Word: taxiing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Taxi Driver, movie ... John Hinckley's attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan...
...market at least once a week to buy goods for my shop, but now I hardly go to market because I am so much afraid of the suicide bombing. When I go out, I am not sure whether I return alive or not." The week before in Kabul, a taxi driver named Aimal Naheb was stuck in traffic when an explosion lifted his car and blackened the air with dust. Only when the dust cleared and Aimal saw flames coming from the Ministry of the Interior just 15 cars in front of him did he realize he wasn...
...year-old New Delhi resident, started a small building-materials business two years ago when India's capital was enjoying an unprecedented construction boom. But with interest payments on his bank loans mounting and customers dwindling, he closed up shop six months ago and started driving a taxi. The job is "beneath my status," Kumar complains, "but at least it keeps a roof above my head." If Asian governments don't get the fight against inflation right, it might take a miracle for him to keep that...
...orderly told my wife, "no patient's strangulated hernia has failed to repair itself on the road to the hospital." Still, they had to finish the journey lest the ambulance's trip be considered in vain. My wife and her mother returned home late in the afternoon by taxi - a kind of follow-up treatment...
...there is no guarantee a second vote would win. The referendum got nixed thanks to a bewildering array of mostly unrelated objections, including abortion, neutrality, tax sovereignty, economic prospects, the loss of an Irish E.U. commissioner and the deregulation of the taxi trade. Indeed, an E.U. survey of 2,000 Irish "no" voters said the main reason they rejected the Treaty was that they did not understand...