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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such nostrums aroused little enthusiasm outside the Great Hall of the People. Many Chinese, wearied by the violent eddies and reversals that continue to mark their country's political life, profess scant interest in matters of state. "These things don't concern me," said a taxi driver in Tiananmen Square, where red banners flew in honor of the People's Congress. Concurred a septuagenarian scholar: "I really don't listen to this sort of thing any more." And a Peking intellectual added his own apolitical perspective: "My friends and I just gather together to eat and drink and make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Settling for A Stalemate | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...such hits as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Flashdance. To run its program department, Fox raided NBC for a 29-year-old whiz kid named Garth Ancier. To create shows, it has enlisted such seasoned producers as James L. Brooks (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Ed. Weinberger (Taxi) and Stephen J. Cannell (The A-Team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Room For One More? | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Michael Seguenza, a vocal spokesman for CTA, said the group's five-member committee hopes to work with the License Commissioners to revise the rules, and later to become a component of a Taxi Commission similar to the one already proposed...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Council Debates Smoking, New Cab Rules | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...another issue awaits resolution tomorrow night, when a three-month moratorium on the sale of taxi medallions ends. The city's taxis have been under this ban since December, and Yellow Cab, the second-largest taxi company in the city, will also emerge from a special three-year ban on the sale of medallions from its fleet...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Council Debates Smoking, New Cab Rules | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

...criticized McDavitt for proposing in a private meeting that Goldberg give ten of his medallions to the city in return for permission to dispose of the remaining 16 as he wished. "We're asking him to make a $600,000 donation to the city," he said, noting that a taxi medallion, sold singly, can cost up to $60,000 in Cambridge...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Council Debates Smoking, New Cab Rules | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

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