Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rancher's son, with dire results for rooster weather vanes and passing semitrailers. But the Nel-Spot fell among major-league upsetters of the peace last year in Gaines' Newbury, N.H., living room. He and his friends were jawing enjoyably about whether a city man, adept at taxi-dodging and expense-account padding, could possibly have the survival skills in the outback of a hardened countryman. Hayes Noel, 40, a trader on the floor of the American Stock Exchange in Manhattan, took the hell-yes position. The hell-no side was defended by Gaines, a novelist (Stay Hungry...
...older brother Farouk will try to track him down. Farouk is more self-assured than Ahmed, a bit colder as well. At 31, he holds a high rank in Al-Fatah, the largest faction within the P.L.O. He says very little at first, sizing up the stranger. Their taxi rolls past a fat man who has been forced to drop his pants for a search at a checkpoint in the middle of the street. He stands there helpless before a group of boy soldiers and squeals in rage and humiliation...
Though the Israeli bombardment abated as the week went on, moving around the city or out into the hills to cover the fighting remained extremely hazardous. But it was possible. Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, sent into Beirut two weeks ago, found that "you can still travel by taxi, but charges jump from $22 to as much as $200 for a nine-mile ride, depending on how dangerous an area you want to go to." Of course, the whereabouts of danger was unpredictable. On a quiet street, a small van blew up less than 50 yards ahead of Suro...
...Miami. It is hot, 90° or thereabouts; it is usually the rainiest month of the year; it is the beginning of the hurricane watch; and it is graduation time for a whole new generation of mosquitoes. As a result, hotels have vacant rooms, restaurants have empty tables, and taxi drivers roam the streets looking for a beckoning hand. What is needed, obviously, is something to make people flock to the area despite the weather. Out of such logic was born the New World Festival of the Arts, Miami's attempt to attract tourists and at the same time...
...narrow road," he recalled, "we were constantly forced to the side to make way for the Syrian 1st Armored Division to pass through to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley." Two days later, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, with the Beirut airport still shut down, hired a taxi for the three-hour drive from Damascus, dodging Syrian tanks on the ground and hearing Israeli jets overhead. Reaching the Lebanese capital, he found a city filled with rumors, refugees and fear...