Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bullock and TASIS's McEvoy agreed that communicating with colleges across the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean takes a toll on applicants...
...more immediate danger is of a brutal bloodbath in Kosovo. Since 1991, when Milosevic cracked down in the province, some 200 ethnic Albanians have died. Now the Serb death toll is rising in step. On both sides, even the most devoted seekers of peace--and there are fewer and fewer of them--see little chance of avoiding a war. In Vojnik, where Bahri is home from the hospital and recovering from his leg wound, the villagers are already there. "The Serb authorities have lost control," says hoxha Abdyl Krasniqi. "But you can't say we are liberated...
...teacher sighed and slipped the learning kit into his backpack. This had been the most trying year of Henry's career at Huntington. The movie industry had produced more than 300 films, many of which had tanked after one weekend, and planning a coherent history curriculum had taken a toll on his nerves. Although Henry had conscientiously prepared--even flying out to L.A. with other district teachers for the summer pitch meetings--he never felt he had a handle on which films would likely gross enough to be teachable. A film that couldn't open, that did only...
...movement waltz added a lighter note to the top-heavy symphony, and the interchange of pizzicato notes increased the diversity of texture yet again. By the final movement, the Andante Maestoso, one had seen fleeting smiles pass across the faces of more than a few HRO members, and the toll taken by the the grand volume sustained throughout the finale showed in the flailing of broken bowhairs in the orchestra...
...eyewitness accounts, the killers started slashing and shooting as soon as they arrived at the temple. And TIME Cairo correspondent Armany Radwan faults the cops for the exact opposite reason: "It took a long time for reinforcements to arrive at the scene, which made for the very high death toll." If they were trying to take hostages, the Islamic Group had a strange way of going about...