So for sure, even while strapped for cash and last year fighting for its life as Sprint did everything it could to put it down for the count, Clearwire was busy trying to move forward to develop its technology niche.

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To put it into perspective, if you were to count one number every second, it would take you 31 years, 251 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds to reach a billion.

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To put it differently, the 1990 would probably count as the best one-night stand you ever had, whereas you'd be inclined to propose marriage to the 1989.

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Those are the elements that put you in a place to provide hard feedback and have it count.

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But that is a lame excuse: it should be much easier to count bodies than to put a value on diverse sorts of economic output.

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And so, folks, these reports show that in just a three-month period -- January, February and March of this year -- approximately -- slightly under 680, 000 jobs -- you can count, put a name to, look at who it was, where it was, what they did -- roughly 680, 000 jobs were created.

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