Word: tolls
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...brief item was first released only on the English-language news wire of the official Xinhua News Agency. No mention was made that the conflict was between the Hui and the Han. And in contrast with the internal document circulated to Henan officials, the Xinhua article gave a death toll of only seven. The news black-out may have had as much to do with Beijing's fear of social disorder snowballing into more widespread unrest as with ending ethnic tensions. Just in the past week, protests by thousands of disenfranchised farmers and others have unsettled the provinces of Anhui...
...determined on that day that you could not fight this war just on defense," Rice says. "It's an unfair fight when they have to be right once and you have to be right 100% of the time." Despite the strain on U.S. forces and the rising death toll in Iraq, Bush has refused to revise that basic premise. "We will fight the terrorists around the world so we do not have to face them here at home," he said in the first presidential debate...
...truth, though, the problem is deeper. Deploying copper wire telephone service to rural areas in West Africa is expensive, and the obvious source of money to do something like this is from toll call revenues. Slice toll call revenue by making phone calls cheaper and, on the one hand, more Ghanaians can afford to talk to their relatives overseas more often at Internet cafes; but on the other hand, more Ghanaians have to wait longer before they can have telephones in their home, or before wireless phone service can be deployed in their area...
...past four years, President George W. Bush has spewed forth a torrent of abominable policy, nearly all of it adversely affecting the college-aged generation. The most visibly dangerous policy for young Americans is the ever-rising death toll in an unnecessary war in Iraq. But we are also concerned that younger generations will not receive the benefits of social security and Medicare, and we worry that the spiraling national debt will substantially increase their tax burden. We take issue with Bush’s mortgaging of the environment in deference to corporate interests. And based on Bush?...
...from online agents like Expedia, Hotels.com Travelocity and Orbitz, which take a cut for every room they fill. "We had to tell them no," recalls Tom McCaffrey, director of marketing at the New Yorker. "These sites fill 200 rooms a night for us, more than Ramada's website and toll-free phone line together...