Car services depend on those because they can't pick up passengers who hail cabs on streets.
At first and 35, you may be tempted to go for a "Hail Mary" and make up yardage all at once.
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.
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.
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.
Some 3, 500 residential buildings could be hit if there is a strike, and up to 1m New Yorkers may have to hail their own cabs, walk their own dogs and pick up their own dry-cleaning.
The defense's game plan may last well into April, but without a successful Hail Mary pass, it will come up short of preventing a conviction.
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.
In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan, a coalition of for-hire companies and trade associations charged that city officials improperly drew up rules last year that let customers use apps to hail cabs virtually.
In northern Maine, radar picked up a line of thunderstorms capable of producing quarter-sized hail and winds stronger than 70 mph.
The significance of these buyers stepping up is that, like activist investors, players at private-equity firms typically hail from outside the defense sector and are looking for relatively fast returns compared with executives who have made their careers in military contracting.
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