(In Davis, California, whose municipal emblem is an old-fashioned big-wheel bicycle, I once failed to put my foot on the ground at a stop sign; a minute later, a police officer on a bicycle was beside me, softly blowing a whistle. The fine was twenty-seven bucks — today it would be a hundred thirty-four).
Ten bucks yesterday and we're thinking free today, but on the other side we still have cleaning and security and all those sorts of costs.
Thirty bucks 19 days ago was not a big deal, but with the government shut down and no end and no pay in sight, every dollar counts.
One grower recently told the Associated Press that what sold for about $21 a gram last year will bring in only four bucks this year.
It's gonna be a financial bonanza: a couple of billion bucks from this year's U.S. budget supplemental for starters, and that's double the dough we paid them to go along with Arafat at Wye.
I got a little smarter and then only lost 10 million bucks in four years.
"The whole camera module might cost below a hundred bucks by early next year," he estimates.
Peter J. Nygård, a lion-maned immigrant from Finland, now in his late 60s, who started the company with a few thousand bucks in 1967 by buying a small women's clothesmaker.
You're paying five bucks and I'm making 5,000," boasts Iggy Pop, possibly exaggerating a tad.
This love of meat is hardly new, as we can see from the latest Candy Bowl selection: Joseph Mitchell's "All You Can Hold For Five Bucks," from the issue of April 15 , 1939
