Word: tolls
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...charges against the 20 defendants included murder, attempted murder and undermining Egypt's relations with the U.S. and Israel. The crime: a series of bloody attacks against American and Israeli diplomats between 1984 and 1987. The toll: two Israelis dead, six Israelis and two Americans injured. But the case against the terrorist group known as Egypt's Revolution was exceptional for yet another reason: among the 11 defendants facing the death penalty was Khaled Abdel Nasser, 41, eldest son of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Khaled, an engineer, was accused of financing the group and supplying it with weapons...
Desirable new subdivisions are beginning to inspire occasional bidding frenzies. Would-be buyers during the past several weeks have taken to camping out in front of homes to ensure themselves a chance to bid. The Toll Bros. development company held a grand opening the first weekend in February for a new housing project southwest of Philadelphia -- not that there was much to open. Only a single roof had been raised. Yet 400 people showed up the first day, and the initial 32 homes planned sold out within four days. When the company held an opening for a project near Washington...
...there are two simple reasons. First, more than 150,000 Iraqi people have died since the war began on Jan. 16. While sanctions would have taken a huge toll on Iraq, they still provided for food and medicine to be distributed among the civilians. If Saddam had not pulled out of Kuwait unconditionally within a year and had taken the food for his troops only, a war may have been necessary. We will never know if those Iraqi lives could have been saved...
Such tactics might indeed hold down allied casualties. But there is no getting around the fact that the toll of soldiers killed in a day of land fighting -- even the delayed, low-intensity mopping-up operation that some air-power advocates still foresee -- is likely to exceed by far the number of pilots lost in a month of the most ferocious bombing. Deciding whether and when to start a ground offensive inescapably turns into pondering a calculus of death...
...Saudi Arabia. He was killed, perhaps by friendly fire, in a clash near the Kuwait border. On Feb. 9 he returned home to Coulterville in a flag-draped casket, both a hero and a haunting reminder of war's real cost. His handsome freckled face reflects the human toll of a conflict sanitized by high-tech smart bombs and camouflaged by antiseptic acronyms like KIA (killed in action...