Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unions' propensity to walk off the job on almost any excuse takes a heavy toll: in 1974, strikes and other work stoppages cost Britain 1,418 man-days of labor for every 1,000 workers, v. 410 in France and only 82 in West Germany. Unions also enforce archaic work rules and featherbedding practices that keep productivity low. By one estimate, the average Japanese worker produces six times more autos per year than his British counterpart...
...looters wheeled off shopping carts filled with sugar, medicines and frozen pork chops that began immediately to thaw and drip hi the blazing sun. Cops in the nearby parking lot watched with amusement, occasionally plucking a few items for themselves from passing shopping carts as a kind of exit toll. Finally a truckload of military police arrived, firing M-16 bursts into the air, and the looting stopped...
Connors grew up in East St. Louis and Belleville, Ill., the son of a toll booth manager on what is now called the Martin Luther King bridge, which spans the Mississippi River at St. Louis. James Connors Sr., though, was never the main influence in Jimmy's life, and the two appear to have an uneasy relationship. It was Jimmy's mother, a tournament player and teaching pro, who began tossing tennis balls at Connors when he was three. "I started him as soon as he could walk pretty well," recalls Gloria, still in her perky 40s. "Jimmy took...
...hastily dispatched a C-5A Galaxy cargo plane-and it crashed (see page 8). The tragedy only intensified the fever pitch of rescue plans, and the Government pledged to carry on its airlift. Tens of thousands of Americans deluged adoption agencies with calls. The State Department set up a toll-free number (800-368-1180) for would-be adopters. At one point, more than 1,000 callers a minute were being turned away by busy signals...
...atmosphere of uncertainty is taking a heavy toll on tourism and foreign investment. At Lisbon's 300-room Ritz last week, there were fewer than 40 guests. Because of fears for the country's economic stability, Portugal's 2 million workers abroad have cut back sharply on the funds they customarily send home. In a television broadcast last week, Premier Gonçalves exhorted migrant workers to pay no heed "to the defamatory and reactionary campaigns of certain organs of information" and to come home and "verify that the country is happier than the sad Portugal...