Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course took its toll on the Crimson when junior Brian Walsh was forced to pull out of the race due to a turned ankle...
...than died on those two nuclear mornings. The scales of death were pretty heavy, well before the Bomb. Four months earlier, Americans suffered 48,000 casualties taking Okinawa. And in March 1945, the incendiary- bomb raids had burned down much of Tokyo and killed at least 100,000, a toll approaching the combined carnage at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To have possessed a weapon that would end such a war almost instantly and not to have used it would have been inexplicable and, to those who would have died in the longer war, inexcusable...
...view, the worst is yet to come. As the world's population continues to grow, he writes, and human settlements and activity intrude farther into the rain forests, previously unknown viruses like HIV, Lassa, the filovirus and others are emerging to wreak their toll. In a rather mystical but ominous conclusion, Preston warns that "the rain forest has its own defenses...The earth's immune system, so to speak, is starting to kick in...The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by the human parasite. Perhaps AIDS is the first step in a natural process of clearance...
Mother Nature continued to take her toll on the other side of the country as well, as 26 major fires continue to burn across seven Western states. But at least one fire, in central California, was deliberately set by arsonists. The quick-moving wildfire has already engulfed 41,000 acres and 20 homes, and threatens 600 other structures...
...Middle East Economic Survey today, Saddam Hussein has fired Iraq's planning minister for publishing an official report that the nation's inflation has reached astronomical levels -- 24,000 percent. The U.N. trade embargo imposed before the start of the Gulf War seems to be taking its toll: Saddam fired his agriculture minister in May for failing to check the skyrocketing price of food...