Word: thousanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican big shots like James Watt can collect $400,000 for a few phone calls to HUD, why shouldn't a member of the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle get a few thousand for lobbying top officials face to face? That may have been the reasoning of Larry R. Smith, a Harrisburg, Ill., free-lance writer who received an invitation from George Bush to join the circle and submitted a $1,000 membership...
Space officials calculate that the chances of plutonium being released in an aborted mission are no greater than 1 in 1,428. Declares Dudley McConnell, nuclear safety manager for NASA: "You have a thousand times greater chance of dying on the ground from debris falling from an airplane crash than you do from the Galileo mission." Critics, though, remain unconvinced by such assurances. For them, the only real comfort will come when Galileo is gone from earth...
...army battalion of 300 guarded the hotel, which is surrounded by extensive gardens. Three thousand plainclothes policemen circulated in the city...
...East Berlin, several thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the Lutheran Gethsemane Church for the pro-democracy vigil, West German media reported. "Police have shown restraint so far," radio and television said...
Their plan is simple: they'll go to Washington and demonstrate their conviction. They won't be alone, though; a couple hundred thousand people will meet them there. Together, they'll march down the streets of our capital, packed tight as sardines, for the cause of affordable housing...