Word: taxied
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This inability to move troops has been developing for a decade, mostly because the Air Force and Navy have given transport a low priority; neither service can summon much enthusiasm for providing a taxi service for the Army and Marines. The number of planes available to fly troops and equipment dropped by 258, nearly a quarter of the force, during the 1970s. The Military Air Transport Command had all it could do last fall to fly a mere 1,400 soldiers to Egypt for a training exercise, Operation Bright Star. The number of cargo ships fell by 297, nearly half...
...smaller survey last fall included on its "least constructive" list ABC shows Taxi and Vega$ and CBS hits WKRP in Cincinnati and The Dukes of Hazzard. NBC, lowest in commercial competition, had five of the "top ten constructive" shows, including Quincy and Little House on the Prairie...
Private Benjamin, meet Meatballs. Bill Murray of Saturday Night Live, meet Harold Ramis, John Candy, Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas of SCTV. Psycho from Taxi Driver, meet martial music from 1941. Tired moviegoer, meet tired moviemakers. And note: Murray, he of the choirboy face and pseudo-hip slouch, is convincing as a soldier who maneuvers his platoon into and out of World War III. Director Ivan Reitman is a canny merchant. He knows that the easy laughs are the surest, that teen-agers love to watch goofballs shape up without losing their shambling style, and that it doesn...
...titled NFD Informer. On the basis of last fall's programs, Revlon was declared the "least constructive" sponsor, followed by Dow Chemical, Noxell, Gulf + Western and the Beecham Group. Some of the "least constructive" shows have already been canceled because of low ratings, but among those returning are Taxi, Three's Company, Laverne & Shirley and The Dukes of Hazzard. Wildmon will do more than name offending shows, however. Some of the companies that pay for the most advertising on them will be singled out on a kind of hit list, and consumers will be urged to boycott their...
Though he does not enjoy the Paris cocktail-party circuit, Mitterrand likes to dine with such old Socialist comrades as Claude Estier, Louis Mermaz and Pierre Joxe. Other close friends include a businessman from his native region and the owner of a taxi fleet. He is seen from time to time in Left Bank restaurants with one or another of the attractive young women whose company he enjoys. But he is also a family man who spends most weekends with his wife, visiting friends or staying in his converted sheep barn in southwestern France...