Word: tolls
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...what cost? Citizens and opposition political leaders alike are complaining about the toll the project is taking on the local community. To accommodate recent shoots, for example, the city's Socialist government shut down part of Las Ramblas, obstructing the locals' morning stroll and blocking access to many restaurants. That might be a tolerable burden, except that Barcelona has paid for the privilege: roughly 10% of the film's budget, it is now known, comes from the pockets of taxpayers in the city and its region, Catalonia. "It's not just the money, and we don't have any problem...
Brent Whelan, another task force member, proposed that streets and Soldier Field not be used at all, to lighten the toll the construction will take on the community...
...French gendarmes made unannounced inspections of their own on supply buses used by some participating teams - checks that generated more bad press for the Tour, although no banned substances were turned up in the raids. By now, however, the corrosive effects of suspicion had already begun to take their toll. After a German rider for the T-Mobile team tested positive for testosterone during the first week of the race, German TV channels ARD and ZDF announced they'd stop covering the Tour. By the time Vinokourov's ignoble exit, French newspaper Libération had decided to stop publishing...
...main building to interview witnesses, we observed a chilling landscape. Ambulances and emergency vehicles lined most of Avenida Washington Luís. Directly below us on the street, rescue workers had spread a huge tarp yellow tarp and covered it with empty body bags and back boards, anticipating the toll to come...
...current estimated death toll, including people in the street and those trapped in the warehouse, is over 200 people. The warehouse, unfortunately, was a 24-hour post, and thus many TAM workers were inside at the time of the crash. Some eyewitnesses said some workers escaped by jumping out of the second story and running from the building. But many died inside. By the time the fire waned it had already gutted the entire building...