Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James T. McDavitt, chairman of the License Commission, which regulates taxi service in Cambridge, said the report was based on 12 hours of meetings with local cab drivers and owners, but several of those who testified termed its recommendations hasty and arbitrary...
Wearing the color of the Irish, and with pots of shamrocks on their desks, the Cambridge City Council gave the green light last night to further study of a perennial local debate over the regulation of city taxi service...
...only proposals accepted by the council were made by cab drivers who testified at the hearing. The first proposal establishes a larger number of taxi stands in the Central and Kendall Square areas, and another revises the application for taxi licenses...
...addition to a fare increase, the report calls for structural changes in the local taxi industry. These will later be submitted to the council as an ordinance. Other issues raised in the report include the creation of a taxi commission of city officals and elected representatives of the industry; new provisions for the elderly and handicapped who rely on cabs for transportation over short distances; and regulation of the radio dispatching services which serve independent drivers...
...donning an arsenal of firearms, Travis sets off to do battle with the Big Apple and rescue a child prostitute, played by Jodie Foster. Although this film contains none of the directorial trickery of later. Scorcese classics like Raging Bull, gutsy realism and DeNiro's superb characterization make Taxi Driver an eloquent and powerful expression of an individual's rage against society...