Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to antagonize the Reagan Administration, which was worried about the huge liability costs if Agent Orange was shown to cause the veterans' ailments. Whatever the reasons for its failure, the decision not to complete the study leaves open a vexing problem: whether Agent Orange will exact a toll on Vietnam vets and their descendants for generations to come...
...priest for every 2,200 parishioners. The causes for the continued decline: fewer and fewer men are finding the priesthood attractive as a career, and those who are already ordained are resigning at the alarming rate of 37% a year. Death and retirement will also claim their toll. The average age of priests, which was 47 in 1966, is over 51 today and climbing...
...killed as exaggerations, while King Fahd called the calamity "God's will." Said he: "Had they not died there, they would have died elsewhere." The unapologetic monarch suggested that the pilgrims themselves were to blame for not abiding by "official instructions." Later the government conceded on the death toll, but the King, in a radio address, clung to his claim of inculpability, asking, "Can anyone stop death...
TOTAL RECALL. Someone has stolen Arnold Schwarzenegger's mind! No great loss: Arnold still has his body, which muscles its way through two planets and a death toll in the hundreds to deliver high-tech, high-octane entertainment. In every sense, the movie is bloody sensational...
...along the Caspian Sea. First accounts spoke of 50 dead, but the number soon mounted geometrically. By noon, it was 1,000; by evening, 10,000; by midnight, 25,000. By the next day, it was 45,000, plus 130,000 injured. There were fears that the final death toll might range beyond...