Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with pesticides, possible causes of cancer seem to close in on all sides. "It pleases many to think of cancer as a necessary concomitant of civilization," says Scottish Physician C. S, Muir, "a penalty to be paid for the abandonment of the rustic simplicity of a bygone age, a toll to be exacted for the convenience of the automobile and the pleasures of the cigarette." Even doctors dream of some remote part of Africa or Asia, "where, removed from the madding appurtenances of an alien technology, the inhabitants live out their idyllic, cancer-free lives...
...more than 100,000 people made homeless in a few seconds. By week's end 630 bodies had been recovered and nearby hospitals were crowded with 2,000 injured. As the Yugoslav government proclaimed a two-day mourning period for the victims, authorities estimated that the death toll may reach...
...fellow undergraduates. Last summer the relatively small student body of Williams (1,121) boasted a clambake caterer in Maine, a salmon fisherman in Alaska, a supermarket meatcutter in Maine, a mosquito inspector in New Jersey, a Pinkerton detective in Indiana, a labor union organizer in New York City, a toll collector in Buffalo, a CIA courier in Washington, and a groom for a string of race horses traveling between Maine and Delaware...
...years since President Lowell's administration Harvard had added little to its physical plant. Wartime and the immediate post-war years did not favor any major building at the University. Post-war inflation had taken a heavy toll. It cost three times as much to run Harvard in 1953, President Pusey's first year at the College, as it did when President Conant took office twenty years earlier...
Unemployment: Price of Automation. It also takes its toll of labor, which is where the real overcapacity in U.S. industry is today. Modernization to economize means replacing men with machines, which cost less than people over the long haul, are more productive and do not take coffee breaks or join labor unions. In the board rooms and at the clubs, today's businessman finds it hard to get his mind-or his conversation-away from topic A: automation. Among automation's side products are 4,000.000 unemployed-5.7% of the labor force. Automated elevators, automated stockroom machinery, automated...