It was the very first time I noticed chauffeurs and the people they drive around — particularly because some of the chauffeurs I saw looked like they could be African immigrants.
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Chauffeurs ferry them around and private jets whisk them overseas.
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Uber drivers act as chauffeurs with limited choice on a destination.
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There are 207,920 taxi drivers and chauffeurs employed in the US.
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Uber and Lyft have empowered everyday drivers to become paid chauffeurs.
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Making people comfortable with robotic chauffeurs, of course, is another matter.
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The Pratt chauffeurs were occasional scofflaws, newspaper accounts of the time indicate.
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In Miami, one luxury building provided its residents with Tesla-driving chauffeurs.
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His employees, especially virile chauffeurs and nubile starlets, are forbidden to fraternize.
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Florists, caterers, set decorators, chauffeurs, hair stylists, headhunters — it's gravy train time.
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Taxis, private chauffeurs and e-scooters are available on this ride-hailing service.
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Parmar drives for Uber Black in New York and also chauffeurs private clients.
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As an Uber driver in New York City, he frequently chauffeurs intoxicated customers.
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Aarian chauffeurs us through the upsides, and potential pitfalls, of this sort of arrangement.
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But families' disposable incomes are likely to rise as they lay off their chauffeurs.
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Should they stand back and stop acting as chauffeurs, planners and all-around fixers?
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"How many chauffeurs do you have for six kids going in different directions?" he says.
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When the roach is extinguished, Weiss chauffeurs us to the stretch of La Brea Ave.
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For Uber, riders are in control of Points A and B—drivers are glorified chauffeurs.
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She and her siblings grew up surrounded by maids, butlers, nannies, chauffeurs and other servants.
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Other women already own cars driven by chauffeurs and are in no rush to drive themselves.
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She rose to the Chief Secretary position in 2012, which accorded her chauffeurs and state housing.
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He chats amiably with gardeners and chauffeurs, dances the tango and is a passionate soccer fan.
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We close the reception out and B., our lord and savior, chauffeurs a bunch of us home.
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PARIS (Reuters) - BlaBlaCar, whose amateur chauffeurs share costs with passengers on long-distance journeys, and AXA (AXAF.
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The drivers said they weren't the owners of the cars but worked as Uber chauffeurs, he said.
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However, many of my students live with grandparents, or routinely interact with them as caregivers and chauffeurs.
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As many as a million foreign chauffeurs are estimated to be in the kingdom to drive women around.
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Her father, David Nemerov, owned a clothing store on Fifth Avenue, and the family had nannies and chauffeurs.
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The drivers said they were not the owners of the cars but worked as Uber chauffeurs, he said.
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Beyond offering licensed and private taxi rides, Didi's services also include chauffeurs, test drives, and a communal bus service.
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It's aimed squarely at the ever-growing Chinese market, where chauffeurs are much more common than in the States.
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Another unique amenity was the "house car," a Mercedes-Benz E350, which chauffeurs guests within a 20-block radius.
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In many cases, however, women would not need to buy as they could use vehicles relinquished by departed chauffeurs.
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The fastest-growing job category is taxi drivers and chauffeurs, due to ride-hailing platforms like Uber and Lyft.
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Cutting the need for them could save household budgets hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars which the chauffeurs remit home annually.
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They are forced to pay chauffeurs, most of them foreigners, or rely on male members of the family to drive them.
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DriveU fits into that category, giving its best full-time chauffeurs health insurance, something that is nearly unheard-of in India.
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"Seat Belt Psychic" follows John as he chauffeurs unsuspecting passengers who think they are trying out a new ride-share app.
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This spoiled dog, named Luna, demands a belly rub while her human chauffeurs her around town, probably to the dog park.
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The chauffeurs in Lincoln's Inn Field chatted amongst themselves and ate sandwiches from the boot as the soup vans turned up.
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The men have thick lumberjack beards, the kind typically seen not on old-school chauffeurs but on creative types in Silver Lake.
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But hundreds of thousands of male chauffeurs who drive women around, most from south Asia and the Philippines, risk losing their jobs.
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Women who need to be picked up at the airport are assigned female chauffeurs and are taken to their rooms by female butlers.
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A subculture of automobile aficionados values anything related to cars—from antique chauffeurs' hats and licenses to spark plugs and classic hood ornaments.
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The App Store and the multitudes it contained gave us dates on demand, personal chauffeurs, and endless photo streams of our friends' lives.
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If Ola and Uber offered on-demand chauffeurs, the drivers would still have high fixed costs but would then earn a lower wage.
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The fastest-growing category was taxi drivers and chauffeurs, largely due to increased ride-hailing drivers working for companies like Uber and Lyft.
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A subculture of automobile aficionados values anything related to cars — from antique chauffeurs' hats and licenses to spark plugs and classic hood ornaments.
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Some 11.503,000 rides (a relatively small number since Uber sells millions of rides in London each week) were provided by 43 such chauffeurs.
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He reiterated campaign promises to cut back on taxpayer funded perks for high-level government officials, such as chauffeurs, bodyguards and private medical insurance.
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After more than a century of building some of the most exclusive cars ever driven by chauffeurs, Rolls-Royce has found a new valet.
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Waymo is running a ride-hailing pilot program around Phoenix, Arizona that chauffeurs an undisclosed, but growing number of users in self-driving cars.
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Strikes held in January and June of last year erupted in violence, as taxi drivers set cars on fire and clashed with Uber chauffeurs.
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Each motorcycle driver will have to pass the same background checks as car chauffeurs, and will be obliged to provide helmets for their passengers.
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Travis Kalanick, Uber's chief executive, has made no secret of wanting to replace its chauffeurs with cars that can ferry passengers without driver input.
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There's the middle-aged mom archetype: prim, chaste Dance Mom, who pins her daughter's hair into a ballerina bun, and chauffeurs her to recitals.
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We took public transportation everywhere, and when we occasionally needed to go off the grid, my grandparents and my aunt stepped in as chauffeurs.
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Appearance-wise, it evokes a time when wealthy car owners had chauffeurs to clean and polish cars to keep the vehicles both attractive and functional.
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I guess that's fine because children aren't really keen on picking up on complex messages or perceiving adults as anything other than chauffeurs or gatekeepers.
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The Verge reports from Paris that Uber drivers are joining other non-taxi chauffeurs in the protest, which has now been ongoing for five days.
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Linda sneakily gets the address of some guy from the DMV, and Bruce, who is a dedicated and loving husband, chauffeurs her to said address.
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As bigger and bigger S.U.V.s have choked the streets of Phnom Penh, the spirits have developed a penchant for black Range Rovers driven by chauffeurs.
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The show has received deserved criticism for the distance it maintains from the side of Ghana that doesn't yet have street signs or personal chauffeurs.
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The change should save families billions of dollars on chauffeurs while encouraging more women into the workforce and raising productivity, if only modestly at first.
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The New York Taxicab Company had red and green cars, which were driven by uniformed chauffeurs and cost 30 cents for the first half-mile.
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Row 22.8 (from top): photographers: 22.3 times more common in N.Y.C.; fitness trainers: 23.3x; writers: 25x; taxi-drivers and chauffeurs: 21.3x; home health aides: 1.63x.
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Indeed, Uber works with licensed chauffeurs and licensed taxi drivers in Japan, but the U.S. firm hasn't cracked the market like it has in other countries.
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Normally, Lordonnois personally chauffeurs penthouse guests from the airport in whatever car they prefer, like a Mercedes-Maybach or S class, and sees them to the suite.
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A group of chauffeurs for Uber and other ride-hailing companies staged a protest in Paris today over the French government's response to last week's taxi strike.
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Under the law, VTC services are forbidden from using geolocation services to show available cars, and chauffeurs are required to return to a home base between rides.
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The company's French employees are joining a demonstration organized by a group of full-time chauffeurs who have been protesting against the government for five days now.
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In response, hundreds of drivers staged a "funeral march" in Paris last week to protest the measures, which they say will put 10,000 chauffeurs out of work.
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Ordinary Americans are so economically pressed that they must commute some three hours to work as independent contractor chauffeurs for companies that do not provide basic benefits.
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Between the house, multiple chauffeurs, and security detail, Holmes and Balwani seem to have racked up a ridiculous bill during their brief time as Silicon Valley stars.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded a little over 1.8 million truck drivers in the U.S. in 2016, and almost 200,000 taxi drivers and chauffeurs in 2017.
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Kumamoto also makes a statement by going to work using Guadalajara's public bikes-sharing scheme, while most of his peers travel in luxury SUV's, often with chauffeurs.
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I was looking for a new job, and one day I went out for a walk and I noticed the chauffeurs waiting in front of Time Warner Building.
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The shift to autonomous vehicles may improve riders' lives, but it could also spark a backlash against new technologies that put chauffeurs and truck drivers out of work.
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Then there was Chung Il-seon, a Hyundai heir who runs the group's steel-making affiliate, who was fined by a court for abusing a string of chauffeurs.
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Young Munjed grew up with servants and chauffeurs, part of what was called the Nestlé generation — which, like chocolate, might melt at the first sign of hard times.
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However, the rule change could spell bad news for some of the 1.3 million men employed as chauffeurs in the kingdom, including a large share of its migrant workforce.
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We spoke to Bridle to learn more about the circumstances behind this vague photo series and better understand his apprehension and curiosity about the robot chauffeurs of the future.
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Hundreds of chauffeurs gathered outside the Montparnasse train station in Paris today, blocking surrounding streets with their cars before marching north toward the Invalides complex, near the Seine river.
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But in addition to all the political attacks on him that continue, he now lives largely alone (except for bodyguards, chefs and chauffeurs) in a big house in the suburbs.
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As it happens, Ms. Versace was not the only designer with a sense that this is a time to dress for action, even for those with private planes and chauffeurs.
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In a separate French setback, however, thousands of licensed seven-seater minivan drivers have been barred by a new law from working as ride-hailing chauffeurs unless they pass additional tests.
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The gig economy is assembling a reserve force of atomised labourers who wait to be summoned, via electronic foremen, to deliver people's food, clean their houses or act as their chauffeurs.
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Looking toward the future of "driverless technology," many envision robot cars acting as chauffeurs during the daily commute, allowing passengers to relax or be more productive on their way to work.
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Inside, the Prophecy sports a pair of joysticks instead of a conventional steering wheel, since, theoretically, the driver is meant to kick back while an autonomous driving system chauffeurs them around.
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The secret sauce of those computers' becoming our chauffeurs is the ubiquitous force of artificial intelligence, which is already active in virtual personal assistants and a bank's customer-service chat bot.
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Recent weeks have seen protests both by taxi drivers, who complain of unfair competition from services such as Uber, and rival chauffeurs, who say they're victims of discrimination by the government.
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But the rise of apps like Uber, which now has 1.4 million users in France, has dramatically shifted that balance, putting taxis and private chauffeurs in more direct competition with one another.
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As rise of the parlors and the peep shows has empowered gangsters and corrupt cops, the pimps have turned into ineffectual middle men, glorified chauffeurs who are still demanding their nightly cut.
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This helped Uber, which started in 2009, quickly grow to 700,000 active drivers in the United States, nearly three times the number of taxi drivers and chauffeurs in the country in 2014.
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He chauffeurs drunks, boob-flashing partygoers, and tycoon types around Texas before being sucked into his true assignment: escorting Laura — a special mutant with powers similar to his own — to safety in Canada.
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Machines are created to improve the lives of human beings, and one of the attractions of advanced AI is the prospect of robot maids, butlers and chauffeurs (also known as self-driving cars).
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It also comes more than a year after French taxi unions staged widespread protests against Uber's low-cost UberPop service (known as UberX in the US), which connected passengers with non-professional chauffeurs.
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Pallier, who wines and dines Chinese investors and chauffeurs them round in a Rolls Royce Phantom, said tax increases and rule changes aimed at restricting foreign buyers had made the market more difficult.
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The book follows a single, miserable day in the life of Lou Bishoff, a worn-down, middle-aged cabdriver who narrates our story as he chauffeurs the residents of a fictional Mississippi town.
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ANZ New Zealand's CEO David Hisco abruptly left the bank last week after a review of his expenses showed he logged payments for chauffeurs and wine storage as business expenses rather than personal.
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BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) - BlaBlaCar, whose amateur chauffeurs share costs with passengers on long-distance journeys, will offer them cheaper car leases through French bank Societe Generale in the latest threat to traditional transport models.
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The App Store invented a new world, where chauffeurs, dates, and deliverymen could be summoned with a few taps; but also where our attention could be shattered, our democracy shaken, and our anxiety spiked.
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For Tesla and other firms developing autonomous vehicles (from information-technology companies such as Google and Uber to established carmakers), the systems now available are more akin to intelligent cruise control than robot chauffeurs.
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Over the shorter term, the lifting of the ban on women driving may put tens of thousands of foreign chauffeurs out of work, accelerating a drop in immigrant workers which has hurt the economy.
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Without a driving license of his own and unhappy with his experience of the taxi industry, Wheely's boss eventually switched focus to develop a premium ride-hailing platform that connects riders with accredited chauffeurs.
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France's gilded political culture of immunity and privilege — free train and plane tickets, first-class travel, chauffeurs, all in a setting of marble and tapestries — can no longer be taken for granted, analysts warn.
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Similar to Uber, which takes idle car drivers and turns them into concierge chauffeurs, conversational commerce will convert idle sales associates into personal shoppers who can convert casual browsing into purchases and build customer loyalty.
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And after they come for the truckers, they'll come for the taxi drivers, the chauffeurs, the valet parkers, the gas station attendants, and perhaps anyone else whose job depends on people driving their own cars.
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The 41-year-old boxer and his massive entourage were spotted in a two-car caravan -- complete with chauffeurs -- being driven through the upscale mall with TMT bodyguards and a couple of bellhops in tow.
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The elite rarely mix with ordinary folk, apart from maids, chauffeurs and deferential farm hands who have worked for generations on the vast haciendas of the landowners (such as the clan the Aquinos married into).
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In addition to world-class skiing, St. Moritz is also home to five-star luxury hotels, like the Carlton Hotel, which chauffeurs guests from the train station via Bentley and has a Michelin-starred restaurant.
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The government was supposed to implement new testing requirements for VTC chauffeurs by the beginning of 2016, replacing a 250-hour driving requirement, but it has yet to do so, leaving thousands of applicants in limbo.
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He didn't drive, so friends and clients (or at least their chauffeurs) drove him around — often a different client would host his birthday party each year — and most days he worked in his pajamas till noon.
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CHRISTOPHER WYKOFF Phoenix To the Editor: The first family gets free room and board, cleaning services, chauffeurs, cooks and chefs, an airplane, a helicopter, plus a host of other taxpayer-sponsored perks too numerous to count.
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The largest lender in New Zealand said David Hisco, chief executive officer of the unit since 2010 and an employee since the 1990s, logged payments for chauffeurs and wine storage as business expenses rather than personal.
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According to Emirates 24/7, the Gulf Kingdom's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), ordered the store's management "not to admit women," and to instead send chauffeurs to pick up their orders.
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David Hisco, who had been CEO of ANZ's New Zealand unit since 2010, left the bank after a review of his expenses showed he logged payments for chauffeurs and wine storage as business expenses rather than personal.
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Taxi drivers and chauffeurs, who unsurprisingly make up about 2/3 of the total employment in the taxi and limo service industry, are projected to see employment growth of 19.5% between 2018 and 2028, according to BLS.
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Google will take its Android Auto project one stage further, promising to outfit new self-driving cars with actual android drivers: terrifying, endlessly grinning robot chauffeurs that come off like even creepier versions of Total Recall's Johnny Cabs.
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That Prince Philip was unaccompanied in the Land Rover by his round-the-clock bodyguards or royal chauffeurs also drew attention to an inconvenient fact, for those who have ever tried to pry the keys from older relatives.
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Hisco, who was head of ANZ's New Zealand unit from 2010, abruptly departed the bank in June, amid a dispute about personal expenses including payments for chauffeurs and wine storage that were logged as business expenses rather than personal.
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Outlet centers in Madrid and northeastern Barcelona - a port city famed for its Gaudi architecture and a popular stopover for cruise ships - recently added chauffeurs, stylists and a hands-free service allowing shoppers to avoid carrying their own bags.
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The unions are calling for an end to non-taxi services that, like Uber and other ride-hailing apps, allow users to book rides with licensed chauffeurs — a category known in France as "voitures de tourisme avec chauffeur" (VTC).
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Women employed in 2014: 48,600Women employed in 2018: 139,900What they do, according to O*NET: Taxi drivers and chauffeurs drive passengers around, either through a taxi or limousine service, or through a ride-hailing platform like Uber or Lyft.
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Named after Cao Cao, a Chinese warlord during the period of the Three Kingdoms circa 220-280 AD, Geely's platform employs its own chauffeurs and also offers business rides and same-city package delivery services, according to its website.
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Didi also offers services with buses and even has an option to book chauffeurs — which can be useful if one has had too much to drink and needs a designated driver to take both the car and car owner home.
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The cars, which the government says should only be driven by Saudi men, offer women, who are banned from driving in the conservative Muslim country, an alternative to being driven to work by chauffeurs, male relatives or the shabby taxi system.
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Inside the tech that will help AVs be better chauffeurs: Clare Jones, chief commercial officer of what3words, will talk about the role of mapping and geolocation in autonomous vehicles and how this tech is already rolling out in human-driven cars.
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In Saturday's gathering in Miami, Mr. Guaidó acknowledged that the opposition had made "mistakes" in its bid to restore democracy and that the Venezuelan people, including former physicians and professionals now working in Florida as janitors and chauffeurs, had suffered dearly.
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The rule change could spell bad news for some of the 1.3 million men employed as chauffeurs in the kingdom, including a large share of its migrant workforce, while boosting upscale car sales as households upgrade for their new drivers.
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The owners of these companies create elaborate smokescreens, including naming personal servants and chauffeurs as board directors, the tax inspector said, adding they are used to obscure the ultimate beneficiaries, conceal political investment, route money to evade tax, commit fraud or manipulate tenders.
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Like many higher-end cars designed for the Chinese market, the Phideon is designed with chauffeurs in mind — people like to be driven around there — and the car features a dedicated "chauffeur mode" where back-seaters can control the car's infotainment system.
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Uncertainty has plagued the unit since June, when David Hisco, its former CEO and an ANZ employee since the 1990s, left the company amid a dispute over the logging of payments for chauffeurs and wine storage as business expenses rather than personal.
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Residents participating in the trial will also be able to use them exactly as they use the test vehicles with safety chauffeurs today – for any trips within the designated area, whether for commutes, trips to go shopping, heading to school or whatever their transportation needs.
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What reason is there to believe that the resources used to produce the exports to purchase Packards subtract more from the poor man's standard of living than the resources that would be used to produce Rolls-Royces at home or to provide additional chauffeurs?
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The other side: The increased use of advanced technology like virtual reality and self-driving car chauffeurs could mean that only the biggest retailers with the most resources will be able to take advantage, leaving small businesses and mom-and-pop retailers in the dust.
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Then came a chorus of resonant express bus motors, doors being slammed shut by chauffeurs, workmen crumpling up the wrappers of their lunches as they sat on overturned five-gallon buckets, and kids eating ice cream outside E.A.T. But I didn't slow down to savor it.
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Growing up in her aunt's mansions in New York City and on Long Island, with servants, chauffeurs, lawyers, tutors, private schools and trips abroad, Ms. Vanderbilt searched for fulfillment as an artist, a fashion model, a poet, a playwright and an actress of stage, screen and television.
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And for nearly 25 years, according to a historical document obtained by Lightstone, the real estate company that now owns the building, his vision came to life as clerks, mechanics, chauffeurs and the like stayed at the 21954,875-room property, where hot meals and communal showers were among the amenities.
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Michelangelo's guide is an ingratiating poet named Mesihi who chauffeurs him to what he calls the "Santa Sophia Basilica" — today known as the Hagia Sophia — and to outdoor markets where animals are sold alongside men and to an evening concert where Michelangelo is drawn into an infatuation with an androgynous dancer whose sex he is unable to decipher.
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Or, if it be said that additional exports cannot be produced (or sold) to purchase the Packards, what reason is there to suppose that the harm done to the poor man by inability to buy Canadian wheat is greater than the harm done to him by inability to buy the goods that could have been produced instead of the Rolls-Royces or additional chauffeurs?
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This throng was increased by drivers who left their milk wagons, their newspaper wagons, by men on their way to work, by taxicab chauffeurs, by streetcar conductors, and by many other folk who had heard the tooting of sirens in their neighborhoods and who arose from their beds to find out just what was the latest event of a day that will be marked forever in history.
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The company has opened its first boutique in the United States, in SoHo, on a stretch of West Broadway that we'll soon have to designate Little Frenchtown: Two doors down is Bonpoint, maker of tulle underskirts and leopard cloche hats for the children of Francophile parents; and next door is Ladurée, the patisserie where you can watch stoic chauffeurs in black Escalades pull up to the curb and deposit thin women in luxury apparel for a midweek macaron bender.
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