Word: tolls
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...County in the rearview mirror. Jane and I did some catching up-Luci, Steve, kids, opinions on Pedro, who had pitched a two-hitter the day before, beating Smoltz-and then trained our thoughts on Fenway. It wasn't hard. When we transitioned to the Mass Pike via the toll booths, there was a large metal sign saluting the New England Patriots, World Champions, as we approached, and then the Boston Red Sox, World Champions, as we exited. We made a pit stop near Framingham and everyone-everyone-milling about at the McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts counters was wearing...
Robert E. Lee took a terrible toll of the enemy at Gettysburg. But he did not win, and the war was lost...
...other Sowetans in an orgy of violence that included the fire bombing of Kunene's house, the looting of stores and an attack on a bus carrying American, British and West German tourists that resulted in one injury. At week's end the rioting had subsided, leaving a death toll of one. But those who remembered the Soweto uprising of 1976, which triggered 16 months of nationwide riots, feared that the troubles might signal more turbulence ahead...
...rocks against tear gas, sjamboks (short leather whips) and gunfire. Early in the week four blacks died after security forces opened fire with shotguns on 400 demonstrators in the township of Daveyton, near Johannesburg. By week's end 16 had been killed since the declaration of the emergency. The toll was surprisingly low, given the number of people involved in the areas covered by the decree. But the potential for more violence was great...
Treatment for AIDS patients is for the most part a matter of damage control. Doctors use antibiotics and other drugs to battle against each successive infection, but overall the war is slowly lost as each illness takes its toll and the immune system continues to deteriorate. "We know of no patient who has regained the total strength of his depleted immune system," says Charles Fallis of the CDC. "We've observed that AIDS is almost always fatal...