Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wofford campaigned with a message that Richard Thornburgh and the Bush administration had abandoned the middle class and was insensitive to the recession's toll...
...civil war that ravaged Ethiopia for 30 years is over. In the five months since Mengistu Haile Mariam, the country's hard-line Marxist dictator for 14 years, was driven from power, the competing guerrilla bands have achieved a relative peace and joined in a transitional government. The death toll has fallen from 10,000 people a , month to a few hundred. Where torture and disappearances once silenced opposition voices, Ethiopians now feel free to voice their demands and even shout insults at President Meles Zenawi, a democratic exercise he withstands calmly. "That's their right," says Meles. With...
...Union miners produced less than a third of America's coal output last year, compared with about 45% a decade ago. Miners claim that the Reagan Administration often favored the coal companies at the miners' expense, relaxing the severity of penalties for safety violations. Corruption too has taken its toll on inspections. Last week dozens of coal companies and executives agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges that they conspired to falsify tests for coal dust, the substance that causes black lung...
...federal Mine Safety and Health Administration insists that the mines are safer now than ever before. In fact, catastrophic cave-ins are largely a thing of the past. The number of miners killed each year is between 60 and 70, about half the annual toll of a decade ago. But MSHA statistics also suggest that serious injuries -- those that result in some loss of work -- may be on the rise. After dipping to an annual average of 9,500 injuries during the mid- 1980s, they increased to an average of more than 12,000 a year over the past four...
...long-entrenched family business of East Cambridge's Inman Square are facing the realities of economic change, as the recession, a rise in crime and market shifts towards a younger clientele take their toll on the square's economy. Those changes are disproportionately hurting the square's smaller, less sophisticated businesses, residents and business owners...