• For the first time, the number of adults in the U.S. who use the Internet has surpassed the number of U.S. adults who do not.

    CNN: Internet users now outnumber the PC-less

  • But now when we ask your advisors about the lack of bipartisanship so far -- zero votes in the House, three in the Senate -- they say, well, it's not the number of votes that matters, it's the number of jobs that will be created.

    WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference

  • Name, address, and U.S. taxpayer identification number of U.S. account holder.

    FORBES: Will IRS Get Fat Off FATCA?

  • But I think it's a relatively small number of U.S. troops that would be required, and I think we could muster a large force of supporting troops.

    NPR: Wesley Clark: Why We Should Care About Darfur

  • Van Dyk has spoken out against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and has become involved in a number of children's charities following an emotional visit to the Indian city of Mumbai in 2002 where he was struck by the appalling poverty he witnessed.

    CNN: Electronic Teutonic: Paul van Dyk

  • The global challenge especially confronts America's oldest B-school, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, ranked number five on our list of U.S. business schools.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The global challenge especially confronts the nation's oldest B-school, the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, ranked number five on our list of U.S. business schools.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Apparently, there are a large number of U.S. citizens living outside the United States as well as a large number of individuals who are dual citizens of the United States and their country of residence (estimated to be in the millions).

    FORBES: Going Quietly Into The Night May Not Be The Best Idea For U.S. Citizens Living Abroad

  • The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the number of U.S. farmers older than 65 grew by nearly 22 percent between 2002 and 2007.

    NPR: Future Heads Of Family Farms Dig Into Financials

  • "There was only one digit difference between the GP's number and the member of the public's number, " the trust told the commissioner.

    BBC: Basildon Hospital faxed cancer details to wrong person

  • Traders had shorted more than 103 million shares of Bank of America as of mid-December, indicating a frenzy of arbitrage activity prior to the closing of the bank's acquisition of MBNA. Based on the number of shares shorted and Bank of America's average daily trading volume, it would take more than nine days to close out all those positions.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Thirty-eight U.S. troops have died this month, bringing the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war to 398.

    CNN: CIA: Iraq security to get worse

  • Mr Kidwai was one of a number of Aamir's friends who organised a football match in honour of the sport-mad teenager in the period after his death.

    BBC: Aamir Siddiqi

  • Merchants have complained bitterly about Visa and MasterCard's rising costs of accepting plastic, particularly as a growing number of U.S. consumers use credit cards and debit cards for purchases.

    WSJ: Visa, Mastercard Agree to $6 Billion Settlement Over Surcharges

  • The U.S. Department of Defense expects in coming weeks to grant two separate security approvals for Samsung's Galaxy smartphones, along with iPhones and iPads running Apple's latest operating system moves that would boost the number of U.S. government agencies allowed to use those devices.

    WSJ: Pentagon Expects to Enlist Apple, Samsung Devices

  • In 2010, U.S.-based companies recaptured the lead for the total number of U.S. patents granted after falling behind foreign companies for the previous two years, according to rankings released yesterday by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, a division of Fairview Research, of global companies awarded the most U.S. patents in 2010.

    FORBES: U.S. Reclaims Top Spot in Global Innovation Rankings

  • A. analyst who taught at the National War College for eighteen years, is one of a growing number of critics of U.S. military spending, policy, and culture who are veterans of earlier wars.

    NEWYORKER: The Force

  • Sixteen U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq in November, bringing the total number of U.S. service member deaths in the Iraq war to 4, 206.

    CNN: U.S. troops killed during humanitarian mission in Iraq

  • The law was enacted in 2002 and Jay Ritter at the University of Florida has put together data that shows the number of U.S. IPOs was lower in every year afterwards than in every year of the decade from 1991 to 2000.

    FORBES: Peekaboo: I See No IPOs

  • Added to that, the government last week gave India's 29 states the power to opt out of the retail measure, and a number of India's states have already said they won't allow foreign supermarkets to open there.

    WSJ: India Government Roiled as Ally Withdraws Over Retail Plan

  • The Transportation Department's statement said it has doubled the number of bus inspections of the nation's estimated 4, 000 passenger bus companies, from 12, 991 in 2005 to 28, 982 in 2011.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • "If Emag's members had not paid for this legal action, there's little doubt that, despite the Parliamentary Ombudsman's recommendations for substantial compensation, the Government would have got away with limiting payments to a small number of Equitable's victims for losses post-1999, " he added.

    BBC: High Court backs Equitable plan

  • That's a lot of points out of a possible number of 72, so it's kind of catapulted back, or out of the doldrums, and into contention.

    BBC: Breakfast with Frost

  • "Following the company's recent trading difficulties, a number of the company's contracts were terminated by customers and the reduced level of activity in the business has directly impacted the level of staff required", the administrator said.

    BBC: 190 jobs to go at Patton Group in Ballymena

  • "This is true whether you look at the number of references, number of words or simply the number of years that he's mentioned, " says Mr. Tetlock.

    WSJ: And Warren Buffett's Successor Is...

  • Although they do offer a traditional desktop mode, the only programs that can be run under it are Microsoft's Office 2013 suite and a limited number of the firm's other products.

    BBC: Surface tablets start shipping ahead of Windows 8 launch

  • For 17 years, GERS has meant the reckoning by St Andrew's House number-crunchers of Scotland's profit and loss accounts.

    BBC: Balance of payments

  • For the north east corridor from Boston to Washington, Amtrak carried 11 million passengers last year, 36% of Amtrak's total number of riders.

    CNN: Amtrak train: No better way to connect with U.S. voters

  • We're not exactly sure who this one is going to appeal to (supposedly this one is for the ladies), but the 7270 is one of Nokia's steadily number of flip-phones, and sports a stainless steel cover, a built-in FM tuner, a VGA quality digital camera, a 128x160 pixel main display, a smaller external display.

    ENGADGET: Nokia busts it out: the 7280, the 7270, and the 7260

  • Before joining CNNI, Sater worked as a meteorologist in a number of U.S. markets including Washington, D.

    CNN: CNN Profiles - Tom Sater - Meteorologist and Weather Anchor, CNN International

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