Word: thousands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been a coyote in Naco for nine months. He comes from Veracruz and has a wife and two daughters. He used to work in California driving a truck, but says, "It was too much stress, and the money here is better." In a good week Romero can make several thousand dollars, even after he has paid the standard 10% bribe to the Mexican military and police in order to operate on the Mexican side of the border. "They have soplones--snitches--to tell them how much business each coyote is doing. So you have to pay," he says. U.S. officials...
...Sipadan Island, comments: "If there is a military attack, the Abu Sayyaf will not think twice to kill them." South African Monique Strydom wrote in her diary (recently published in Shooting the Moon) on June 19, 2000, day 58 of her abduction: "I hate them. I hate them a thousand times. I hate them for what they are doing to us ... to our families ... our parents ... for everything they have taken away from us. I hate them because time is so precious. I hate them for the flies that swarm all over us. I hate them because they have taken...
...problem is that I am a sports fan first, and everything else second. The sports fan in me has been on temporary hiatus for these four years as, through Zen techniques and constant meditation, I have succeeded in not breaking into "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" while sitting in press row at Harvard basketball games...
...came to Harvard with an ambitious, joyful stride, energized and prepared to bring his vision of educational and administrative reform to the University. He was inaugurated amidst great fanfare and frippery, with a two-day celebration featuring faculty symposiums, literary readings, special exhibits and an elaborate outdoor ceremony. Fifteen thousand people attended. No president had ever arrived with such a bang...
...years ago. The study, which used optical dating to pinpoint the age of fossils from sites across Australia, narrowed the previously fuzzy timeframe of the extinction. But the new dates makes human influence a more likely factor because scientists believe humans arrived on the continent between 52 and 60 thousand years...