Word: million
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...beast has not died--27 million slaves still exist worldwide," Rossini said...
Operating costs and campus events, such as concerts and the annual Spring Fling--as well as a surplus that is invested each year--bring the senate's annual budget to over $1 million...
...quarterly activities fee of the Associated Students of Stanford University's (ASSU)--netting the student government $1.4 million each year--may seem hefty, but a unique refund policy allows students to pay for only what they...
...That would be a devastating setback for the agency's ambitious program of sending a lander and an obiter craft to Mars every 26 months. The failure of another $100 million probe just months after the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost as a result of the now-infamous metric mixup could mean an entire rethinking of NASA's "faster, better, cheaper" strategy, and threaten congressional support for the whole Mars project. Already the criticisms have begun: That scientists were lulled by the easy success of the Pathfinder mission into launching a much less adaptable probe that needed everything...
Fortunately, for NASA, the second time's the charm - or so it seems. On Friday, the space agency's engineers celebrated the fact that, as far as they could tell, the second of their two $100 million Martian landers didn't get lost in space. All indications were that the Mars Polar Lander enjoyed a safe touchdown at right around its scheduled landing time, 3:01 p.m. EST. But NASA failed to receive a signal from the craft during the first 20-minute communications window, beginning around 3:40 p.m. The Lander is the partner craft to the Mars Climate...