Eventually he got into the dispatch industry, writing software for taxi systems, and things like that.
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Nextel began as a crazy quilt of local radio networks once used for taxi dispatch services and the like.
"It was incredible, to be honest, " said Steve Malito, a lobbyist for taxi medallion lenders who attended.
Ask your hotel concierge to write down addresses for taxi drivers, and remember to take a hotel card with the address in Chinese characters for the return trip.
Tony, a tough little Cockney from London's East End, wanted to be a jockey and didn't make it, but he managed to pass The Knowledge, the formidably difficult test for London taxi drivers, then buy his own taxi and earn a good living for himself and his family.
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She would use the last of his money for her crosstown taxi, and for milk and cereal at the Korean market near the apartment.
They can use their student ID card and signature as a deposit for their taxi fare.
While he waited for the taxi to come, they sat across from each other by the window, saying nothing.
"He then proceeded to drive off, and we've never seen it again, " says Iain Robb, Azerbaijan country manager for London Taxi.
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It allows both Mr. Bloomberg and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who insisted on better wheelchair accessibility for the taxi fleet, to claim victory.
"Rather charming, " I thought as I stomped around looking for a taxi.
These are to be slipped into capacious bags and worn on the walk to the subway, or even in the hunt for a taxi.
Sensing some misdeed afoot, I strode away looking for another taxi.
The fare and tip for a town car, or limo, is maybe 50% higher than for a regular taxi ride and paid for through the service.
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As she was waiting for her taxi in a depot, two men turned up and all three were driven away by the taxi firm owner John Sherry.
She said the funniest email request she ever got was to call in a prescription to the pharmacy and arrange for a taxi to transport the meds to the Fire Island ferry.
"I was surprised they didn't cancel classes in 2011, and I was shocked to hear they canceled classes today, " said Kyle Wittenauer, a junior, as he waited for a taxi at the New Haven train station.
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His in-laws "thought it was magic, " says Mr. Talbot, who adds that he typically burns through his monthly allowance by calling for rides after late nights at the office when he "doesn't feel like waiting on the corner for 15 minutes" for a taxi.
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One of the youngest in Heller's study, a 15-year-old girl who was married off to her uncle at age 8, spent eight months selling bags of candied peanuts in order to raise enough money to pay for a taxi so she could get to a fistula center.
There were two other men in the depot also waiting for a taxi, and the firm's owner, John Sherry, since deceased, said he would take all three at once but as he drove along Annadale Embankment, one of the men "pointed a gun at his head" and hijacked the taxi.
There were two other men in the depot also waiting for a taxi so the firm's owner, John Sherry, said he would take all three at once but as he drove along Annadale Embankment, one of the men "pointed a gun at his head" and hijacked the taxi, the court was told.
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There were two other men in the depot also waiting for a taxi, and the firm's owner, John Sherry, who has since died, said he would take all three at once but as he drove along Annadale Embankment, one of the men "pointed a gun at his head" and hijacked the taxi.
With help from a makeshift band of friends and volunteers, Price shot and edited the feature -- which ingeniously spins the zombie genre on its head by telling the story entirely from the zombie's perspective -- over a period of 18 months while working nights part-time as a booker for a taxi company.
He charges fellow students a fee for writing their term papers, drives a taxi for a company owned by the mob, lives like a drug addict in a tiny apartment but dresses well enough to pass for upper class at elegant parties where he speaks in vague terms of his diplomat parents and takes in every detail of every scene with darting eyes.
He is well known around Parliament for the bright yellow London taxi he drives and for his frequent speeches.
For a bit of respite from the fame and adulation he faces daily in South Korea, and for a bit of fun, Lee once became a taxi driver for a few days.
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