111.   The withdrawal from the former East Germany and other former Soviet bloc countries has left thousands of soldiers poorly fed and living in hastily built barracks.

112.   The war and a poor agricultural season have left thousands in need of aid.

113.   The water supply in Bucharest, the capital, was also affected by an overnight freeze, leaving thousands of residents temporarily without drinking water.

114.   Thieves stole long sections of electric cable from a city in the Russian Far East, leaving thousands of apartments without power, a news report said Monday.

115.   This was found out after an earthquake which left thousands of people dead in the housing complexes.

116.   Thousands were left without power, and most travel by plane and automobile was nearly impossible.

117.   Thousands were left without electricity because of the floods, many also without gas or heating.

118.   Those quakes and a series of powerful aftershocks leveled or left uninhabitable thousands of homes in the mountainous Umbria and Marche regions.

119.   Transportation strikes have left thousands of travelers stranded in recent weeks.

120.   Two day later the administrators grounded all Ansett planes, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.