Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even a short strike would take its toll. Some industry analysts reckon that Ford could lose up to $250 million a week in revenues; lost wages add up to an estimated $50 million a week; and suppliers who sell Ford everything from tires to sandwiches also suffer. An extended strike would be particularly painful for Ford. The dealers have on hand some 300,000 of the 1976 and 1977 cars, but many of the year-old ones are models that had been selling poorly. Once the best pickings are depleted, Ford is sure to lose its market share...
...toll was the highest in aviation history for a two-plane crash, exceeding the casualty list of 162 five years ago at Morioka, Japan, when a Japanese fighter with a student pilot at the controls plowed into an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727. Even so, in an era of constantly expanding aircraft capacity, the Yugoslav accident was not the worst crash on record. That doubtful honor still belongs to a Turkish Airlines DC-10 jumbo that crashed near Paris two years ago, killing all 345 people aboard...
...first delighted by the Zulu backlash, were belatedly ordered to move in and separate the black combatants. Police admitted killing 14 of the week's victims and wounding dozens of the others with small-size buckshot-a tactic ordered by Justice Minister Kruger to keep the death toll down...
...mile-wide land-mined strip. Artillery and missiles on both sides are aimed at hills pockmarked with trenches. Since the zone was established by the armistice agreement of July 1953, 49 Americans have been killed and dozens of others wounded in clashes in and near the DMZ. The death toll for North and South Koreans is more than...
...program's eventual cost to the Government, through insurance claims, could be appalling (estimates range from $50 million to $25 billion), but whatever the figure, it can only be evaluated, as the President has pointed out, against the possible toll of a swine flu epidemic. Since health officials in other countries have shown no such concern as U.S. authorities, the President's effort is still very much a shot in the dark...