Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence was not all on one side. Moslem terrorists in Oran raped a French girl and cut her escort's throat. They killed a French prison guard, a Jewish taxi driver, a Moslem with pro-French sympathies, and tossed a grenade in a Constantine bar, wounding 16. F.L.N. men raided a factory and killed four Europeans, broke in on a wedding and mowed down four guests...
...Tall. Buntin's minicab, and others like it, are pitted against 6,600 time-tested dinosaurs of the London taxi world. What arouses the ire of the traditional cabbies is that minicabs are operating without taxi licenses and thus can ignore the stringent regulations that made a London cab 1) expensive to build and 2) one of the world's ugliest but most comfortable vehicles. Some of the regulations, as laid down in the ancient Metropolitan Carriage Act of 1869: each cab must be 14 ft. 11 7/16 in. long, big enough to seat five persons comfortably, high...
...down by passengers; the driver will then hand his car phone to the customer and ask him to place his order with the dispatcher at headquarters, who will solemnly repeat it to the driver. Since the average minicab costs only half the price of a regulation-bound old-style taxi, their fares run about 14% cheaper...
...chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever." No Christian will quibble with that. One may, however, argue heatedly over, or reject totally, the basic assumption that the pop culture-bestsellers, TV shows, advice to the lovelorn columns, cartoons, comic strips, dialogues with taxi drivers-constitutes the best method for judging the drift and destiny of a civilization. No one judges Greece and Rome that way-there is no reason to believe that the hoi polloi in 5th century B.C. Athens knew any more about Euripides than an average TV watcher knows about...
...about Terry's sanity. His appeal to the National Labor Relations Board for reinstatement is a bureaucratic farce. With two children and a wife to support, Terry is in the bitterly ironic situation of being a worker without the right to work. He leaves town, starts driving a taxi, and crashes head-on into tragedy...