Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nature presents itself as a prophet whose choices are infallible Giving AIDS and a means to death is supposed to be a merciful end to Emma's worthless life. Giving her a gun as a gift anticipates her own desire to cut out before AIDS takes its toll. Posing as an expert on life, he spouts poetry with all sorts of pretentious and clumsy lines like "they could not hear his cries of sorrow." Evidently Silver intended a great deal with Todd's character, but his script trail him. some acceptable way of saying such silly things without cooing...
What is unusual about the High Speed Data Network (HSDN) is that every student connection is assigned a unique IP address. The "IP" notation hints at something greater, and indeed, "Internet Protocol" addresses allow us to pass the "toll booths" that separate our local highway from the superhighway...
...demise. Aviation experts -- not to mention airline passengers -- hate a mystery. Since 1967, the board has succeeded in finding a probable cause for all but three air disasters. On average, such investigations take a year. The rush in this instance owes much to the magnitude of the human toll, the largest in the U.S. since 1987, when a Northwest Airlines crash claimed 156 lives. The tragedy also involved a Boeing 737, the most common of all passenger jetliners. Moreover, there is an eerie resemblance between the September catastrophe and the March 1991 crash of United Airlines Flight 585 near Colorado...
...Leibovitz's status as "seer." Israeli newspapers reported the daily incidents from the territories: pitiable, rock-throwing Arab youth and ruthlessly professional Israeli soldiers, together engaged in a macabre dance of death. Editorialists began to wonder how long the undeclared war could go on without taking a severe moral toll on the occupiers...
...able to escape to Harvard and distance herself from the chaotic hold of her mother's constant need for attention and care. As a busy student, Gray Sexton found herself ignoring her mother's phone calls and obvious cries for help. Chronic depression, loneliness and alcoholism were taking their toll on her mother, but Gray Sexton, exhausted from care-giving, was compelled to remain distant. She writes, "in the last months of my mother's life I chose to ignore her cry of loneliness. I refused to make her last days less painful...