Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Denver think-tank Center for the New West, puts it, the "lone eagles." Burgess agrees that "what's happening in the Rockies is not unlike what happened in California in its golden years." But he emphasizes a big difference: "In the Rocky Mountain region, it's not taxi drivers anymore -- it's professional people who realize they can locate anywhere and live by their wits. Many were middle managers who were forced off the corporate gravy train in the latest recession and said, 'Why live in New York or L.A.? I can have a modem and a fax and live...
...nation's difficulties are multiplied by its unchecked population growth. Since Mubarak came to power 12 years ago, the number of Egyptians has grown from 43 million to 58 million. "Young, educated Arabs who have no job prospects, even as taxi drivers," says a senior British diplomat, "have been willing recruits to fundamentalism." These people are coming not only from the slums but also from the middle class...
...many Brazilians had no sympathy for the victims. "Everyone is making them out to be heroes," says taxi driver Joao Mendes, "but they were not sweet flowers." Citizens calling in to local talk shows applauded the massacre. Says Alexandre Coelho Reis, 23, who works in Rio: "Many of these 13-year-old kids have killed. They deserve...
...government jet. Described by friends as deeply religious and penny-pinching, Witt shunned the perks of his $136,300 post and flew by commercial plane. Bound for Madison, Wisconsin, via Chicago, Witt missed his connection. Undaunted, he boarded a flight to Milwaukee where, unwilling to pay the $100 taxi fare to Madison, he directed the cabbie to take him to the bus station, where he waited in line to buy a ticket. Cost to taxpayers: $9. Upon boarding the bus at around midnight, he found all the seats were taken. A woman in the last row moved her child onto...
...have no other topic as our troubled millennium ticks away) civilization is banging and whimpering toward its well-deserved end. The characters are Kraft, a harried, too sensitive surgeon-in-training; Espera, a gallant nurse; and an appalling procession of dying children. The doomed kids arrive by ambulance and taxi, bleeding from gunshot wounds, septic with cancers both physical and psychological, withering from every disease in the manual. Kraft prunes and hacks and catheterizes; Espera listens and comforts; the children bleed and expire...