11.   It has contributed to the financial squeeze created by competition in pricing that had taken a particularly high toll among electronics chains in the New York area.

12.   Other retailers have emerged to exploit the market for people who have everything, including the high toll of calories.

13.   Russia now claims full control over Chechnya, but daily hit-and-run attacks from rebel fighters have taken a high toll.

14.   Sylacauga, Ala., was lucky to gain access, but other rural areas pay high tolls on the information highway.

15.   The government recently imposed high toll fees for cars entering metropolitan areas to ease traffic congestion, further hurting car sales.

16.   The high costs and low traffic prompted the concession holders to boost their already high tolls.

17.   The project required high tolls, however, to recoup the costs of building the roads.

18.   The significance of the Nablus clash, in addition to the high Israeli toll, was the attack on a Jewish holy site in the West Bank.

19.   The storm left a high toll of orphans, amputees and the infirm at the same time that it destroyed clinics.

20.   There have been other explosions at chemical factories in this area, but none, the authorities said, where they remember such a high toll in human life.