In July Bank of America closed the Countrywide acquisition and took a hit of roughly $14 billion in the form of an accounting adjustment on the mortgage lender's souring loans.
The Sun emits roughly half its energy in the form of infrared rays, with the rest mainly as visible light.
So far, some $750 billion in stimulus money has been paid out: about $300 billion went to tax breaks for individuals and firms; roughly $235 billion was dispersed in the form of government contracts, grants, and loans; and another $225 billion was spent on entitlements — unemployment benefits, Medicaid, food stamps, and so on.
After it sold its pharmaceutical business, best known for the blockbuster ulcer drug Pantoprazol, to Scandinavian firm Nycomed for around $6 billion in 2006, she received roughly half of the proceeds in the form of a special dividend.
With roughly $3 trillion of reserves held in the form of U.S. Treasury debt — more than $2 trillion in China and Japan alone — Asia would be directly exposed to a U.S. debt downgrade or default.
But in Chicago, a lack of police reform has already taken a massive financial toll: Since 2004, the city has paid out roughly $662 million for police misconduct in the form of multimillion-dollar settlements, legal fees and other penalties.
Three telephone interviews (CATI Computer Assisted Telephone Interview) lasting roughly fifteen minutes each, followed in the form of a three wave tracking study.
By then the country will be exporting roughly the same amount of energy, in the form of coal and gas.Currently America exports only a little gas.
Debts of roughly the same magnitude are hidden in the form of underfunded pension liabilities once the official estimates are corrected for some dubious assumptions about risk.
