11.   Many, like Gaye, followed a trajectory that put them behind the wheel of a livery cab.

12.   Officer Anthony Falconite gazed at the line of battered livery cabs idling in the rain.

13.   Sharpton said that livery cabs were a means to move about in areas where yellow cabs did not venture.

14.   Teague followed the police officers in a livery cab that had stopped for him and identified the teen-agers as his attackers after they had been arrested, Giuliani said.

15.   The assault stopped only when a livery cab pulled up and, separately, a team of undercover narcotics officers who had been working nearby arrived.

16.   The authorities and the drivers say they hope that frequent traffic stops will show robbers that livery cabs are no longer easy marks.

17.   The camera was instrumental in the arrest of a would-be robber of a livery cab in Queens last year.

18.   The livery cab rule itself was not drafted until the day after the meeting.

19.   The prosecutors had charged a passenger in a livery cab, Jeffrey Santiago, under a federal law that prohibits convicted felons from possessing guns.

20.   They rented or bought a car for a livery cab as soon as they made enough money.