Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chaos, as the forces united around Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini last week showed the first dread signs of schism. Suddenly, guns were everywhere, in every hand, as self-styled "freedom fighters" liberated weapons from police stations and army barracks. In Tehran, Tabriz and other cities, sporadic fighting raised the death toll for the week to an estimated 1,500. A bewildering motley of forces was involved: troops loyal to the Shah, ethnic separatists, mojahedeen (literally crusaders) who backed the new government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, and, ominously, Marxist fedayeen (sacrificers) who felt that the revolution had not moved far enough...
...Crimson's tremendous output of energy at the GBCs last week took its toll Saturday when an exhausted and depleted Harvard track team fell to Army...
...programs sharply with the end of the Viet Nam War and the de-emphasis of the space program; private universities have been in a financial squeeze; industry in an inflationary era has judged the payoff from R. and D. spending to be too long term and uncertain. The toll on productivity is hard to calculate, since it would have to be measured in inventions not made and labor-saving processes not developed, but it surely has been high...
...medical help. Most discouraging, apnea is almost certainly not the sole cause of SIDS (one Boston specialist puts the incidence rate at anywhere from 5% to 90% of all SIDS cases), so the alarm can only be a stopgap measure. But it should at least cut the infant death toll...
...shocked HEW Secretary Joseph Califano has called for a search of old health files for the region. Back in Utah, a newly formed "committee of survivors" is on the lookout for more possible victims. Before their grim search is over, the "survivors" expect to find a dramatically higher toll...