Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spending to the bone. Then the oil crisis burst on Japan, raising nightmares of economic stagnation. Panicky consumers rushed to buy up everything in sight, wholesalers hoarded goods in jammed warehouses in anticipation of even higher prices, and living costs ticked up with the regularity of a taxi meter. The government has now clamped a price freeze on many products. Still, most experts expect prices in Japan this year to rise a hefty...
John and Mario Thomas as by his statesmanship, insist on being briefed by no one else. In Cairo he is referred to as "the American magician." Taxi drivers reverently point out to tourists the streets along which he has traveled, and when the car hits a pothole the cry is, "Where's Kissinger...
Writer McConnell jumped out of his taxi and ran up to the gunman. Despite the bloodshed and the gunman's frantic attempts to force his way into the royal limousine, McConnell remembers saying with typical British cool: "Look, old man, these people are friends of mine. Don't be silly, just give me the gun." He moved forward to take the weapon, when suddenly "there was a blinding flash, and I remember thinking, 'Christ, the bastard's shot...
...upheaval in Ethiopia, which began with a strike by teachers and taxi drivers and culminated in a military mutiny, continued unchecked last week. Beleaguered Emperor Haile Selassie, 81, offered the protesters concession after concession, only to see them ask for even more reforms. By promising changes for his semifeudal country, Haile Selassie probably saved the monarchy as an institution, at the price of yielding much of his fabled, once absolute power...
...Brooklyn taxi driver. His first job, at the age of twelve, was plucking chickens in a meat market. He learned the movie business in the Warner, Disney and Filmways organizations. Those were the years when he memorized the physical contours of every U.S. theater of even minimal consequence. Thus certain houses were turned down on bids to show The Godfather because they were too narrow. "It is a three-hour show, and I did not want people getting claustrophobia," says the impresario...