Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That toll is a sign to some critics that improvement is needed in the systems that hospitals use to catch errors and review doctors' performance. "You would not walk on an airplane if you did not know that there are safety checks and backups and backups of the backups," says Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of the Health Research Group. Hospitals need just as many fail-safe mechanisms, he says, "so that even if one or two fail, the third one catches the mistake...
...House is working longer hours than anyone can remember in the early part of a session. But now "they are hitting the wall that we knew they would hit," says congressional scholar Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution. "The pace of this first 100 days is taking its toll on the Republicans. There's so much going on. They're struggling; they've exhausted themselves...
...that roam the country hunting down and murdering Islamists. City residents say police patrols have fired at random into civilian crowds after being ambushed. In February, the same month in which the government quelled a riot in the Serkadji prison by killing more than 96 prisoners-Islamists say the toll was more than 200-the village of Belhacene, halfway between Algiers and the Moroccan border, was flattened by government helicopters, according to rebels. As many as 200 were reportedly killed...
...tentative arrangement definitely took its toll on the Crimson's play--especially its passing. Harvard's passing inconsistency explains its erratic performance...
...Bronco and his Rockingham estate after his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were murdered. Vannatter said police saw two more blood drops inside the front door of Simpson's estate. TIME Los Angeles correspondent Elaine Lafferty says the lengthy trial is taking its toll on the sequestered jurors, who "looked pretty bored today." She noted that a 52-year-old Amtrak manager was dismissed from the jury today because authorities suspected he was writing a book about the trial. The fifth juror to be removed was replaced by a 60-year-old retired woman...