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Word: taxiing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday to the U.S., which he had fled shortly after the Feb. 26 World Trade Center bombing. A 12-car motorcade whisked him from an upstate New York airport to Manhattan, where he was arraigned for allegedly aiding and abetting the bombing. Abohalima, a former New York City-area taxi driver, pleaded not guilty; his attorney charged that he had been tortured for 10 days by Egyptian authorities. Abohalima, said the lawyer, had been hung "like a shish kebab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Egypt, with Intense Suspicion | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...beautiful young woman squirms on the rear seat of a taxi in midtown Manhattan, trying to get out of her tight skirt, and then, when she has managed to do that, squirms again, trying to wiggle into a second, somewhat tighter skirt. She succeeds, but the new skirt leaves no room for lingerie. Off come half-slip and panties. She leaves them on the taxi floor, with the old skirt. At her destination, as she pays the cabby, he nods at the new skirt. "Whatdja do, steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striptease In a Taxi | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

Triage resonates with the kind of frustrated compassion that underlies film noir. Movies seem to be the deepest part of the long shadow it throws: the scary, night-crawling beauty of Taxi Driver crossed with the corrosive, explosive political parables of Oliver Stone. It is -- in the best sense -- a deadly combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyday Armageddons | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...comfort. Since the inception of Safety Walk, the driving escort has logged significantly fewer requests for rides, but the slack has not been entirely taken up by Safety Walk. Perhaps some of the people no longer calling were those who used the driving escort as a free taxi service--some callers have responded to the driving escort dispatches with the following rejoinders: "I'm not wearing the right shoes," "I'm not wearing a coat," "I've had a long day" and "I've always gotten rides and I want that to continue." The Escort must prioritize, some members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Safety Walk Fine Alternative to Driving Escort | 3/19/1993 | See Source »

...sparked the rout. The United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, however, raised the specter of a Serb "massacre" of Muslims. At week's end Serb commanders offered to allow safe passage to fleeing civilians, a move that could save lives but would also amount to what a U.N. official called "taxi service for the policy of ethnic cleansing." (See related story on page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painful Relief | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

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