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...offered us student housing, so we got a cab and he took us all over hell's half-acre and finally ended up at MIT, and we're in front of this army barracks from World War II," he says. "My wife said, 'No way, lose. We're not going to live in that...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: B-School Dean Tells His Story | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

This same idea dawned on me one night last fall while cruising the streets of Somerville with two friends in the cab of a U-Haul. We were hopelessly lost, hungry, and rapidly losing faith in the directions to the rental truck return we were given...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: Seniors Look Back on Their Four Years | 6/9/1993 | See Source »

...Concorde round trip, New York-Paris, plus cab fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Few Bucks, Very Big Bang | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

Being an athlete in the Quad can have its perks. "The swim team gets cabs down [to the athletic area] in the morning and that's a big advantage over living on the river because you get to drive by freezing people in a nice warm cab," Beavy says...

Author: By Julie-ann R. Francis, | Title: Currier Is Ugly, Yet Friendly | 3/2/1993 | See Source »

...past five years, Artyom, 29, has witnessed his country's whirlwind transformation from behind a steering wheel. He has watched younger clients supplant older ones, businessmen replace communists, big-time hoods succeed small-time hustlers. He has gone from working for the state to owning his own cab, a pioneer in privatization. He has seen his taxi meter rendered obsolete by the base law of supply and demand that allows drivers to name their price for every trip. Once fearful of foreigners, he has learned to seek them out, knowing, like all cabbies, that most foreigners will pay more. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View From a Cab | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

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