Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual rights and liberty are to be ignored, there are many ways to reduce crime, death, and violence. Far more people are killed in drunken driving accidents each year than in murders or accidents by handguns. Where are the calls to ban liquor because "the death toll mounts"? Or crime and death could be reduced by repealing the right of the accused to refuse to testify against himself or abolishing the requirements for warrants before the police can search a person's home. But such actions would be unjustifiable infringements on individual rights, just as a handgun ban would...
...Karami-seemed to be making some headway. In parts of Beirut, Christians and Moslems tore down barricades and gun emplacements and were aided by army bulldozers. But elsewhere in the capital, the combatants continued exchanging gunfire. The week's senseless violence had taken 100 lives, raising the death toll since April to more than 2,500, and had devastated even more of Beirut, turning the capital's urbanscape into a scarred battlefield (see color...
Though cigarette smoking is responsible for at least 80% of all lung cancers, asbestos fibers are also taking an increasing toll. It has long been known that workers exposed to high levels of airborne asbestos fibers developed more lung malignancies than people in other occupations. But doctors have recently suggested that others are also vulnerable: painters or homeowners sanding asbestos-based compounds used for covering rough areas on walls or ceilings; mechanics who work on asbestos-insulated brake linings...
...classified as 100% disabled on psychological grounds-and holds no job. "I don't think I could handle it every day," he says. "I'd be fine for a while, then someone might say something to me and boom." Last week's episode took its toll. After the shooting, Secret Service agents escorted him into the St. Francis Hotel for questioning, congratulating him on his action. "All I knew was that I was shaking so much I couldn't light a cigarette," he recalls. Nor could he comply with the agents' request that he write...
...some South Boston youngsters who are now starting their second year without school, the boycott is taking a tragic toll. The 16-year-old daughter of a militant antibusing leader has given up hope of becoming a speech therapist after staying home last year. "She just can't make it now," says her mother, who still refuses to send the girl back to school...