Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the toll is highest in drug-ridden ghettos, this is not just a big- city phenomenon. Rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, best known for Amish festivals and shoofly pie, has seen its drug problems increase as people have moved in from poor neighborhoods in New York City and Philadelphia. Some of the newcomers already harbor the AIDS virus; at least 400 children in the county have either lost or are about to lose a parent to the disease. Often, infected mothers leave large cities and return to places where they grew up, where aunts and grandmothers can take...
...silence takes its toll. With no acceptable outlet for their rage or grief, children often cause trouble in school. Boys, especially, may run afoul of the police. Some teenagers turn to indiscriminate sex or shooting drugs -- as though they are daring the AIDS virus to do to them what it did to their parents...
...first-round five-shot lead is about as safe as a San Francisco Giants five-game NL West lead in May...it's not. Bad shots often beget more bad shots, and seemingly safe margins of error can quickly dissipate as repeated psychological blows take their toll (Kinda like the Giants losing eight in a row in September...
...manager, a business card, and a toll-free number (1-800-666-LUKO). In December, he will release his second solo C.D., "Passion." And he's all set to begin work on his autobiography...
...home with all their valuables, administers a deadly "vaccination," and burns the bodies in a basement incinerator. Patient after patient puts his trust in the doctor only to find himself waiting, in a tiny room filled with the belongings of other victims, for the lethal injection to take its toll...