Word: tolls
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What explains Harry and Louise's inspiring 286,000 calls to a toll-free number since the series began in September? Sure, they lured both Clintons into blasting them, but it's the hokey soap-opera techniques perfected in the Taster's Choice coffee ads that have made Harry and Louise seem like a bad song you can't stop humming. The actors cast as Harry and Louise by Ben Goddard, president of the Goddard-Clausen/First Tuesday ad agency, are similar to the Taster's Choice twosome in age, self-absorption and pseudo sophistication, although they have dissimilar levels...
...still far from a certainty, since the massacre touched off stone throwing and rioting throughout the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli soldiers firing on protesters killed 19, bringing the total for Friday and Saturday to somewhere between 58 and 71, depending on the toll in the mosque; another 250 people were wounded in the riots. Friday was the bloodiest day in the occupied Palestinian lands since Israel conquered them...
Despite these assurances, peace and security are still lacking. Palestinians have paid a heavy toll for Israel's unwillingness to disarm the settlers or bring in international observers. While censorship of foreign media has made visual evidence difficult to come by, smuggled video tapes show the harrassment, and sometimes brutality, which Palestinians are subject to. International doctors who have worked in the occupied territories report that they have treated patients that had less than a handful of ribs left unbroken...
Held spoke of the rapidly rising death toll in Bosnia and the sense of abandonment and desperation felt by the citizens of Eastern Europe...
...left Viacom with $10 billion of debt and exacted a heavy toll on the company's shareholders and allies. Redstone concedes that the battle forced him to cough up some $1.5 billion more than he intended to pay when Viacom and Paramount unveiled their original merger agreement last Sept. 12. Since then the price of Viacom Class-B stock has shrunk more than 50%, falling from 56 3/4 to 25 3/4 last Friday as investors reckoned that the cost ! of the merger would hammer the company's profits for years...