Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State police at Logan International Airport are tightening their enforcement of taxi regulations after a recent series of Boston Globe articles exposing several types of current violations...
Independent Taxi Association President Max Dobro yesterday defended the overflow practice and noted that "it's not done all the time...
...terribly upper-class Ryan O'Neal with lower middle-class Ali McGraw, whom Hollywood seems to have slated to pick up all the ethnic roles than Anthony Quinn can no longer play. The screenplay could have been set on a cross-town bus during the recent New York taxi strike and it wouldn't have really made any difference...
Mohawk has sought to cope by trimming its schedules and turning over lightly traveled routes to the largely nonunionized air taxi lines, the so-called "third-level carriers." The union is worried about the trend, and estimates, perhaps with some exaggeration, that 1,000 ALPA jobs have been lost through such transfers. But as Piedmont Airlines President Tom Davis puts it, "ALPA itself is responsible for pricing us out of the small-town market. We can't afford to take those crews in those jets into the smaller towns, so we are turning them over to the third-level...
...visitors through the Minoan maze of the subway system. But probably nothing matched the extravagant politesse of Michael H. Thomas, the president of Cartier on Fifth Avenue, who offered his Mercedes 300 limousine as a plutocratic jitney. Said he in a New York Times ad: "If the absence of taxi service should keep you from selecting your diamonds at Cartier, I will be happy to send my personal car to bring you to our door...