Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keeping the Crimson out of trouble isn't always easy for the usually cocky netminder. Being put on the spot night after night has taken its toll...
Many companies, including Capital Cities/ABC, Xerox and Dean Witter, have made it easier for employees to seek help by setting up nationwide hot lines with toll-free 800 numbers that workers and their families can call to get advice on drug problems. The service offers a guarantee of privacy to employees who are reluctant to approach their bosses or stop by medical departments. Once the drug user is on the phone, the hot-line counselor can encourage him to get help through an EAP or local clinical program...
...Egypt, Cairenes were slowly recovering from the effects of rioting by 17,000 security policemen. The official toll: 107 killed and 719 injured, roughly three times the number originally reported. The riots' apparent cause: discontent of police conscripts, angry over poor pay and living conditions, who were soon joined by Fundamentalist agitators. The mutiny was quickly put down. In the short term, the government of President Hosni Mubarak was not seriously damaged by the ordeal. But with the country's economy a shambles, any new government austerity measures could provoke another explosion of rioting by the urban poor that...
...what the rest of the world thought. But foreign outrage began to matter when international banks shut down on loans to South Africa. With TV cameramen forbidden to photograph scenes of violence, foreign correspondents have had to conjure up with words alone the reality of the day's death toll. It isn't effective TV. Now that South Africa has ended its state of emergency, will cameras really be allowed to show what is going on? South Africa's leaders have a healthy respect for what visuals can do, and much to hide...
...turmoil intensified. Seven months after the state of emergency was imposed, the number of people killed in racial violence, most of them black, doubled, to more than 700, from the approximately 300 who died in the seven months before the decree went into effect. The rising death toll only deepened the determination, particularly among young blacks, to continue the struggle for full enfranchisement. It also revived support for the African National Congress, the outlawed organization that seeks to overthrow the white minority government...