But that's not that staggering a cost.
When you factor in the increasing popularity of smartphones (iPhone 3G, T-Mo G1, BlackBerry Storm, yadda, yadda), Twitter's pop culture explosion, and the extra 15 million new wireless subscribers in '08, among other factors, all of a sudden 13/per doesn't really seem all that staggering.
It was decided that staggering the Games would make it easier for corporations to sponsor individual Olympic Games, which would maximise revenue potential.
For the first piece in the series, titled Chromogenic, Baclawski experimented with the way that that "staggering the light bulbs in an up and down pattern" would create a unique, and homogenous, tone in the light.
What did you do?' And I find that staggering.
"No Downtime" is the best example of that, staggering to devastating end: "I admit, not from an environment that let a child flourish/In the street, slim physique, wild courage/Five deep, trying to eat, looking malnourished".
"Unless Messi absolutely wanted to get out of the club, why would Barcelona agree to that? "Staggering the payments would certainly make it easier for Chelsea, Manchester City, PSG and Bayern Munich but Manchester United demanded the fee up front when they sold Cristiano Ronaldo and I strongly suspect it would be the same for Messi," Wilson said.
Sony stated in a statement of the film's good ticket sale's that: "Staggering advance sales were reported in Australia, where tickets for Michael Jackson's This Is It purchased through Village Cinemas exceeded the lifetime pre-sales of such blockbusters as Transformers and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Who would have thought that staggering to a scummy apartment with three sketchy guys could be so dangerous?
Even that staggering sum represents a fall from 189,979 in 2011 - after the e-publishing boom really began to swell the accounts.
