Searching her property, the police had to borrow a bill-counting machine from a local bank to help total up all the cash: $485,000.
In another Central Valley contest, the Democratic Party spent $25,961 to help Shawn K. Bagley in the 12th Senate District contest against Republican state Sen. Anthony Cannella of Ceres, who has received campaign help totalling $78,674 from his party.
Mr. Blasi said his study "strongly suggests that executive excess in stock options did not help total shareholder return over the entire decade.
Such factors, says Ober, will help Total overcome its political disadvantage in that part of the world.
Their future depends entirely on whether a family they have never met is willing to put its own mourning aside to help total strangers.
These people need a religious motive that will help them overcome a natural human disinclination to help total strangers on the other side of the world, a motive like believing that God wants them to.
Without that help, which totalled about $12,400, Shumaker said he would've left the illness untreated -- as he had since 1993, risking his liver and kidneys.
For me, it is the ongoing generosity of neighbors helping total strangers that is the richest lesson of all.
The post-Christmas surge helped total download sales for the year jump almost 50% on 2006 to 77.6m tracks.
