Word: tolls
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...waves may have lost an entire generation of children, whose small bodies were smashed against the trees, drowned in the lagoon or dragged out to sea as the waves retreated. The number of child fatalities was so high that many schools are not expected to reopen. The official death toll from last Friday's disaster -- caused by earthquakes out at sea -- stands at 1,200, but with thousands still missing and the mangrove swamps and lagoons littered with corpses, authorities fear it may be closer to 3,000. And that may be compounded by the threat of disease as bodies...
...sort that advertisers can get through, say, the Superbowl. As a result, search and commerce sites like Yahoo and chief rival Excite have become gateways (the Net buzz word is portals) to the rest of the electronic universe. And owning a portal is looking a lot like owning a toll bridge. Yahoo charges about 4[cents] for every ad it serves up on many of its 115 million pages every day. And those prices will rise as Yahoo develops technology that lets it more closely match advertisers with searchers...
Every 15 minutes during the day, the bells now toll for the neighbors of St. Paul Church on 26 Mt. Auburn St.--whether they like them...
FREEWAY RIDE Give 'em a break. To help cars avoid local construction, Transportation chairman Bud Shuster wants drivers to travel toll free on the Penn. Turnpike in his district. $3 million...
...unsuccessful 1994 campaign, with its 16-hour days, Bush says, he was estranged from his wife and children, and one of them was having serious problems, which Bush declines to describe. "[The campaign] took a toll on my family life, and it was painful to go through that," he says. "I had got so immersed that while I was still connected to my family on one level, I left them behind. So when I came back to the real world, there were some problems I began to see... That hardship was devastating...