Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they been offered so many innovations to make life easier or more comfortable: cellular phones, cappuccino makers, home computers, hot tubs, Nautilus machines, camcorders, stereo TV sets, trash compactors, snow blowers. Giving in to impulse buying is easier than ever. The outlets are ubiquitous: shopping malls, mail-order catalogs, toll-free numbers, home-shopping networks, direct mail. Even a consumer's credit card bill, which contains the bad news about spending, is packed with offers for more merchandise...
Slowly, tentatively, life returned to the streets of Haiti. Frightened citizens climbed out from beneath their beds. Uneasy merchants reopened their shops for limited hours. From hiding, election officials fired off defiant messages. But the activity could not disguise the deep psychic toll taken by the election-day violence that left at least 50 people dead and dozens wounded last week. In Port-au-Prince, the capital, hundreds of Haitians packed their meager belongings and fled to the countryside. At the Basilica Notre Dame, the usual crowd of devout worshipers was missing. Instead, a few beggars haunted the steps...
...years of chaos that accompanied the rise of the Solidarity trade union and the national malaise brought on by martial law in 1981 have taken a severe toll on an economy that was already creaky. Living standards have fallen below their 1975 levels, with wages averaging less than $90 a month. Technologically, the country is so backward that many farmers still plant and harvest from horse-drawn carts, while many factories run on steam-powered . machinery from the last century. Even Lech Walesa, former leader of the now outlawed Solidarity, favors basic economic reforms. "The point is not to fight...
Late in the day, sitting in the backyard of his adobe house, Savory is by turns fierce, edgy, raw and soft. His hair is graying, his eyebrows growing shaggy, and recent personal sorrows are taking a toll on his face. "Those eight years I was in Parliament in Rhodesia, I had a house in the bush, and I'd fly home between sessions. The house had no doors or windows. Didn't believe in them. Animals came and went as they pleased. My children and I lived quite wildly there...
...looking forward to the rest," said defenseman Don Sweeney, who made up one of Harvard's two defensive pairs last night. "The game definitely took a toll on us, but I thought it was our best team effort...