Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic crisis deepened, the agency supported striking shopkeepers and taxi drivers. Laundered CIA money, reportedly channeled to Santiago by way of Christian Democratic parties in Europe, helped finance the Chilean truckers' 45-day strike, one of the worst blows to the economy. Moreover, the strikers doubtless picked up additional CIA cash that was floating round the country. As an intelligence official notes, "If we give it to A, and then A gives it to B and C and D, in a sense it's true that D got it. But the question is: Did we give...
...character. Richard Dreyfuss is superb in his portrayal of the poor mischievous Jewish boy who sets out to make his mark after his hunched-over bearded grandfather tells him, "A man without land is a nobody." Motherless since the age of six, left to fend for himself by his taxi-cab driving father, ignored by his rich uncle, and taunted by his peers, Duddy determines to win the respect of his grandfather and the rest of his humble neighborhood, a Jewish ghetto in Montreal...
...four times as high as those of nonsmokers, with gradations according to the number of packs smoked. The major factors pushing up the COHb levels in both nonsmokers and smokers were the type of work, where it was performed, and the CO in the ambient air. Even nonsmoking taxi drivers in New York City had levels as high as 5.8% after a bumper-to-bumper day; workers at Chicago's O'Hare field registered 2.5%, at New York's Kennedy Airport 2.1%. Other CO-laden occupations: printing, welding and processing metals, chemicals, stone or glass...
...movie is set in Montreal from the late 1940s onward into the first pale years of the '50s. Buddy's father (Jack Warden) is a taxi driver. His brother is a pre-med student practically numb with the wish to be a WASP, to let the Jewishness drain out of him and get a life-supporting transfusion of blue blood. Buddy, just out of high school, works in a summer resort, tries running a roulette game on the sly, is hoodwinked into smuggling heroin for a fat-fingered hood, concocts on his own all sorts of wild-eyed...
...immediate effect of the Watergate denouement was to prompt an almost global wave of admiration for America's institutions. "It can't be true," said Simon Haj, 31, a Beirut taxi driver. "You need a tank to remove a President in the Arab world." Said Brazil's leading political pundit, Carlos Castello Branco, just before the resignation: "Nixon was never morally smaller than now, but the U.S. was never morally greater. If the U.S. had no other justification for world leadership, this alone would entitle it to present itself as a leader and inspirer in a world...