Word: thousanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Three thousand students signed a pro-neutrality position paper for the clerical and technical workers union, hundreds of students sported anti-homophobia buttons, and almost every dinner table on campus became the site for debates about final club sexism...
Dolores Bennett calls them her children. There are more than a thousand of them by now, young people who grew up on Detroit's mean streets but flourished inside her tidy yellow frame house on King Street. It was in 1964 that Bennett, now 55, began her work. "I started seeing a need for something in our community to keep my children busy," she explains. "I started with a small group of kids and asked people in the neighborhood if we could mow their lawns or pick up their garbage or go to the store for senior citizens...
Legislators also fear that the patent office's action will open the floodgates to an unlimited patenting of new breeds of animals. Fourteen thousand similar patent applications are currently pending on the office's caseload...
...wasn't H.R. Puf'nstuf. It wasn't even Oreo Doublestuff. By 8:00 last Saturday night, people were talking anxiously, especially the thousand fans at Sanders Theatre, about the Din & Tonics and their mysterious "Free Stuff" Jam. By 11:00, everyone at the concert was armed with a fantastic doorprize. And the Dins were being hailed as the "hottest group on campus...
...exotic images: a round-the-world ticket, a spring break trip, perhaps even a week with the Dins in Bangkok on their 1988 summer tour. What the Dins' peers, parents and other sophisticated patrons received was much more creative: cucumbers, Dippity Doo, a can of tuna and a thousand other trinkets...