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The uproar began at the end of October when Harry K. Thomas, the director general of the Foreign Service, announced that the State Department would order as many as 50 officers to Iraq next year because of expected vacancies.

"They were the same luxury quality boxes we have today," Massenet recalls, "except we didn't order as many then… We were really held back by how much we could buy, because we had no money to buy product".

After Nov. 8, collectors may order as many as five copies, at $1 each (payment by check or money order) from Office Service Branch, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C. 20226.

Their plan was for the Council to order as many as 100 United Nations military observers into Yugoslavia in advance of the Brussels meeting to bolster a crumbling cease-fire agreement, one of many in the war.

Singapore Airlines announced last month that it was prepared to order as many as 30 of the stretched 787s as well as an equal number of Airbus's coming A350-XWB, a rival wide-body jet that made its inaugural flight on Friday.

Representatives for Jon Heder, below, the "Napoleon Dynamite" star, said he had left a new Comedy Central series that was about to go into production, one that sported a pedigree of prominent comic talents and for which the cable channel had the option to order as many as 100 episodes.

Saietta was thought to be responsible for ordering as many as sixty murders; people in Little Italy, it was said, would cross themselves at the mention of his name.

The authority has ordered as many as 750 of these types of cars and plans to put them in service by 2020.

The network said that it had ordered 10 episodes of the untitled series, and that it was committed to ordering as many as 90 more if the show meets certain ratings benchmarks when it has its debut in 2010.

More recently, though, China has ordered as many as 40 advanced Sukhoi-30 fighters from Russia as part of a steadily growing arms procurement program intended to give China an edge over Taiwan.

It has ordered as many as 800,000 units from its suppliers in Taiwan, and may even raise its expectations to a million sold in the first quarter of 2011.