Others have given large sums over many years or aggregated larger sums collected from multiple contributors.
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After Plowden, some schools were so busy trying to foster their pupils' individuality that they neglected to teach them to read or do sums.
The industry stands to make or lose large sums if the rules are changed, whereas everyone else has got better things to worry about than financial regulation.
Exchange traded funds are often cheaper still, at least for savers who either invest large sums or take advantage of the many commission-free trading deals available on ETFs.
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Newspapers and television stations are exempt from the strictures of McCain-Feingold, so they can spend vast sums supporting or hounding political candidates without fear of reprisal.
And national intelligence agencies, of course, are going to be looking for the clues that will come from them, you know, people going back and forth across national frontiers or communications that can be intercepted or transfers of large sums of money.
They also will not be paid huge sums for playing or endorsements or have any of the fame or exalted lifestyle that ensues.
The chances that a case might fail or a court might cut or strike down previously awarded sums seems to increase as the legal process grinds on.
But the simple fact is that government programs spawn political constituencies, and millions of voters depend in one way or another on the vast sums the Pentagon spends each year.
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For years, inflation helped government balance its books, while promising huge sums for this or that, knowing the money would have shrunk, in real terms, by the time the promise was honoured.
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For the first time in more than a century, businesses and unions can spend unlimited sums to express support or opposition to candidates.
Non-payers will return to court so that appropriate measures to collect the cash, together with additional sums of 25% or 50%, can be set up.
They use the threat of injunctions to force firms that have breached their patents, wittingly or unwittingly, to pay big sums to keep their businesses going.
The chief justice - the most senior judge in the country - denies keeping undisclosed bank accounts, amassing undeclared sums in foreign currency or engaging in financial misconduct.
Even worse, too often, when we've attempted to update or replace outdated technology, we end up spending exorbitant sums of money on technologies that don't meet our needs -- or that took so long to implement that they were obsolete before we even started using them.
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Companies that owe vast sums may seek bankruptcy protection or go out of business altogether.
Last month, by a vote of 5 to 4, the U.S. Supreme Court gave carte blanche to the world's largest corporations to spend unlimited sums of money to support or oppose candidates for elected office.
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That meant that in some cases customers who had little or no money were able to withdraw large sums of cash.
Mr Dein, a close ally of Mr Wenger, said the club needed people or consortia "prepared to invest previously unimaginable sums aimed at winning the game's biggest prizes".
Society either then succeeds or fails to reorganize itself to realize the positive sums.
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This summit will not succeed or fail on the back of such relatively small sums.
They would occasionally receive a little money from him for tobacco or other expenses, but nothing that reflected the sums they were earning.
The Trustee makes no attempt to substantiate or support his unfounded claim that JPMorgan earned extraordinary sums from the Madoff account, and that claim is demonstrably false.
As long as they are independent of all parties and candidates, super PACs can raise unlimited sums and spend them urging the election or rejection of particular candidates.
For months there has been angry scrutiny of the sums paid to the bosses of public or publicly controlled bodies, from the BBC to the railways and the bailed out Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
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If the police can just confiscate such vast sums while they continue their investigations then who or what is safe?
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Bond investors have lost comparable sums only as a result of big wars or big inflations or both (such as during and after the first world war, or between the second world war and 1981, when real bond returns fell by 66%).
Both their prices have been dwarfed by the multimillion-dollar sums fetched by fellow contemporary artists like Richard Prince or Christopher Wool.
Taking a new drug, medical device, or wind or solar technology from conception to market requires time and sizable sums of money.
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