Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...musical biography has an illustrious history, but biography has never been its strong suit. The great examples of the genre -- The Jolson Story, Yankee Doodle Dandy -- are marvelous myths: ritualized stories of kids who rise to the top through sheer talent and guts. The journey may take a personal toll (marriages rarely survive), but it is worth it. In the end, we have the music...
...Foley, who captured a healthy majority in his Washington State district, and House Armed Services Committee chair Les Aspin of Wisconsin. And who will be counted among the missing persons in the 103rd Congress? Don't look for certain egregious abusers of the House bank: overdrafts took their toll on Ohio's Mary Rose Oakar and Minnesota's Gerry Sikorski, among others...
...Some of the injured were reportedly dragged to a prison workshop, where they were torn apart by attack dogs. Row on row of naked prisoners' bodies were lined up in a local morgue after the killing. The Sao Paulo state government posted names of 111 known dead; the true toll might be even higher. Governor Luis Antonio Fleury fired the state security chief who had ordered the assault; some jurists and human-rights activists demanded that Fleury too be ousted...
...eyes dry," said fire fighter Gerard Jurgens. "We find children's toys almost intact, and then suddenly we discover a part of what was a human being -- what can I say?" Workers found the remains of 51 victims, but many others were incinerated in the fiery explosion. The final toll will probably never be known. Many illegal immigrants resided in the complex, and chances are that relatives and friends of the victims may not report them missing for fear of being deported themselves at a time when hostility toward immigrants is on the rise in Holland. Along with Fuchs...
...entities by mid-1993. The healthier operations will be reorganized as Marriott International, a company that will concentrate on operating hotels, resorts and food services. Meanwhile, the successor firm, to be renamed Host Marriott, will retain ownership of the 141 lodging properties and 16 retirement communities, plus airport and toll-road concessions. Host Marriott, whose businesses generated 19% of the existing corporation's 1991 revenues of $9.1 billion, will also assume practically all the existing company's $2.9 billion debt load...