Word: cabs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...room, wearing a light-colored jacket, sport shirt and casual pants. He stood by the bathroom door and watched without expression as she hung the towels. Shortly afterward he left for the Hilton. It was almost a mile away, less than a half-hour walk. If he went by cab or bus, he was unnoticed...
...Birmingham, the bus system has been shut down for more than three weeks because of insufficient funding. Some 30,000 riders have been affected, and the school system has signed a contract with the Yellow Cab Co. to provide transportation until the end of the school year. The only proposed solution to the shutdown: nearly halving the 43 routes to 22 and operating only from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., weekdays, a 65% cutback in daily service...
...nation now knows, he will do anything to get his message across. Last year, on the King's birthday, he offered free vasectomies (146 accepted). He makes a prize stud hog available at half price to farmers who agree to practice contraception. He persuaded 241 Bangkok cab drivers to dispense condoms along with family-planning advice, and pays the taxi insurance for cabbies who send in 50 or more people for sterilization; so far, six drivers have qualified. At village fairs and festivals, he shows up in a well-polished minibus to deliver his snake-oil monologue...
...Shaw, 40, lives in Birmingham and works across town at a flea market. Partly blind since birth, he sweeps floors for $2.75 an hour. Normally he pays 80? each way to take a bus, but last week he had to travel by cab. The cost: $13.35 round trip. Shaw was just one of about 11,000 commuters, most of them low-income blacks, who were stranded last week when Birmingham (pop. 285,000) became the largest city in the country to be without a public mass transit system...
With the bus system in limbo, local churches have put 40 of their own buses into service, picking up passengers at 37 stops and taking them to city hall. The Yellow Cab Co. is transporting more than 3,000 students a day for 50? a ride. High schools with predominantly black enrollments reported that absenteeism was running no higher than usual...