Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toll that tourists have already taken seems a compelling reason for not inviting 23 million more. Which explains why so many defenders of Venice are dead set against a plan for the city to host Expo 2000, a four-month-long world's fair celebrating the turn of the millennium...
...emergency room may be the most democratic place in America: people are treated according to need, and no amount of money will buy better care. But the pressures from overcrowding, nonpaying patients, drug violence, AIDS and a nursing shortage are taking a heavy toll on the staff -- and the patients. -- A Hard Day's Night...
Officially, the ravages of pollution in Eastern Europe were classified information, Communism's dirtiest secret. For more than 40 years, as the devastation mounted, only a few officials kept track of the toll. The people could see, smell and sometimes choke on contaminated air and water. They could watch the grime accumulate on their homes and see the vegetation die. But they could not speak about it or protest too loudly, lest they be harassed as dangerous dissidents...
With Colombia's presidential elections scheduled for May 27, the drug cartels have set out on a wild assassination binge. The idea is to influence the outcome, and according to the secret police, the funding comes mainly from drug magnate Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Despite sweeping police operations, the terrorist toll from May 10 to May 17 alone was 503 people murdered and 18 kidnaped, bringing the year's total to more than 5,000 killings and 342 abductions...
...Khmer Rouge from power and replaced them with a pro-Hanoi and pro-Soviet government currently headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, 39, a poorly educated but extraordinarily bright former Khmer Rouge officer who lost an eye during the 1970-75 Cambodian war. Since that government took office, the toll in the country has been markedly lower: a few dozen or so limbs and lives lost each week as the deposed Khmer Rouge and other Cambodian factions -- each representing combinations of outside support -- fight to regain power. Vietnam ostensibly withdrew the last of its 150,000 troops in September...