Word: tolls
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...reason or another not panned out." Investigators have reportedly been checking out a rumored link with a trio of Idaho men who were arrested for bombings in the Northwest, but no decisive evidence has been produced, at least publicly. To solicit more help, the FBI opened a toll-free phone line so potential tipsters can hear the 911 warning call that preceded the bombing. For now, separate teams of investigators from the FBI and the ATF will be looking into the nightclub and abortion-clinic explosions...
...model at the hands of the free-to-the-masses World Wide Web. But now that AOL has matched its Web rivals on price, the training wheels have come off. And AOL is not only still pedaling, but--its recent mishaps notwithstanding--it also currently runs the most lucrative toll booth on the information highway...
...boasting, however, Madalyn's darker traits--and his own--were taking an increasing toll. They did not restrict their belligerence to the political sphere. "The Murray-O'Hairs," says a movement observer, "were factories of rancor." Almost from its inception, American Atheists spawned splinter groups, usually led by people Madalyn had wooed, employed and finally alienated, often viciously and profanely. "She went through people like popcorn," says Anne Gaylor, who in 1978 became head of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wisconsin. "People realized, 'We can do this on our own,'" says Kerns. Madalyn, without irony, told offenders...
...hour of the film. Besides the stunning special effects that the director calls upon to underscore the urgency of this concluding sequence, Lucas masterfully builds up the suspense to a shattering pitch as one rebel craft after another falls prey to the marauding pilots of the imperial forces. The toll of casualties among the rebels keeps adding up until one lone plane remains; naturally, it is manned by Luke Skywalker (Hamill), the naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death of his father during the space age totalitarians' overthrow of the republic...
...feel it only fair, though, to point out to my wife that many people may underestimate the difficulty of writing verse that must include the names of whichever politician a fickle electorate happens to thrust forward. It takes a toll on a poet to go to his desk every day in the full knowledge that he'll never find a rhyme for Moynihan...