Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burden of balancing academics and athletics has occasionally taken its toll on athletes at Harvard. Richard Knight '90 was in line to become a starter on this year's soccer squad, but decided to sit out the season in order to concentrate on academics...
...reason: Cameron was just one of at least 103 Aborigines to die while in police custody or prison since 1980. Says criminologist David Biles of the shockingly high death toll: "An Aboriginal person is 20 times more likely than a white to die in custody...
...three teenage sons and her reputation for familial and civic probity. But even as Toms River mourned the loss, the police grew suspicious. Why would Robert Marshall pull into a deserted and officially closed picnic area to examine a tire when he could have used a safe, well- lighted toll plaza a few miles away? How come he was only tapped on the head while his wife was shot? More puzzling was the damaged tire. It had been slashed so severely that driving from Atlantic City would have been impossible...
...terms of the death toll, the temblor was among the century's worst. In terms of the magnitude of the shock, though, it was a good deal less severe: the quake that hit Mexico City in 1985, for example, was a considerably more destructive 8.1 seismic shock, yet fewer than 10,000 people died. Experts laid much of the blame for last week's shocking toll on the shoddy construction of the buildings in Armenia's cities and towns. According to Brian Tucker, acting state geologist of California who has visited Armenia, many buildings in the region are made...
Violence is not new to Sri Lanka, torn by civil conflict since 1983. In the past 16 months some 4,000 civilians and combatants have died in the violence. Over the past few weeks, however, the tide of blood has risen. The toll in the south has mounted to at least a dozen lives daily. With the presidential vote set for next week, the country and its 16 million people are on the verge of anarchy, the ethnic and factional strife having unleashed a savagery evocative of El Salvador in the early 1980s. Many Sri Lankans stake the last hope...