In a system where experts agree that three dollars of each ten spent pay for services that do no good, that doesn't seem like an impossibly cruel goal.
So comprehensive was the mess that the news that a Florida lawyer named Hugh Rodham had pocketed four hundred thousand dollars for services rendered to a couple of successful pardon applicants came almost as a relief at first, in that it enabled the Clintons themselves to join in the general chorus of shock and dismay.
The economy gains if such goods and services are locally produced: on one estimate, each dollar sent home generates three to four dollars of economic growth.
In the grand scheme of what we will pay for experiences, a few hundred dollars for the services of some of the best chefs in the world, a good meal and an unforgettable experience?
In 1990, before Carrey became a movie star, he made a check out to himself for the preposterous sum of ten million dollars, "for acting services rendered," and postdated it Thanksgiving of 1995.
But it has done little to endear Mr Arafat to his own people.Over the past month, the Palestinian press has been full of reports of Iraqi children dying in hospitals for want of medicine, of Iraqis selling their kidneys for a few hundred dollars and of public services in ruins.
We apply our method to the Chilean school meals auction, in which the government procures half a billion dollars' worth of meal services every year and bidders submit thousands of package bids.
So says one of American Airlines' slick new commercials which just happened to pop up on my office television at precisely the same time I was reading a HuffPo article on American Airlines CEO Tom Horton's 20 million dollar 'golden parachute' for his year and a half of service during American's bankruptcy (about a million dollars per month of service, give or take).
She filed a civil suit, which she eventually withdrew, but Mayweather pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor battery, and was given a suspended sentence, along with a nominal fine of three thousand dollars, some community service, and two days of house arrest.
First-time offenders can face fines of a few hundred dollars, community service and driver's license suspension; the crime may end up on your record permanently.
