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..., but the back room was comfortable enough to sleep in, and that saved him a dollar or two in living expenses. He was a bit later than usual toni...

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... in their earlier stages—that is to say, a man worth three or four million dollars may be a good talker, clever, amus- ing, and of the world; a man wi... ...en who believes in education and possesses it, with a few hundred thousand dollars to boot and a taste for slumming. Item, the leader of a sort of inf... ...raw-backs. She is—I say it with all reluctance—irreverent, from her forty- dollar bonnet to the buckles in her eighteen-dollar shoes. She talks flippa... ...pprenticeship to the sewing ma- chine. She can earn as much as one hundred dollars a month, 28 American Notes and professes to regard this form of br... ...he sea, for I have taken the best that it yields, and the best was neither dollars, love, nor real estate. Hear now, gentlemen of the Punjab Fishing C... ... with a picture of the canyon. I wouldn’t sell these rocks not for fifteen dollars.” And papa and I crawled down to the Yellowstone—just above the fir... ...blank factories sug- gested. Here they turned out so many hundred thousand dollars’ worth of such and such an article; there so many million other thi... ...; there so many million other things; this house was worth so many million dollars; that one so many million, more or less. It was like listening to a... ...eat by the million bush- els, a hundred banks lend hundreds of millions of dollars in the year, and scores of factories turn out plow-gear and machine...

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...eat Corruptions That Are Destroying America The Corruption of Politics 1 The Corruption of Debt 7 The Corruption of Currency 13 The Mutiny on the Dollar 18 The Future of America 22 Part II The Three Assets You Do Not Have to Report to the U.S. Government How to Prepare for the Biggest Government Encroachment in U.S. History 25 Three Tips to Keep Your Wealth Ou...

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...overnmental transparency. At the same time, the increasing expenditure of taxpayer dollars has been conducted at variance with traditional ideals o... ...ive sinecure to another. Lost the elections as a Senator? How about a multi-million dollar book contract, a consultant position with a firm you form... ... being rescheduled with the blessings of the IMF (which contributed 200 million US dollars to the effort) and the World Bank (in the process of app... ...ll privatization proceeds (optimists put them at $3 billion, realists at a billion dollars less) are earmarked to pay off foreign debt. The budget ... ...n). Even at the current, depressed, prices, this would fetch well over 2 billion US dollars in next door Pakistan. It also represents 5 years of tot... ...European consumption and a (current) street level value in excess of 100 billion US dollars. The Taliban intends to offload this quantity in the nex... ...ised to explore and extract billions of barrels of oil worth dozens of billions of dollars. Iraq owes Russia $9 billion which Russia wants repaid. ... ... issues. It aspires to secure its oil contracts in Iraq - worth tens of billions of dollars - and the repayment of $9 billion in old debts by the po... ...ar contracts signed between Iraq and Russian oil companies and worth of billions of dollars - and on the repayment of $8-9 billion in Iraqi overdue ...

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...ge constituencies requires outlandish amounts of money (tens of millions of dollars per campaign). Politicians end up spending a lot of their time in...

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... I send you, has seen the light, and the ‘Censor’ is slow, though sure, so dollars for immediate expenses run short. I called on the fellow, Mr. Gracc... ... a lion, to be honoured with distant respect and obedi- ence. We shall get dollars enough to keep us going till my talents break upon the world, and o...

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...rd stage. 23.2. The mechanism for the creation of ECUs against gold and US dollars as provided for by Article 17 of the EMS agreement shall be unwound...

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... About Economics PART I. ECONOMICS REVISITED: What we’ve always known about economics may not be so MYTH #1: The World’s Poor Just Need a Few More Dollars Per Day MYTH #2: GNP/GDP Tell Us How Well Everyone is Doing MYTH #3: Economic Growth is Necessary to End Poverty MYTH #4: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization Seek Prima...

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... with his other. Suddenly, he drops the stack of paper all over the floor and just stands there, rigid, mouth hanging open and eyes as wide as silver dollars. Staring into nowhere in particular, he begins babbling faintly and incoherently to himself. He giggles slightly with a faint smile, and then he looks around with an intense expression of perplexed distress. Ed’s cowo...

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...give me for saying, you're young and naive. We have already spent billions of dollars trying to stop the drug trade. The more drug dealers we captur... ...ACs (Political Action Committees) in this country that contribute millions of dollars to further their own interests. It's also perfect for launderi... ... said, "You come to me with a plan that makes no sense. You want five million dollars to fund a powerful Senator's Presidential campaign with drug m... ...ontation was headed and decided to pull back. "Michael, to grant five million dollars, I must have an answer," he said sheepishly, hoping to turn Br... ... reveal your sources, and yet you expect me to divulge mine?" "Five million dollars to a candidate, by your own admission, who wants to put us all... ...Senator, how do you intend to fund your campaign?" "The old fashioned way, a dollar at a time." The woman frowned and sat down. It was obviously n... .... So, let me see if I can piece some of this together. Brand has five million dollars to give us. And, I'm sure you're not going to tell me where it... .... Maybe, he really can help. He's already gotten commitments for five million dollars. Like it or not, we're on our way." A voice came over the int... ...Brand said, trying to sound perturbed. “What did you expect for five million dollars?” Brand didn’t answer. “We may have some serious problems,”...

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...and stamping out innovators who developed better products to compete against them. Brandeis supported his contentions with a discussion of the actual dollar amounts -- in millions of dollars -- controlled by specific banks, industries, and industrialists such as J. P. Morgan, noting that these interests had recently acquired a far larger proportion of American wealth than ...

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...slamming the door to the bathroom. Hair sleek and glossy, face made up, stomach sucked in, nipples hard – she almost looked sexy. Taking two, hundred-dollar notes, a couple of condoms and three white tablets from a pot on the dressing table, she flapped the money in front of her reclining paramour before tucking it into the purse sitting on top of his clothes. ‘Want to fe...

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... of 2008 and its aftershock including the debt crisis in Southern Europe. In response to the fiasco, policymakers round the world wasted trillions of dollars worth of public funds on makeshift schemes that ended up hobbling the financial forum and the real economy. Upon closer inspection, however, the epic blowup was a consequence of excessive meddling in the markets r...

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...ar 1808, the importation of slaves, and to lay an intermediate duty of ten dollars per head, as a discouragement to such importa- tions. This class of...

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... continue to rise. As the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) enumerates this: ‘Natural disasters are becoming more costly: in constant dollars, disaster costs between 1990 and 1999 were more than 15 times higher ($652 billion in material losses) than they were between 1950 and 1959 ($38 billion at 1998 values) The human cost is also high: over the 1984–2003 ...

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...having voted, I perceive, in their present pecuniary straits, a million of dollars to indem nify the slave owners of the District. Neither did the Co...