Word: taxis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apply the maximum pressure that is sensible before making any concessions). Why Reagan showed no knowledge of that policy, developed by all free nations who have combatted terrorism, is part of the sad riddle of his limited appeal. All in all, the spectacle may have been better entertainment than Taxi but that is not good enough to encourage the prospects of survival in this world...
...Suzanne Somers. Blame it on anything you want; there's plenty to go around. As the new TV comedy series finally slink into view after the actors' strike, an ominous trend becomes evident. The witty humanism of the best '70s shows-Mary Tyler Moore, MASH, Taxi-has given way to jokes built around bustlines and pratfalls. Out goes the humor of social complicity, of reasonably mature characters; in stomps the japery of sexual humiliation, in which grimly aggressive caricatures swat each other with gag lines. Mary Richards' chic office wear is declassé; this year...
...most visible sign of how the war has affected the Iranian capital of Tehran is the disappearance of the maddening, noxious traffic jams that once clogged the city from dawn to dusk. As a result of gasoline rationing and restrictions on privately owned cars, taxis and buses travel at speeds previously unimaginable. Said Abbas Tavakkol, 38, a taxi driver: "It's wonderful. I wish gasoline rationing and the ban on private driving remain in force forever." Retorted his passenger, an elderly man pressing an attaché case against his breast: "It is a good thing God does not grant...
...Whatever happened to Joe Pepitone? When a heckler shouted this at President Carter during a rally outside Chicago's Wrigley Field, media expert Jerry Rafshoon ended Carter's speech and rushed him away by taxi. The truth is that Pepitone, a Commoner supporter, lives in San Francisco's Haight-Asbury section as a hairdresser for retired secret service agents...
...Carole Johnson, 32, married and the mother of two, who supplements her family income by driving a taxi in Boston, the prime concern of the election season is not the fine points of energy policy, or even the wisdom of John Anderson's call for a 50?-per-gal. gasoline tax, but how to pay this winter's heating-oil bill. Meanwhile, Roger Christensen, an Ogden, Iowa, hog farmer, finds wild gyrations in interest rates to be his trouble. He finances poultry, pork and corn production with variable interest rate bank loans, and consequently no longer knows what...