Near the end of the second week, Horace Mann offered a financial settlement, with payments ranging from less than ten thousand dollars to more than a hundred thousand, depending on how badly the students had been abused and on whether they had alerted school authorities while they were still teen-agers.

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Four hundred and ten thousand barrels.

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But there are close to a hundred thousand small towns with ten thousand people or less.

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Surdex is one of largest in a team of ten companies that's assembling this atlas of American agriculture for the USDA. This year, it will process more than a hundred thousand images, covering ten states in the Midwestern and Northwestern United States.

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Ten thousand and eighteen guests.. One hundred cooks.

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He had got about ten thousand dollars in investments, mostly from his father, and he was now making fifteen hundred dollars a day in advertising from a Russian dating service called Mamba.

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Ten percent of a million dollars is a hundred grand to Uncle Sam, while 10 percent of ten grand is just a thousand bucks.

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