Word: tolls
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...feel it wrong to cash in on otherwise profitless situations. Perhaps crass, tacky or vulgar (as in the latest Jim & Tammy enterprise: Area Code 900 Dial-the-Bakkers taped messages that might bring as much as $100,000 a month from the 25 cents they get for every $1.50 toll a phoning fan must pay), but not immoral...
...because of South Africa's dependence on a black work force. But the legacy of the plan, in the form of four artificial black "states" set up by Pretoria between 1976 and 1981 and six homelands still considered part of the parent country, is taking a disconcerting and costly toll on white South Africa...
...found out about the attack on Malacanang Palace, the Philippine presidential headquarters, late in the morning. Government troops had already repelled the rebel assault with heavy casualties, particularly among innocent bystanders. The estimated death toll ranged from...
...causing history's biggest industrial accident, a new book alleges that the tragedy may have been even more gruesome than assumed. The Indian government has said 2,700 people died at Bhopal. But in A Killing Wind (McGraw-Hill; 297 pages; $19.95), Author Dan Kurzman asserts that the death toll was at least 8,000. He speculates that Indian officials understated the figures in part to "keep the political shock waves under control...
...immediate aftermath of the disaster, 3,000 victims were cremated in conformance with Hindu custom, and 3,000 were buried according to Muslim rites. He also cites accounts that an additional 2,000 victims fled Bhopal and died elsewhere. Similar and even wilder versions of the disaster's toll have previously circulated in India. But compensation claims for deaths caused by the accident remain well below 3,000. Indian officials last week disputed Kurzman's finding. Said one: "The figure we announced was based on solid investigations, and cannot be wrong...