That month, a tanker was hijacked north of Somalia; it was ransomed for thirteen and a half million dollars, setting a record.
That's a lot, but consider this, a ten thousand dollar set up with a 50 cent antenna, isn't gonna serve you well.
Although the city spent several hundred thousand dollars setting up a transition office for the new administration, the Bloomberg team preferred to do the bulk of the work from its campaign headquarters.
He remembered her telling him when she broke her hip that she had over six thousand dollars set aside for " — you know".
But compare that to the example of their contemporary Joan Mitchell, whose unabashed, emphatic lyricism was scorned by Greenberg; she holds the auction record for a work by a female artist — almost twelve million dollars, set at Christie's in May.
Another example is Samsung, which is believed to have at least a billion dollars set aside for technology acquisitions.
Where else could a college administrator with only a few thousand dollars set up a Web site (positively-you.com) and go into competition with Amazon.com?
It was reported that the album had a budget of twenty five million dollars set aside for promotion.
"A three hundred dollar set of knives," marveled his mother, Nelly.
HONG KONG — One of Hong Kong's largest developers announced Wednesday that it had sold an apartment for 439 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a record, just hours after the city's chief executive warned that the city might be facing a real estate bubble.
The character: Retired mechanic Woody Grant falls for a piece of junk mail announcing he has won a million dollars and sets off on foot from Billings, Montana to collect his money.
