Word: tolls
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...hard to get much higher," Russo argues. "I believe it's much easier to get people revved up with a shining city on a hill." The whole tenor of Buchanan's campaign, particularly as it reverberates across the Republican field, may also take a larger toll. At a time when popular faith in public institutions is reaching an all-time low, presidential candidates pile on at their own risk. "It creates a circular problem," observes Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the University of Pennsylvania. "The more politicians complain about the government they would be part of, the harder...
...said he was initially reluctant to accept the offer of a lead position on the defense team because he was aware of the toll of high-profile cases...
Such brinkmanship is anathema to Dole, who stayed above the fray, struggling to maintain his balance between running for President for the third time and running the Senate. As Dole shuttles--sometimes daily--between Washington and New Hampshire, the juggling act has begun to take a noticeable toll. In the Senate, Dole has made several unforced errors lately, puzzling lawmakers who have long relied on his dealmaking acumen and keen sense of timing...
Almost unnoticed, however, the deficiencies began to tell when Milosevic, looking for a negotiated solution, withheld his political and material support from the Bosnian Serbs. Military stalemate, debilitating for any army, took a toll as well: in recent months reports of war weariness, low morale and lax discipline cropped up with increasing frequency. Inept officers were drinking when they should have been training their troops, a Serb militia leader told a New York Times reporter last week; the soldiers, he said, were "too stupid to stop an attack by Boy Scouts." Stupid or shrewd, many also saw little point...
Just as Microsoft should have known that the release of Windows 95 would result in a deluge of calls even to their non-toll-free customer assistance lines, HSTO could have been much better prepared for the annual move-in. But no. Problems were manifold for yet another year on the Harvard grid, and the solutions were hard to come...