Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wild ride in a Paris taxi can be an electrifying experience. Soon, it may prove to be even more shocking. Cabbies, alarmed by a recent wave of attacks by passengers, are eyeing a device called le siege qui brule, the hot seat. Wires beneath the rear seats are connected to the taxi's battery. The driver can step on a pedal to deliver enough electricity to stun even a crazed gunman...
...fashion beauty who strode about three continents in slacks. She was tough and unusually strong and could ride anything. More practically, she understood horses. In the '20s and again in the '50s and '60s, she was the pre-eminent race trainer in East Africa. She flew her own bush-taxi service for only a few years, in the '30s, but was a & fearless pilot who was the first to scout elephants commercially from the air, over country where a forced landing generally meant death. In 1936 she became the first person to fly solo from England to North America. Over...
...used to be simple to find a plumber, a taxi service or just about any other business around town. Most people simply took out the Yellow Pages and let their fingers do the walking. But these days, the searching shopper must first decide which phone book is likely to have the best answer. Like the good old telephone system, the plain old Yellow Pages has changed considerably since the 1984 breakup of AT&T. Consumers now choose from a virtual home library of competing Yellow Pages, including special editions for children, the elderly, doctors and boaters, and even multilingual versions...
...gutsy production radically improves on its Broadway model: the 1966 and 1986 hit Sweet Charity, dazzlingly restaged for a North American tour by its original creator and re-creator, Bob Fosse. From the first appearance in silhouette of the title character, a taxi dancer who in the face of all experience remains a fool for love, to the ironically identical finale, this version zips along with style, assurance and the ingredient it lacked in its 1986 Broadway reprise, real heart. Whereas Debbie Allen seemed too tough, too much a survivor to elicit audience sympathy when she played Charity on Broadway...
...damages. In a unique use of federal racketeering laws, U.S. Attorney Andrew J. Maloney asked a federal judge to seize Mob-tied businesses in an attempt to break up the Bonanno crime organization, one of New York's five Mafia families. Among the alleged fronts: three hotels and a taxi company, which officials say were bought with money from the family's gambling, loan-sharking and drug networks. It was the first time a Mafia family has been treated as a legal entity...