Word: taxied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...typical weekday night last year would have seen a handful of taxis lined up at the Harvard Square taxi stand, Cavellini observes. But now, he says, that number is doubled. "The economic downturn is generally felt in the taxi industry and the restaurant industry first, and this was true in this case," he says...
...sales manager at the Checker Cab Company, says the recession is hitting drivers particularly hard in its corporate and tourist aspects: the sense of financial restraint infecting the nation has resulted in less air travel and hotel usage for work and for pleasure, lopping off a significant chunk of taxi business...
...says that recently, many of these winter-only users--the "fair weather walkers," as he calls them--have been abandoning taxi services altogether, dealing yet another blow to local cabbies...
...grouchy cabdriver and a dissolute Jewish saxophonist strike up an uneasy friendship, with the cabby doggedly trying to reform the jazzman. TAXI BLUES doesn't sound like anything new, does it? The movie takes its story from Bertrand Tavernier's 1986 Round Midnight and its urgent, improvisatory spirit from a dozen John Cassavetes pictures. But Pavel Lounguine's drama is remarkable as the first (and perhaps last?) post-glasnost film from the Soviet Union. Lounguine proudly airs Russia's dirty laundry: the pervasive alcoholism, the anti-Semitism, the suspicion and self-destruction. Rock star Piotr Mamonov has a snaky charisma...
...Central Square working-class] people here are really upset that a lot of money is going to be spent there and not over here," said Bill Cavellini, a Cambridge taxi driver for 17 years and local activist for 17 years. "The feedback I'm getting is: dammit, we've got drugs and we've got crime here and we've got a terrible situation in Massachusetts, and it may not get better for five years and we need the money here. I think that's class-based and I think It's racially based...