Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OVER AT THE Sham Shui Po residential camp on Liechikok Road, James Reid has a problem. Ten thousand of them, in fact. Sham Shui Po is the largest of the eight compounds--row after row of what used to be white army barracks. But now they are filled with refugees, standing in the three foot aisles or lying on the army-issue 4-inch mattresses atop the rows of pink metal bunks. Reid's camp is full-up--ten acres for 10,000 people...
...picture is worth a thousand words, Ansel Adams' photographs [Sept. 3] open up a boundless vocabulary...
...outset, Mexican gas will cost the U.S. $3.625 per thousand cubic feet, the equivalent of $21 per barrel for crude...
...Those poor guys," a spectator said of Jimmy Connors and Brian Gottfried, who both bring in over a hundred thousand dollars annually on the pro tour, "how do they play with so many distractions...
...ethnic Chinese who made their way from Vietnamese fishing villages and islands to the Chinese coast in their own fishing boats. In Beihai, on the Tonkin Gulf, 7,000 refugees are fishing in the boats that brought them, selling part of their catch to the government. Three thousand others are living in a makeshift camp comprising huts furnished with wooden slat beds, mosquito netting, a small table and, sometimes, a kerosene lamp. Conditions are crowded, but no more so than in the refugee camps of Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. "The people here know only fishing," observed Hoang Quoi Hung...