An analysis of census data found that nearly eight million immigrants entered the United States from 2000 to 2005, more than in any other five-year period in the nation's history ; 3. 7 million of them entered illegally.

An editorial in the St. Petersburg Times argued :" Reno's reputation as a state attorney, the foundation for her eight years as the nation's attorney general and her candidacy for governor of Florida, was built in significant part by her aggressive prosecution of three sensational child abuse cases in Miami-Dade County.

Schweikart and Allen also argue that Harding's tax and economic policies in part "... produced the most vibrant eight year burst of manufacturing and innovation in the nation's history.

The per capita Korean American population of Bergen County, New Jersey, in the New York City Metropolitan Area, 6. 3 % by the 2010 United States Census, is the highest of any county in the United States, with eight of the nation's top ten municipalities by percentage of Korean population ; while the concentration of Korean Americans in Palisades Park, New Jersey, within Bergen County, is the highest of any municipality in the United States, at 52 % of the population.

A fiscal conservative, he was named the Senate's " Watchdog of the Treasury " for each of his eight years in the nation's capital.

Washington retired in 1797, firmly declining to serve for more than eight years as the nation's head.

The school ranks among the nation's top 50 in sending graduates to eight top universities, according to a December 2007 survey by the Wall Street Journal.

Within eight years, and with an influx of capital investment from the private-equity Griffith Family, Clear Channel had accumulated ownership of over 1200 radio stations and 41 television stations in the United States, as well as one of the nation's leading live entertainment companies and over 750, 000 outdoor advertising displays.

NOS consists of eight program offices and two staff offices that manage and preserve the nation's ocean and coasts.

Since that time, eight more editions of the manual have been published with numerous minor updates occurring between, each taking into consideration changes in usage and size of the nation's system of roads as well as improvements in technology.

Lotti Tschanz earned the nation's first top eight finish.

Vladimir Echeev won the nation's only archery medal, a bronze, though the Soviets did pick up 4 more top eight finishes.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

More than 20 million people live on farms and they own a fourth of the nation's trucks, buy more gasoline than any other industry and provide a major market for home appliances, chemicals and other products.

* 1997 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1. 25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.

Analysts estimated damage to the nation's infrastructure at US $ 640 million, with balance-of-payments losses of some US $ 300 million.

The nation's population was estimated to have increased to about 15 million in 1990 and to an estimated 17. 2 million in mid-1994.

By the end of the war, MIT became the nation's largest wartime R & D contractor ( attracting some criticism of Bush ), employing nearly 4000 in the Radiation Laboratory alone and receiving in excess of $ 100 million ($ billion in 2012 dollars ) before 1946.

It was the most popular American book of its time ; by 1837 it had sold 15 million copies, and some 60 million by 1890 — reaching the majority of young students in the nation's first century.

Over 2 million demonstrate nationally ; about 250, 000 in the nation's capitol.

Factories in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province employed 48 percent of the nation's 2. 1 million factory workers.

Washington Dulles Airport is the largest airport in the Washington Metropolitan Area and is one of the nation's busiest airports with over 23 million passengers a year.

The USSR emerged from the Second World War in 1945 with the greatest total casualties of any participant in the war, sufferning an estimated 27 million killed along with the destruction of much of the nation's industrial capacity.

It proclaims the freedom of 3. 1 million of the nation's four million slaves, and immediately frees 50, 000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advanced.

Oran, currently the nation's second largest city with 1 million people, was a village of a few thousand people before colonization.

By 2005, Fox's most popular show by far was the talent search American Idol, peaking at up to 37 million viewers on certain episodes and being the nation's highest-rated program in the 2004 – 05 season.

Bureau of Reclamation statistics show that the more than 600 of their dams on waterways throughout the West provide irrigation for 10 million acres ( 40, 000 km² ) of farmland, providing 60 % of the nation's vegetables and 25 % of its fruits and nuts.

At two million inhabitants, it is far and away the largest city in Guinea, making up almost a quarter of the nation's population and making it more than four times bigger than its nearest rival, Kankan.

Minnesota Public Radio, operating as American Public Media, is the nation's second-largest producer and distributor of national public radio programs, reaching 16 million listeners nationwide each week.

* Alfred Taubman, former Lawrence Tech architecture student-one of the nation's leading real estate developers, innovators, and owners of shopping malls throughout the U. S. He also owns Sotheby's auctioneers and until recently owned the A & W restaurant chain.

Many cable operators were also equity owners in these cable channels, especially TCI, then the nation's largest multiple system operator ( MSO ), and had moved to replace local channels with equity-owned programming ( at the time, TCI held a large stake in Discovery Communications ).

CNL Lifestyle Properties, Inc., owners of Darien Lake Theme Park Resort and Elitch Gardens, and Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation ( HFE ), the nation's largest family-owned theme park corporation, assumed the day-to-day management of both properties starting January 25, 2011.

Continuing merchandise and program tie-ins perpetuated the connection producing such a sizable following that many of the nation's magazines chronicled the phenomenon.

The development of the nation's sizable natural gas resources also originated largely from YPF.

Mauritian Solidarity Front ( in French Front Solidarité Mauricien also known by its acronym FSM & ex-Hizbullah ) is a predominantly Muslim political party in Mauritius trying to represent the island nation's sizable Muslim minority.

The nation's number one picnic treat is the skinless frankfurter -- toasted over a bonfire on the beach or, more sedately, charcoal broiled on a portable grill.

While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

The sale would have given Humble Oil a large number of existing Flying A stations and distributorships, as well as a refinery in California, the nation's fastest-growing gasoline market.

A number married into the nation's most prominent mulatto families, bypassing the constitutional prohibition against foreign land-ownership.

The 2008 Princeton Review Best 290 Business Schools names Millsaps ' Else School of Business as one of the nation's top business schools and ranked Millsaps number 3 for " Best Classroom Experience ".

The Judiciary Act of 1789 called for the appointment of six justices, and as the nation's boundaries grew, Congress added justices to correspond with the growing number of judicial circuits: seven in 1807, nine in 1837, and ten in 1863.

Prior to establishing the nation's capital in Washington, D. C., the United States Congress and its predecessors had met in Philadelphia, New York City, and a number of other locations.

According to the Association for University Technology Managers, Louisiana Tech is ranked as the nation's 2nd best academic institution for innovation productivity as measured by number of new inventions generated per research dollar expended.

They are a senior officer of their nation's armed services, and are often from the nation committing the highest number of troops to the project.

Historically a leading seaport of the area, the story of Mystic's nautical connection is told at Mystic Seaport, the nation's largest maritime museum, which has preserved a number of sailing ships ( most notably the whaleship Charles W. Morgan ) and seaport buildings.

Moline's streetcar system, the state's first and only the nation's third, was also Illinois's best for a number of years, with a minimal five-cent fare and an extensive coverage area.

The place became a battlefield again in the early days of the Civil War when Confederate troops mounted an assault on Battery Jameson, Fort Lincoln, now northeast Washington, D. C., which was one of a number Union defensive forts built around the nation's capital to protect it from capture.

With three summer associations ( the Belvedere Club, Sequanota Club, and the Chicago Club ), a number of extravagant summer hotels, including The Inn and The Beach, and with rail service at two train depots on the Pere Marquette Railway line, ( one depot for the Belvedere Club on the south side of Round Lake and one on the north side near the Chicago Club ), Charlevoix became known as one of the nation's finest summer communities.

Hammett testified on July 9, 1951 in front of United States District Court Judge Sylvester Ryan, facing questioning by Irving Saypol, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, described by Time as " the nation's number one legal hunter of top Communists ".

These number 32 – one for each of the nation's 31 states, plus the Federal District.

The proportion of council housing rose from 42 % to 50 % of the nation's housing total, while the number of council homes built increased steadily, from 119, 000 in 1964 to 133, 000 in 1965 and to 142, 000 in 1966.

Congress finally appointed Knox the nation's second Secretary at War on March 8, 1785, after considering a number of other candidates.

It is the nation's largest supermarket chain in terms of number stores.

It is also the cradle of the nation's noble heroes, of great men and women ; also home to many of the country's greatest artists, with a good number elevated as National Artists.

Before 1874, when Massachusetts passed the nation's first legislation limiting the number of hours women and child factory workers could perform to 10 hours a day, virtually no labor legislation existed in the country.

* In 1996, Schlitterbahn was voted the nation's number one waterpark by the readers of Inside Track magazine.

Natural attractions include national parks, state parks, and agri-tourism while a number of historic sites related to the nation's founders are open to the public.

Although he called Constellation " our nation's only chance at remaining the leader in human space flight ," a number of private companies were, and are, competing to develop orbital launch systems.

The partition of India following its independence divided the nation's assets and a number of studios went to the newly formed Pakistan.