• The goal is to turbocharge the pace of medical discovery by allowing thousands--even millions--of experiments to be performed simultaneously inside a chip.

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  • Hundreds of thousands - possibly millions - of teachers, civil servants, health workers, students, banking staff, air traffic controllers, customs officials, weather forecasters, and others - will stop work for 24 hours for a variety of reasons: from pay to public sector reform.

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  • As many of you have and hopefully millions and millions of Americans have, in my -- or maybe millions and millions of Americans have -- the campaign has put out a video, which I think features, among other things, the significant accomplishment that the Affordable Care Act represents.

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  • The studio knew that it was pointless and counter-productive to throw tens-of-millions of dollars in order to slightly improve what was always going to be a B-movie action picture based on a line of toys.

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  • It explains the hundreds-of-millions of visitations to national parks and wilderness areas throughout the world.

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  • And for all those tens-of-millions of others who recognize that small appreciative tokens, gestures of kindness, recycling and energy consciousness add up to something real.

    FORBES: "A Memorial Day for the Environment"

  • We have thousands of offices all over the country -- thousands of them -- millions of volunteers working hard, team leaders making calls every single day.

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  • Her lack of desire--a problem afflicting millions of women and straining millions of marriages around the world--almost broke up her relationship with her boyfriend of 19 years.

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  • Local search, the device enables owners to tap into an always up-to-date database of local information, rendering obsolete the war over which device has the most millions of points-of-interest.

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  • They are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build manufacturing plants--giant bio-vats that hold millions of gallons of cultured mammal cells--in order to develop new protein drugs to treat cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer's.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • When fully operational, these plants will produce millions of state-of-the-art solar panels each year.

    WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: A Solar Recovery

  • Google has already digitised millions of out-of-print titles.

    BBC: Google modifies Europe book plans

  • There was excellent reporting recently, I think, on the sheer volume -- in the millions and millions and millions of dollars -- that was spent in an effort to discredit the Affordable Care Act.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Even more dramatic fuel savings can be achieved - both in terms of the costs and the consumption of foreign oil - if millions of Americans start driving not just fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles, but FFV-capable plug-in hybrids (PIH) with 500 mile-per-gallon-of-gasoline (mpgg) performance.

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  • Estimates of the number of dead run to the hundreds of millions world-wide and scores of millions in the U.S. If nature fails to deliver an epidemic, it is unfortunately easy for a highly trained terrorist, by genetic manipulation, to create a super-virulent pathogen with a nearly 100% rate of mortality.

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  • Southern Khabarovsk has the same climate as Heilongjiang but only 1.2 people per square kilometer, meaning the region could support tens of millions--if not more--of Chinese, he argues.

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  • All in all, I mourn the inconceivably vast looming biological losses, but see the near inevitability of our perpetuation as a curious, loving and capable species among tens-of-millions of others that shall hopefully survive our current transitional mass inflictions.

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  • In July, a UN report said the export of charcoal from Kismayo and Merca helped al-Shabab generate millions of dollars - despite a UN Security Council ban on countries buying charcoal from Somalia.

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  • Today, thanks to loopholes and shelters, a quarter of all millionaires now pay lower tax rates than millions of you, millions of middle-class families.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on the Economy

  • Secondly -- and I'm willing to risk millions -- 99 percent of my net worth.

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  • Now, operators of warez sites face charges based on the value of the software exchanged -- which can reach millions of dollars -- rather than any profits they earn -- which are negligible.

    CNN: The next piracy panic: Software

  • If German corporations disclose executive compensation figures, for instance, they typically do so as a lump sum--often in the tens of millions of euros--which includes the pay of all the members of the management board.

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  • But here's the rub: While Myriad's discovery may eventually lead to valuable treatments and diagnostic tests, it will probably be several years--and millions of dollars--before this discovery brings in more money than it already has, says Sean Tautigian , Ph.

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  • These early structures are "supermassive" -- perhaps millions of times the mass of our sun -- and most of the light around them doesn't make it out of their galaxies, Schawinski said.

    CNN: Black holes abound in early universe

  • "Comcast is the first national broadband service provider to launch iControl's software platform, bringing greater peace-of-mind to millions of homeowners who can now know that their homes and families are protected whether they're home or away, " said Jim Johnson, co-CEO of iControl.

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  • But we should be open to that dialogue, and not underestimate the power of the American people, over time -- despite millions of dollars of advertising to the contrary from the insurance industry and others -- we should not underestimate the American people's willingness to say, okay, I got it.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Takes Questions from Senate Democrats

  • They tried to -- they spent millions of dollars trying to prevent us from reforming our health care system, millions of dollars trying to prevent us from ending taxpayer-funded bailouts on Wall Street, millions of dollars trying to prevent us from protecting consumers.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President in Dubuque, IA

  • "These defendants, two morally depraved individuals, preyed on a physically and mentally ill 101-year-old woman to steal millions of dollars -- dollars that she had intended to go to help the lives of ordinary New Yorkers, " Seidemann said, echoing his closing argument to the jury.

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  • But for millions of people - and most of them are women - these words have no meaning, literally.

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  • And, secondly -- as for millions of years -- the chance to feast undisturbed on as many jellyfish as a turtle can eat.

    CNN: Turtles in race to beat extinction

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