Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it comes to knotty tax questions, Internal Revenue Service employees are just as confused as everyone else -- maybe more so. General Accounting Office investigators recently posed as befuddled taxpayers calling for help on the IRS's toll-free tax-question line. They got wrong answers 22% of the time and incomplete advice on 15% of their other queries. Last year GAO sleuths were misled only 17% of the time...
Inside, divers found that the original death toll of 134 was sadly understated. Crews discovered more than 110 bodies in addition to the 61 recovered on the night of the disaster, and authorities said the final total could approach 200. Divers found one young couple locked in a final embrace, and the body of a child of about eleven still clutching her doll...
...cuisine, most chefs now are out of practice when it comes to fine and careful cooking, and few dining-room staffs know how to serve in anything like first- class style. War, revolution, poverty and a Maoist regime that considered embellishment a manifestation of bourgeois decadence have taken their toll. "We lost the thread of our culinary tradition," says Hu Yulu, the retired chef and now adviser to Shanghai's Jinjiang Hotel. "Our cooking began to decline in the '50s, and we won't even talk about the '60s and '70s, when our most talented chefs left the country...
...noble families were willing to die for their country but were ironically spared when Hitler pulled them out of the front lines: he did not want to create upper- class heroes. Vassiltchikov has little to say about bravery on the battlefield or anywhere else. She simply reports the daily toll with the same matter-of- factness that she describes toilet-paper rationing or how to fry an egg on an upturned electric iron...
...failure of the CRR to garner studentapproval over the past 15 years had begun to takeits toll on the Faculty's perception of theviability of the body...