Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...print some of the thousands of telegrams of support sent the president by Mexican leaders. In conjunction with administration flag-waving, there have been stepped up military operations across the country. Along the well-travelled Cuernavaca-Mexico City Highway soldiers march with fixed bayonets. Armed searches at the toll stations have been frequent. Full dress military patrols roam the countryside in the state of Guerrero, famous as the home of Acapulco, while it remains under semi-martial...
...become a city of the dead. A month after the army struck, unleashing tank guns and automatic weapons against largely unarmed civilians in 34 hours of wanton slaughter, Dacca is still shocked and shuttered, its remaining inhabitants living in terror under the grip of army control. The exact toll will never be known, but probably more than 10,000 were killed in Dacca alone...
...extent, man has already altered himself and his planet. Scientists can only guess at the genetic toll from radioactive fallout, chemical contamination and other assaults on the environment. Even man's noblest impulses are apt to offend against nature. While improved medical care assures the survival and reproduction of those with genetically caused mental and physical defects, it also ensures that an increasingly larger percentage of the population will be heir to these illnesses in years to come. Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky succinctly expresses the ethical dilemma. "If we enable the weak and the deformed to live and to propagate their...
...lives. There is something pathetic in such rudimentary lessons in self-survival. But once you really get into tie-dying jeans and whipping up oatmeal facials, you probably do discover a measure of self-reliance that simply can't be equated with getting through to the Esquire Buying Guide toll-free exchange. In any case, its self-help orientation is really Rags's strongest selling point. The Washington Post's Nicholas Von Hoffman even devoted an entire column to describing Rags as symptomatic of the rise of what he calls "Peppermill People...
...recent months, the toll of inflation has dragged a reluctant Nixon toward an incomes policy. In his latest move, the President established a guidepost for construction wage increases: about 6% a year. His executive order called on labor and management to set up "craft dispute boards" to review collective-bargaining agreements in each of the 17 construction trades. The boards' findings will be scrutinized by a twelve-man Construction Industry Stabilization Committee drawn equally from labor, management and the public. The 6% ceiling is somewhat elastic; it could be higher in some places if "equity adjustments" restore traditional...