Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Plan. The State Planning Committee (GOSPLAN) allocates all investment capital, sets every price and production goal and determines all foreign trade. The plan, which sets policy for some 350,000 enterprises, affects every Soviet citizen. Lawyers must try their quota of cases, barbers must shear so many heads and taxi drivers must log so many miles. The plan determines the amount of raw materials a plant will receive and the number of workers it is assigned; fulfilling the plan's quotas is the only economic measuring stick...
Newark, July 1967. Violence exploded when blacks heard and believed a false rumor that the police had killed a black taxi driver. As the rioting spread, exaggerated reports of black snipers prompted the intervention of the National Guard. In six days of rioting, 26 were killed, 1,500 injured, and damage reached $30 million...
...anecdote to another. Visitors included Noel Coward, Jean Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Gladys Stern, whom Morgan describes as "bursting fat." Morgan looks back to Maugham's youth, when he had to live in the unfashionable section of London and take the streetcar, instead of a taxi, to attend the smart dinner parties to which he was invited. In that young man he finds shades of the self-serving social climber Maugham wrote about when he depicted Hugh Walpole as Alroy Kear in Cakes...
...girl's condition became increasingly apparent, she agreed to marry an Iranian taxi driver to save her family from disgrace. But the marriage fell through, and the brother, in a fit of anger, killed her. A male fetus was reported to have been removed from the girl's womb, and blood tests were carried out, presumably to determine paternity...
...when the taxi turned around to take them back to their home, they found a cruising patrol car announcing over the loudspeaker, "Evacuate immediately. Please leave the area of this emergency...