Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help anxious cooks, the USDA and other Government agencies have toll-free hot lines for consumer questions. Some requests are a bit exotic. "Did we really have to throw out the whole roast just because my daughter-in-law mistook a daffodil bulb for an onion and sliced it over the meat?" asked a worried caller. Yes, replied the hot line, the bulbs are toxic to humans. Other questions indicate a lot of basic ground needs covering. Two samples: "Can spaghetti sauce left open on the counter for three days hurt me?" and "Is it O.K. to eat groceries that...
...dramatic events took their toll on Lorenzo. "I'm not going to kid you by saying that some of those efforts haven't hurt my family and me," he said last week. "They have." Lorenzo maintains that he has done everything in his power to prevent Eastern from folding. He recalls the options that former Eastern Chairman Frank Borman described for the airline in 1986: "Fix it, sell it, or tank it." Unable to fix it, Borman sold it. As the bankruptcy court now begins to address the formidable task of putting Eastern back together again, Lorenzo was facing...
...Soviet troops from Afghanistan after a 10-year struggle against native resistance slays this pet theory. The Soviets certainly did not scruple to wage total war. They burned villages, planted toy-shaped antipersonnel mines designed to maim children and indiscriminantly executed non-combatants. Estimates put the civilian death toll at more that one million...
...though most reporters don't have a close personal relationship with anyone killed," says Vanderlyn Pine, a sociology professor at the State University of New York, "the grief component is just as serious as ((for)) anyone who does." Banaszynski says the stress from working on her series took a toll on her physical health. Free-lance writer Joe Levine of New York City was haunted by dreams about AIDS after he completed a long profile of a man who was dying of the disease. Such experiences may hold the key to improving coverage, since reporters who have been affected...
...fences and depleting food needed by cattle, can infect their herds with brucellosis, a disease that causes cows to abort their calves -- though there are no documented cases of such bison-to-cattle infections. More than 200 bison have been bagged so far this season. Government biologists say the toll will not deplete the park's bison population of 2,700, but animal-rights groups want federal authorities to provide feeding spots for the animals inside the park. "The object is to put a head on somebody's wall," says Ted Crail of the Animal Protection Institute in Sacramento. "That...