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For months the two hacked away at each other in bitter and disingenuous television ads in a state where such campaigns can cost $3m a week.

Mr Obama says at least 80 per cent of the 3m-4m jobs he is aiming to save or create during the next two years will be in the private sector.

Chinese media reports have said he made Rmb10m ($1. 3m) for his investment advice.

Now known as 3M, the company says it 'produces thousands of innovative products for dozens of diverse markets. '

FOR a nation of pet lovers, Britain conducts a surprising number of experiments on animals: some 3m a year.

VPL thrived for a while, selling 1. 3m basic data gloves to Mattel, a toymaker, and a smaller number of high-end gloves to NASA and IBM.

The mistake 3M's former CEO made was trying to solve his problems at the CEO level - with corporate wide efficiency initiatives.

Ransoms of up to $3m make it an attractive profession. Money earned can go towards buying faster boats and fancier navigation equipment.

It is thought that at least 3m computer users have already downloaded the software, opening them up to potential security problems.

One of the biggest US companies has warned that the country's economy remains fragile, with recovery far from secure.

3M led off a list of a half dozen major U. S. industrials that are due to spell out their 2010 forecasts over the next two weeks.

Overall, the experts found that the ice, typically up to about 3m thick, thinned by 67cm over the last four winters.

In an industry dominated by a handful of global giants, each producing 3m-6m cars a year, Proton remains a minnow.

As 3M execs see it, everything coming out of a plant is either product, byproduct (which can be reused or sold), or waste.

It is a typical 3M story: an employee comes up with an idea that, through a series of accidents, then turns into a product.

The White House says that the bill overall is intended to create at least 3m jobs.

For 2009 the price has risen to $3m, but at least ten slots (out of 67) are still looking for a buyer.

Until recently, though, most of the 3m ships estimated to be lying on the seabed have been out of reach.

"It took a lot of the risk out of whether to commercialize it or not, " said Jim Graham, a technical manager at 3M.

To make that $100 idea into a product might cost $3m, in which case $100 might be fair.

which had sold 3m of its impressive iPads by June, only three months after it came to the market.

The attraction for the poor city is clear: one of the farms alone is estimated to generate $3m in tax revenue and create 400 jobs.

Over 3m Zimbabweans are thought to have left their homeland (out of a population of 13m), most of them for South Africa.

A special aluminium extrusion is then fitted, every 3m - 5m, along the length of the structure securing the flooring in each bay.

In the YouTube video, which has been viewed more than 3m times, Minegishi said the assignation has been "thoughtless and immature" .

Over the next two weeks, others, including Emerson Electric, 3M and Cummins are expected to show similar evidence of robust health.

That wasn't all. The tee markers were from Epson, the printer company, and one of our caddies was wearing a hat from 3M.

Local media reported last month that the alleged fraud may have resulted in client losses of up to Rmb20m ($3m).

Two of the arrested men are German converts to Islam. The other is one of Germany's 3m Turks, who have provided few terrorist recruits.

But according to General Motors, the first three weeks of the month were a good deal better, running at a rate of 10. 3m.

The city, with a population of about 3m at the hub of the country's richest province, is a magnet for rural and foreign migrants.

Almost 3m Americans have dropped off the voter rolls since November 2008, those missing are likely to be younger.

It costs more than $3m for an hour of drama that is good enough to pass muster on an American broadcast network.

Virgin has been slow to get off the ground: it has 3m credit card and saving customers but has delayed launching a full suite of products.

United for Jobs and Ohio's Future, a campaign led by a Democrat and a Republican, is spending more than $3m to explain Issue 1's benefits.

In the Xbox 360's first three months on the market, the American firm wants to sell up to 3m units worldwide.

Being pretty good in Math, I armed myself with a measuring tape and many of those 3M hooks thinking it would be a walk in the park.

Over the past decade the number of vehicles on Indonesia's often inadequate roads has nearly quadrupled from 3m to at least 11. 3m.

He is counting only the 3m tracks that were streamed at least once between February and July.

Kyrgyzstan, with just 5. 3m people, is the only country in the world to host both an American and a Russian military base.

Over 3m of them are thought to have left the country, and the UN refugee agency is working on contingency plans in case the exodus worsens.

The progenitor of the approach was 3M, with its famous release time for engineers to pursue pet projects.

There have been two days of massive street protests and strikes this year, one drawing as many as 3m people across the country.

Year-on-year gross profits at the company's agriculture division increased more than four-fold to $209. 3m.

In 2004 Don Blankenship, the chief executive of Massey Energy, spent $3m to help elect Brent Benjamin to the state Supreme Court.

Avon Products Inc. and 3M Co. were among the companies whose results disappointed and their shares fell sharply.

Take the glue invented in 1968 by 3M, which could stick paper onto a flat surface but wasn't strong enough to do so permanently.

He now faces up to seven years in prison and a maximum fine of HK$10m (US$1. 3m).

New Zealand has warned waves up to 3m could hit South Island and outlying islands.

And 3M Company are the only special ink products distributors.

Its imprisoned population, at 2. 3m, exceeds that of 15 of its states.

The authorities in Somalia have pardoned six foreigners convicted of bringing more than $3m into the country to pay off a pirate ransom.

Compared with a like vertical axial-flow pump, the pilot cross-flow pump raised the power efficiency over 5% and flow capacity over 10%.

He also pledged a new Land Act that would speed up the return of lands to the 3m people displaced by violence.

It has culled 3m animals, prompting a UN warning that Asian nations should tighten import controls and begin vaccinations.

Almost 3m of its customers pay for high-definition channels, up from half a million two years ago.

One, in which he demands to know who got more than $1 trillion in Fed emergency loans, has been viewed more than 3m times.

AT THE peak of India's strange insurance hysteria a few years ago there were almost 3m people flogging life-insurance policies.

If the barrier of rocks and mud gives way, a flood wave could threaten up to 1. 3m people downstream.

Oil & Gas UK, the industry's trade body, had hoped that output would be around 3m barrels a day in 2010, a target that now looks impossible.

We put in $3m-$4m of capital and the company acquired players in adjacentmarkets, integrated them and created a regional business.

Therefore, the other scientists at 3M put aside his idea and went about their work.

Will this nimbleness and enthusiasm suffice to wire up the roughly 3m homes without fast broadband?

It is about 3m long, to look closer, there are some transparent pipes seem like to be a sort of propulsion system.

Mr Chang is one of some 3m Peruvians who claim Chinese descent, the largest such community in Latin America.

But AllLife is specifically targeting customers carrying the virus, offering them more affordable insurance for up to 3m rand ($410, 000).

Gartner describes its tablet operating system, QNX, as "a promising platform" , and thinks RIM may sell 3m units this year.

And one more result of our unique culture, which lets us make the leap from need to 3M innovation.

Apple sold 3. 3m iPads last quarter. That is one of the best starts ever for a consumer electronic device.

It has over half a million registered users and has been valued at over $200m despite having just $3m in revenues and no profits.

It added that since the board approved a share buy-back programme, senior management had spent $1. 3m on shares.

GM announced yesterday it was recalling 1. 3m small cars in North America due to a power steering problem linked to 14 crashes.

In its home market, Toyota is expected to see production fall to 3. 3m vehicles this year compared with 4. 9m in 2007, Mr Nishimoto said.

The ruler can measure up to equivalent of 3m in all three units.

In that period 8. 3m more people signed up for its services, bringing the total to 94m.

Figures are disputed, but economic chaos and political repression may have caused a good 3m Zimbabweans to emigrate.

However, the results of DuPont and 3M were better than expected by analysts.

Sticky notes produced the earliest companies in the United States, a 3M chemist hands.

The Main Service Corridors and Banquet Service Corridors should be 3M wide and all Secondary Service Corridors 2M wide minimum.

That peak now looks increasingly likely to match the dismal record of previous recessions and exceed 3m people.

Earlier this year, the unions drew up to 3m people to one lot of protests.

used less than one year , all accessory included . ( 3m pixels , 5x digital zoom ) , good condition.

Even China's state-owned Central Television has a show about entrepreneurs pitching ideas to try to win $1. 3m in seed money.

Funding figures released late on Saturday showed the two sides each spending an average of $3m a day.

Throwing snowmobile, used in throwing snow along runway shoulder. Its operating width and length are 3 m and 45 m respectively.

"I am very very happy about my performance today, " said the 23-year-old Despatie, who won the bronze in the 3m springboard synchro.

Following a small footpath, the visitor first sees a long concrete wall, 3m high, with a single opening.

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. was formed in 1902 to mine corundum. Then it diversified into making sandpaper.

"There is a [constant] sense of positivity and fairness, " at 3M, says an employee.

Observe to the clinical effect, analyse functional mechanism. [Result] All cases were followed up for over 3m, 16. 5 w in average.

Man was like "Hmmm, strange, I worked as a director for the 3M Musketeers . "

The 3M chief's comments underscore how big US companies have increasingly focused their business plans on emerging markets.

Essentially it is made up of a webcam, a battery-powered 3M projector, mirror, phone and colored finger caps.

This is not a normal cycle when compared with a typical recession, which sees no more than 2m to 3m jobs lost.

Hamas has paid $3m of electricity bills into the PA's coffers in Ramallah to ensure a steadier power supply.

Gartner calls its tablet operating system, QNX, "a promising platform" , and thinks RIM may sell 3m PlayBooks this year.

Make sure that notice labels have been installed on the climate protection layer every 3m.

Many call it the world's biggest. Up to 3m people go there daily to buy rice and soap, computers and construction equipment.

On average about 3m kangaroos are killed legally for commercial purposes each year in Australia. Most of them are killed in the wild bushes.

For this small country of just 1. 3m people, the single currency is a further step towards "Europe" and away from Russia.

There would be five free trade zones and 100 exporting companies generating $3m each.

The rollover blackout will affect 3m customers, including factories and households.

Top leaders say the project has led to environmental problems and issues involving relocating 1. 3m people.

Objective To investigate the effects of sodium butyrate on cell growth inhibition and apoptosis in PC-3M cell lines.

About 20 employees of the American-owned firm 3M had detained its director of French operations.

According to the report, a case resulting in a death sentence cost $3m, almost $2m more than when the death penalty was not sought.

Nominal length exceed 3m, shall be with fixing Flange for reinforcement.

According to a stock exchange filing, Mr Gulliver has more than 3m shares and units of restricted stock in HSBC.

In early January thieves took advantage of lax security to steal over 3m carbon credits (about 2 billion are issued each year).

Ms Liu was detained for 420 days and was ordered to pay nearly $3m in back taxes.

"3M is the most ethical and transparent company that I've ever worked for, " says the employee.

If there were no air drag-- remember we dropped - an apple early on from three meters-- it will hit the floor at about 780 milliseconds.

Brands are willing to pay $3m for a 30-second television spot.

3M likes to conduct lots of small experiments, just like a start-up.

Walter Berglund is a lawyer who works for the multinational conglomerate 3M.

Some 3m, mostly skilled workers, had already fled to the west.

Clearly not all of the estimated 3m people employed, in one way or another, by security agencies are bullies.

Both sites publish links to Economist. com, which has 4m monthly unique visitors, 3m of whom have registered their details with the site.

Cravath, Swaine &Moore, also known mainly for M&A, joined the $3m club in 2010 after profit per partner went up by one-sixth.

It is wooing foreign investors with offers to lease 3m hectares of arable land. It is expensively branding its coffee for export.

The Protection Filters from 3M ($35 to $55, depending on monitor size, at Staples) attach to your screen with small plastic clips.

India produces 1. 3m cars a year.

Today the kingdom pumps 8. 3m barrels a day, keeping a third of its capacity shut down.

The number of incarcerated Americans has quadrupled since 1980, to 2. 3m, and many of these people make the streets safer by their absence.

Start-ups in America already add around 3m jobs a year, according to the Kauffman Foundation, a think-tank.

Results Cell growth was significantly inhibited by sodium butyrate and the inhibitory effect was in time- and dose-dependent manner.

In 1989, a pair of real ruby slippers were made to mark the 50th anniversary. These are valued at $3m.

The system already has more than 3m users in India.

Many of those are for distressed companies or for small parts makers with annual revenues of $3m-$10m, Mr Thorson adds.

However, 3M raised worries on the outlook for it home market.

Bangladesh has said that as many as 3m people died in the conflict, though others put the figure lower.

Rescue services estimated that waves swelled to approximately 3m in height.

The iPad tablet has been enormously popular elsewhere in the world, selling 3m units at $499 or more in its first three months.

An interesting tidbit of information from the 3M earnings conference call was picked up by Bloomberg reporter Will Daley on April 26.

Only 3m Russians had specialist industrial qualifications, while 12m were unqualified.

Local officials estimate the cost of converting 3m people at around 200 billion yuan ($30 billion).

Coordinate the implementation of 3M EHS Policy, procedure and program in CHJ Plant.

What shall be the Role of Channel in 3M marketing & sales systems?

Homer Software has shipped a product in an exciting market and generated $3m of revenue in the past 12 months.

Based in St. Paul, Minn. , conglomerate 3M has a hand in everything from touch screens to dog chews.

Its 1. 3m people are used to hardship and debt is only 10 per cent of GDP. Greece's level is 12 times that.

Many Zimbabweans survive only thanks to the 3m or so friends and relatives who have emigrated.

Texas gained more people than any other state, up by 4. 3m to 25. 1m, fetching it four more congressional seats in the House.

Mainly in charge of 3M Tape products business and key account management in North China.

It takes most of the year and as much as $3m to field a single samba school for a 90-minute parade.

Husab has an estimated 367. 3m lbs of uranium resources, the fuel used to power nuclear reactors.

Mr and Mrs da Silva are demanding the transfer of "all such trust property" to them or restitution of not less than $2. 3m.

It's another innovative 3M product that helps make your home more safe and comfortable.

More than 3m students are getting their high-school diplomas in late spring.

The high dive and 3m springboard are both individual and synchronised events.

In this case the emitter resistor is 10K, and the typical gain of the 2SC1815 is 300, for an input impedance of 3M at the transistor base.

Some 6. 3m workers have been off the job for more than six months, and the average duration of unemployment has grown to nearly 40 weeks.

The 3M Company has a 15% rule: employees are encouraged to spend 15% of their time developing new ideas on any project they desire.

Just 1. 3m Californians voted for Ms Whitman last week. And each of those votes cost her more than $60.

The House last week passed a $819bn version of the bill, which Obama says will create or save more than 3m jobs.

One motor industry-funded study calculates it could cause 3m job losses and cost the US government $160bn.

It is now by far the state's largest home-insurance provider, with 1. 3m clients.

In the book Green to Gold the authors talk about 3M and their program Pollution Prevention Pays (3P).

Almost 3m people in the UK are thought to have osteoporosis and many take calcium pills to prevent fractures.

Wu, runner-up of the women's 3m sprongboard in 2004 Athens Olympic Games, always trailed Guo in international competitions.

The aft transverse rubber packing of No. 4132 panel unglued and detached from the packing groove about 3m in length.

TESTS RELATING TO PAVEMENTS. EVENNESS TEST. PART 2 : MEASUREMENT USING A 3 M ROLLING STRAIGHT EDGE.

It's a dry liquid developed by 3M. It's perfectly clear , it's odorless , it's colorless .

Droughts in Arkansas, America's main rice-growing area, have hit the crop: exports will be closer to 3m than 4m tonnes this year.

The utility model has the advantages that the combined anchor can effectively salvage the cable which is buried in 3m depth.

There were 3. 3m of these clients in this region at the end of 2010, compared with 3. 1m in Europe.

Ed Whitacre, GM's outgoing CEO, is eligible for stock worth $7. 3m on top of his $1. 7m salary.

Up to 3m tonnes of illegal cooking oil is consumed in China each year.

Daimler is now confidently predicting that lorry sales will grow by more than half by 2015 to some 3m vehicles.

Congo has another 2m or so, Somalia at least 1. 3m.

Solidarity puts the number of illegal immigrants in South Africa at 8m-9m, including some 3m from Zimbabwe.

Athens Olympic Games in the women's 3m diving board-bombs and double (with Wu Minxia cooperation) champion.

Around 3m Chinese peasants were dying of starvation each year.

3M's stethoscope eliminates that guesswork.

General Electric Co. (GE) and 3M Co. (MMM) added more than 1. 6 percent to pace gains among companies most- reliant on economic growth.

Both DuPont and 3M also warned of the impact of rising costs.

TESTS RELATING TO PAVEMENTS. EVENNESS TEST. PART 1 : MEASUREMENT USING A 3 M STRAIGHT EDGE.

According to Democracy International just 4. 3m legitimate votes (out of about 15m eligible voters) were cast in the first round.

Father B: Incredible! I work for the 3M Corporation.

Thai customs last month spotted $3. 3m-worth of tusks under a pile of frozen fish.

He agreed to provide a $1. 4m loan, the terms of which included an option to buy the new company for $3m, which he soon invoked.

Forrester, a research firm, reckons such activity will help boost sales of electronic readers from 3m units this year to 13m by 2013.

But of those, by far the biggest number, 2. 3m, live not in Asia but in the US. Japan hosts a far more modest 300, 000.

He then spent $4. 3m to purchase a luxurious mansion in New York. However, he plans to lease it instead of living in the house himself.

The outfit has already collected more than 2m of 3m or so signatures it will need to satisfy every state's ballot requirements.

How Chinese Channels React to 3M China Management?

To meet its goal of 3m users in six months, TalkBizNow is targeting 200 "super-networkers" with more than 500 contacts on existing services.

Florida's population has risen tenfold since the 1940s, to 18. 3m.

Sellers' commissions at Christie's ranges from 15% on the first GBP 3, 000 to a negligible fee on anything higher than GBP 3m.

Some 3m people watched live video streams posted by CNN. com.

By very rough calculation, that's more than 3m words to date.

Here is another 3M story: some employees developed a product that kept road signs clean.

After cultivating the market nearly 20 years, 3M has become the promoters and leaders of china occupational health.

3M now produces the film at a plant in Decatur, Ala.

Of those, 28 received bonuses of more than $3m.

The following year Aung San Suu Kyi said she would use the $1. 3m prizemoney to establish a health and education trust for Burmese people.

Online, people are debating the best model numbers of 3M masks to buy, and pooling orders for air purifiers.

The Chinese always has advantages in the women's 3m springboard, both individual and synchronized.

There were 3m millionaires in both Europe and Asia at the end of 2009.

Indians are also the biggest consumers of the sweet stuff: in 2008, they used 24. 3m tonnes, nearly 15% of global demand.

By use of temporary bents, standard units 60ft (18. 3m) long can be placed over the median pier.

The recent housing green paper committed Britain to building 3m homes by 2020.

With the market growing 10 per cent to 12 per cent per year, this could reach 3m within a decade.

Floods in Pakistan killed an estimated 1, 500 people and stranded, displaced or otherwise affected over 3m.

I was unemployed but began looking at apartments for $2m and $3m.

The $2. 3m donation was made six weeks after Saif al-Islam was awarded a doctorate.

After removing the bogus bids the value of his "life" stood at 2m yuan, though he hopes the final figure will be over 3m yuan.

During four days of traffic restrictions, 1. 3m fewer cars were on city streets.

Just over 41% of all unemployed workers, over 6. 3m workers, have been out of work for 27 weeks or more.

It will be hard for even a corps of 10, 000 teachers to have a large impact in a country that has 3m teachers in public schools alone.

Some estimates suggest that 3m will need help.

This season 3m Chinese will take up a sport that was unavailable in the country only 15 years ago.

"Shanghai has done many things I never thought they could do, " says Kenneth Yu, managing director of 3M in China.

More than a third of Zengcheng's 1. 3m residents are migrant labourers.

A 2004 report by Forrester Research, a highly reputable firm, estimated that 3. 3m American jobs would have gone offshore by 2015.

Since 2007, 19, 000 Somali civilians are reported to have been killed and 1. 5m displaced; over 3m in a population of 8m need emergency aid.

IBM and 3M recently announced that they have a cool solution: a unique adhesive for packing the chip's layers.

Unisan Health Care "Bio-hazard" Printed Liners, 1. 3m. . .

On August 17th, Guo will defend her second Olympic gold, this time in the individual 3m springboard event.

Only 2. 3m non-European foreigners are legally resident in France.

The Paris mayor does not govern the banlieues, and runs a city numbering just 2. 3m people (fewer than the 2. 9m in inner London).

The Chinese electronics sector currently employs 3m people.

Fully 6. 3m people have been out of work for more than 27 weeks.

DisplaySearch, the electronics research firm, forecasts that Chinese e-reader shipments will hit 800, 000 this year and jump to 3m in 2010.

The government estimates Beijing's minimum wage rise will benefit nearly 3m people.

More than 1. 3m bottles are sold globally each year and the formula has been updated over time.

The plant in Hefei, an industrial city between the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers, will be 3M's ninth in China.

Including a 15 per cent buyer's fee, the anonymous buyer paid over US$1. 3m for the stamps.

Revenue for 2008 is expected to be $328. 3m.

Among the top 10 in Thomson Financial's league table, Goldman Sachs' fees dropped most, by 70. 9 per cent from $97. 3m to $28. 3m.

America is by far the most popular destination, taking 1. 3m migrants.

The tusks of 58 elephants, worth $1. 3m, were in metal boxes.

It reckoned that Yammer's revenue grew by a giddy 132%, to $22. 3m.

At the end of the first quarter there were 2. 3m empty homes on the market, an increase of more than 160, 000 from the end of 2007.

The world's biggest species of waterlily can have pads that grow to around 3m (10ft).

Meanwhile, most of Zimbabwe's estimated 9m remaining inhabitants (3m or so have emigrated) still live in poverty and growing fear.

Some 6. 3m of the UK's current residents, or just over 10 per cent, were born overseas.

The US lost about 3m jobs in the first three months alone.

France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain have regularised more than 3m illegal residents in the past 20 years.

According to government estimates Vietnam sees 3. 3m tourist arrivals each year.

According to Juwono Sudarsono, a formereducation minister, the 1998 financial crisis forced 3m children to drop out of school.

Of the 4. 4m jobs lost since the recession began, 3. 3m have gone in the past six months.

We offer China membrane switch from polyester materials, printing, rubber base, etc. for the 3M 467, 3 M 468!

When you set the picture size to 3M, the 8M CCD area is cropped to the center 3M area, allowing a picture with a higher zoom effect.

What is more, many football players are relatively hard-up. Some earn just 3m won a month.

Some 700, 000 Serbs, of a population of 7. 3m, live below the poverty line.

It now estimates that it will cut annual production capacity by 1. 3m vehicles, up from 1. 2m in the original plan.

Cut the wing from 3M magic tape. . .

Unemployment, currently at 1. 86m, is forecast to soar to 3m by 2010, equalling the peaks of the early 1980s and 1990s recessions.

Most raw milk comes from China's 1. 3m farmers who typically own between five and 10 cows each.