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...down to get you in a taxi honey...
stopped a taxi. As he got in, the driver
...cost to the state and the defense was estimated at $611,000, but the human cost was far greater. In a land where, according to a legal expert, "the public equates suspects with culprits," many defendants found it difficult to get jobs or to keep them. One taxi driver took an assumed name, switched jobs 20 times and, fearful of being identified, never got married. Another defendant kept getting fired because he was absent from work so often nursing imaginary colds or attending funerals for nonexistent relatives-excuses invented because of his interminable court appearances...
Occasionally the people whom Nader is trying to help seem more resentful of his efforts than do his corporate targets. On his taxi rides through Washington, cabbies regularly berate him because they must now pay for seat belts and 28 other pieces of mandatory safety equipment. Nader sympathizes with them but argues that the automakers could reduce prices by at least $700 per car if they would do away with costly annual style changes. Even Lyndon Johnson, who signed the 1966 auto-safety bill into law, has found some Nader innovations irritating. On a drive across his Texas ranch, L.B.J...
...Dahls seem to be one of those families that have been singled out by the gods for cruel sport. In 1960, their four-month-old son Theo received multiple skull fractures when his carriage was slammed into the side of a New York City bus by a taxi. The child's injuries resulted in hydrocephalus, a condition in which fluid accumulation causes the skull to enlarge and the brain to compress...