• And it also backed an amendment sponsored by Republican John McCain and Democrat Edward Kennedy that allows the millions of undocumented workers already in the country to get on the road to citizenship, provided they pay a thousand dollar fine, that they pass criminal background checks, and that they apply for a green card.

    NPR: Senate Panel Approves Immigration-Reform Proposal

  • Our medical system is excellent at trying to stave off death with eight-thousand-dollar-a-month chemotherapy, three-thousand-dollar-a-day intensive care, five-thousand-dollar-an-hour surgery.

    NEWYORKER: Letting Go

  • Set in some unspecified but very seventies looking future, Peter Martin (a luxuriously moustachioed Richard Benjamin) and John Blane (James Brolin) head off on a thousand-dollar-a-day vacation to adult theme-park Delos.

    ENGADGET: blogger-avatar

  • For pesky illegal downloaders, eschewing a trial for a several thousand dollar fine has been a less burdensome way to settle things with the likes of Andrew Lack 's Sony BMG .

    FORBES: Lack's Sony BMG Offers Free Downloads In Settlement

  • Sure, saving 10% on a thousand-dollar computer is nothing to scoff at.

    FORBES: The Dirty Little Secret Of Apple's Black Friday Sale

  • "That's a thousand-dollar expense every month or so, " Frazee said.

    CNN: Film to digital: Seeing movies in a new light

  • The family across the street is driving a 60 thousand dollar car and every couple of weeks they carry in and out about 20 or so igloo ice chests.

    FORBES: Medicare Has Stopped Paying Bills For Medical Diagnostic Tests. Patients Will Feel The Effects

  • That means if a thousand people stamp one dollar a day for a year, the message would be seen more than 300 million times.

    CNN: Stamp stampede on your dollar -- for democracy

  • In June, Obama spent an evening attending a successful forty-thousand-dollar-a-head fund-raiser, along with Bill Clinton, in the Upper East Side town house of Marc Lasry, the billionaire C.

    NEWYORKER: Schmooze or Lose

  • The past catalyst that drove gold to a near two thousand dollar per ounce price tag will not have any influence until the current cycle of investors is rinsed from the picture.

    FORBES: Gold Heading To $1,300

  • This first film by twenty-four-year-old Robert Rodriguez was made for seven thousand dollars, and part of its enormous charm is that it really looks like a seven-thousand-dollar movie.

    NEWYORKER: El Mariachi

  • At Knopf, Lish signed Carver to a five-thousand-dollar contract for his next collection of stories.

    NEWYORKER: Rough Crossings

  • C. filings, Jericho State Capital was paid a ninety-thousand-dollar fee, plus stock warrants, for making the introduction.

    NEWYORKER: Mayberry Man

  • But Pope and three members of his family gave the Davis campaign a four-thousand-dollar check each the maximum individual donation allowed by state law.

    NEWYORKER: State for Sale

  • Perkins also proposed that she be paid a hundred thousand dollars on top of the hundred-thousand-dollar fee she received as a board member.

    NEWYORKER: The Kona Files

  • As it stands, glasses based-3D is still too big of a hurdle for consumers to climb with three thousand dollar TVs and hundred dollar glasses, and would create pretty disastrous gaming scenarios with everyone crowding around the same TV, the 3D effects popping out at wonky angles for everyone.

    FORBES: Xbox Executive Thinks 3D Gaming a Mere "Science Experiment"

  • Barring a worldwide recession, this will be the last of annual surveys of U.S.-dollar billionaires to feature fewer than a thousand of them.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • That means if the maker subsidizes the residual, it only has to reserve for the coming loss at 50 cents on the dollar, which is a lot cheaper than a few thousand dollars cash in rebates.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • If you want to start a phenomenon, says Ballmer, it doesn t start with thousand-dollar-plus devices that sell at unreasonably low volume and need major room redesigns.

    FORBES: X Is For Entertainment

  • At the current rate of increase, the cost of family insurance will reach twenty-seven thousand dollars or more in a decade, taking more than a fifth of every dollar that people earn.

    NEWYORKER: Testing, Testing

  • Rather than buy another multi-thousand-dollar home entertainment system to recapture that new quality, I can invest a small sum in upgrading my current system back to mint condition.

    FORBES: Your 30-Second Pitch: Speak Not in Code -- Talk as a Human

  • Affleck, in his best performance yet, plays a local boy who has fought his way out of a poor Irish neighborhood and has been living well beyond his hundred-and-sixty-thousand-dollar salary.

    NEWYORKER: The Company Men

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