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...pages - 15 kg - of economic analysis. And so a bold move that could have boosted the whole European econ-omy has been buried, at least for now. Officially, the decision will hinge on whether the euro passes five economic tests hastily devised in the back of a Washington taxi by Brown and his chief aide Ed Balls in 1997. These range from whether business cycles and economic structures in Britain and on the Continent are converging to how joining would affect inward investment. Inherently subjective, they were really a way to buy time when the new Labour government...
...TAXIS AND BUSES As if riding in a New York City taxi isn't stimulating enough, you can now add to your amusement by watching television--assuming you happen to hail one of the yellow cabs participating in a pilot program. The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission has agreed to let seven private companies test their proprietary technology in 400 of the city's 12,000 taxis, with more cabs to be added to the program over the course of the year. On flat screens facing the backseat, the marketing companies offer a mix of traditional commercials, information...
...passenger chooses not to engage an Interactive Taxi monitor, it will run loops of advertising, which a rider can mute. But if the rider touches the screen, the ads move to the right while the left side offers ways to get information of every kind from news headlines to hotel listings. In the future, Interactive Taxi hopes to enable consumers to order advertised items by swiping a credit card through a scanner attached to the video screen...
With this possibly unnecessary rise in subway and bus rates, many New Yorkers will seek refuge in the city’s yellow taxicabs. And in early February, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg rightly decided to eliminate the voices that urge taxi passengers to buckle up when they get into the cab and take all their possessions when they leave. Despite reminders from such celebrities as Beverly Sills, Chris Rock and Elmo, the number of items left in cabs had not decreased since the voices were added in 1997. And, out of 4,000 surveyed patrons, 12 percent...
Every morning when the weather was warm, a taxi cab pulled up in front of Leo’s and out stepped Perri the Hobo already decked out in his clown suit with his face made...