Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Giugiaro made his first big impression on the American public in 1976 when New York's Museum of Modern Art held a design competition for a highly maneuverable taxi that people could get in and out of easily. Giugiaro submitted a plan for a compact, five-passenger Alfa Romeo with sliding doors wide enough to admit a wheelchair. It cost less than the average American cab, and at the time everyone thought it was a great idea. It still is, but unfortunately, no one in the U.S. wants to manufacture...
...leading line of speculation about the causes: the snowy, 24° weather. First Officer Roger Alan Pettit, 31, the copilot, initially expressed concern about the icy conditions, as he would again and again. Twenty minutes after the 737's last glycol wash, Pettit joked: "Maybe we can taxi upside a some [727] sittin' there runnin' [and] blow off whatever [ice and snow have built up on the wings]." Several minutes later Pettit remarked, "It's been a while since we've been de-iced." He remained astonished by the weather. "See all those icicles...
...Taxi (ABC). A fourth season of high-quality laughs from the Sunshine Cab Co. Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS) and Bosom Buddies (ABC) are the win, place and show-off of current sitcoms...
...sidewalk. "If I don't do it, they'll think I'm hiding, and so they will start looking for me." Intellectuals have been particularly hard hit, arrested by the thousands. Some 40 Warsaw scientists narrowly escaped the roundup when one of them managed to alert a network of taxi drivers known to be Solidarity members. The cabbies picked up the scientists at their homes, according to a prearranged plan, and drove them to hiding places. On the streets, friends talked to one another while looking over their shoulders for soldiers. In their homes, people once again began to panic...
...Taxi Zum Klo--Thursday at 12:50, 2:40, 4:30, 6:20 and 10:10 p.m., Friday-Tuesday at 12:50 2:40, 4:30, 6:20, 8:15 and 10:10 p.m.; Nickelodeon Cinemas...