Word: tolls
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While rabies in the U.S. has been confined almost totally to animals, it can still be a human scourge, especially in developing countries. In India 25,000 people died from the disease in 1989. Unofficial estimates of the annual worldwide death toll range from...
...past three years; in 1992 they were responsible for seven deaths, almost a quarter of all bias-related murders in the U.S. The ADL concluded that the punks, who number about 3,500, are now a bigger racist threat than the Ku Klux Klan. The relatively small death toll, points out Portland, Oregon, police officer Loren Christensen, is misleading. "What makes them real dangerous," he says, "is that it doesn't take many to terrorize a community." Or even a metropolis. Three days after the ADL report, the FBI announced that a group called the Fourth Reich Skinheads had "masterminded...
Under a plan approved by Marriott shareholders on Friday, the corporation will divide into Marriott International, a hotel operation; and Host Marriott, a real estate, airport and toll road concessions business that will carry most of the company's $2.9 billion debt...
...Operation Rescue try to stop the Gulf War, which came with a loss of life that most abortion clinics would find hard to top. Where are the "pro-lifers" in the Somalia fiasco? It's possible that they are filling sandbags in Bangladesh in hopes of lessening the human toll of the next great flood there, but I somehow doubt...
...exception: the death toll, 26 late last week, was only a hair above the 23 killed by the mammoth flood of 1973 in many of the same areas, and only a tenth of the 250 who perished in the 1937 flood -- to say nothing of the record 2,100 drowned on the single day of May 31, 1889, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Main reasons: abundant warnings, evacuation plans well worked out in advance, the lack of flash floods and above all the fact that over the years most population centers have been protected by levees and dams built high and strong...