Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minuscule former British colony with 316,022 people and 340,000 head of cattle-the tourist business represents what may be the country's only chance to diversify its peanut-based, peanut-size economy. The locals catch on fast. As soon as the tourists arrive, bar, food and taxi prices zoom. The Atlantic Hotel charges an extra $1.50 a day to turn on one's room air conditioner and 50? for a daily shot of mosquito spray. Toast for breakfast? One must make a personal request to the manager...
...down to get you in a taxi honey...
stopped a taxi. As he got in, the driver
...cost to the state and the defense was estimated at $611,000, but the human cost was far greater. In a land where, according to a legal expert, "the public equates suspects with culprits," many defendants found it difficult to get jobs or to keep them. One taxi driver took an assumed name, switched jobs 20 times and, fearful of being identified, never got married. Another defendant kept getting fired because he was absent from work so often nursing imaginary colds or attending funerals for nonexistent relatives-excuses invented because of his interminable court appearances...