Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government spends $2.3 billion a day and has so many departments, agencies and committees that a few years ago the experts quit counting after listing more than a thousand. Reagan has little notion how it all works but a lot of feeling that it is too big and too expensive and tries to do too much for too many people. Reagan believes a little neglect may be good...
...Drop Head Minnesota Sewing Machine was described as "the highest of high grade in everything." Couches and sofa beds were the "greatest values the world has ever seen." Dr. Rowland's System Builder and Lung Restorer was described as the "greatest vegetable medicine of the age for the thousand ailments common to the masses." Some copy was thorough to a fault...
...almost a necessary diversion for a world wearied by wars and assassinations. The pair made millions and spent millions, traveling with an entourage that would pauper a Saudi prince, taking over entire floors of famous hotels. Like Henry VIII, a part he played with gusto in Anne of the Thousand Days, Burton lavished jewels on his consort: the 33-carat Krupp diamond, the 69-carat Cartier diamond and the lustrous Peregrina pearl that King Philip II of Spain gave Mary Tudor in 1554. Liz and Dick made a couple of good movies together, including Virginia Woolf and The Taming...
...million), a city in which the population density of some areas runs as high as 300,000 per sq. mi. (more than four times the density of Manhattan), there is a huge graveyard known as the City of the Dead. It is dead no longer: several hundred thousand Cairenes have established homes among and even inside the tombs. "It is not like everyone thinks," says Abdullah Mahmoud, 65, who has been living in one of these vaults for 30 years. His wife and six children live there too. "These tombs are bigger than apartments that people would find...
...Eight thousand banners, did you say? Covering 120 miles of Los Angeles? Hanging from 300 different types of lampposts? O.K. Some of the brackets for the banners had to be different too; a real headache. Certainly not, you wouldn't want to use just any colors. Had to be magenta, vermilion, chrome yellow, violet, aqua. "Festive Federalism," the designers call it. (What does that mean?) Oh, sorry. Please go on. You were talking about construction: 3,500 construction workers at 67 different (sites, including Olympic Villages, places for the Games, training facilities, parking lots. That is, if the cars...