Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small Lexingtonian heard this history lesson from his father yesterday on the 213th anniversary of the day when a New England militia first fired on British troops. It was a quarter past six in the morning and a clammy 45 degrees Fahrenheit outside, but several thousand people *** Lexington's Battle Green to watch a reenactment of that confrontation...
...first glance, the union of the personal computer and the compact disc would seem to be a perfect match. The same CD that holds an hour of Mendelssohn or Madonna can be used to store more information than a thousand floppy disks. But the coupling of the two technologies has been stalled by a kind of Catch-22. Computer owners will not buy the special disk drives required to play CDs on their desktop machines until they know there is something worth playing. And software publishers are reluctant to develop new CD programs until there are enough disk drives...
...Since then, the numbers have grown. There are now approximately 30 or 40 thousand declared tax resisters and many more undeclared," Agro said...
...sense as I travel around the nation something is going on. There are several thousand people outdoors--something is going on. From Aspen to Alabama--something is going on....Hope has been unleashed...
...result has been confusion about the value of mammograms among both doctors and their women patients. Janet Gay Hamby of Thousand Oaks, Calif., was 44 and the mother of two teenagers when she discovered a lump in her breast two years ago. Two mammograms suggested that it was malignant, and when a biopsy confirmed the diagnosis, Hamby underwent surgery and radiation treatments. Because cancer cells had invaded a lymph node, six months of grueling chemotherapy followed. She knows that the chance of a recurrence will remain high for about another year. Says Hamby: "My prognosis is good, but it would...