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  • n  one part in a thousand equal parts

  • In June, China banned shops throughout the country from giving out free plastic bags and banned the production, sale and use of any plastic bags less than one-thousandth of an inch .
  • To what one-thousandth will the Fed measure my bloodline? (Was there a trace of some pristine, nonwhite, non- European victimness four generations back?).
  • It's ranked a woeful 145th overall by FIFA, football's global governing body, and 24th in Asia 13 spots below Bahrain, whose population is less than one-thousandth of India's.
News & Articles

  • Facebook, Microsoft release NSA stats to reassure users
    In an effort to reassure users, Facebook discloses it has received legal orders to turn over details on about one-thousandth of one percent of user accounts. So does Microsoft, and Google plans to do the same. [Read more]        
    June 15, 2013 - CNET
  • Facebook releases stats to reassure users about NSA spying
    In an effort to reassure users, Facebook discloses that in the United States, it has received legal orders to turn over details on about one-thousandth of one percent of user accounts. Originally posted at News - Politics and Law
    June 15, 2013 - CNET
Quotes

  • Mary Landrieu in The Hill (blog)
    From 1947 to 2009, 175,813 barrels have been spilled out of 16 billion produced,Landrieu said. "That is one-thousandth of one percent of total production. I know this committee has its eyes on the environment. We in Louisiana live in that...

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