Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clemente is called "Elba West" by some, and the term becomes less of a jest as time goes on. There is no accurate measure yet of the internal disintegration of Nixon himself. But the toll being taken among those men who served Nixon during the Watergate crimes is terrible. Wives have turned against husbands. Children have turned against fathers. Jobs are difficult to find. Immense legal debts threaten to burden families for the rest of their lives...
...Quick Profit. What gave Moses even more power was the fact that the city was going broke. Because Triborough had money-an endless stream of toll receipts-the authority could float new bonds and become New York's big builder. Powerful men came as suppliants to Moses. Leaders of the building trades unions wanted jobs-thousands of jobs. Moses could provide them...
When Congress passed legislation recommending that the states adopt a 55 m.p.h. speed limit as a means of curbing gasoline consumption, most observers predicted an additional boon - a decrease in traffic fatalities. Sure enough, last month when the National Safety Council released highway-death-toll figures for the first six months in 1974, deaths were down a heartening 23% from the same period in 1973. While noting that the energy crisis had decreased the number of cars on the road, the council still gave credit for the downturn to the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, calling it a "major contributing factor...
...lessons was that the U.S. legal processes, once activated, cannot be turned on and off with a twist of a judicial wrist. Already it was apparent last week that Citizen Nixon was enmeshed in criminal litigation and that the nation still faces an unwanted decision on what legal toll should yet be exacted of its deposed leader...
...strain of being a politician's wife has taken its toll. She has suffered from a pinched nerve in her neck in recent years caused, say her doctors, by emotional stress. After several years of various forms of physical therapy to relieve the pain, she began to see a psychiatrist and take tranquilizers to steady her nerves. "I tried to be everything," she admits, "and I completely lost my sense of self-worth." Now she declares that "I feel better than I have in years," and no longer relies on tranquilizers...