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1.Unrest intensifies across New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, as more National Guard troops pour in to help restore order there.
2.Retail gas prices soar above three bucks a gallon, while deliveries to gas stations falter amid the hurricane's economic aftermath.
3.Iraqi Shiites bury the nearly one thousand victims of the Baghdad bridge stampede, also demanding answers from their government.
4.In Russia, mourners commemorate one year since a hostage crisis of the Beslan School, a terror attack that claimed three hundred and thirty-one lives.
5.And Muhammad Al Fayed unveils a statue in memory of Princess Diana and his son Dodi, eight years after they died in a Paris car crash.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. falter
1 falter falters faltering faltered
If something falters, it loses power or strength in an uneven way, or no longer makes much progress.
Normal life is at a standstill, and the economy is faltering.
The car was out of sight around a bend in moments, but the engine did not falter or slow down.
A faltering economy and a recent wave of labour unrest have affected the new party's popularity.
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2. claim
11 claim claims claiming claimed
If you say that a war, disease, or accident claims someone's life, you mean that they are killed in it or by it. (FORMAL)
The civil war claimed the life of a U.N. interpreter yesterday.
Heart disease is the biggest killer, claiming 180,000 lives a year.
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