Word: tolls
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Even if the impetus for eliminating tolls was intended to be somehow progressive by helping low-wage commuters, toll prices have already been built into housing prices and wages, so it’s clear that this matter did not warrant such extreme action. In a choice to essentially grant a subsidy to either motorists or subway passengers, the state of Massachusetts has chosen the former, and in so doing, demonstrated its backwards priorities...
...that 25 houses had been razed to the ground, and their inhabitants killed and injured as Taliban fighters took shelter behind their walls, using the local population as human shields. Niaz Mohammad Saradi, district governor of Panjwai district, said 60 people were killed, while other officials put the death toll as high as 85. NATO says it has confirmed 12 civilian casualties. Whatever the final number, the mounting bloodshed among old men, women and children in southern Afghanistan is whittling away support for the NATO mission...
...selling their surplus stocks as "cleanskins" - bargain-priced bottles that show neither the winemaker nor the winery. Even so, Sam Tolley, chief executive of the awbc, reckons it will take at least another two years before supply and demand get back in line. Letting the free market take its toll is not the way of French agriculture. That's one reason why the pain caused by the glut is less acute in France than in Australia. But it also helps to explain why the French lost out so badly in export markets in the first place: their producers are bound...
...happy with the University." Amutah says he is not even sure if he would choose to go to Harvard if he could make the decision again as a high school senior from inner-city Trenton, New Jersey. "Being here seems like so many contradictions," he says "it takes a toll...
...realization that something is missing. They are deciding that their work, their possessions, their diversions, their sheer busyness are not enough. They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives, something that will relieve a chronic loneliness or lift them above the exhausting, relentless toll of daily life. They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them - that they are not just destined to travel down a long highway toward nothingness...