Word: tolls
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...disruptions of last Wednesday's storm were compounded when the airline was unable to fully recover in the days that followed. Most of the problems were related to staffing issues. JetBlue, which books 80% of its tickets online, did not have enough reservations agents on its toll-free line to handle all of the rescheduling. At Kennedy Airport, there was not enough trained staff to work on rebooking. And the unit in charge of locating pilots and flight attendants and assigning them to their next flight was overwhelmed. By late Monday, JetBlue had canceled more than 1,000 flights...
...home this past holiday weekend despite a recent accident. Last Wednesday, a speeding Fung Wah passenger bus heading from Boston to New York crashed on I-90. The driver, Jimmy Chow, lost control of the vehicle and veered into the right guardrail at Exit 19, near the Allston-Brighton toll booths, according to Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Robert Bousquet. The bus held 35 passengers, none of whom sustained injuries. The disabled bus was towed from the scene, shutting down the Turnpike for five minutes, Bousquet said. A second Fung Wah bus was dispatched soon after to transport the passengers...
...lack of caregivers, medicine and medical equipment in Iraq is taking an increasing toll on the overall wellness of the country, which had the best health care system in the Middle East for decades prior to 1991. But more than a decade of international sanctions followed by years of war since 2003 have left health care in Iraq little better than many of the least developed countries in the world. Infant mortality, a key indicator of public health, has risen in Iraq since the U.S. invasion of 2003. The most recent statistics from the Iraqi Health Ministry puts infant mortality...
...which represents radiation emitting from an atom, you're not alone. Over the last two decades, at least 20 people have died and more than 400 have been injured after accidentally exposing themselves to radioactive sources, such as radiography units dumped in scrap heaps. Experts believe that the final toll is probably much higher, as many incidents often go unreported or are misdiagnosed...
...feel about rising health care costs and stagnant wages are an illusion, we've been told that climate change is a hoax, and that tough talk and an ill-conceived war can replace diplomacy, and strategy, and foresight. And when all else fails, when Katrina happens, or the death toll in Iraq mounts, we've been told that our crises are somebody else's fault. We're distracted from our real failures, and told to blame the other party, or gay people, or immigrants...