Word: losses
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...high school (v. 72% of the other islanders), most have menial jobs, and their annual income averages just under $10,000, about $1,000 less than that of the state as a whole. Moreover, according to a survey by Alu Like, a cultural organization, native Hawaiians "frequently report a loss of pride and bitterness resulting from historic loss of their family lands and their homeland." They also complain that public schools "ignore their identity, traditions and history...
...reports circulating in the Arab world, were three Russians killed and one wounded among the estimated 1,500 Soviet technicians manning the radar equipment with which Moscow has provided Gaddafi. Cairo claimed to be holding 42 Libyan prisoners; Tripoli said it had captured 60 Egyptians. The Egyptians admitted the loss of two planes, one of which was photographed by the gleeful Libyans, but outside sources monitoring the war counted seven Egyptian planes downed...
...from the 900-megawatt Indian Point facility, and the nuclear plant was promptly and safely shut down. Then, while duty officers at Con Ed's main control center in Manhattan-a huge, display-filled room somewhat like Mission Control in Houston-scrambled to make up for the power loss, lightning struck again. At 8:56 p.m. bolts knocked out two more upstate 345-kilovolt lines in Westchester that bring in power from upstate New York and New England. Three minutes later, lightning knocked out yet another line. Worse still, circuit breakers designed to reset automatically after the enormous voltage...
...Ethiopians fear that the loss of Eritrea could become the first important step in the disintegration of their country. They have been training 200,000 peasant militiamen to make a sort of human-wave assault on Eritrea, reinforcing the 25,000 hard-pressed regular troops on duty in the province. But the Eritreans are far more highly motivated. "We didn't see any reason to fight and die here," explained one of the 500 Ethiopians who surrendered during their recent losing battle for the city of Tessenei. "The Eritreans wanted a victory, and they got it. We want...
...Washington and Pyongyang both want to avoid an increase in tensions that might delay the departure of U.S. troops from South Korea. At week's end, Carter welcomed Schwanke's release and the return of the bodies. But Press Secretary Jody Powell said the President "deplored the loss of life and the excessive reaction to an unarmed and inadvertent intrusion...