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...evident on the comeback of the Chrysler Corp., which quietly reported large profits last quarter. The agreement in that case: The United Auto Workers permitted fewer immediate benefits, in return for a spot on Chrysler's board of directors. By contrast, look at the recent demise of the Checker Cab Company. Its employees refused to make short-term concessions; they ended up without a company--or jobs...
...homosexual, 42, who drives a cab in Cambridge, Mass., thought he had an allergic reaction to a laundry detergent. Two doctors and a second attack later, he knew. "I was an angry person before and I'm angrier now," he says. His earliest fear was that herpes scars on his genitals would make him unattractive to other men, but that no longer concerns him. Now, like many sufferers, he has become a "professor of herpes," plunging into the medical literature when he has time, trying to control the disease by understanding it. He refuses to risk infecting others...
...guess I'll miss Taxi the most," Mary said, sighing her big sigh. "It was written by our writers-James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, Ed. Weinberger, the great David Lloyd. The Taxi characters were so much like us, and so good at it. The Sunshine Cab Co. was a place to work in that became a place to live in. And your co-workers became your friends: Alex the off-duty rabbi, and sweet dim Tony, and Latka the gentle schizoid. And Reverend Jim, phoning in his blissed-out wisdom from Planet X. And Elaine, the only woman...
...brought in. To attack those sturdy pillars, it was fitted out with protruding steel blades. It succeeded in knocking down two walls but lost its blades and snapped a cable in the process. At one point, falling debris pushed the ball into the crane boom and banged up the cab. The Mobile Press headline: HERO HOUSE CAPITULATES TO STEEL BALL. But not without a fight...
...away, murmuring, 'I be goin' to figure this out.' " Douglass's own conclusions are black and white, them against us. He carries a revolver, which he once used to drive off attackers while on a civil rights assignment in the South. He nearly strangles a cab driver who refused to stop...