Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perimeter in a Jeep when a sniper's bullet hit him in the chest. Soifert died of his wounds shortly thereafter. Half an hour earlier, another Marine had been injured by sniper fire as he drove through the same area. The new casualties brought the U.S. toll in Lebanon in the past two months to five dead, some 43 wounded...
...hosts. Suddenly, an earsplitting explosion cracked through the one-story building, blowing the center of the roof skyward. Within seconds, a scene suffused with the orderliness of diplomatic protocol was transformed into bloody chaos: smoking ruins, survivors screaming hysterically, others racing frantically from the building to seek help. The toll of the blast, apparently caused by a bomb hidden in the mausoleum's ceiling: 19 killed and 48 injured. The dead included 16 leading South Korean officials, among them Deputy Prime Minister Suh Suk Joon, Foreign Minister Lee Bum Suk and two other Cabinet ministers, as well as three...
Still, Director Irvin Kershner allows the film to run on too long and too predictably. And, much too quickly, Screen writer Lorenzo Semple Jr. sets aside all considerations of the toll that age may have taken on its hero. It would have been funny (and perhaps even touching) to see him run out of breath in the midst of a chase. Or, when 007 hit the sack, have him reach for a good book instead of a bad blond...
...years and more than $4 million went into PBS's representation of a war which lasted over 12 years taking as its toll over $150 billion, and more than 57,000 American lives. The 13 terse and instructive episodes start with China's domination in the first century and end with an assessment of the war's effects on Vietnam and the United States. Marked by a no-frills production, the footage and interviews speak for themselves. By presenting both old and new images, thoughts and perspectives, the film provides a detailed and provocative, and yet somehow ambiguous, treatment...
...toll taken by the strong dollar has been heavy. Some economists believe it has been responsible for the loss of more than 1 million American jobs. Europeans complain that it could cause their prices to spiral upward. Cash-starved developing nations argue that an overvalued dollar undermines their ability to repay huge foreign debts. When world moneymen gathered in Washington last week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (see box), some financiers feared that the dollar had become a barrier to recovery around the world...