Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haunt them. They recalled all too vividly how their company was shaken in 1982 after seven people in Illinois died from poisoned Tylenol. This time, Johnson & Johnson was ready. Responding swiftly and smoothly to the new crisis, it immediately and indefinitely canceled all television commercials for Tylenol, established a toll-free telephone hotline to answer consumer questions and offered refunds or exchanges to customers who had purchased Tylenol capsules. At week's end, when another bottle of tainted Tylenol was discovered in a store (see NATION), it took only a matter of minutes for the manufacturer to issue a nationwide...
...second-ranked squad in the nation. But the emotional strain on the team, to say nothing of the physical loss of the center of the highest scoring line in college hockey (along with wings Skeeter Moore and Brett Hull) have taken their toll...
Cutting four days off reading period is simply cruel. It exacts a brutal toll from students in repeated all-nighters and massive doses of anxiety. The change was particularly painful to those who participate extensively in extracurricular activities, but all of us, both students and professors, have come to depend on the two-week reading period. It has become an institution around which people at Harvard plan their lives...
...State Department, reporting rumors that Duvalier had fled the country. Haiti is perennially a hotbed of gossip, and inaccurate reports had already generated a premature celebration on Thursday night in Miami, where one person was killed. The message thus could hardly be taken as sounding the final, definitive toll for the Duvalier dynasty, but the State Department relayed the "alert" nonetheless to the White House Situation Room for the National Security Council. According to State Department officials, someone at the NSC staff chose to read the rumor as an accomplished fact. At 8:40 a.m., the President was told that...
...scene was numbingly familiar. A 550-lb. car bomb exploded in a crowded commercial section of Christian East Beirut, setting eight buildings ablaze and gouging out a 9-ft. crater in the street. The toll: 30 dead, l33 injured...