• I'm gathering more support from individual members, and it'll be individual members voting .. hundreds of thousand and in the case of Trade Unions, in their millions, who'll determine the, the outcome.

    BBC: INTERVIEW WITH: PETER HAIN

  • So, I survived another Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and made it out of Vegas with most of my skin, and with the objectivity engendered by a couple of thousand miles of distance and a weekend, I can now render a verdict: there has been some evolution since last year in personal computing.

    FORBES: CES Summary: Evolution Of User-Centric Computing

  • The counterargument is that it is unfair: Why should Mexicans get to "jump the line" and win instant or near-instant legal status while thousand and thousands of others who have waited patiently for legal status still have to wait and deal with the same maddening immigration bureaucracy?

    CNN: Major Garrett: Amnesty could win Hispanic vote

  • However, the people in this part of the world share many common heritages, including Confucianism, Buddhism, and thousand years of cultural and economic exchange and learning from each other.

    CNN: Opinion: Toward a new security order in Northeast Asia

  • All that remains of her language is a short passage and a dictionary of a thousand and twelve words listed in hierarchical order, from the most important (Aigonz, God) to the least (Cauiz, cricket).

    NEWYORKER: Utopian for Beginners

  • This first film by twenty-four-year-old Robert Rodriguez was made for seven thousand dollars, and part of its enormous charm is that it really looks like a seven-thousand-dollar movie.

    NEWYORKER: El Mariachi

  • Her writing life was oddly self-contained, even if, by the end of the Potter series, she was receiving between one and two thousand pieces of mail a week.

    NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch

  • The development of a hundred and thirty-eight acres at the junction of two major interstates was a challenge because a hundred and fifty thousand tons of contaminated soil had to be removed before the project on the site of the old steel mill could even begin.

    NPR: Atlanta Development Aims to Revitalize Downtown

  • And by the end of two thousand and three the annual murder rate in Southeast LA increased by eighteen percent. 10.55.57 Aston JOHN LINDER Consultant to Chief Bratton We have only enough police officers here to make certain that the wealthier neighbourhoods stay safe.

    BBC

  • Shiner, Texas, a town of two thousand an hour and a half east of San Antonio, is known to most Texans as the home of Shiner Beer, one of the best-selling independent beers in the country.

    FORBES: Was A Texas Fatal Beating Homicide Or A Reasonable Response To Daughter's Assault?

  • The mining company reported consolidated sales from its mines of 926 million pounds of copper, 480 thousand ounces of gold and 20 million pounds of molybdenum, beating its production forecasts for all three metals.

    FORBES: Freeport-McMoRan Shares Spike After Earnings Beat

  • At 3:58, just two minutes before the markets closed, Rajaratnam gave an order to buy three hundred and fifty thousand shares of Goldman stock, worth forty-three million dollars.

    NEWYORKER: A Dirty Business

  • The payments, ranging from hundreds of dollars to a few thousand for most claims and tens of thousands for cancer claims, are a fraction of what plaintiffs might win in a trial against a solvent company.

    FORBES: Ohio Bill Would End Secrecy Over Asbestos Claims

  • On Election Night, Dickson fell about a thousand votes short of victory in her district, which has a population of more than a hundred and fifty thousand.

    NEWYORKER: State for Sale

  • The pile is owned by Weston Super Mare based Good 2 Grow, but the company laid all its staff off and effectively shut down just days before the thousand tonnes of wood chippings and other green waste spontaneously combusted.

    BBC: Beenham compost fire: Legal notice served on company

  • Rep. Tammy Baldwin, the Democrat who represents Madison, looked out over the rally of several thousand students Tuesday night and sounded a note of optimism.

    WSJ: Obama Travels To Fire Up Young Voters

  • This way of thinking and acting aligns with several thousand years of moral philosophy (caring for others is at the center of almost all moral philosophy).

    FORBES: How To Be Happy At Work

  • In the science fiction future of the film Minority Report, Stephen Spielberg displayed his vision of driverless automobiles: a thousand gleaming pods of metal and glass flowing in perfectly coordinated highway traffic.

    FORBES: Dude, Where's My Driver?

  • He has four thousand employees, three thousand volunteer posse members, and an overworked media-relations unit of five.

    NEWYORKER: Sheriff Joe

  • In Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance, Groysberg examined the careers of more than a thousand top analysts and found that in most cases, those who change firms suffer an immediate and lasting decline.

    FORBES: Why Promoting From Within Usually Beats Hiring From Outside

  • At the FDA they can and do insist that the new treatment be tried out of a few thousand, a few tens of thousands, of people and then we look at how many die from the treatment and how many are made better from it.

    FORBES: Posner's FDA for Financial Innovation: A Truly Terrible Idea

  • He was especially fond of old toys and had a collection of several thousand.

    ECONOMIST: Athelstan Spilhaus

  • Today, there are seven hundred and fifty thousand civilian staff members of the Department of Defense.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Trials for these drugs involve thousand of patients and can take many years.

    FORBES: Bristol Prepares Shot In Statin War

  • Equipped with 2GB flash memory, it can hold more than a thousand of books and its capacity can be easily expanded just by adding a MicroSD card.

    ENGADGET: Acer's 6-inch LumiRead to offer Barnes and Noble ebooks, ISBN scanner

  • Once Neff got his designs seen on notable snowboarders in magazines and videos, he knew the time was right to actually start the business and start making thousand of these hats.

    FORBES: The Cool Factor Business Model

  • Created by a French inventor in the late 1950s in his basement, but sold through the Ohio Art Company, it kept thousand of kids and adults entertained for decades, event today.

    FORBES: Get Ready to Doodle With The First 3D Drawing Pen

  • He asked his readers to send official complaints to the Federal Anti-Monopoly Agency, and nearly two thousand of them did, crippling the agency, which is obliged by law to respond to each complaint.

    NEWYORKER: Net Impact

  • But unless Uncle Sam were your biological uncle, or you had relatives in the U.S., you'd have to fall in line behind thousand of uneducated and untrained laborers who do have relatives here.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It is the second largest in Latin America, drawing more than half a million visitors, nearly two thousand publishers, and hundreds of authors, including, over the years, Nadine Gordimer, William Styron, and Toni Morrison.

    NEWYORKER: The Kingpins

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