Word: tolls
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Marius changed all that, but eventually, thestress of administering the department soon tookits toll on the director. He took a sabbaticalduring the academic year 1987-88, and Sommers camein to run the program while he was gone...
...then, though, the Rangers had suffered a shocking toll: 14 dead, plus one who died four days later, and 77 wounded, including Rodriguez. Known to be taken prisoner: one. A mortar attack by Aidid's men on Ranger forces at the Mogadishu airport Wednesday night killed another American and wounded 12 more. The four-day death toll of at least 16 exceeded the 15 Americans killed in the previous 10 months of U.S. involvement in Somalia. The International Committee of the Red Cross estimated 200 Somalis had died in the battle, and hundreds of wounded piled into hospitals that...
...Director Louis J. Freeh is appealing to thepublic and to Nathan R. to call the toll-freenumber, 1-800-701-BOMB, and provide anyinformation that might be linked to the bomber.The reward is offered for evidence leading to aconviction...
...summer of paralysis took its toll. Yeltsin's economic-reform program was stuck, his authority under constant challenge, his time consumed in inconclusive dickering with his parliamentary opponents. Fed up, Yeltsin finally laid his claim to power on the line. In a prime-time television address Tuesday evening, he announced he was disbanding the legislature, even if it meant violating the constitution, and called new parliamentary elections for December. Angry Deputies quickly denounced Yeltsin's move as a coup d'etat and set up their own government, led by Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, Yeltsin's most implacable enemy. Suddenly...
...some countries the ideological conflict has developed into a bloody struggle for political dominance. Violence inspired by radicals determined to topple President Hosni Mubarak has killed 200 people in Egypt over the past two years; in Algeria, the government most immediately threatened by fundamentalists, the toll is at least 1,200. Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, which is the biggest danger to the infant peace process in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, is a special case. Its first aim is the destruction of Israel; after achieving that, Hamas would establish a Muslim state on the wreckage...