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...into the sea because he was nearly out of fuel. Even so, the runway lights were still off and Galal, with a gun barrel at his head, had to rely on his plane's landing lights to pierce the darkness as he touched down. The tower ordered him to taxi to a remote parking area; four police buses then blocked both ends of the airstrip...
...most effective reforms was the official sanctioning of the "second economy." Typically working eight hours a day in a state factory or farming cooperative, Hungarians were encouraged to hold down additional jobs as taxi drivers, seamstresses, restaurant workers or shop clerks. They were also allowed to use their regular workplaces for private after-hours labor in a number of designated occupations. The reforms were roundly successful: between 1968 and 1978 real purchasing power rose more than...
...after Summers’ speech, Hopkins says she was in a taxi in New York City thinking about her reaction to the remarks when she got a call from the Globe reporter and decided to describe how she felt while listening to the speech...
Emergency responders, however, make up only part of this constellation of radio stars. My scanner tracks the chatter of taxi transmissions after a Red Sox game and the gastronomic gurgle at McDonald’s restaurants. Even the school bus fleet makes for a fine show. On the first day of school, I listened to dozens of little kids board the wrong buses and forget how to get home. Each time, the dispatchers directed the drivers to return the kids to the schools even if that delayed the next pickup by an hour. Here was a group of people genuinely...
...Comeback knows how quickly and badly this story can end. But this HBO sitcom can be self-serving and smug about those awful networks and their barbaric reality shows. When Valerie meets Kim Fields (The Facts of Life) and Marilu Henner (Taxi) playing themselves at an audition, Fields sniffs, "Who is so desperate for a comeback that they actually want cameras to follow them around all day?" Fields, we should note, once did an episode of the E! dating show Star Dates...