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Six thousand miles from the club shops where these shirts will be sold, a meeting is taking place inside Bowker Garment Factory.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Ten thousand sorties, 23,000 combat flight hours, almost 4,000 combat sorties," he said, later announcing the award of a presidential unit citation to the strike group for "extraordinary heroism against enemy forces."
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
According to the Bryn Walker web page, the brand operates six company-owned stores “and wholesales to around a thousand boutiques nationwide.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Lenny Merryman, who runs the daily operations of Man & Machine, a keyboard and mouse retailer, is waiting for a few thousand dollars from FedEx and DHL.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Papa said, “Why, we’ll have to take him. We couldn’t leave him here all alone. He’d die a thousand deaths. Just be sure that we have a rope with us.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
To pay for the labor, inmates allege that individuals outside of the prison are depositing thousands of dollars into the commissary accounts of those waiting on the “Satisfy You” singer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Some travelers have reported offers worth thousands of dollars in recent years after carriers including United Airlines and Delta Air Lines boosted maximum payouts in the wake of the 2017 passenger-dragging incident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“This loosening of guidelines, combined with scaled-up immigration enforcement, has resulted in the detention of thousands of parents, many of whose minor children are U.S. citizens,” a recent analysis by the Migration Policy Institute concluded.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
The ceasefire saw thousands of Palestinians held by Israel released in return for the remaining hostages held in Gaza.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grown-ups remains a mystery to me to this day.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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