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• n  a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus by a motile (and usually simple) organism
• n  the surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part
• n  a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

• Taxis: Many taxis are now metered, so you can just round up to the nearest ringgit.
• Slowly, silently and in single file, 500 New York taxis with "Off Duty" signs aglow last week made the 15-mile trip from a Bronx funeral parlor to Kennedy Airport.
• Jordan Harris and Roo Rogers are giving New York City's 13,000 taxis and 20,000 town cars some eco-conscious competition.

• cab
• hack
• taxi
• taxicab

News & Articles

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• Nashua aldermen to mull ordinance restricting taxicab inspection practices
  NASHUA – The way taxicab are inspected in Nashua could get a makeover at the request of one city alderman. In the weeks after the revelation that more than half of Nashua-based taxis hadn’t been inspected by city police since 2011, Ward 5 Alderman Michael Tabacsko has proposed legislation to restrict the locations for midyear inspections so companies can’t inspect their own cars. The Board of ...
  June 15, 2013 - The Nashua Telegraph
• Travel: 48 hours in New York City for nature loves
  New York City has a wild side and it has nothing to do with its honking yellow taxis, towering skyscrapers and celebrity-studded nightclub crowds.
  June 15, 2013 - The Troy Record
• Travel Postcard: 48 hours in New York City for nature lovers
  By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has a wild side and it has nothing to do with its honking yellow taxis, towering skyscrapers and celebrity-studded nightclub crowds. It's about soaring bald eagles, quiet tidal salt marshes and sweet berry brambles thriving along Jamaica Bay, the only wildlife refuge in the U.S. National Park System, to Manhattan, where Central Park is a ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Michael Bloomberg in Christian Science Monitor
  While there are already hybrid vehicles available on the retail market, we want to ensure there is more than enough supply to meet the demand for hybrid taxis created by our new PlaNYC mileage rules,said Mayor Bloomberg. "Nissan North...
• John Dallat in Belfast Telegraph
  When we look around us and see the number of our compatriots still living in squalor, attending under-equipped schools, crammed like sardines into unsafe minibus taxis, we wonder when the fruit of democracy will reach the tables of all of our... Desmond Tutu http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGSXuC9qOr1ourN-4rSwuYVoxNwRQ BusinessWeek http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-11/south-africa-celebrates-mandela-s-20-years-of-freedom-update2-.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH_jBjImu1vW6ezIMr12qzluoj1Og Feb 11, 2010 98433 130582 taxis SDLP East Derry Assembly Member John Dallat said: I was in Portstewart last night a couple of hours before this death and no-one could have predicted that someone would lose their life later in the evening. Taxis were going about taking young...