Word: tolls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...among the worst in the hemisphere. He proposes to eliminate the country's 2,500-member Treasury Police, the ill-trained and thuggish force that is believed to serve as a major reservoir of talent for the murderous death squads, who have added thousands to the estimated toll of 40,000 Salvadoran civilians killed since...
...last week's U.S. championships in Salt Lake City, after Hamilton had skated to victory with immaculate control, the competition among the women took a toll. Sumners won, though not impressively, and an obviously tired Zayak fell twice during her free-skating exhibition, winding up third behind promising Tiffany Chin, 16, of San Diego...
...fort at nightfall. Several days later, the rebels reportedly released 158 captured soldiers and civilians. Salvadoran military officials claimed that 100 government troops were killed in the fighting, but hospital officials and villagers who witnessed a mass burial reported that at least 160 had died. It was the largest toll of any single battle in the civil...
...having an impact. In the first six months after New York State's drinking age was pushed up to 19, 18-year-old drivers were involved in 21% fewer alcohol-related accidents that caused death or injury. According to the National Safety Council, the U.S. death toll in alcohol-related traffic accidents over New Year's weekend was 274, the lowest since 1949. During 1980, the U.S. Department of Transportation reports, 28,000 people were killed in accidents involving alcohol; in 1982 the total was 25,600. Although experts agree that there are also other factors, Safety Council...
Although wood in many areas has the virtue of being cheap, home-grown and renewable, its use as fuel exacts a terrible toll. In such cities as Denver, Portland, Ore., and Missoula, more than half the minute solids in the winter air, so-called particulates, may stem from wood burning. Geography compounds the problem when there are atmospheric inversions; in mountain-rimmed Missoula last week, low-lying cold air was trapped under a smothering blanket of warmer air, preventing the escape of particulates...