Lee's comedy "The Wedding Banquet" became the most profitable film of the year when measured by percentage of cost, earning $23.6 million from a budget of $1 million.
His plan, which included relief for the city's Housing Authority for policing costs, earned praise from civic groups.
Ritzy Cambridge, Mass., clocked in at No. 11 because of extremely high salary scores, while Detroit's rock-bottom housing costs earned the city a No. 15 rank despite an astronomical 13% unemployment rate.
"Ladies' Gunboat Funds" became the rage, with women raising money via auctions, dances and other means to help with construction costs, earning so much that the Charleston, the Fredericksburg and the Georgia became known as "Ladies' Gunboats".
The Child Poverty Action Group has calculated that a single parent with one child and no housing costs earning £15,000 a year will be £170 a year better off as a result of the new universal credit regime.
But it disputes the idea of kickbacks and claimed that any additional fees covered administrative costs, earning the company no profit.
It was the most expensive Bollywood film ever made at the time, with a cost of over US$11 million, yet recovered its costs, earning worldwide.
The religious mission schools levy fees just enough to cover fixed and variable costs, earning neither a profit nor making a loss.
The total operating cost, revenue earned, net present value of plant, costs of fuel, maintenance, insurance, labour and pumping with escalation rates have been observed to be higher than the case without escalation.
Excluding that cost, MasterCard earned $243 million, or $1.87 a share.
