Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first bureau of auto repair. Every auto-repair shop in the state must adhere to such basic standards as making all cost estimates in writing and clearly noting if the parts used are rebuilt. They must also post prominently the bureau's telephone number, which consumers can call toll free if they believe that they are being cheated. In addition, Kehoe set up a department of consumer services to collect and act on consumer complaints. In July alone, the department got 6,000 complaints, many about housing-repair contractors. All told, the department helped to bring legal action, including...
...spring riots added to a trashing toll that over the years has reached impressive proportions. In Berkeley, an incomplete city battle-damage study shows that in the past four years 72 merchants have suffered losses of nearly $4,000,000-$152,427 in physical damage and $3,659,042 in potential sales unmade because stores were closed or customers stayed away. The tally will doubtless rise as more stores report...
Covering the war in Indochina has always been dangerous for reporters and cameramen. Since 1964, the toll stands at 39 killed, 20 missing and 167 wounded.* But Vietnamization and the concomitant withdrawal of U.S. troops have, unhappily, made life even more hazardous for those who must cover Viet...
...smelting factory. Its symptoms: a softening and finally a breaking of the bones. Then, two years ago, a wave of smog-associated complaints began afflicting Tokyo residents. So far, at least 30,000 victims have been reported in the capital. All in all, unofficial estimates place the death toll from various forms of pollution at about...
Driving to work one winter morning in his 45th year, Barney Cashman, as securely strapped into his black four-door sedan as into his whole middle-class existence, pulls up at a toll booth He looks yearningly across at a ravishing beauty in the car next to him. "So many pretty girls," he soliloquizes. "When I was a kid, there were maybe six or seven pretty girls. Today they're all pretty...