And I talked to the cabdrivers before they drove off.
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The study's findings and recommendations did not focus on yellow cabdrivers.
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He was convicted in 1979 for the murder of two cabdrivers in Omaha.
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Then, in 2006, the owners of Ivoire, cabdrivers themselves, decided to move on.
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In 2000, with the stock market surging, cabdrivers offered up hot technology stock tips.
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Like thousands of cabdrivers, I am now living under a crushing amount of debt.
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Cabdrivers, shopkeepers, hotel doormen: everyone had an urgent opinion and pressed me for mine.
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Mr. Duterte said he was hunting for a man who had been robbing cabdrivers.
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Cabdrivers and owners also made unsuccessful attempts to obtain court injunctions to shut Uber down.
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That was set in London, where prospective cabdrivers face a battery of tests like no other.
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Language One of my cabdrivers told me that we were the first Americans he'd ever driven.
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Some hotel workers, cabdrivers and bartenders in San Juan have been living without power since September.
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We high-fived cabdrivers and whooped at the office workers who opened their windows to cheer.
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For nearly 20 years, economists have been debating how cabdrivers decide when to call it a day.
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Because he was humiliated by the fact that cabdrivers would go past him because he was black.
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The city also ought to consider changes that would help yellow cabdrivers earn a living wage, too.
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Bakkali's WhatsApp group Uber Super Ladies (women make up a small minority of Uber drivers and cabdrivers).
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These protective shields were installed after a raft of thefts and assaults on cabdrivers, some resulting in homicide.
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That's not surprising given that the age limit of cabdrivers was raised, in 2012, to 75 from 73.
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Today, about nine in 10 of the city's cabdrivers, garment workers, dishwashers and tile setters are foreign-born.
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"People actually enjoy this?" one of our cabdrivers had asked, as we'd regaled him with our day-club adventures.
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Cabdrivers, guesthouses and private restaurants in Cuba patronized by individual travelers would most likely feel the impact of restrictions.
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ROBINSON We recorded a podcast where we both, within the same week, had racist experiences with cabdrivers in New York.
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Her skepticism is shared by many of Salisbury's cabdrivers, many of whom are immigrants from Eastern Europe and South Asia.
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Council members are battling with City Hall over how to help thousands of cabdrivers who are struggling with overwhelming debt.
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Cabdrivers might be willing to chat, but individual Egyptian men rarely disclosed their own infertility problems, even to close family members.
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More than 950 New York cabdrivers have filed for bankruptcy, and thousands more are struggling to hang on, The Times found.
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"He is a tireless warrior for our movement," said Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents cabdrivers.
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Cabdrivers were the ambassadors of the streets, welcoming newcomers, passing along city lore and dispensing advice even when no one asked.
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In an emotional City Council hearing, lawmakers said New York officials could have stopped exploitative loans that have devastated thousands of cabdrivers.
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"We must start thinking of tourists as guests, someone we give hospitality to," Ms. Iafrate said, gently addressing complaints logged against cabdrivers.
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It is unclear if cabdrivers would support the idea, and the panel's report will call only for a study of the possibility.
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In the years since the bubble burst, more than 950 cabdrivers have filed for bankruptcy, and thousands more have lost their savings.
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The film climaxes with a breathless escape from Gwangju, as Kim and Hinzpeter elude government vehicles with the aid of other cabdrivers.
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Other asylum seekers said that they had heard from cabdrivers in Grand Forks, N.D., that they would be deported at the border.
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The taxi center invites cabdrivers to rest their feet in a cluttered office with utilitarian furnishings and fliers taped to the walls.
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But The South China Morning Post quoted a local lawmaker as saying that cabdrivers should be prevented from sharing videos of their passengers.
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And some cabdrivers are so fearful of being exposed to the coronavirus they are staying home with no way to pay mounting bills.
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If the attorney general wins restitution, it could also help older cabdrivers who were counting on their medallion value for their retirement savings.
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But advocates for cabdrivers said the city has the biggest obligation to respond to the crisis because of its role in causing it.
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The weather's perfect, the cabdrivers are friendly and you could eat off the floor of the train station (and probably not regret it).
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Throughout the book, Hayes includes portraits of New York strangers: skateboarders, cabdrivers, people met on the subway, the dealer at their local newsstand.
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The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an advocacy group for yellow cabdrivers, claims to have signed up nearly 5,000 Uber drivers in the city.
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Mr. Moore, 60, who was convicted of killing two cabdrivers five days apart in 1979, has stopped fighting the state's efforts to execute him.
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Now there is another entrenched interest group that is showing the first inklings of potential to become another "unfriendly" force in the world: Cabdrivers.
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The child could hardly get herself dressed in the mornings; she certainly wasn't fit to be knocking halfway around London by herself, quarrelling with cabdrivers.
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HAVANA — In Viñales, a lush valley about 212 miles from Havana, cabdrivers are charging stranded foreigners $1103 to sleep in the back of their taxis.
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The bosses took their share of the proceeds; politicians and cops got a cut… The cabdrivers concerned cannot be regarded as struggling little business men.
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Visitors to China are sometimes surprised to find that cabdrivers, tour guides or old friends may speak to them with candor, even about political subjects.
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Others come right out of high school, joining fathers who arrived years before to work as cabdrivers or deliverymen to support their families back home.
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John Henry Assabill, a 67-year-old immigrant from Ghana, said he won a free medallion for being one of Chicago's best cabdrivers in 2004.
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During the ride, Mr. Meyer told the driver that the two men were once cabdrivers themselves and proceeded to regale him with tales of their glory days.
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"This is the kind of corporation we don't need in Quebec," said Alain Croteau, the Quebec director of the United Steelworkers, which represents most of Montreal's cabdrivers.
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We have seen Shakib earlier, in a more modern setting, preaching inexpertly to a crowd of mocking cabdrivers who treat him as some kind of holy fool.
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Last month, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and 10 other members sent a letter asking several federal regulatory agencies to provide information on how they plan to protect cabdrivers.
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As a generation of cabdrivers became trapped in overwhelming debt, Mr. Freidman created offshore trusts that protected some of his money when the bubble burst, records show.
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None of the cabdrivers I asked had ever heard of the place and the maps I brought with me didn't even cover this part of the city.
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The division oversaw the granting of gun permits, which it continues to do, and the accrediting of cabdrivers, which has since been delegated to a separate commission.
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We have knocked on the doors of other countries; we have married and had children in distant lands; we have worked as peacekeepers, builders, housemaids and cabdrivers.
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Compare the efficiency of GPS with the three years aspiring London cabdrivers typically spend preparing for the arduous examination they must pass in order to receive their license.
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Many were immigrant cabdrivers who could not speak English fluently and signed loans they could not afford, lured by the promise of easy wealth and a secure future.
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Mr. Meeks said in a statement that he planned to introduce a bill this week to exempt any debt relief that cabdrivers receive from being considered taxable income.
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Dan Levitan, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio's campaign, said the mayor was being attacked by "special interests" for his work on behalf of tenants, children and cabdrivers.
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They are 229 percent more likely to find work in child care, 231 percent more likely to work as cabdrivers and twice as likely to find work in retail.
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"Cohen associated himself with the most reckless and greedy players in the industry," said Bhairavi Desai, the executive director of the Taxi Workers Alliance, a group that represents cabdrivers.
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Sean Lawrence, 241, a freelance producer, said he preferred hailing a cab because it was less complicated than fiddling with an app and because cabdrivers knew their way around.
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Cabdrivers joined in, with their union, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, calling for an hourlong work stoppage for drivers serving the airport during the height of the protest.
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The mosque I went to as a kid was in Queens, and it drew people from all over Brooklyn, Long Island, the Bronx—cabdrivers, truck drivers, regular working-class people.
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Mr. Misra said his friends knew of his antipathy for Mr. Trump, adding that cabdrivers who often brought him home frequently teased him about the name over the front door.
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I had done exactly what my therapist had suggested — disclosed to him and the group when I flirted with cabdrivers, slept with co-workers and had erotic dreams about dead celebrities.
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Beachfront restaurants teemed with day drinkers, but I followed Dodgy's advice for lunch and went to Banana's Bar & Grill, a polished bistro where cabdrivers were stopping in for takeout chicken soup.
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The proceedings were eventually turned over to an audience Q. and A., and although I had arrived intending to ask if she was talkative with cabdrivers, I didn't raise my hand.
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In New York, Uber drivers earn $2600 to $2700 an hour on average (twice that of cabdrivers and $5 to $10 more on average than Uber drivers earn in other American cities).
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To get to appointments with his doctor, he relies on an ad hoc $2 ride-sharing system offered by livery cabdrivers that has emerged to fill the gaps left by the transit system.
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"It's a step in the right direction, but why they took so long to do it is a question," said Mr. Hodges, who wrote a book on the history of New York cabdrivers.
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The cabdrivers and fleet operators who bought medallions outside of city giveaways often paid in cash, according to interviews and a review of buyer disclosures filed with the city in 2003 and 2004.
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A power grab by Mr. Sargsyan, who was president from April 2008 to April 2018, triggered the demonstrations that united the fragmented opposition and brought together university students, programmers, teachers, cabdrivers and workers.
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Unlike New York City, where cabdrivers operate with a limited number of expensive medallions that are bought and sold on the open market, Los Angeles issues contracts to nine independently operated cab companies.
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The move was interpreted as an attempt to attract business after taxi drivers briefly halted service to J.F.K. The cabdrivers were protesting Mr. Trump's executive order blocking immigration from seven mostly Muslim countries.
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That's drawn protests from companies that say Uber drivers don't have to comply with the same licensing standards as London's storied black cabdrivers, giving it an unfair advantage and placing the public at risk.
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As protesters at Kennedy International Airport in New York multiplied on Saturday night, cabdrivers — largely immigrants — began a one-hour work stoppage at the airport as a form of protest against the executive order.
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Then, in 2010, he rolled out a series of major initiatives, allowing hundreds of thousands of new cuentapropistas —self-employed workers, such as restaurateurs, barbers, and cabdrivers—to sell their services directly to customers.
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She's become infatuated with a poet she barely knows, a black man with a "face cabdrivers pretend not to see," and every minor interaction with him seems to make her life with Khalil feel counterfeit.
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"This is an industry where everything is regulated down to the smallest little thing on the car," said Meg Lewis, of Afscme Council 31, a union that began representing Chicago cabdrivers after the bubble burst.
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In a noisy and bustling stretch of Lower Manhattan, where cabdrivers blare their horns and pedestrians scurry by with laser focus, people have places to be, it seems, and are disinclined to waste any time getting there.
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Mr. Linen said he was a talkative student with some behavior problems — and, he volunteered without prompting, he later went to prison for holding up two cabdrivers — but that his teacher went far beyond reasonably disciplining him.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "With Uber on Duty, Cabdrivers Confront a Desperate Future" (news article, May 2): You report four suicides of professional drivers in recent months that might be attributed to the ride-hailing apps.
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In the five years that the trivia show "Cash Cab" was on hiatus, ride-share apps like Uber and Lyft flooded the city, threatening the livelihood of cabdrivers and changing the very palette of New York streets.
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"The old-timers would tell me that during the Depression, there were signs on banks that said, 'No Dogs, No Cabdrivers,' and that taxi drivers had to save nickels and dimes to buy their medallions," Mr. Pollack recalled.
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BERNARD SIERACKI, Roosevelt University student who witnessed the protests: Before the convention, there were threats that they [the Yippies] were going to kill the candidates, kidnap delegates' wives, pose as cabdrivers and take the delegates God knows where.
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The workshop is the brainchild of Jakab Orsos, the library's vice president of arts and culture, who previously established a similar creative writing program for domestic workers and cabdrivers at PEN America, the nonprofit literary and advocacy group.
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"The learning effect doesn't bother any principle of economics," said Colin Camerer, an economics professor at the California Institute of Technology and the lead author of the pioneering study showing that many cabdrivers violate an economist's idea of rationality.
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Still, in a capital where the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner is known as Nerd Prom and cabdrivers tune into C-SPAN, the morning of Comey watch parties seemed as seminal as it was normal for this city.
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For cabdrivers, it was a way station in an unruly city, where they could fill up, use the restroom, or kneel for afternoon prayers on one of the communal kilims the owner let them keep stowed beside the convenience mart.
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"The gravity of the situation that cabdrivers find themselves in today is so dire, we're less concerned about how a proposed high-speed train will affect drivers and more focused on the destructive policies created by the city," Abman said.
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She had responded to an ad in a newspaper looking for women to replace the male cabdrivers who had been drafted into World War II. "Women were going into plants and everything else, taking over jobs," she recalled in a 2005 interview.
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In Quebec, where Uber has sparked large protests by Montreal cabdrivers who argue that it has eroded their livelihoods by ignoring laws, the ride-hailing company has operated for a year under a special authorization while it negotiated permanent rules with the government.
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The loss of tourism has had lasting effects on bars and restaurants, as well as cabdrivers, who made the bulk of their money taking guests to and from dinner to places like ZoZo's at The Sugar Mill, an Italian restaurant once located at Caneel.
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New York State's attorney general on Thursday accused New York City of committing fraud by artificially inflating the value of yellow taxi medallions, and she demanded $810 million from the city to compensate the thousands of cabdrivers who are now saddled with enormous debt.
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Hungry City 10 Photos View Slide Show ' For years, Cheick Cisse was just one in a throng of cabdrivers congregating in the morning's smallest, darkest hours at Ivoire, a bare-bones canteen in Harlem devoted to the food of Ivory Coast, the country where he was born.
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At 110th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, a once-busy gas station popular with cabdrivers is now the site of Circa Central Park, a high-end condo development with views of the park, where a one-bedroom, 647-square-foot apartment is being offered for $353 million.
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Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat who said her district in the Bronx and Queens is home to many cabdrivers, jumped into a debate over how to help drivers who were urged to take out loans with high fees, interest-only payments and other one-sided terms.
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He has little desire to play dominoes in the airport lounge with the other cabdrivers, most of whom are men who have recently come to America and express faith that with hard work their careers will rise, their lives will improve, and they will feel that they belong.
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In 2012, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a labor organization representing cabdrivers, persuaded the Taxi and Limousine Commission to require taxi medallion owners to deduct 6 cents per fare from the driver's credit card receipts to fund portable benefits for drivers, like health care services and disability coverage.
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But even though McEnroe was the New York-raised player, Connors was the one who had emerged as the people's choice, a far more fitting avatar for those jaded cabdrivers and underpaid waitresses than McEnroe, who had attended a private high school, gone to Stanford and had a father who worked at a prominent Manhattan law firm.
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Reflect on the humblest cycling commute and you'll find yourself reliving short-story excitements denied to co-workers who yawned their way in on the train: the reconstructive surgery so skilfully swerved when some idiot flung open his car door, the race you pretended not to have with that courier, those bracing exchanges with bike-blind jaywalkers and cabdrivers.
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Some of the credit unions and banks executed the same strategy they used to boost profits in New York, according to former staffers and a review of more than 100 Chicago medallion loans: They started lending more money to low-income cabdrivers, who were less likely to be able to repay the loan but more likely to pay high fees and interest rates, sometimes indefinitely.
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