Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carswell, the preliminary heat also took its toll. In the final, the sophomore could only leg out a seventh place finish...
L.D.I.'s emergence has many abortion-rights supporters worried-and outraged. Bush says the emotional and financial toll of fighting malpractice suits will probably shut down some abortion clinics, but many will dig in and fight. "It's absolutely bunk that they care about women," says Bush about Crutcher and his organization. "Everything I have seen from Life Dynamics is very specifically focused on driving the abortionists out of business." But Crutcher argues he's keeping women safe and keeping abortionists honest. Of course, what troubles abortion-rights advocates is that L.D.I.'s ultimate goal isn't better abortion services...
...zealous questioning of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. It is a complicated political legacy. While conservatives applauded him, others were disturbed that his 1992 Senate opponent's most potent attack ads were of Specter at those hearings. Those who know him say the hearings took their toll. "He looked like he had been beaten by a stick," says his senior adviser Ed Howard, recalling a meeting the two had after the hearings. "He said, 'Ed, I think I've lost every friend I have.'" Though he has a strong record on women's issues, he admits...
...chief Sherry Lansing, threatening to campaign against the film should it contain racy scenes or base language. He won. The film, which transports the Formica-loving clan to a '90s world of fast teenagers, evil developers and psychotherapy, was much more to his liking. But the stress took its toll: the day the film opened, at dinner Schwartz blacked out. He later had a pacemaker implanted to correct a heart condition--called, incredibly, bradycardia...
Diplomats say the death toll has climbed above 500 a week. To date, at least 30,000 Algerians have died, and guerrillas have burned down 600 schools and several universities. What remains of the rest of the country's infrastructure is badly crippled. Rebels destroy trains and tracks almost nightly. At least three key bridges in the Algiers regions were destroyed this month. The official Algerian Press Service claims sabotage operations caused more than $1 billion in damage last year...