The heads of state and government and thousands of World War II veterans took part in the ceremonies amid one of the biggest security operations staged on French soil.
Experts estimate hundreds of thousands of people around the world die because of counterfeit medicines each year.
Dr. Bluementhal developed an affordable, low tech screening method for cervical cancer that is likely to save tens of thousands of lives in third world countries over the next decade, and has the potential to save hundreds of thousands.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of apps (they used to be called applications but the world has gotten that much lazier over the past few years) written by tens of thousands of application developers around the world.
Separately, in Darfur, the deaths of hundreds of thousands shocked the conscience of the world.
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This week, as thousands of diplomats, world leaders, corporations, institutional investors, NGOs and social and environmental activists gather in Rio for the U.N.
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"We are pleased that Mr. Stanford received the harsh sentence that he so justly deserved for destroying the lives of thousands of victims around the world, " Peter Morgenstern, a member of the Stanford Investors Committee, said in an email message.
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The Linux subculture is a team of thousands of volunteer programmers across the world, most of whom have never met each other and communicate only by e-mail.
"Ultimately they would like to get hundreds of thousands of potential members around the world and for each of them to have a stake in the club, " said BBC Sport's Dan Roan.
Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church in southern California, sent e-mails to thousands of church pastors around the world pitching the "40 Days of Purpose" program, which included a sermon and discussion group notes.
The United States has conducted more nuclear tests than the rest of the world combined and has thousands of nuclear warheads loaded on every conceivable delivery system.
And A Suitable Boy, despite its detractors, sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world.
No sooner was the video up than thousands of people across the world wanted to see.
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Hundreds of thousands of people around the world create and share online these feline-inspired, often humorous, artistic creations.
Or of those thousands of people in the world now who carry around transplanted hearts and livers and lungs.
But thousands of hearts around the world were broken when he finally capitulated in a play-off to Stewart Cink.
It has had similar benefits for many thousands of patients around the world.
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The technology used in gene doping is already well within the skill-set of thousands of laboratories around the world.
And as George said, it's because of the efforts of thousands of people around the world among the international partnerships.
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Since the Agile Manifesto of 2001, Agile software development has been adopted in thousands of firms around the world.
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But thousands of "Georgists" world-wide continue promoting his ideas at town halls, with brochures, books, schools, compact discs, cartoons and walking tours.
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Tom Searcy, an expert in sales strategy, works with thousands of executives around the world each year through his workshops and keynote speaking.
Today thousands of programmers around the world have given Facebook a broad menu of applications featuring everything from fantasy sports to photo sharing.
Like most of the hundreds of thousands of caves around the world, this one is relatively untouched, which is what makes Barton so excited.
Today, hundreds of thousands of people around the world face similar challenges as IKEA expands into new markets and more people enter its stores.
This year has seen another surprising development in which tens of thousands of people around the world have gathered in more than 300 self-organized TED-like events.
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Within ten years the entertainment industry expects nearly all of the 36, 700 screens in the U.S., and thousands of screens around the world, to be showing movies digitally.
It is not widely known in general management circles that these practices have been tested over the last fifteen years in thousands of organizations around the world.
Now owned by Bombardier, thousands of Learjets crisscross the world.
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