groups and public-interest law firms to spread the procedure nationwide. Worried...
...Pretty Poison. None of the shrewd, chilly humor present in that effort can be detected in Jennifer on My Mind. There are only two small bright moments: Peter Bonerz does a funny, lamentably brief turn as an unctuous psychiatrist. And Robert De Niro appears as a speed-freak gypsy cab driver who doesn't want to take Marcus to Oyster Bay. "Come up, see my sister instead," De Niro leers. Marcus declines, and as De Niro hurls his purple Day-Glo cab into gear, he screams, "The gypsies lose again...
...flights that were taking off with many empty seats. Airline men had long felt that move to be necessary, but the Civil Aeronautics Board would not let them get together to discuss which flights to drop. Carlson gambled on a unilateral 18% cut in United's schedules, with CAB approval. "It was a little gamesy," he concedes, "but it worked." Majoi competitors followed...