Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toll money began coming in from the Moses projects, the revenue exceeded all estimates. Prompted by streamlined access to the city, more and more cars began to choke the city streets. And because the authority had so much money. Moses could build even more highways and bridges, which he said would relieve the congestion. But the cars--and the tolls--kept coming, and Moses would promise that just one more highway would speed the traffic. It never did. And no one was there to say no, to say that the city had enough cars and enough highways. Robert Moses...
Such stories are frighteningly common. Someone is killed in a drunk-driving accident in the U.S. every 23 min., an annual toll of more than 26,000. Yet a drunk driver is rarely arrested, and the possibility of stiff punishment is remote...
Nonetheless, cocaine may be taking its toll. Authoritative reports persist of recording sessions that have to be scrapped because of spaced-out musicians, and of movie shoots that are disrupted because members of the cast or crew are under the influence. According to a member of the Heaven's Gate crew, thousands of dollars' worth of coke was being sent up to the Montana location from Hollywood regularly from July to November...
...mergers in recent months of the Prudential Insurance Co. with Wall Street's Bache Group Inc. and American Express with the Shearson Loeb Rhoades brokerage firm provide a glimpse of the shape of things to come in finance. With the help of computers, plastic credit cards and toll-free long-distance phone calls, these money supermarkets are carrying out perhaps the most significant change in the way people handle money since Marco Polo discovered the Chinese using paper currency in the 12th century...
...wounded. Another high-ranking officer, General Andrés González de Suso, is gunned down at pointblank range outside his apartment in the capital, and a policeman dies in the ensuing chase. Almost simultaneously, two Civil Guards are murdered by terrorists in a Barcelona bar. The final toll: seven dead and 14 injured, most of them innocent bystanders...