Word: tolls
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...number, his office fax number, his home and office numbers in Hong Kong, his fax numbers in both places, a 1-800 number for his voice mail, his mobile number, his mother's fax number, his office's fax number in London, his E-mail address--and the toll-free number for calling his voice mail from Japan. Since that happy day, Tokyo numbers have expanded to eight digits, Hong Kong numbers have acquired an extra 2, and the city code for central London has actually tripled in size, gaining first a 7 and then...
...bankers' war, with its attack articles and smears in various financier-controlled media, has taken its toll. It has deepened the impression, widespread in the West, that Yeltsin's Russia is in danger of becoming what U.S. researchers recently called a "criminal-syndicalist state" controlled by an alliance of corrupt politicians, businessmen and crime bosses. It has shattered the credibility of the media, which for a few brief years following the collapse of the Soviet Union had a reputation for independence and integrity. And it has damaged the standing of the young reformers, Chubais and Nemtsov. Alexander Oslon, who polls...
Though the murder took place in 1905, Halberstam emphasized the relevance of Lukas's book to today. He said that the eight years of work on the book took a toll on Lukas, who suffered from clinical depression...
...toll such measures take on Afghan women is impossible to assess. Several told us how dispiriting it is to be thrown off a bus or forced to sit in the back. We heard reports of an increase in the suicide rate among females, and that many have sunk into despair and depression. For Afghanistan's tyrannized women, there is no escape from an unsparing, medieval way of life...
...Look, just tell me why you work with those damned old rattlesnakes," Maclean said--makes no excuses for them. Snakes kill more than 20,000 humans a year, he admits, mostly farmers in the tropics who are accidentally bitten by vipers, although boots and antivenom have reduced the toll in recent years. In the U.S., where 1,000 to 2,000 snakebites occur annually, mostly by rattlesnakes and copperheads, fewer than 10 result in death. The majority of victims, says Greene, who has been nailed only once ("not seriously" by a copperhead as a teen), are "macho types"--young...