Word: thousanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sales, which had dwindled to a few thousand a month by July, started doubling and then tripling each month, according to Future Computing, a Dallas-based research firm. An estimated 90,000 computers were sold in November. Retail sales could reach 280,000 this year, a far cry from the 500,000 to 1 million predicted just a year ago but a respectable showing nonetheless...
...bounty from what Dickens called the "awful, solemn, impenetrable blue" will bring light to an area of archaeology that has long been obscure. The age of the previous oldest hull was a thousand years younger than this one, and suggests that nautical technology in ancient times changed glacially. Says Bass: "These bones of the wreck push back our knowledge of Mediterranean shipbuilding by nearly a millennium." -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington
...picture may say a thousand words yet those words may not tell the truth. I am referring to those three large photos which accompany the article. I said earlier that the article was unsuccessful in dispelling stereotypes about Native Americans. I would now like to add that these pictures enhance the stereotypes created by this article. At the top of the page is a picture of two long haired Indians with guns leaning on a log cabin. The caption reads, "A choice between the reservation and mainstream America." The two bottom pictures are of Michael and me in our preppy...
...stand by Harvard students is especially disappointing when one considers the dire need for coherent action and the tremendous potential for awakening the world to the problem. Amnesty International reported recently that in the Phillipines alone over 70,000 people have been detained for political reasons since 1972. Three thousand of the detainees have remained in prison while the United States has given $900 million in aid to the Phillipines. Furthermore, thousands of death squad murders committed for reasons varying from political crimes to petty economic crimes are occurring annually all over the world...
Guiliano dreams of smashing the power of the "Friends of the Friends." Sicilians, Puzo tells us, never say Mafia, a 10th century Arabic term meaning sanctuary. A thousand years later, the word is dark with irony. Founded to fight foreign oppressors, the organization has come to include the island's most terrible despots. Their fingers can be found in every business and social institution from Palermo to Catania, their hands behind countless murders. Puzo offers swatches of sad history and exotic sociology. Mussolini nearly wiped out the Mafia, but the U.S. Army ensured its comeback when it unlocked Fascist...