Word: tolls
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This combination of seeming spontaneity and dogged perfectionism might take its toll on a girl, or even on a middle-aged Midler. That, at least, is a running gag in the Experience the Divine tour. Who needs Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard when Bette does the aging diva right here? She tells us, in a cunning rap song, that she's been compromised, Disneyized, classified, Jurassified. "I don't get out much anymore," she demurely declares, adding that mostly she sits "in my star trailer watching CNN. I know what everyone in Bosnia is wearing." She frets that...
...final death toll stood at 47. Not until Friday afternoon could rescuers retrieve the bodies of three crew members who had been trapped inside the lead locomotive, buried in 15 feet of mud. Miraculously, some passengers managed to escape even from a car totally submerged in the bayou. Bill Crosson, 57, had grabbed his wife Vivian, 52, holding her down so she wouldn't be thrown about as the train fell into the swamp. Water then came rushing in. "It just filled so quickly," he says. "All I could think about was 'we're goners.' " But the couple found...
...political opportunists are sometimes little better than the murderers. On one side, radicals scream "one settler, one bullet." On the other, reactionaries prepare themselves to overthrow any popularly elected government. As these two groups glare at each other from opposite sides of the shotgun and crossbow, the death toll climbs...
Ideologues and historians will long debate the role that sanctions played in bringing an end to the white-dominated state, but there is no doubt the ban took a heavy economic toll. Most member countries of the United Nations levied formal bans against South African investment, prohibitions that were buttressed in the U.S. by similar bans on the part of 179 localities and states. Even after George Bush proclaimed the formal end of U.S. sanctions in 1991, many of those strictures remained in place. Countless private firms also decided to wait until they received an official go-ahead from...
...level of factional violence, most of it black against black. Only a day after the pact on the transitional council was reached, another random outbreak shattered the night in Johannesburg. In two separate attacks, gunmen with automatic weapons sprayed buses loaded with homeward-bound black commuters, killing 21. The toll of factional violence has reached 1,500 deaths since...