Here are the actual year end totals of federal debt outstanding from the Treasury Department.
Quickly emerging from behind their alias, Simon and Schuster, as Simon & Schuster, brought out two more crossword-puzzle books, both compiled by Miss Petherbridge; as the year ended, total sales of the three books reached three hundred and fifty thousand copies.
That number was a substantial increase over prior years, tripling the year-end total of 21 in 2002.
In 2002, album sales dropped 17.3percentto to 650 million units, from the year-end total of 785 million units in 2000.
Mr. Tanaka said he expected the release of "Vespertine" to spur a new round of submissions, bringing the year-end total to 900 remixes.
That represents the highest year-end total for signed contracts in that price range since 2002, according to statistics from Houlihan Lawrence.
Boeing said it had 524 firm orders up to the end of November and expected the year-end total to be 560-570 aircraft.
Because the lobbying intensified in the fourth quarter as both the House and Senate prepared their final bills, the year-end total is likely to shatter the previous record for money spent on a single issue in a single year.
The deficit was at £1.6bn after the first six months of the year, and £2.3bn after nine months, prompting fears that the year-end total might have topped £3bn.
The biggest IPO in the world this year, an $8.2 billion offering from China Construction Bank, will push Hong Kong's year-end total to $25 billion.
In the follow-on equity business (subsequent rounds of financing), Morgan totaled $2.3 billion while Deutsche Bank Securities came in second with at $1.1 billion and Goldman third with a year-end total of $1 billion.
