Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, may be spiritually uplifting, but it has often proved physically dangerous. The grim toll...
...cheaper funds overseas and avoiding some of the regulations that bind U.S. institutions, foreign banks can package loans at hard-to-beat interest rates. The result: they made 30% of all loans to American companies last year, up from 18% a decade ago. All this competition has taken its toll on the U.S. banking industry, which now holds only a 30% share of business loans...
...confirmed death toll was only six in the first few days, thanks to advance warnings and speedy evacuations. But great dangers remained. Fearing bigger explosions, officials ordered tens of thousands evacuated. An approaching typhoon, moreover, threatened to send destructive mudslides down the mountain. Whatever happens, the swift action by the government reflected the improving ability of scientists to monitor volcanic activity and identify the telltale events that presage eruptions...
Mount Pinatubo's blasts came just one week after Japan's Mount Unzen blew its top, with more deadly results. The red-hot avalanches hurtling down the mountain's slopes killed at least 35 people. But the toll could have been much higher if scientists had not sounded the alarm that an eruption was imminent. In fact, many of those killed were journalists and volcanologists drawn to the mountain by the warnings, whereas most residents of the area fled to safety. They may have to stay away for a long while: Mount Unzen erupted again last week, and the worst...
...Police say one innocent bystander is shot at every day in the projects, one is hit by gunfire every week, one is killed every month. Last year Chicago's public-housing complexes saw 72 murders, the vast majority involving firearms; in the first four months of this year, the toll was already...