Word: tolls
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...ambiguity surrounding the death toll continues to feed into the paranoid nature of Iraqi politics. The most ghastly rumors are routinely believed to be true because so many Sunnis are ready to believe the worst about the Iraqi government and its American backers. Not even government employees are immune to skepticism. ?What 1,300?? said an official in the office of a senior Iraq government minister. ?Yesterday?s (Monday?s) death toll alone was 230.? He elaborated that 230 people-mostly Sunni-were killed Monday in a single Baghdad neighborhood. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity...
...trains and barges could be targeted by terrorists to devastating effect. All told, there are about 15,000 chemical plants, refineries and other sites in the U.S. that store large quantities of hazardous materials on their property. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, there are 709 sites where the toll of death or injury from a catastrophic disaster at a chemical plant could reach from 100,000 to more than 1 million people...
...upward revision of the economy's size means that China's spending on education, health care and other programs is even smaller as a proportion of the economy than previously thought. And industrialization is taking a toll. Several industries, including steel and automobiles, have been growing so rapidly that they now have problems of overcapacity. Still, with 300 million rural laborers in China eager to join the industrialization push, and at wages that are a small fraction of what Americans or West Europeans earn, the downward pressure on jobs and salaries worldwide is likely to continue. Ford's late-January...
...career, U.S. speed skater Chad Hedrick was a calamity. Thirteen years ago to this very day, his grandmother, Geraldine Hedrick-"my buddy"-died of brain cancer. The combination of grief, cabin fever- he arrived in Torino twelve days before the Games ("rolling around in bed takes it toll on you")-and the pressure of his first Olympic race drove Hedrick to tears. And into the stands, where friends and family tried to calm his down. "I kind of felt like a sissy," says Hedrick...
...Cuban friends, I began to find myself impressed with what Cubans did have. The government provides universal health care, education, housing, and food rations. It even generously funds the arts. And once I focused more on people than on architecture, I saw that economic poverty had not taken a toll on the wealth of Cuban culture. One Sunday, I watched a colorful parade march alongside the gutted buildings of the city’s main street. Dancers in elaborate costumes twirled alongside musicians playing every sort of instrument to the delight of hundreds of spectators. It was as though this...