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• n  the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
• s  denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units

• After his arrest on July 22, 1991, Dahmer was sentenced to nearly a thousand years in jail.
• Story openings --ledes in reporter jargon--have to grab, whether they be for a five hundred word news piece or a thousand page novel ("I was in bed with my catamite when Ali the .
• "Something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

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News & Articles

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• Ten Thousand Villages donates $20K
  KEARNEY — Ten Thousand Villages will continue to benefit the city even though the store at 2119 Central Ave. closed March 31.
  June 13, 2013 - Kearney Hub
• Thousand Oaks signs off on budgets for next two years
  The Thousand Oaks City Council approved a total budget of $160 million for the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1.
  June 12, 2013 - Ventura County Star
• Thousand Oaks doctor arrested twice for DUI; patient death probed
  A Thousand Oaks doctor arrested twice for DUI is now under investigation in connection with the death of a patient.
  June 12, 2013 - KABC-TV Los Angeles

Quotes

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• Kent Conrad in ABC News
  If I'm a business person, it's unlikely if you give me a several-thousand-dollar credit that I'm going to hire people if I can't sell the products they're producing,said Sen. Kent Conrad, DN.D., a member of the Senate Finance Committee after...
• Sidney Crosby in msnbc.com
  Being in Canada, that's the opportunity of a lifetime. You dream of that a thousand times growing up. For it to come true is amazing. Our team worked so unbelievably hard,Crosby said. "Today was really tough, especially when they got a...