41.   It stopped traffic in some spots and left many potential riders unable to hail a cab, but it did not appear to create major disruptions.

42.   It means being cut off from the subway and having to walk two dozen blocks to Canal Street to hail a cab.

43.   Kay wants to hail a cab, if we can.

44.   Midtown riders would have more places to hail cabs, not fewer.

45.   Now, they compete with other drivers for limited business, because there are fewer tourists to hail cabs, climb on tourmobiles or catch a bus.

46.   On a recent Sunday evening, Mark Mehler and a friend were trying vainly to hail a cab on Central Park South.

47.   Once, before a Redskins-Giants game, he ran the New York Marathon and then hailed a cab.

48.   One night in early September, he hailed a cab with a group of colleagues.

49.   On a morning last week, one French-speaking woman, distressed at the prospect of hailing a cab, sought someone who spoke her language.

50.   Panic-stricken, I tried to hail a cab, with no success.