population

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We serve roughly 90% of the U.S. population each year, and we continue to deliver value as people try to make their budgets stretch a little further.

From The Wall Street Journal

Monday’s item on the booming deer population in Massachusetts and the movement to allow hunting on Sundays has inspired poetry from a longtime reader:

From The Wall Street Journal

U.S. troops in Iraq believed they would be greeted as liberators because 80% of the population disliked Saddam Hussein’s regime, Mansoor said.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the U.S. alone, that number was 135,000 people, roughly the population of Dayton, Ohio.

From Salon

However, theoretical models had expected a larger population and suggested a stronger connection with lower-mass Be stars.

From Science Daily