Word: lost
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...village of some 500 people nestled among mango trees near the Guinea border, locals say that diarrhea deaths have fallen sharply since zinc tablets were distributed last year. When I visited in May, the village chief gathered five women together to talk about their lives. The group had lost seven children between them, four to diarrhea. Kinza Diallo, 29, says that when her 1-year-old daughter contracted diarrhea in 2004, she clutched her on the back of a motorbike for the hour's ride to the nearest hospital, where she was given "pills" and sent away. The girl died...
...case could have easily cost Kansas $150,000 or more to pursue, Murray says. Six's office notes that former Kansas attorney general Phil Kline once spent more than $1 million in state tax dollars defending a legal opinion on requiring health-care providers to report teenage sex; he lost the case...
...that Taipei didn't act fast enough. "In the beginning, they were too slow," says World Vision Cishan Director Caleb Yu. "But in the past few days, they've gone full speed." Yin, the farmer who waited three days before his rescue, agrees. "They took too long and probably lost lives...
There was a feeling among your advisors last year as the Bush Administration was winding down that there was a lost opportunity. That if a deal was not struck with Republicans, it couldn't possibly be struck with Democrats who are more hostile towards Sudan. Are you surprised so far by the Obama Administration...
...crash, with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who walked the track in 2006, saying in a statement published in Australian newspapers that Kokoda evokes the memory of the thousands of young Australians who gave their lives in the pursuit of freedom and democracy. "For nine more Australians to have lost their lives there this week is unbearably sad," Rudd said...