Land on a one-in-a-thousand hit like Music Man, and you stand to collect a long string of royalty checks from revivals and road shows.

FORBES: The Play's The Thing

The M.mycoides genome contains over a million letters of genetic code and current DNA-technology can string-together perhaps a few thousand units in one go.

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And since there were one-family houses selling in Union for a Depression low of a few thousand dollars, he would be able to realize an ambition he had nurtured growing up penniless in a Newark tenement flat: to become an American homeowner.

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They seem more approachable than in days bygone, even if we are merely one of thirty-thousand, following a brand.

FORBES: Consumer culture in free form: Twitter and celebrities

Some five thousand people were killed in the war last year, including a hundred and ninety-one foreign troops and at least a thousand civilians.

NEWYORKER: The Taliban��s Opium War

Hennessy earned six hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars in salary from Stanford last year, but he has made far more as a board member of and shareholder in Google and Cisco.

NEWYORKER: Get Rich U.

Macau law, for instance, requires identification for any casino transaction above the equivalent of sixty-one thousand dollars a threshold that is six times higher than that for casinos in the United States.

NEWYORKER: The God of Gamblers

This is an extreme case, but I talked to one single mother who went back to school in her mid-30s and who has since watched her unpaid student loans swell to a hundred thousand dollars, thanks to interest and fees.

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