Word: tolls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that forced Israel to withdraw from Lebanon last year. And that's precisely the effect Palestinian militants want to mimic through a protracted low-intensity war in the West Bank and Gaza. There may be umpteen reasons why Lebanon is quantitatively different from the West Bank, but a steady toll of Israeli lives is unacceptable to the Israeli electorate...
What Marshall didn't discuss was the toll Operation Pipeline took on minorities. No one will ever know how many innocent men and boys were searched for drugs as part of Operation Pipeline. But we do know that many Hispanics today feel betrayed by the criminal-justice system. Does that mean Operation Pipeline was a total failure? No one worth hearing argues that race should be the only factor in police decision-making, but should race never be part of a criminal profile? The legislation pending in Congress would outlaw any use of race in traffic or pedestrian stops, even...
...Rashtriya Rifles, are killed and 13 more wounded. The Lashkar-i-Tayyaba admits carrying out the assaults, which it says were the work of a lone militiaman. Their man, it adds, although intending to die, was unscathed in both. By the end of the day, the death toll across Kashmir is up to a reported 42. A spokesman for the Indian Border Security Force says it would have been a lot higher but for the arrest of two militants armed with grenades in Srinagar late Sunday. He says the pair had rigged a motorbike with explosives that they planned...
TILL DEATH DO US PART It is what every senior couple dreads--one of the two becomes terminally ill, and the other strains under the grim burden of caring for a dying mate. The stress often takes a physical toll, but these caregivers suffer less depression, lose less weight and take better care of themselves after the death of their spouse than someone whose husband or wife dies suddenly, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Why? The foreknowledge of the death allows the caregiver to grieve as well as prepare for the death. Also...
...Greenhouse damage" per extra ton of carbon we add to the sky. (The figure, from economist David Pearce, is not the cost to clean the air, nor the benefit of cars, nor the toll of rising seas. It's just how much people say they'd pay for cleaner air when asked in surveys, divided by tons of carbon...