Word: taxied
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...Siam General Aviation (sga.aero) in conjunction with several Hua Hin hotels, but you don't have to be a guest at a participating property to use it. At around $135, a return ticket is also surprisingly reasonable-costing about the same as a two-way fare in a chartered taxi, but infinitely better than staring at endless miles of traffic jams...
...into the sea because he was nearly out of fuel. Even so, the runway lights were still off and Galal, with a gun barrel at his head, had to rely on his plane's landing lights to pierce the darkness as he touched down. The tower ordered him to taxi to a remote parking area; four police buses then blocked both ends of the airstrip...
...most effective reforms was the official sanctioning of the "second economy." Typically working eight hours a day in a state factory or farming cooperative, Hungarians were encouraged to hold down additional jobs as taxi drivers, seamstresses, restaurant workers or shop clerks. They were also allowed to use their regular workplaces for private after-hours labor in a number of designated occupations. The reforms were roundly successful: between 1968 and 1978 real purchasing power rose more than...
...windy now, and Wanda is further infuriated when she learns that their limousine cannot pick them up at curbside. "This lane is for taxis only," explains the shaken USIA woman. That does it. "I will go back to New York," Mrs. Horowitz announces. Her husband quickly seconds the motion: "If she's not going, then I'm not going." A compromise is reached: Wanda will take a taxi...
Their American counterparts were less hospitable. The White House press center (a taxi ride away from the center of town in a city with no taxis) was open only to accredited White House correspondents, much to the annoyance of European journalists. At the outset, harried U.S. officials seemed peeved that they had to deal with the press...