"We don't know if gift shops will sell more product, if flight-seeing operators and guide services will sell more trips, or how many cruise operators will book add-on tours into the interior," said Jim Jager, a consultant for the North West CruiseShip Association.
How many cruise missile attacks against Syrian command and control centers will convince Assad that reverting again to his chemical stockpile is a non-starter?
"I marvel at how many planes are cruising around.
"The oil companies' computer models tell them how many tankers will cruise the Gulf before one strikes a reef.
If you absolutely have to make contact with the outside world while on a cruise vacation (It's amazing how many people post their cruise pictures on a daily basis to Facebook....like I do) wait until you dock at one of your destination stops.
Rechy makes the point explicit by claiming Hollywood Boulevard as something of an open territory — "[s]ite of how many gay battles fought cruising and hustling, … [b]ought with how many cop interrogations and trips to jail to be hassled, questioned, booked, held, charged?" — as if, in so doing, he could actually make it so.
And there's no restriction on how many teams can have Mr. Cruise and Ms. Holmes, for instance, on their rosters.
It is unknown how many civilians US drone and cruise missile strikes have killed, but the New America Foundation estimates they have caused between 798 and 1043 total fatalities.
Lounging on the sun deck of a cruise ship as it navigates the warm waters of the Caribbean or Mediterranean, perhaps with a cooling cocktail in hand, is how many travelers envision spending a cruise.
It is moot how many jobs would really suffer if cruise ships were kept at a distance from Venice, but in short-term economics any old statistic will do to scare a politician or a judge.
