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...number may be far higher. National army units, fearing an epidemic, quickly buried the decomposing bodies, never pausing to keep count. More corpses were hastily buried by kin from neighboring villages. "There are mass graves because we only had a few laborers, and we could not dig individual graves," Lieut. General James Tataw, commander of the rescue operation, told reporters. "Those who have individual graves, those were dug for them by their relatives. The cows have no relatives, so their burial will be last...
Meanwhile, the Cameroon army struggled to navigate bulldozers over the precipitous mountain climbs and into the villages to dig graves for the dead livestock. But the primitive dirt tracks, which provide the only access to the hamlets for some 40 miles around, were muddied by pelting rains. Therefore the burials were slowed considerably while troops laboriously dug the graves by hand. Officials began to fear that the bloated carcasses of cows, goats, pigs and chickens rotting in the equatorial heat would lead to a cholera or typhoid epidemic. Army efforts were further hampered by the handful of survivors who refused...
...city has slipped from second place in the Soviet Union to 58th in new-housing construction. Drunkenness, he continued, has not diminished as a problem but has simply been driven indoors by Gorbachev's antidrinking campaign, while drug abuse is "widespread" and thievery in retail stores is rife. "We dig and dig," he reportedly said, "and still we don't get to the bottom of the filthy well." Though Yeltsin ruffled some party feathers, his frank speech seemed a harbinger of more glasnost to come...
...after playing, as he put it, "like a dog." Then he ignominiously lost his first-round match in the Masters Tournament in Madison Square Garden. Tatum was due to give birth to their child in May, and the father-to-be admitted that he "needed to go away and dig myself out of a hole...
...discovering, this silver lining comes with a cloud. At the big firms that pay those high salaries, associates commonly work at uninspiring tasks, poring over old court decisions and statute books, then drafting memos for the higher-ups. Rarely meeting clients or standing up to argue in court, they dig again and again into the same tiny areas of cases they never approach as a whole. Above all, they work punishing hours. Personal lives go by the wayside as they put in 70-hour weeks, struggling to bill clients for anywhere from 2,000 to 2,500 hours a year...