Today, the more than 27 million seniors enrolled in Part D can choose from about a thousand plans nationwide.

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"We had up to a thousand floor plans supposed to be delivered every day, " says Mr. Bergman, whose firm, Diakrit, produces virtual tours and three-dimensional models for housing developments.

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Under coalition plans, several thousand badgers could be shot, in an effort to reduce levels of bovine tuberculosis.

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More than a thousand signatures have been collected against plans to turn a former greyhound stadium in Oxford into housing.

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Some executives question whether it will be possible to build a market beyond a few thousand users. (Prima says it plans to install its systems in 250, 000 homes within five years.) Others say the high price would create an exclusive, super-premium niche market without cutting into existing sources of revenue.

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Plans to build the incinerator have attracted opposition from more than a thousand people.

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In 2010, in unveiling eQ and plans for it, the company said it wanted to sell several thousand of the nameplate each year.

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