Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Predictably, all 10 students are inveterate risk takers who still believe that one person can make a difference. "We all have the fire in our belly," says Sarah Ann Gonzales, a San Diego elementary school principal. "That's what drives us." The choice has exacted a toll. Most are divorced and have long since accepted what one calls "a somewhat monastic" personal life...
...undo Saddam Hussein's human rights atrocities? Military confrontation over Kuwait will only increase the toll of suffering on the devastated Kuwaiti people...
...prayers. Careful study of this stack offers a handy citizen's guide to the most urgent political, environmental and social issues of the day. Cast in the best light, direct mail is the great American transcontinental linkup. It binds one nation, under Ed McMahon, indivisible, with bonus coupons and toll-free shopping...
...1950s, when an economic boom in Panama City diverted investment and, later, government spending from Colon. But after Noriega was overthrown, there was hope that Colon might begin to recover. More than 80 residents, most of them unarmed civilians, were killed in the U.S. invasion, but even that toll seemed an acceptable price for Colon's rehabilitation. "We thought maybe this government would remember us," says Father Carlos Ariz, bishop of Colon. "Instead the government says it has no way to help...
After a 23-hour siege, tear gas finally flushed Gray from a house in which he had holed up. He emerged shooting and was killed by police gunfire. The toll: 14 dead, more than a quarter of Aramoana's population, and three injured...