Word: thousander
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...Mart is better than the dole, but it is still a life of constant worry--always watching the margins to make sure ends meet, always making sacrifices. They must support their families on real wages that are now at the same level as they were in 1973, a full thousand dollars below what they were at the start of this decade of remarkable growth. For Buchanan, these Americans "have been left behind and left out." They see future hopes not in stock options but in slot machines...
...Windows are also on the rise. As one venture capitalist at Accel Partners puts it, "in the past six months, we have not seen a business plan for a conventional packaged software application." Sounds surprising, perhaps, but how else could a single student from Helsinki hobble together a few thousand lines of code that turned into Linux, an operating system with millions of users currently being shipped on IBM and Compaq PC's? The only real barriers to entry in the operating systems market are a mind, a modem and, arguably, a garage...
...Efficient; not as unwieldy Too close to name ("TWO KAYS") as "thousand" of computer...
...While the space station will not be completed until at least 2004 and, at this point, the rooms are being discussed only for use by astronauts, the elements are clearly in place for ordinary earthlings (with a few hundred thousand dollars to spare) to vacation in outer space. For more than a year, the American firm Space Voyages has been taking reservations for sub-orbital shuttle rides - price tag, $98,000 - and expects to launch in 2002. Further, NASA's top brass has urged Washington in recent years to allow civilian forays into outer space, including private rides...
...those services and events cost money--Violent Femmes cost $22,500. The hotel ballroom for the First-Year Formal--which over 1,000 first-years attend--costs several thousand dollars. If we ever want to have an even more popular band and an event that rivals Penn's Spring Fling, we'll just have to find more money to do it with...