Word: dozen
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...year at the nexus of big money and politics. This was often lonely work, requiring them to pore for days at a time over cartons of Federal Election Commission and court documents, to wheedle information from reluctant sources a sentence at a time. Their persistence paid off in three dozen pathbreaking stories on campaign finance in 1997, many of which were picked up and credited by major newspapers and TV news shows...
Today, the China Trade Center, which housesover a dozen Asian-American-owned businesses,ranging from barber shops to travel agencies,sticks out as the only modern office structure ina stretch of graffiti-covered, run-down buildings...
...crowd of several dozen Crimson fans, organized by the Undergraduate Council, and local media were on hand at Logan Airport to greet the players upon their return to Boston late yesterday afternoon...
...steps into the shoes of the current Premier, Li, the challenges before him are more complicated than rescuing an auto factory. With half a dozen of China's neighbors financially shipwrecked, Zhu must steer China's 1.2 billion people through some dangerous political and economic shoals. Among his most immediate problems: repairing a chaotic and bankrupt financial system, closing thousands of rust-bucket factories useful only for soaking up excess labor, and stemming rising unemployment and social unrest, which recently exploded in a fatal bomb blast in the industrial city of Wuhan...
...York Times agreed. And no doubt it is civil libertarians who, in the wake of publicity over the indictments, have been snapping up The Age of Innocence at $45 a pop and causing it to be virtually sold out in New York City, as I discovered after calling a dozen stores. It is doing well elsewhere too: the British book's American distributor says it is out of stock and has been sent back for a new printing. The public, then, has voted. But me, I'm with the independent bookstore clerk and, just this once, Randall Terry...