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Watson is over one thousand times faster than a 1980s state-of-the-art defense department supercomputer.
FORBES: IBM's Watson Jeopardy Stunt Unleashes a Third Great Cycle in Computing
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The OfficeTeam report is based on responses from over one-thousand senior executives at mid-to-large sized companies, along with replies from more than four-hundred workers employed in office environments.
FORBES: March Madness Employee Productivity Problem Is Overstated, Yet Influences Corporate Change
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Over the years, nearly one thousand unique, and often threatened, heritage properties have been identified.
UNESCO: Building the Wealth of Nations
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This was one of almost two thousand missions that have been conducted over the last couple of years, night after night.
NEWYORKER: Getting Bin Laden
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With more than one hundred thousand servicemembers slated to transition back to civilian life over the coming years, this raises an important question: are institutions of higher education prepared for the influx?
FORBES: Our Returning Military: We Need to Do More
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It rankles a bit to hear such a marvellous explanation of the forces that created the mid-Atlantic rift that bisects Iceland on the Thingvellir plain near Reykjavik, but no hint that Europe's first parliament, the foundation of one of the most prosperous and democratic societies on earth, met just over a thousand years ago on that exact same spot.
ECONOMIST: Island life
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Getting there took hours upon hours of flight time, one thousand miles north of now oil-boom-town Edmonton, Alberta, flying over an unending expanse of trees, lakes and rocky mineral-laden terrain.
FORBES: Magnetic North: The Canadian (Mining) Miracle
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One had badly worsening heart disease and diabetes, and medical bills over two years in excess of eighty thousand dollars.
NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters
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It has created radio and television programmes for international networks and to date has publicly presented more than one thousand musical works by women living and working in every part of the world, commissioning over 30 new works each year.
UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE
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In just one short year, the White House has received more than three million signatures from the public on over fifty thousand petitions.
WHITEHOUSE: Our Top Stories
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Three thousand men owned 100 or more, and one Georgia planter boasted 1, 500 human chattels spread over several properties.
WSJ: Book Review: The Fall of the House of Dixie