But the rewards for holding out are sometimes even more Brobdingnagian, minting billionaires out of pups like Jerry Yang of Yahoo.
But the United States had precious little precious metal like silver — try minting coins out of buffalo chips.
Or maybe it's her unpredictability -- you just can't keep on leaving home, or minting earrings out of the exhausted vein of silver plate in the Irish-American foothills, or rehearsing the same old road show of wayward girls, harmful husbands, angry academics, suspicion of money, quarrels with the past, ambition and corruption.
Suppose that Obama's lawyers tell him that extraordinary measures like just ignoring the ceiling or minting the coin are out.
As Johns remembers it, "I then said, 'That isn't much money, so why don't we ask other artists to contribute, and start something where artists help performing artists?' " The newly minted Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts sent out telegrams inviting people to its first sale, in February , 1963 at the Allan Stone Gallery.
The upstart computer maker set a record on Dec. 9, 1999, when its newly minted stock came out at $30 per share and closed at $239 a first-day gain of roughly 700%.
A £100 coin featuring Big Ben, of which 50,000 were minted, sold out within days.
It has minted billionaires out of businessmen who deal in iron ore and coal, and it has enriched many Australians by increasing the value of their homes and creating well-paying jobs.
To begin with, the Hong Kong team had not yet developed a way of getting the newly minted ALA out of the Fit Coli cells, which meant that the engineered bacteria would quickly swell up and die.
Unprofitable in and of themselves, Huntington's streetcars grew into such an extensive system in large part because he needed them to take newly minted Angelenos out to far-flung tracts where they could purchase a lot of their own – from the massively land-owning Huntington himself.
