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...I could not previously recollect with certainty. ―Instead of some thousand dollars, I was now compelled to be contented with about twenty! ...

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...olumn required all of my scheming. While I struggled to pay that thousand dollars I resolved to lay aside something as a cushion, but it was many ye... ... The Library As far back as I can remember I have always watched over my dollars. In Springfield I knew what each month’s expenses amounted to. Dur... ...ade—from Kentucky. I must give away that telltale hat. It cost me eight dollars. Certainly, Mary must never find it; that would mean severe hyster... ...ng paper. How do I obtain accurate information? I learn that two million dollars have disappeared from our national treasury. I learn that General ...

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...inage Mintage Statistics 1793-1902 51 Silver Coinage Mint Mintage Statistics 1793-1902 (odd denominations) 54 Gold Coinage Statistics 1793-1902 (in dollars) 57 Appendix C: Reports 60 Superintendent Robert Morris’ 1782 Report 61 PROPOSITIONS RESPECTING THE COINAGE OF GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER. 66 Samuel Osgood and Walter Livingston’s April 8, 1786 Report 69 April 8, ...

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...s and killed 60 people. Chile, 1960 Property damage: Pegged at millions of US dollars. Casualties: 5700 killed and 3000 injured. Side eff... ...the United Kingdom, and 1,23 in continental Europe. Thus $14,100 is 14 thousand US dollars in the United States - but only 14 dollars and ten cents... ...ts on 41,492 concrete piles. The purchase of land cost $2.25 million (in 1943 dollars). The building itself cost c. $50 million, or $83 millio... ...oof of another building nearby. The damage was estimated at $1 million (that's 1945 dollars). It took 3 months to repair the 78th and 79th floors. ... ...ging. Criminals like Al Capone (see our First Book of Factoids) made 60 million US dollars a year in the 1920s. In 1933, Utah was the 36th state to...

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...y hand flutteringly. “Hitler is known to have paid close to a quarter million US dollars to his nephew, a certain William Patrick. It was not out...

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...ealthy to talk down the local lawmen in public. I finished my steak, left two dollars on the table and headed out. It was gonna to be a hard couple... ...h…if that’s all right?” “Sounds like a deal,” Duke answered, as he put four dollars on the counter. “Start with this and I’ll even up with you if ...

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...ot just a dead end but as a low-paying dead end. I was making eighty-five dollars per week, which Saks thought was a good salary. I thought it neede... ...for doing a good job. Then Maria became pregnant again and my eighty-five dollars needed support. I asked for an increase of ten dollars more per we... ...rchased a majority interest in (Nameless) Amos for the sum of one million dollars. This was petty cash to them, but it 63 64 • Man with No Name s... ...ut the company did not thrive. In the latter part of 1987 and six million dollars later, The Sage Group sold the assets of the corporation to the Jo... ...any recovered. When Portola acquired the business, sales were six million dollars per year. They built it up to over $80 million. Portola capitaliz... ...shing an adult friendship with me; his sole interest was in getting a few dollars from me whenever I vis­ ited, not only because he was abusing, but ... ...Sky But I Missed, So I Grabbed a Few Stars • 87 an astounding six-billion-dollar bill for welfare and unemploy­ ment compensation. Illiteracy is a pr... ...awaii. United Way is a fund-raiSing council which distributes millions of dollars to sixty-five social service and non-profit agen­ cies in our commu... ...rred to me their concern was quite a compliment. Here was a multi-million dollar company fearful of penniless me. But I also thought, "Wow! If I ca...

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...you for openin’ up, Doc. Like I said, I can pay you anything you want.” “Two dollars will cover it. Truth is I didn’t want to close up today, anywa... ...th I didn’t have much time to think about anything else.” I gave him the two dollars and he put it right into his pocket. As he headed toward his... ...e will come from all over to buy. Stud rights alone could bring thousands of dollars into the Circle of Fire. Once our name is out there, in front ... ...at while Clint was missin’ the mornin’ of the race, he’d put down a thousand dollars on Whisper! The odds were twenty to one, so Clint walked away ...

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...dn’t know exactly where I was going, but with the two-hundred and twenty- two dollars I’d saved, and what was now one of the fastest horses in the t... ...lebags were filled with ill-gotten merchandise consisting of near forty-five dollars in cash, a handful of gold coins, a set of silver plate tablew...

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...zation. It traded opium. It hired out the services of its skilled assassins (for 20 dollars a contract). It recruited members among the Macedonian p... ...he enormous interests vested in psychiatry and psychopharmacology. The multibillion dollar industries involving drug companies, hospitals, managed h...

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...eeds to be set up to meticulously analyze traffic congestion, since our tax dollars are being wasted anyway, and it might as well go towards solving... ... place better than at a club, where drinks at Club Mode are at least twenty dollars a shot. Plus, this goes back to my whole theory on Asiatown, lik... ... he's ever seen and flat out asks, "Would you sleep with me for one million dollars?" She looks at him for a moment and answers, "Nothing after that... ...nswers, "Nothing after that? Just one night of sex with you for one million dollars? Hell yes I will!" The man then asks her, "Okay, how about for tw... ...ollars? Hell yes I will!" The man then asks her, "Okay, how about for twenty dollars in the back room over there?" The girl is completely in shock. "...

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...ove at First Stake 29 I mouthed the words along with her. I wish I had a dollar for every time somebody felt the need to tell me that. I’d lived... ....” “Then somebody needs to tell the pheromones that they’re a day late and a dollar short.” I paused to lick my lips seductively. “Cuz, I’ve got t...

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...d easy-to-follow language. Our India correspondent Choodi Shivaram bravely takes us into the controversial Kerala temple where tens of billions of dollars worth of jewels and offerings, hidden from view for decades, were recently discovered locked in two dark chambers below the Padmanabhaswamy Temple. The discovery makes it the richest Hindu temple in the world, and tha...

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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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...e and poverty, that she didn’t confront him; tried instead to stretch each dollar and swallow her disappointment at his cruel disdain. Jana was born t... ... beach at Nassau, the lacquered fish head she had given a little girl five dollars for in Cuba, the painting they had bought in Paris. She poured a br... ...o abil- ity, to even look at a page. Jake had bequeathed Lacey millions of dollars as well as the lake house and the old bookstore and loft in Toronto... ...eks until my final chemo. I wish I didn’t have to do it. They each put ten dollars in the pot, poured drinks, and dealt the cards. As they settled in ... ...macy in Mexico. Apparently it was freely available for less than a hundred dollars. The addresses, and instructions about what to ask for were all the... ...re is proof that the 240 SUSAN BRACKEN Catholic Church spends millions of dollars on coercion of gov- ernment officials.” Scott winced at this. “The ... ...st pay to get out of this street and to be not reported. Five hundred U.S. dollar and you can go.” Trembling, Lacey knew she had no recourse. She was ... ...ng the money, the officer said, “And what more you have?” Lacey pulled ten dollars out of her pocket. “This is all. It is for the tip for the bus driv... ...e to escape. We make list of your names. Each one pay one hundred thousand dollar to be free.” A gasp from one woman brought a sharp rebuke. “Be quiet...

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...alting set of uncoordinated activities mainly aimed at c:ryptologie problems, to a multi-million dollar proJJ'8D1 aimed at tbe full range oC informati... ...r, where we'd like to credit a few crypto-equipments witb tbe saYiDss of several buDdred million dollars worth of assets, there were otber contributor... ... really leaves np option: if loss of the material is judged damasinI, it must be classified. / • Dollars for manpower and facilities required to prote... ...ormation a SIGINT organization finds useful in doins its job. -iSrNSA spends tens of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of man-hours trying to ...

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...ich, was exacted for the benefit of the conquerors a sum equal to a million of dollars. BRIGANTINES BUILT IN WHICH TO ESCAPE IN CASE OF RETREAT. Thing... ...edible were the spoils. From one vessel it is recorded that over three million dollars' worth of gold and gems were taken to say nothing of silver, wh... ...One noted Buccaneer, having taken a ship in which he found only a few thousand dollars, a miserable spoil for a man of his aspirations, ordered the cr... ...nd being released, guided them to a spot where he had concealed fifty thousand dollars. Such scenes as this, and many far worse were witnessed in Puer... ...g, gathered together his booty, consisting of more than three hundred thousand dollars in coin and goods of incredible value and went back to Tortuga ... ... the line whose sole wealth consisted of one bar of silver of the value of ten dollars, brought it up to the inspector and declared it to be his all. ... ... by the greedy Frenchmen. A widow brought four crowns, something less than six dollars, and in a fit of generosity the officer let her keep the whole,... ...a man of them made less than one hundred thousand crowns, about sixty thousand dollars, and some three or four times this much. Nor did the strict ord... ... had been collected and sent on board the French fleet, and not until the last dollar was safe in the coffers of the Admiral were the gates opened and...

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...ring in isolated cases in ordinary reading-matter : "The admission was two dollars." When several such numbers occur close together, and in all ma...

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...sharply demanding— ‘Who has taken my jacket?’ ‘I’m sure I don’t know, Miss Dollars. You’d best ask Mrs. Halfpenny.’ ‘If—’ but at that moment Mysie ran... ...’Tis well that there’s one in the house that knows what is befitting. Miss Dollars, you stand still; I must sort your necktie before you go. ’Tis all ... ...ou tell your mamma that I should be fain to know her plea- sure about Miss Dollars’ frocks. She’ve scarce got one— coloured or mourning—that don’t wan... ... after the pair were released, remonstrate with Mysie on being termed Miss Dollars. ‘They can’t make out your name,’ said Mysie. ‘I tried to teach Loi... ...he moment. She said Mrs. Halfpenny had called her, and told her that ‘Miss Dollars’ was crying, and that she did not think the child ought to be left ... ...d she always slays for ages!’ ‘One of you young ladies must bide with Miss Dollars,’ said Nurse Halfpenny, decidedly, ‘or we shall have her fret- ting...

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...nited States. Of course he laid great stress on our universal hustle for the dollar. To do that is to follow the line of least resistance in writing a...