Word: tolls
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...northern migration has taken its toll on nuclear family life in towns like Tuxpan. Countless men have girlfriends in the north, while their wives and children remain in the south. And the women left behind in Mexico are faced with the same temptations. Workers in the U.S. regard this threat with black humor. The idea that there's a guy who's back home in Mexico drinking your beer, sleeping with your wife and spending your hard-earned money looms large in their mythology. He has even been given a name: Sancho. Taking a break from sodding a lawn...
...says the Secretary-General. "But what's Nato for? If you have an integrated military command structure like Nato you cannot possibly say, 'Sorry, we don't go because it is too dangerous.'" Nobody is underplaying the risks. Last year's oef troops suffered 129 fatalities, almost twice the toll of any other year since operations began in October 2001. But Britain last week announced that it would soon start sending 3,300 new troops to the southern province of Helmand, and that the current British deployment in Afghanistan would rise from 1,000 today...
...economists all argue that China needs to boost its own domestic demand. The revision of the economy's size means that Chinese spending on education, health care and other social programs is even smaller as a proportion of the overall 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 for pay that's a fraction of what Americans or West Europeans earn, the downward pressure on wages...
...great gender divide for the sheer fun of it. In fact, she found the experience extremely painful. "Looking back on it now," she says, "I never would have done it if I had known what it really was. I had no idea that it would take this big a toll." She did it in order to write a book, Self-Made Man (Viking; 290 pages), about how the other half lives. Kind of like Maureen Dowd but with research...
...period team this season, in their attempt to avenge a home loss to UNH over a month ago. Before Wednesday, the Crimson had outscored its opponents 32-10 in the final frame. The exhaustive effort on the penalty kill and the mental lapses on defense, however, ultimately took their toll as UNH asserted itself and validated its new No. 1 spot. “I thought we did a pretty good job of defending the big sheet, which is difficult to do,” Stone said. “I was just disappointed in the last 20 minutes...