Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operators field 1,800. The current ambitious goal of WordPerfect is to have its 70 support staffers answer at least half of its 1,500 daily calls. Says Adam Osborne, president of Paperback Software: "You have a better chance of winning the lottery than of getting through on some toll-free lines...
Such rigorous exercise takes its toll. "It's difficult, dancing all day long. I've never done that before," says Jennifer DeWitt, a high school senior from Houston...
While the pop performers entertained the crowd of some 25,000, the condition of many radiation victims worsened. Dr. Robert Gale, the UCLA bone-marrow specialist who has been assisting Soviet doctors in Moscow, reported that the death toll from Chernobyl had reached 23. Twenty-one of the dead were among the 299 fire fighters and plant workers who had been hospitalized after the accident. At Moscow's Hospital No. 6, where most of the gravely ill are undergoing treatment, Chief Radiologist Angelina Guskova told the Soviet news agency Novosti that as many as 80 victims remained in "extreme danger...
...information emerged on the casualty toll from the Ukrainian disaster, which killed at least 23 people, including two workers killed on the spot...
...plastic is taking a heavy toll on marine life, particularly on seals, sea lions, turtles and seabirds. By one estimate, as many as 50,000 northern fur seals in the Pribilof Islands die each year after becoming enshrouded in netting. "Young seals get their heads or flippers caught in it," says Laist. "Then they either become exhausted from toting it or their ability to catch food is restricted...