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This number is a bit higher than the levels common in the decade before World War I, though as a proportion of the total population, a million new residents in 2004 are much less significant than a million in 1904. One important difference is that a century ago, virtually all immigrants were legal ones.

Official statistics, which the government tends to smooth so as not to indicate big booms or busts, show that the economy expanded 8.5 percent last year, despite the fact that growth came to a virtual halt during the second quarter because of an outbreak of SARS. According to independent economists, however, the Chinese economy actually expanded at an annual pace of 11 percent to 13 percent through the second half of last year.

But because he was a true liberal and democrat, Nehru showed due deference to the office of president, accountability to parliament, never interfered with the judiciary, and was in his own words "accessible to every disgruntled element in India". (p 181) He virtually fathered India on minutiae of democracy.

Even though President Bush is virtually assured of being the Republican candidate this year, Joan says many Republicans still attend their local caucus.

Arab scholars picked up from where the Greek ancients had stopped centuries earlier, and extended human understanding in virtually every field.

I was greeted and treated by virtually every Arab I met with the greatest courtesy and grace, even in the most trying and sometimes downright tragic circumstances.

Creditors – American companies MetLife and Teachers, along with British firm M&G, as well as player-leasing agents Registered European Football Finance Ltd – do not want to see the club go into administration And there were fears such a move would result in the Premier League imposing a nine-point deduction, which would virtually signal their relegation from the top flight after they went bottom yesterday following defeat at Southampton.

Downstairs, it’s trains — in every conceivable form, a virtual warehouse for model train enthusiasts.

The dollar's drift has affected virtually every constellation of world business and economics.

The website, besides being a $10,000-an-hour moneymaking machine, is an exceptionally lively virtual community - a beguiling combination of noisy chatrooms, agitprop updated for the internet era, and a networking-and-dating service.

Then go to "Get Local", where the virtual spills into the actual, and you can meet up with -- in the flesh at a fund-raising house party, a letter-writing and envelope-licking session at a bar or café, a doorbelling expedition, a chilly hour spent waving Dean placards at the passing traffic.

It featured virtually a Who's Who of American entertainment.

She recounted for me a set-to they had had not long after he assumed virtual control of the administration of the museum through his rigged executive committee.

And I was left virtually alone to deal with the situation.

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