The cliff-fall mandates an additional defense-budget reduction of fifty-five billion dollars annually.

NEWYORKER: The Force

The conglomerate, Luneng, was valued at more than ten billion dollars, but a pair of little-known private companies had paid just under five hundred and fifty million dollars for ninety-two per cent of the company, Caijing reported.

NEWYORKER: The Forbidden Zone

In the fall of 2011, he sold two Mongolian oviraptor nests for more than three hundred and fifty dollars each, a tyrannosaurus ileum for five hundred and sixty-one dollars, a tyrannosaurus tooth for three hundred and twenty-five dollars, and a tyrannosaurus tail vertebra for four hundred and ten dollars.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

According to tax records, it was funded by two donations: one of five hundred thousand dollars, the other of fifty thousand dollars.

NEWYORKER: Partners

He took note of the talent and passion of the young scientists at Halcyon, and when they asked him for fifty thousand dollars he gave them a first round of five hundred thousand.

NEWYORKER: No Death, No Taxes

In the past several years, Lang has averaged a hundred and twenty-five concerts a year, and he usually gets fifty thousand dollars for a recital.

NEWYORKER: The Olympian

By December, 2008, the Sterling partners had about four hundred million dollars in Sterling Stamos accounts and about five hundred and fifty million with Madoff.

NEWYORKER: Madoff��s Curveball

The company was liable for three hundred and fifty million dollars in fines, and four Koch employees faced up to thirty-five years in prison.

NEWYORKER: Covert Operations

You'd put in fifty cents a week, and in December, you got a fortune -- twenty-five dollars.

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