Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Taxi Driver Marcus Barnard, on his way to visit his newborn son in the hospital, was shot through his windshield. He died instantly. A father and son emerged from a side road with two small girls. Ryan opened fire at the men, leaving the father dead in a puddle of blood. He emptied his gun into the car of a woman and her daughter, killing both. Abdul Khan, 84, was cut down in his garden, dying as his wife cradled his head. Francis Butler was killed while walking his dog. The savagery was as swift as it was deadly...
From smoggy Seoul to the bustling port of Pusan, usually industrious South Koreans last week simply refused to do any more work. Strikers shut down the country's showcase automobile industry as well as textile factories and chemical plants. Taxi drivers and bus operators in Seoul and Kwangju declined to accept passengers. In all, some 200,000 workers were idled by job actions. A striker in Pusan expressed the pent-up frustrations of many: "It is our turn to receive humane treatment. We have the right to a decent living...
...done to movies. At one stage or another, Hollywood films are censored by just about everybody. The studio bosses decide whether, and then how, a film should be made. The industry's ratings board has slapped proscriptive X ratings on the original versions of such seriously intended films as Taxi Driver, Cruising, Scarface and Angel Heart until the sex and violence were trimmed. The big theater chains and most pay cable services show no X-rated films. Most newspapers and TV stations, making no distinction between pornography and a serious film for adult tastes, refuse all advertising...
...against an average of European currencies since early 1986. That has made almost everything more expensive for an American in Europe. In Rome, for example, a double room for three nights at the King Hotel near the Spanish Steps that cost $246 last year now goes for $333. A taxi ride from a hotel on London's Hyde Park to the West End theater district, which cost about $4.50 two years ago, now runs closer to $5.75. During the same period, dinner for two at a moderately priced restaurant in Paris has gone up from about...
...retreated to their homes. Army units patrolled the streets, keeping watch on loitering gangs of Fijian youths. Eventually, some 500 native Fijians gathered in the center of Suva and began to run riot. They swarmed through the city, wrecking the stalls of Indian traders. One group hauled Indian taxi drivers from their vehicles, beating them and breaking car windows. The mob then charged 1,000 Indians in a city park and began punching and kicking them. An army unit finally had to be called to assist police in breaking up the melee. Both Australia and New Zealand had ships standing...