Word: thousands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...June 17, one of the women, Patrizia D'Addario, told the Milan daily Corriere della Sera that she was paid several thousand euros to attend two dinner parties at Berlusconi's Rome residence last fall and that she stayed the night of Nov. 4. She says she secretly made audio recordings during the parties, which she turned over to prosecutors. Two days later, a friend of D'Addario's, Barbara Montereale, told newspaper La Repubblica that she, too, was paid to attend the Nov. 4 party, but left after dinner. Montereale described her friend as a professional escort...
...thousand more times more likely that I am stupid than I am racist.' CURTIS COLEMAN, a U.S. Senate hopeful from Arkansas, apologizing for saying that people traveling to the southeastern part of the state "might as well get a visa and some shots...
Arguello claims he told them, "You motherf___ers, do you know how much you sell every year? And you can't help out with a thousand dollars, you motherf___ers? You are a cheap motherf___er - you scumbag motherf...
...stands by its number: 7,000 civilian casualties. Seven thousand? No way. In the eastern province, zero casualties. I won't say there are zero casualties in the north. The LTTE shot some of them when they tried to escape...
...culture that frowns upon premarital relationships and demands that a man reach a certain level of economic stability before considering marriage. "We have been discussing the issue of harassment for years, because it's an old phenomenon," says Sheik Ahmed Turky, an imam who leads a congregation of several thousand at one of Cairo's largest mosques, Masjid al-Noor. Still, he says, "the pressures of living and the costs of marriage" have added to it. (Read "As Men's Job Losses Mount, Wives Feel the Impact...