Word: taxied
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...responsibility and says, "This is my work." The economy is doing well under Thaksin. People have benefited from his policies. There's less unemployment. My sister runs an import-export business and she says it's getting better. At my hotel, there's a woman whose husband is a taxi driver. Thanks to Thaksin, who made it possible for ordinary people to borrow, he finally has the chance to own his own taxi. For years, he paid 500 baht ($13) a day to rent a taxi. Now he is paying off a loan and after four or five years...
...missions, Rogan runs into an old friend out of nowhere. He encounters a waitress/aspiring actress at a restaurant and, for a minute, sparks seem to fly between the two of them, but result in nothing. Not to mention Rogan’s various conversations with taxi drivers all over the city...
...Olympic event in which four boarders twist and fly down a mountain to the finish, favorite Seth Wescott, 29, should have panicked, trailing Slovakia's Radoslav Zidek late in the race. (It's the Olympics, don't you know?) He didn't and cut off Zidek like a Torino taxi driver to win by one of the whiskers on his chin...
...Then Thaksin won high marks for his leadership after the tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, and for Thailand's efforts to control bird flu. Many Thais appreciate his style. "He's the only Prime Minister who goes to the slums to meet the people," says Thamniap Lekchai, a Bangkok taxi driver...
...hotel to keep Cubans out of the guests’ rooms. I found out that the government does not want its citizens to see cable television. It might show them the trappings of more prosperous societies. Second, Cuba’s regime stifles innovation. I met a taxi driver who told me he left his post as a history professor because he could make more money from tourists’ tips in a day than he otherwise would in a month. Smith’s observation that people respond to economic incentives really seems to hold true in this case...