Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...closing statement, Brown prompted applause and laughter from the media hall next door when he gave out his toll-free contribution number for the third straight debate...
...arriving in force, 2,000 southern Vietnamese in an adjacent section tore down a 17-ft. wire-mesh fence and joined the fray. Panicked northerners sought refuge in a corrugated-steel dormitory. Their attackers began burning blankets and stuffing them through windows, setting fire to the building. The eventual toll: 23 burned alive or suffocated, including 10 children, and 125 injured, some of them seriously enough to be hospitalized...
...sluggish national economy took its toll on Harvard last year, causing the endowment to shrink by approximately $50 million, according to the University's annual financial report...
...bonanza. More than 1,000 implant-related lawsuits have already been filed by women who claim they were disfigured or debilitated by the devices. And the revelation that manufacturers may have knowingly buried facts about the dangers is causing the numbers to skyrocket. Some attorneys have even set up toll-free numbers to handle -- and encourage -- the surge...
...impossible to justify; last week the State Department quickly denied that any military option was being considered at present. The likeliest option was a three-pronged approach: tighten up refugee controls; target individuals connected with the coup by freezing their American bank accounts; and ease the toll on Haitians by loosening the embargo on plants that assemble goods for U.S. companies, restoring as many as 40,000 jobs...