Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evans said the cab driver called him "a cheep black bastard" and assaulted him physically at the end of a trip to Logan Airport in a taxi owned by the Ambassador Cab Company...
...black admissions officer said yesterday that he was beaten and insulted by a Cambridge taxi-cab driver on November 30 when he refused to pay the driver a tunnel...
...case against the anarchists is based on fairly thin circumstantial evidence. The day after Valpreda's arrest, a Milan taxi driver told police that he recognized the suspect-from an old photograph-as the man with a briefcase whom he had driven 135 yards from a cabstand to the bank shortly before the explosion. He later testified that police told him the photograph "was the one I had to recognize." The cabby, who happened to be an alcoholic, died of cirrhosis of the liver before Valpreda came to trial, leaving unanswered the question of why a terrorist would risk...
...would have difficulty making a taxi squad on any of today's N.F.L. teams, which are loaded with men who can outrun his best times, outleap his best heights, and who hit with 40 or more pounds of additional muscle. These men were raised on food fortified with artificial preservatives, flavorings and colorings, and made available through the use of insecticides...
Beyond that, an increasing number of Americans see no virtue in holding jobs that they consider menial or unpleasant. More and more reject such work-even if they can get no other jobs. Though unemployment is a high 5.5% of the labor force, shortages of taxi drivers, domestic servants, auto mechanics and plumbers exist in many places...