Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virtual marketplace where, by a process he calls friction-free capitalism, buyers and sellers can exchange goods and services without paper money, malls or middlemen. Except, of course, for the ultimate middleman, Microsoft--which, in return for making those electronic transactions secure and reliable, plans to collect a small toll off each and every...
...single instance of domestic terrorism in U.S. history: the bombing two days earlier of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The horribly ravaged and hollowed- out structure--a giant wedding cake smashed by a malevolent fist--had become a national monument to loss. The final death toll: 169, including 19 children, most of whom had been dropped off at a day-care center shortly before the blast...
...CHART "THE WAR'S TOLL," WHICH accompanied our story on Bosnia [DIPLOMACY, Dec. 4], the estimated number of casualties on all sides of the war should have been...
Until Thursday. In their meeting that night, Gingrich did nothing to discourage Powell from running. The two men repaired to the library, where they talked for two hours about the demands of a race and the toll it would take on Powell's private life. Gingrich believed a campaign would succeed--but only if Powell wanted it very badly. And as the Thursday night session ended, Powell was ready...
...think all of this is outrageous that they would use that kind of pettiness to shut down the federal government." Later, Gingrich sought to downplay the incident as just one of many factors blocking consensus. But TIME's Viveca Novak notes the Speaker's recent outbursts are taking a toll. "After the string of successes the Speaker has had this year, a remarkable record by any measure, at this, his moment of truth, Gingrich isn't holding it together that well. Some of his colleagues in the GOP are not only noticing it but beginning to speak about it publicly...