Word: tolls
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However, to the players and coaches, the non-Ivy tilts aren’t meaningless, and pride is high stakes. The emotional toll on the Crimson of the last-minute loss at Holy Cross in the season opener—the undefeated season, the perfection of ’01 and ’04, gone in the flash of a Dominic Randolph deep ball—is impossible to predict. It’s a sensation that no one on the team has felt before in his collegiate career, having a midseason winning percentage...
Buying at these moments of acute uncertainty takes an emotional toll. Guy Spier, a friend who runs a hedge fund in New York, says he's bought several battered stocks lately, knowing that "You make your money in the panics, then collect it when everything is fine again." But "it's agonizingly difficult," he admits. "The rational part of your brain is struggling with all these emotions, which are telling you: 'This company is going bust...
...time of the International AIDS Conference in 2000, thousands of South Africans were no longer willing to accept the paralyzing silence. Huge crowds filled the streets of Durban demanding that the public, their government, and the nations of the developed world open their eyes to the gruesome toll that the pandemic was taking. Besides the sheer number of people rallying for change, the most striking thing about these demonstrators was the T-shirts they wore, which read “HIV POSITIVE” in bold, purple lettering...
...chemical, that my parents had. So I was able to consume quantities of alcohol without it affecting [me] - I didn't slur my speech, I didn't fall down. It's not until you get a little farther into the alcoholism that it begins really to exact a toll on you. It was a factor in the dissolution of my first marriage, and I was headed towards ruining the second marriage. That was really the impetus for me to quit. Carol [his second wife] is an extraordinary woman. She was worth making some changes for, and it turns...
...host of microscopic bugs afflicts honeybees, including the vampiric Varroa destructor, which sucks the blood of bees. The mites first appeared in the U.S. in 1987, and they've taken a severe toll on honeybees, which had been in decline even before CCD. The bites of the mites don't kill the bees, but they produce open wounds that leave the insects prone to further infections. Tracheal mites, which attack the respiratory system, are also a suspect...