Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...therefore become a one-way ticket to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. A third of America's homeless are afflicted, as are about 3% of prison inmates and nearly 6% of those in maximum-security facilities (compared with 1% of the general population). The disease takes a mortal toll as well. About 1 in 4 schizophrenics attempts suicide; 1 in 10 succeeds...
Benjamin Mosoetsa lies dead, as his sister grieves, in Boipatong, south of Johannesburg, where 39 black men, women and children were shot and stabbed to death by armed gangs. Killings in other townships near Johannesburg last week brought the week's toll in the continuing political warfare to more than 70 dead. Residents blamed the killings on supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party, main rival of the African National Congress...
What accentuates the toll on Clinton is that he is not only the candidate but also the top strategist. So far, the Clinton camp has been remarkably free of the public backbiting that afflicts most campaigns, though there are internal turf battles between longtime loyalists and the Democratic hired guns recruited for the race. But, more important, there is scant evidence that the Clinton campaign has developed a game plan bold enough to regain momentum in the most volatile and unorthodox presidential race in recent U.S. history...
...regretful tut-tut, while Europeans clung to the hope that people would soon come to their senses. But as the fighting has spread south and east, igniting Bosnia-Herzegovina and threatening to engulf other independence-minded regions of the former Yugoslavia, hope has evaporated that sanity will prevail. The toll is terrible: more than 12,000 people dead, tens of thousands missing and wounded, 1.5 million men, women and children forced to flee their homes. Those numbers only begin to hint at the horror, which U.S. Secretary of State James Baker characterized two weeks ago as a "humanitarian nightmare...
Normal mortals tend to tire, and Knowles admitsthe job has taken its toll: "I have lost hairoften, temper rarely, sleep always...