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Word: taxied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Routinely travelling in a taxi cab in Italy to catch an afternoon airplane flight to his home in Geneva yesterday, Rubbia, much to his surprise, heard over the car radio that he had won the the prestigeous award...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rubbia's Big Day | 10/18/1984 | See Source »

Called Taxigrams, the traveling commercials are the creation of Donald Chipman, a former owner of two taxi fleets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Playing to a Trapped Audience | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...Africa; and I wanted to be in an African country which, in the mess of black Africa, was generally held to be a political and economic success." The Crocodiles of Yamoussoukro displays his idiosyncratic methods of assessing a strange place: serendipitous encounters with local people, from college professors to taxi drivers; intuitive pursuits of whatever his Western intellect perceives as bizarre. Naipaul is most unsettled by a visit to Yamoussoukro, a stupefying modern city being constructed in the remote jungle around the tribal village of the country's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. An artificial lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journeys | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...Borowitz's past is all academic for CBS, which has high hopes for the series. "If (the American public) doesn't like this, I don't know what they like," said his co-producer Ron Fraiser, who produced the series "Taxi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon President Writes New Sitcom for CBS-TV | 10/3/1984 | See Source »

...relatives or friends living in the south to obtain the documents for them. The rules sometimes discriminate: Muslims are forced to travel through the mobbed Batir checkpoint, whereas Christians can take a ferry from Jiyah, north of Sidon, to East Beirut. What used to be a 40-minute taxi ride between Beirut and Sidon is now a journey that takes hours, even days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Roots of Violence Grow: Lebanon, In the Israeli-occupied South | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

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