Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citizens of that embattled and bloody anachronism-known to its Protestant majority as Ulster and to its Catholic minority as "the Six Counties" -could thank their separate but equal gods that the toll had been no greater than...
...Conceivably his tabulations could be close to the truth, though most Sinologists doubt it. Mao himself once guessed that 800,000 died during the land seizures of 1949-52, which saw the last mass executions known to have occurred in China. But Sinologist Stuart Schram reckons that the true toll might have run as high as 3,000,000. How many Chinese have been executed, starved or otherwise killed during the years of turmoil since the regime triumphed in 1949? Columbia University China Expert Donald Klein places the total as low as 2,000,000; others...
...desire to shuck the formal, gaudy pastimes of old in favor of a more casual lifestyle. While stars who once made a million dollars a year are now frequently making less than half that, they are hardly hurting for a meal. But the economic crunch has taken its toll. Discotheques are closing, servants are being let go, and psychiatrists have more leisure time. Private jets and yachts are up for grabs. Hostesses are turning from expensive fresh-flower arrangements to polished fruit to adorn their tables...
...long auto-safety campaign, which has led to major improvements in equipment, road design and driver education, is finally paying off. Last year, for one of the few times in U.S. history, the number of automobile fatalities declined slightly, to 55,300. So far this year the toll is still lower by a little. Top executives at State Farm are convinced that another factor is at least partly responsible for their good fortune: everybody else's bad fortune. In short, says Vice President Thomas Morrill, "the frequency of claims is directly tied to the state of the economy...
Estimates of the death toll in the army crackdown range from 200,000 all the way up to a million. The lower figure is more widely accepted, but the number may never be known. For one thing, countless corpses have been dumped in rivers, wells and mass graves. For another, statistics from East Pakistan are even more unreliable than statistics from most other places (see TIME Essay). That is inevitable in a place where, before the refugee exodus began, 78 million people, 80% of them illiterate, were packed into an area no larger than Florida...