Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elections were held again a week later, but the delay had taken its toll--only 18 percent of students took the trouble to vote...
...that jetlagged jawboning in the wrong language is taking its toll on top managers. The stress has already led to some marital de-mergers, including Schrempp's. The chain-smoking CEO is so determined to make DaimlerChrysler the world's No. 1 transportation-services company that he let his 35-year marriage collapse, because, as he told the German tabloid Bild last month, "the merger means more to me than anything in the world...
DEATH BY LIPOSUCTION A new warning for anyone considering cosmetic surgery: liposuction--specifically, tumescent liposuction--may have been responsible for five deaths that occurred in New York City between 1993 and 1998. All surgery is risky, and the death toll is not huge, but doctors are concerned. The problem may be the massive doses of an anesthetic, lidocaine, that are pumped in before the fat is sucked out. Patients may have overdosed...
...alliance kept up heavy bombing overnight Wednesday, encouraged no doubt by signs that Milosevic's will to resist may be crumbling. Belgrade Thursday upped its official casualty toll in the conflict to 1,200 killed and 5,000 wounded, double the previous figures -- the enlargement may be designed to prepare the Serbs for a compromise by Milosevic. For NATO, the political dynamic may be getting easier, with 50 days of continual attacks having made the Western public more accustomed to the air war over Kosovo. "The key thing there is lack of casualties," says Thompson. "As in the slow-simmering...
...leisurely late lunch. Let us stay up late at night, working hard, of course, without fear of rude awakenings in the morning. Let us keep that window propped open at night so that a gentle spring breeze wakes us from our slumber rather than the irregular, abrasive toll of a brass bell. Doctors suggest at least eight hours of sleep a night--who is the University to say otherwise...