Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, no one was hit harder by the shock wave in January than Hillary. Her marriage was on gruesome display; even if she believed Clinton's denials, she could still foresee the toll. For 22 years they had worked to get to this point, a liberated, second-term presidency with a merry economy, a contented public and the time to spend on the issues she cared about. Instead, every last dime of their joint political capital was going to have to be invested simply in surviving in office...
...have but one nit to pick with Micron. A few months ago, I had occasion to call the 24-hour toll-free support line on behalf of my older Millennia. The machine came with Windows 95; naturally, I updated to Windows 98 as soon as I could. But now the Micron help guy said he wasn't allowed to support it--the machine had been "altered." This is a hugely cheesy way to treat customers. Still, even if you plan on altering it, a Millennia Max, with a 450-MHz Pentium II chip that's even faster than mine...
...fitting testament to the perils of ballooning that this 18th-century technology has never been successfully employed to circumnavigate the globe. But where technical difficulties, bad weather and worse luck have taken their toll in the past, the dark clouds of politics are threatening now as Richard Branson, Steve Fossett and Per Lindstrand approach northern Chinese airspace -- which Chinese authorities insist is off limits...
Sullivan, who spent 25 years working in Washington as both a journalist and political aide, said the pressures of life within the Beltway takes a toll on women with young children, especially when both parents work. Politicians have little say over when their events and caucuses take place, she said...
After issuing repeated warnings to Seaboard, the Oklahoma agriculture department fined the firm $157,500 in December 1997 for improper disposal. After an appeal, the company paid the state $88,200 for the infractions. In all, the Seaboard death toll reached 48 hogs an hour in 1997--420,000 for the year. And the carcasses are picked up only once a day--assuming the dead-pig truck is on schedule. Sometimes it isn't. Which is why at any given moment during the day there are hundreds of dead hogs lying about the fields of Texas County...