Word: thousanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modernization of the People's Republic of China develops successfully, it will be a repeat of the Japanese economic miracle, but magnified at least a thousand times...
...rule, Panamanians were ready to elect their next President. But scarcely 26 hours after the polls had closed, the electoral experiment began to slide into the kind of political violence and chaos that torments the rest of Central America. As the National Tabulating Board laboriously hand-tallied several hundred thousand votes and inexplicably delayed announcing even partial results, supporters of Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 82, took to the streets to protest what they claimed was a clumsy attempt by his opponents to steal the election...
...abandon the Olympics, much as the ancient Greeks did a thousand years ago, realizing their great concept was just no longer practicable. Let us return the athletics to the athletes; let us send the politicians back to their politicking and, most of all, let us try to address some of the problems that created the crisis of the Olympics in the first place...
While American companies at their best can only help a few thousand non-white workers, divestiture would severely disrupt a nation of millions...
Consumers Union's victory has cost several hundred thousand dollars in legal fees. Even so, if the Consumers Union decision helps weed out libel actions of little merit, the public interest will have been served. Said Consumers Union Executive Director Rhoda Karpatkin: "Our determination to go to the wall on this case rather than settle it anywhere along the way has been vindicated...