Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minimum was first set at 25c an hour in 1938. Inflation has taken a heavy toll: since it was last raised from $3.35 in 1991, its value has fallen...
Cummings dismissed the loss to Princeton in the fall as past history, which will take no toll on the minds of her teammates...
With students shelling out thousands of dollars for tuition and fees, the occasional cafe stop or CD purchase often doesn't seem worth noting. But the costs eventually take their toll, and students have to somehow keep track of their dwindling bank accounts...
...night. The severity of a quake as gauged by energy released is also no measure of its destructiveness. A small quake in the center of a city can kill 1,000 people for every life lost to a monster tremor in a thinly populated place--like the death toll if any (there doesn't seem to be an exact count) in New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811-12, when it was rocked by one of the most severe series of earthquakes ever to strike the U.S. The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous...
...result was a deadly confusion that seemed to overtake every level of government. Immediately after the quake, Kobe authorities failed to cordon off main roads for official use, and the delay of police and fire vehicles undoubtedly raised the death toll. For nearly four hours, the Governor of Hyogo prefecture, which includes Kobe, neglected to make the necessary request for aid to the national armed forces, which would provide 16,000 rescuers by week's end. The national government could also have stepped in sooner to aid with coordination. Soldiers who did arrive were plagued by communications snafus: at midnight...