Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rescue workers in Iran said yesterday they feared the official death toll would exceed 15,000 because they have not yet received reports from remote areas of the country, where thousands are believed buried under the rubble. Officials added many people may be trapped alive in the ruins...
...stakes are high--the plant will cost in excess of $110 million and a one-year delay in construction could add as much as $7 million to that bill. Legal delays have already taken their toll on the facility, putting construction at least one-year behind schedule, L. Edward Lashman, director of external projects, said last week...
...National Guardsmen armed with submachine guns and backed up by armored cars, the youthful rebels took off their masks, hid their arms and abandoned their resistance. But not before the government forces had strafed and bombed the city and gunned down the innocent along with the insurgents. The toll: 30 dead, at least 200 wounded...
Though regionalization saves lives, a newborn's stay in an intensive care unit can run into tens of thousands of dollars. Balanced against this is the nearly $1 million it can cost over a lifetime to support a child handicapped in birth, or the in calculable emotional toll on the family with a dead baby. Declares the director of the Ohio network, Cleveland's Dr. Irwin Merkatz: "Regionalization is the cheapest new advance in medicine that we've ever...
...into a problem, for Maytag seems ready to get out of the airline business and return to Colorado Springs, where he grew up. National's ups and downs over the years, its labor problems (six strikes since 1964) and the trend toward deregulation and merger all have taken their toll of Maytag's enthusiasm. As he told a friend: "It's no fun running an airline any more." If he does leave National and sell his stock after a Pan Am deal, Maytag would get some consolation: his 317,000 shares would be worth about $11 million...