Word: taxicab
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...repeal of every major civil rights law in the land, including those that allow blacks to sit at lunch counters and use the same water fountains as everyone else. Thenceforward the government would be required to function in a race-blind manner, but private citizens and institutions, from taxicab companies to huge corporations, would be free to discriminate...
...Reed made his rounds among America's most important politicians last week, he looked for all the world like a junior executive, neatly attired in a crisp, dark suit and starched button-down shirt, dashing, luggage in hand, from taxicab to commercial aircraft. At times, he thumbed through his history book of the moment, Doris Kearns Goodwin's new biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. But there was nothing mundane-or junior level-about his encounters. In addition to New Hampshire's Governor, he met with Senator Dan Coats to discuss the Foster nomination and a new bill on school...
Lynn, Massachusetts -- After $4,466 was stolen from the Equitable Cooperative Bank in February, the robber was tracked down minutes later in his getaway car -- a hailed taxicab. Identification was made easier by the fact that the criminal was still wearing the mask he used during the stickup...
Family life is not easy, but Beldar takes a job first as an appliance mechanic and later a taxicab driver. He's a born worker, and the family achieves the American dream of middle-class bliss...
...standard Moscow taxicab sifts through traffic along the city's Boulevard Ring road on a mild, hazy winter's afternoon. The windows are coated with a viscous film of mud and grit, residue of city snow turned to slush. Wipers, old and misshapen, scrape slowly across the windshield, clearing just enough space for the driver to spot a stout old man waving his hand from the curb. He pulls over. A few words are spoken, an agreement reached. The man and his wife, both wearing dingy overcoats, fur hats and rubber boots, clamber...