1.   Eric Williams who runs the Crumbs bakery has helped gather together thousands of pounds worth of baking equipment for his Romanian friends.

2.   And nobody had more esprit de corps, forged by years of traveling together thousands of miles away from home.

3.   By integrating computer and communications technologies, future corporations will create collaborative networks that link together thousands of people at separate locations.

4.   The idea of using the Internet to weave together thousands of independent PCs is not new.

5.   The servers are massively parallel supercomputers that string together thousands of inexpensive microprocessors and can be expanded to accommodate more material as the need arises.