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...going off the ground," I gushed. "We're flying. We are in a box and we are in the air." It kind of went on from there, and lasted through the entire taxi and take-off. It stopped mid-ascent, when I ran out of breath...
...that were hardly conceivable even a generation ago, the new world order is a version of the New World writ large: a wide-open frontier of polyglot terms and postnational trends. A common multiculturalism links us all -- call it Planet Hollywood, Planet Reebok or the United Colors of Benetton. Taxi and hotel and disco are universal terms now, but so too are karaoke and yoga and pizza. For the gourmet alone, there is tiramisu at the Burger King in Kyoto, echt angel-hair pasta in Saigon and enchiladas on every menu in Nepal...
Changes include a new price structure, stricter parking and overcrowding regulations at area hotels and a requirement that limousines with fare structures similar to taxicabs have taxi licenses...
Rodriguez said the changes are necessary to protect the interests of Cambridge's taxi industry...
...limo sitting in front of Mass. Ave. picks up five or six people and drives them a short distance for a fee, it looks like [the driver] is doing hackney [taxi] business," Rodriguez said. "Liveries can not do hackney, and we will enforce this...