He has caused hundreds of millions of dollars — sums that would be the envy even of the Met or the Getty — to pour into Yale's coffers.
He too declined to divulge a dollar sum, citing a nondisclosure agreement signed at the time of the sale.
In most jurisdictions a maximum, usually expressed as an absolute dollar sum and one relatively low in terms of present-day expenditure levels, is set.
According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the metropolitan area ranks highest among cities in terms of dollar sum (though not in percentage of income) given to charity.
His reaction to Murthy's question evokes the image of a stubborn child who, after receiving their multi-million dollar sum of pocket money, throws a tantrum when he's kindly asked to tidy up the bedroom.
After all his deductions (including the kind of noncash charges that are central to all tax shelters, like depreciation) that multimillion-dollar sum declines to just $392,000 in taxable income.
In an experiment that I conducted with Virginia Kwan, a professor at Arizona State University, we asked Americans in New York City and Chinese people in Shanghai to allocate a fictional thousand-dollar sum across nine financial stocks.
Two years ago he helped generate a gazillion-dollar sum as the star of Michael Bay's Transformers, only a couple of months after his Rear Window-ish thriller Disturbia pulled in a cool $22m on its opening weekend.
Not long ago, Babolat locked up Nadal with a 10-year deal, for a multimillion-dollar sum that makes him among the top racket endorsers (obviously Roddick is in the same category).
But a person who was involved in the negotiations and spoke on the condition that his name not be used said the company agreed to pay a multimillion-dollar sum to a corporation under Mr. Curry's control over the course of a few years, part of which has been paid in stock.
He sold part of his company for a multi-million dollar sum 2005.
