There was a check for 500 dollars paper-clipped behind the letter.
It's a fair enough assessment, I suppose, until you consider that my colleagues and I were in charge of a multi-million dollar paper, working late into the night covering a campus racked with issues and struggling to maintain the integrity of our product while the looming specter of industry downturn threatened our solvency and well-being.
22, 1970, which amounted to about four hundred and fifty million dollars on paper, & which left him with, on paper, almost a billion dollars.
Airlines have saved millions of dollars in paper and postage since the introduction of the e-ticket.
"Someone may be worth hundreds of millions of dollars on paper but have no savings," Mr. Gumbinger said.
"I hold back on changing the menu more than once a week, because that's fifteen dollars in paper, and printer ink is very expensive".
The primary factor was the Wall Street debacle, especially the collapse of many dot-coms and telecommunications companies, which eliminated trillions of dollars of paper wealth.
Edward S. Lampert, the hedge fund manager whose bargain-hunting ability has been compared to Warren E. Buffett's, has lost millions of dollars on paper by betting on Citigroup.
The firm has suffered billions of dollars in paper losses on its investment in Energy Future Holdings, the giant Texas utility, which it acquired along with several partners in 2007 for $44 billion in the largest leveraged buyout ever.
About 250 of Facebook's earliest employees, many still at the company, will be worth millions of dollars on paper after the flotation, thanks to share options handed out after it was created by Mr Zuckerberg.
The turmoil that Europe's difficulty has caused in financial markets already appears to have caused tens of billions of dollars in paper losses in China's foreign exchange reserves.
