Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death toll was the fifth highest in aviation history. For Americans, the loss of 61 U.S. civilians in a military attack may have been the greatest since the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor...
Browne, indeed, writes wonderfully about fatherhood, even if the toll has been heavy. Ethan, now 9, lives with his father, while Ryan, 1½, is with his mother. "I have hope of finally getting it right, of finally learning how to integrate life as a parent and my life as an artist," says Browne, before admitting, "So far I've never really got them to go together...
...civilian death toll in El Salvador had gone from 160 a month to, say, 143, then the Reagan Administration could assert that the government of El Salvador was making progress toward protecting human rights. But you report that civilian deaths rose from 160 a month to 177 during a half-year period. How can our Government possibly claim that the human rights situation has improved...
...Kurdish rebels who had raided Iranian government outposts and seizing a small Iraqi garrison at the border. The Iranian attack was typical of the pattern of the war. Major cross-border assaults are followed by fierce counterattacks, followed by exaggerated casualty claims. But even allowing for customary hyperbole, the toll was high. Iran claimed that its forces had killed or wounded 3,800 Iraqis; Iraq took credit for 1,400 Iranian casualties...
...Harvard got a quality product Sullivan waxes eloquent about the structure's "post-modernist statement." It uses he adds, "traditional shapes and forms, putting them together in a much different way," Gund says. "The reason for some of the detail is to make if not look like a a toll booth, not make it look utilitarian...