The compromise plan calls for the city to sell 18, 000 permits allowing livery cabs to pick up passengers who hail them from the street.

WSJ: Deal Clears Way For New Taxi Class

Taxi fleet owners sued New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city Wednesday in an effort to block new rules that allow livery cabdrivers to pick up passengers who hail them on the street.

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The smart phone app Uber allows people in cities to hail an idle limo to take them to their destination.

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Many of the readers of this blog hail from other countries, and many of them are avid gamers.

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An engineer's Ebay, HelloBrain has signed up 17, 000 freelancers in 11 months, 10, 000 of them from outside the U.S. They hail from 126 countries--engineers in India and Germany, code-crunchers in the Cook Islands, programmers from the old Soviet defense complex.

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Sooner or later, the clouds carrying them will open and drop their strange cargo - resulting in a hail of fish, frogs or whatever the winds happened to pick up.

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Owners of yellow-taxi medallions saw allowing livery cabs to pick up street-hail passengers as a serious infringement on a right that would cost many of them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

WSJ: Deal Clears Way For New Taxi Class

While neither the Steelers or Packers hail from big markets, but both are iconic franchises (nine Super Bowl titles between them) with national identities.

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