The girl on the other side of the road has one that says "One dollar short of taking care of the world".
As of this afternoon, they had raised $640, the priest said, one dollar at a time.
Sure, saying "One million dollars" is played out at this point -- but that scene is brilliant to virgin eyes and ears.
PPP is defined as the numbers of units of a country's currency needed to buy in the country the same amounts of goods and services as, say, one US dollar would buy in the United States.
In the unusually "empty" souks, "everyone seemed more desperate to get a dollar," said one sister.
The company was really on the ropes and down to its last few dollars, says one source.
"I have debts; I have bought merchandise for thousands of dollars," says one merchant who declines to be named.
That stock was worth a "couple of million dollars," says one source, after the acquisition.
In hindsight, a lot of reasons suggest themselves; 125 million of them, you might say, one for each of the dollars Armstrong earned over a starry career in which he survived cancer to "win" seven straight Tours de France.
Unless the provincial and federal health departments commit to overhauling addictions treatment, something that would require billions of dollars, Ujjainwalla said one solution would be for Ontario to pay for people to get private addictions treatment in the US, which for him, is the "gold standard".
