Some residents are scoffing at the notion of spending millions of dollar to promote a state with little hope of emerging from the shadows of neighboring New York or Massachusetts.
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We have already eliminated a number of costly regulations, saving millions of dollar a year, so local officials can focus on their top priorities, such as education and police protection, during an economically difficult time.
Not surprisingly, the cutover was a month late and still failed, triggering massive shipping delays, a pile-up of excess inventory, a list of angry customers who refused to pay, millions of dollar in losses and a full-blown liquidity crisis.
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"If you are in a situation where you are trying to sell a concept to a venture capitalist you best be persuasive that you are different and have a special idea that justifies a couple of millions of dollar of investment, " says Tragardh.
Redbox sees "millions of small dollar amount transactions, and interchange fees represent a larger percentage of card processing costs compared to a typical retailer, " making it "relatively more susceptible to any fee increase, " the filing said.
China has done what no other country has been able to do in the last decade, and that is bring millions of people out of dollar-a-day poverty and into the working and middle classes.
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Typical performance and management fees are 2% of assets under management and 20% of profits, and additional expenses can reach into the millions of dollars for multibillion-dollar funds.
How close we are to a re-run of this scenario will be determined not only by what Bernanke says during his press conference, but also by the skillful actions that he and his colleagues take to demonstrate to millions of people all over the world that the dollar is a currency worthy of their trust.
This year, the retail price of one mip (millions of instructions per second) of computer performance will drop below a dollar.
Now on Saperstein's mind, and the minds of millions of other fixed-income investors, is the multitrillion-dollar question of whether the U.S. Treasury and municipal bond markets are on the verge of blowing up, too, or merely suffering a bout of indigestion.
It could catapult past the billion-dollar mark by the aiding millions of people with the indigestion, constipation, stomach pain and other severe symptoms known by the catchall term "irritable bowel syndrome" (ibs).
Both created many millions of jobs by unleashing free market forces: firming up the dollar, cutting or maintaining low marginal tax rates, deregulating business, freeing trade, reforming welfare.
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It has since grown in to a multi-billion dollar event, watched by a global TV audience of tens of millions, and which provides fertile hunting ground for scouts searching for the next African superstar.
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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.
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