Word: thousands
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What would help more—if they got a thousand people to actually work the polling places,” Reynolds said. “The best way to make sure people aren’t disenfranchised is to become part of the process rather than watching the process...
...stands to become a powerful resource. Already, the site has more visitors than the university’s official portal “my.harvard.edu,” which receives only a few hundred unique visitors daily though it draws from the university community of 26,000. HouseSYSTEM had several thousand unique hits in the month of February and its services are geared primarily towards undergraduates...
...breaking point. Pentagon officials are confident they can handle Haiti, but with 120,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and an additional 11,000 on the ground in Afghanistan, the Bush Administration--particularly in an election year--isn't likely to dispatch more than a few thousand to Haiti for much longer than the three months mandated by the U.N. last week. "We stepped up, and we are the lead elements of the interim force," said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who sees an international peacekeeping force of up to 5,000 in Haiti before long. But "obviously, we'd like...
...Sandor talks about the piano, it's as if an oracle were speaking. "It's not in the fingers. It's in the muscles of the body," he whispers cryptically about the secret of his technique. Sandor, who draws on a repertoire of works that numbers more than a thousand, is known around the world for his wizardry at the keyboard. Last year he played to packed houses at Cairo's Manasterly Palace, Seoul's Arts Center and London's Barbican Hall, to name a few. This week he's on his way to Rome's Teatro Ghione, and from...
...story of the Atlas site is not extraordinary. Indeed, there are over a thousand superfund sites languishing on EPA lists that continue to be a danger to communities across the country. And just this week, for the third year in a row, Bush added an unusually low number of new sites to the National Priorities List and encouraged Superfund budget cuts...