Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deny that AIDS victims deserve all the compassion and help that society can muster. The latest statistics presented at the conference show that the toll is still mounting and the end of the epidemic is nowhere in sight. At least 600,000 Americans are infected with the virus, more than 136,000 have become sick, and some 83,000 of those have died...
...cutter sees the toll that greed has exacted from the land. But it was not so apparent early in his career. "There was tremendous waste in those days," he recalls. "Profit was the name of the game. We thought we would never run out of timber. We started way too late on reforestation." Now he recognizes the need to protect nature from man. "We've only got this one old earth," he says, "and we better take care of it. I most certainly do not think 'environmentalist' is a dirty word. Anybody who isn't one has his head...
Stress takes its toll on civility. A brutal assault by the Burmese troops that September left 40 Burmese and two Karens dead and made something in Major Than Maung snap. A few days later, a journalist visited Komura and found the major resting quietly in his bunker, surrounded by dozens of skulls mounted on stakes and planted in tidy rows. When a young Karen soldier playfully stuck a cheroot in the grinning teeth of one skull, the major chased him away. Then he grew quiet again and didn't want to be disturbed...
...year-old cast bronze bell in Memorial Church will still toll for memorial services and peal for the graduates this week. But it might sound a little different than usual...
...virtually impossible to confirm the fate of such an individual. People who might know something are too frightened to speak to reporters, and official pronouncements are suspect. These reasons -- plus the fact that authorities instructed hospitals and crematoria not to release casualty figures -- also explain why no reliable death toll exists for the June massacre...