Word: taxiing
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...military-intelligence chief General Khin Nyunt. The universities, traditionally crucibles of antigovernment protest, are open again?but only for master's students; the rest must study by correspondence or at campuses far from the city. Job prospects for graduates remain bleak, which is why Rangoon's taxi drivers are the world's most overqualified. "Everyone is misplaced in this country," shrugs a young cabbie with a master's degree in marine biology. "Graduates drive taxis; soldiers run the government...
...they close him down, Harvard students will have to take a taxi cab to get liquor,” Frisoli said after the hearing...
After graduating, Thurston headed for the consulting business. Life became a flurry of taxi rides and quarterly earnings statements. Needless to say, his writing was pigeonholed...
Somewhere, lost amidst the taxi cabs swerving around pedestrians, frantic nannies chasing after their charges and Manhattan socialites strutting to and from their black-tie dinner engagements, lies a Park Avenue subculture that most will never know exists...
...often played heroes like this. In his starmaking Mad Max films he was the postapocalyptic angry young man. In Conspiracy Theory he spouted eccentric political and religious scenarios ("Somebody's got to lift the festering scab that is the Vatican," he barks at two startled nuns in his taxi), one of which, when it turns out to be true, earned him a death sentence from today's Sanhedrin, the CIA. In Signs, the Gibson character saw alien creatures attacking his family; The Passion's Jesus sees Satan everywhere, clouding men's minds, taking the form of snakes and little boys...