HOW much do digital globes cost now?
"It is something people tend to buy when they go somewhere," said David Castelveter, a T.S.A. spokesman, like Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., where collectible snow globes cost as much as $150, as well as less obvious destinations like Siberia.
Swine flu, which killed tens of thousands, sickened millions around the globe, and cost us a lot in terms of vaccines and treatments, likely evolved on one of the giant animal concentration units that pass for farms nowadays, and so host antibiotic-resistant bacteria, as well as concentrations of pollution from animal waste that harm hundreds of thousands or millions directly.
The opulent parties held after the Golden Globes can cost $750,000 each when catering, parking and space rental fees are included, according to planners.
Around the globe, maintenance costs to repair asphalt roads during their service life often exceed the available budget of road authorities and municipalities.
The mix of looser distribution deals across the globe cuts costs, "a very important component of how much money we net," notes Phoebe Wood, Brown-Forman's chief financial officer.
Even a snow globe that costs a penny is worth a world to someone.
Think of the communications market as a pyramid with the globe-trotting, cost-is-no-object executive at the top.
Earth-imaging satellites the size of vans have long circled the globe, but those cost millions of dollars each to build and launch, in part because of their weight and specialized hardware.
