Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earthquake in Turkey and saw the photograph of Emine Kacar, trapped in the ruins of her building [WORLD, Aug. 30]. I wept for this woman, her children dead, a child's small body lying beneath her own. I had read the headlines and kept pace with the daily death-toll updates, but the scale of human suffering did not touch me until I connected with this victim. You say in your article that "it is the individual snapshots that bring Turkey's tragedy home." It certainly came home to me, and I ache for the loss. VICKI ERICKSON Raleigh...
...certainly not defecating where they ought. North Carolinians will certainly welcome Bill Clinton?s moist eye (and wrinkled nose), and the attention and federal disaster monies he?ll bring with him. But with agricultural losses set to exceed $1 billion, rivers still on the rise, and the official death toll (now at 23) bound to skyrocket next week when those rivers finally recede, North Carolina?s disaster may have just begun...
...airlines and slow-in-arriving upgrades of outdated FAA equipment. "Until then," she adds, "the airlines can hand out all the lollipops they want. But people are still waiting. Planes are still overbooked." United did promise to fill one need that ranked high in passenger-satisfaction requests: instituting a toll-free line for customer complaints. Let's hope it doesn't have a busy signal...
...make the canal--which has always been run on a nonprofit basis--into a cash cow. It is not a new complaint. In the 1970s, when President Jimmy Carter sold the handover treaty to Congress, there was much whining about turning the canal into little more than an expensive toll road. The latest version of this anxiety adds a national security tweak: fear of China. In 1997, the Panamanian government finalized a rich deal with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., based in Hong Kong, to run two ports near the entrances to the canal. American-owned Bechtel lost out to Hutchison under...
...quake, as well-constructed buildings should, many apartments, built in a slapdash rush to accommodate waves of urban migration, collapsed, squashing residents as they slept at 3:02 a.m. At the end of last week, more than 13,000 bodies had been found. The U.N. expected the final toll to climb toward 40,000, based on the number of pancaked dwellings, making this one of the worst natural disasters to touch Europe in this century...