Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thousand, six hundred and twenty-eight high school students--up from 1530 last year--have boosted Harvard's yield to 73 percent, up one or two points...
...article focuses on the Council's failure to suspend a rule, requiring that any resolution with a budget over five hundred dollars be scrutinized by a committee beforehand, in order to grant several thousand dollars to the Rugby Club. Now if the Council's resources were limitless, and we could spend at whim without any attention to economy or consistency, then we could well have afforded the Rugby Club's grant and I doubt that many members would have opposed it. But the Council is not infinitely rich: therefore we have of necessary developed guidelines to order our spending, based...
...wondering what life would have been like if I had known all of this four years ago--that you don't really have to dial five-five-thousand, just zero, that you get cancer if you put lemon in your tea in a Styrofoam cup, that people are still looking at your freshman facebook picture when you are a senior...
...teacher (Frances Sternhagen) whose lack of success as a novelist has not yet sapped her idealism. At the other end sits Bufford Bullough (Leon Russom). Bufford looks like Thomas Wolfe, writes like William Faulkner and carries around with him in a cardboard box the burden of his dreams: a thousand-page manuscript and a bottle of booze. It is hard to say whether the other students (Peggity Price, Jane Connell) are more appalled by the erotic spew of language in Bufford's work or by the way their teacher reaches across the barriers of age, sex and class...
...EVEN MORE practical and immediate objection to the porposed system lies in the complex technology required. Even if only ten warheads breached our shield, they would wreak destruction on a scale never before witnessed by man. Yet in a full-scale attack, ten thousand warheads would be launched. They would come from all directions at the same time and at high speed. To stop every one would require, as a recent Foreign Affairs article by William E. Burrows points out, "a defensive system able to react with almost unbelievable speed and flawless lethality...