Word: taxicabbing
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...inflation. The problem, however, was that unusual price hikes caused by temporary food or energy shortages, for example, were built into wages. Instead of remaining stable, the inflation rate tended to accelerate uncontrollably. The price index in Brazil has become almost like a clicking meter in a speeding taxicab, and the value of the cruzeiro against the dollar falls by 2% or 3% every week. Late last week it took 568 cruzeiros to buy a dollar...
...women who live on the street, carrying their few possessions in tattered bags. Nemy not long ago got in a classic OOR with her column about her own shopping bag ladies--the women who after a tough day at Bloomingdale's must maneuver through the streets and into their taxicab overburdened with purchases. The gist of the column was a breathless admiration for those specially blessed women who manage never to appear overburdened--and a coy suggestion that these women must have legions of servants secretly following a few steps behind and carrying all their bags. More savvy still, they...
...since 1977--a job that involves traveling to recruit, screening the regions of Washington, D.C. and Southern California for admits, and giving special attention to foreigners. He didn't start working with the Cosmos until 1978, when a bizarre coincidence brought up his name in a New York taxicab conversation between a Lipton tea magnate of his acquaintance and the Cosmos director of television coverage. Since then, the soccer job has been what he calls his "weekend getaway," peaking over the summer with the soccer season and necessitating an intimate relationship with the New York-Boston shuttle flight. But things...
...lucky," shrugs Malin, and he repeats it about the New York taxicab incident which finally landed him the Cosmos job. The explanations he offers for his luck are uniformly sketchy people needed a good voice knowledge able about soccer, foreign sportscasters like the absence of all but a trace of an Irish brogue, and one thing led to another...
...entire country seemed to be in the grip of a patriotic fever. In the capital, blue-and-white national flags adorned everything from office buildings to shop windows to taxicab antennas. Cafés, shops and hotel lobbies buzzed with excited talk of the latest news. Television shows were repeatedly interrupted by grave-sounding announcers reading war bulletins before the backdrop of the national emblem. Crowds gathered outside newsstands to peruse the latest reports. On the Plaza de la República, women sat in the sun knitting wool socks, caps and scarves for the troops on the islands...