A kind of rocket-powered taxicab called a launch vehicle carries a satellite from earth into space. |
The technique has been popular for years among businesses with large liability exposures, such as tobacco and taxicab companies. |
But what if the car was used not for pleasure but purely as a means of transport, like the taxicab? |
I have worked as a hotel night-clerk, a taxicab driver, a tree puller, a house painter, and a laboratory technician. |
On our way a pickup truck just ahead of us abruptly reverses into our taxicab with a slam, then does a fast three-point turn over the median. |
The intermittent chug of a passing taxicab momentarily scathed Lincoln's vision, but undeterred she preached on to a deaf society. |