Word: tolls
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...predict an end date "would be doing a disservice to our soldiers." He later said that under current plans, he expects at least 60 U.S. troops to be killed each month through next July - some 600 in all - and that he believes the mission warrants that toll. Crocker took pains not to set any false hopes. "I think in the past we have set some expectations that simply couldn't be met," he said. "I'm trying not to do that...
...fourth consecutive defeat. “We always get pretty psyched up for [Ivy League games], and it’s a great feeling to start 1-0 in the Ivy League,” co-captain Devon Shapiro said. The high temperature and bright sun took a small toll on the Crimson’s (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) energy, but not its offense. “It was definitely a struggle because of the heat, and both teams were feeling a little bit tired at times,” co-captain Jana Berglund said...
...spending his summers on home turf, swimming, riding horses and expertly whipping up pasta feasts. But his family home was now a 17th century mansion on 12 acres, and there was no disguising his status as an immensely wealthy international superstar. Eventually his prolonged globetrotting absences took a toll on family life. In 1996 he separated from the Modena girl he had married 35 years before, Adua Veroni, to be with his secretary, Nicoletta Mantovani, whom he married...
...Karbala was put under curfew, pilgrims were ordered to leave the city, and Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki ordered in government troops to restore order. But fighting between Badr and the Mahdi Army broke out in other Shi'ite cities and in Shi'ite neighborhoods of Baghdad. The death toll, which already reaches into the dozens, is expected to rise as more bodies are recovered in Karbala...
Even before he arrived on his state visit, the Kirchners demanded that Chavez dismiss his state oil company's representatives in Argentina, which the Venezuelan president complied with only belatedly last Friday, Aug. 17. In more damage control, they got the resignation of Argentine road toll authority chief Claudio Uberti, a fellow passenger who allowed Antonini Wilson to board the plane...