But in a country driven by chronic poverty, illiteracy and greed, a few thousands dollars are enough to push some to take the extreme step.
And that is only a few of thousands of sources we could use.
Given that Foxconn has always paid better than competing Chinese factories, it looks rather like just keeping up with the Joneses rather than responding to the outrage and fury of a few hipsters thousands of miles away.
At the FDA they can and do insist that the new treatment be tried out of a few thousand, a few tens of thousands, of people and then we look at how many die from the treatment and how many are made better from it.
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The remotest hint of liver or heart toxicity in just a few patients among thousands is enough to send a drug back for several more years of testing.
But their contributions of a few tens of thousands of dollars per year are dwarfed by a single source who is so important as to acquire his own set of capitals - the Anonymous Donor.
He lost a few years and thousands of dollars before finding the answer.
Just Giving was a "peripheral partner" for Comic Relief and only a few tens of thousands was raised for the cause via the site.
These are just a few of the thousands of deals and promotions retailers will be offering on Black Friday and over the weekend with the help of geolocation apps like foursquare.
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On any given day, only 11 officers have these responsibilities in the U.S. Navy, and in the 100-year history of carrier operations, only a few of many thousands of naval aviators have served as carrier commanders.
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Such solutions deal with only a few of "thousands of related issues, " Upson said, including how to handle product sales to American consumers that take place on American company-owned servers based in foreign countries and how to tax the sale of digital goods and intellectual property such as software and computer-generated music.
At the time, users typed in a few words and got a list of thousands of Web sites using those words, but most of the results were irrelevant.
And these are just a few examples out of thousands all across the country.
In its own way, United Commercial is an example of the quirks in America's own banking system, which has a few leviathans along with thousands of smaller fry.
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He went into money-broking, a high-pressure business where a few seconds can cost hundreds of thousands, and whose operators are not famously a bunch of country choirboys.
On December 1, she announced that 200 children had been approved and put out a call for donations -- one that she wrote raised thousands of dollars in a few hours.
The DVLA does not keep figures on the number of road-legal quads, but the main UK suppliers say that since 2005 they have gone from selling a few hundred each year to thousands.
Mega state funds such as Kentucky and Illinois are so grossly underfunded that their demise is inevitable within a few years, absent a bail-out, and thousands of local public funds are teetering.
Although a game like World of Warcraft has hundreds of thousands of players, only a few thousand play together on each of the dozens of servers.
Furthermore, a small percentage of startups are high-growth and can scale to hundreds or even thousands of employees in a few years.
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Nothing wrong with the theory but such a player would cost thousands and thousands of pounds to store only a few songs.
The payments, ranging from hundreds of dollars to a few thousand for most claims and tens of thousands for cancer claims, are a fraction of what plaintiffs might win in a trial against a solvent company.
The loans are supposed to be of hundreds of pounds for a few weeks, but interest rates can amount to thousands of per cent on a yearly basis.
The beds only exists in a few coastal areas and can take thousands of years to form.
Malaria kills hundreds of thousands, perhaps a few million people a year, most of them children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The money can range from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands.
Even fragments a few centimetres in width are a hazard because they travel at many thousands of kilometres per hour.
Maerl is a calcified seaweed which only exists in a few coastal areas and can take thousands of years to form.
Many of these trials involved only a few dozen patients or a few hundred, far smaller than drug trials that involve thousands of subjects.
Staying together -- even for a few more months -- could save thousands of dollars.
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