Word: medallions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is one legitimate complaint that cab drivers can raise, however, and that is the fact that they are required to pay an $85,000 medallion fee in order to operate in Cambridge, while the U.S. Shuttle gets off scot-free. While cab drivers point out that the U.S. Shuttle can offer low prices because it doesn't have to pay the $85,000 medallion fee, this one-time licensing gives the right to operate as a taxi and provide services the U.S. Shuttle does...
...support free and fair competition. U.S. Shuttle offers cheap fares, however, only because they themselves are getting a free ride. As a Boston-based company, they are exempt from all medallion fees charged other Cambridge taxis--an unfair, unconscionable preferential treatment...
...hard not to sympathize with the taxi drivers' need to support themselves. The city of Cambridge should reduce or scrap the $85,000 medallion fee for taxicabs and let them compete fairly with the shuttle...
...proposal would have allowed US Shuttle to make regular trips between Cambridge hotels and the airport without paying the $85,000 medallion fee local hackneys are charged...
...climactic final scene, with the full moon shining, Laura puts Will in the only place on her father's enormous estate which doesn't have windows, the barn. With the horses going crazy in the other stalls, Will fights with the werewolf powers of the Universe as his medallion burns a hold into his chest. He sweats, he pants he thrashes with all the energy and method acting which Nicholson can muster. Predictably enough, Stewart has been infected by the disease when Will snapped at him in a fight and cut his hand. He arrives at the estate and decides...