Americans keen to stretch their budgets last quarter made Dollar General stores a frequent stop.
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In the nine months to the end of September, developed-world shares dropped by about a quarter in dollar terms.
In partial data for 2010 (only through the first quarter) dollar flows were near zero and euro flows were substantial as the Swiss, in particular, acquired a large amount of euro reserves (to lean against the record level of the franc versus the euro).
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He said he doesn't understand why the NBA would want the bad publicity of taking a quarter-billion dollar public subsidy.
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The euro, in particular, is now worth about a quarter more in dollar terms than it was at its low in 2000.
The book (for which she received a whopping quarter-million dollar advance) is a whack in the head for anyone stuck in traditional, linear, fixed ways of thinking about career and success.
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The kronor dropped by about a quarter against the dollar and the euro on Wednesday, and by evening in Reykyavik, the euro bought 172.16 kronor, up from 135.83 kronor on Tuesday, and the dollar bought 126.5 kronor, up from 100.13 kronor on Tuesday.
The resulting quarter-trillion- dollar government deficit has diverted attention from Bush's sensible tax cuts.
If you can figure out a way to get breathable oxygen from moon rocks, that will fetch a quarter-million-dollar price.
So how should new parents budget for their quarter-million-dollar bundle of joy?
The season of quarter-billion-dollar movies kicks off with a mess.
Let me tell ya, very little, certainly not even close to even a quarter of a billion dollar, especially if all test will require a new FDA510K medical device approval.
Now Beckham is in New York to play in the All-Star Game for Major League Soccer, the upstart outfit he joined in 2007 with wildly exaggerated rumors of a quarter-billion-dollar contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy and expectations he would glamorize an underappreciated sport in the United States.
They employ, around and about, one quarter of the staff per dollar of sales than do, for example, WalMart.
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Last week Citi said it would take nearly a half-billion dollar fourth-quarter charge related to severance and other costs associated with 4, 500 layoffs.
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Skilling testified that he watched in disbelief as the company posted billion dollar losses the next quarter.
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It doesn't help that the euro has lost one-quarter of its value against the dollar since its launch.
At 25% of net assets, these write downs reflect a quarter down the drain for every dollar of investor capital.
Only three out of 94 country indices (Venezuela, Tunisia and Jamaica) were positive in U.S. dollar terms during the quarter, according to Bloomberg.
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Furthermore, a marked decline in the value of the U.S. dollar through the third quarter has made it even more difficult to squeeze out profits.
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The Japanese yen which has lost almost a quarter of its value against the dollar since October, amid expectations the Bank of Japan would buy more assets in a bid to reverse years of falling prices rose 1.6% in its sharpest advance since Feb. 25.
That three-quarter-of-a-trillion dollar number is actually the total, according to House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt, D-S.C.
Even without the sex appeal of a quarter-of-a-million dollar category, Pepsi is clearly onto something with its campaign.
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That is the highest quarterly dollar amount since the first quarter of 2008.
For many, the effectiveness of buybacks would be better if they simply acquired the same dollar value of shares every quarter.
In the second quarter, there were nine billion-dollar initial public offerings worldwide.
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The bank's president, Jean-Claude Trichet, has played down expectations of another rate increase, while forthcoming statements from U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke this week could heighten speculation that the dollar will get its own quarter-point rise before the year is out.
Even for more targeted spending states with sizable, clogged urban areas the payoff for a dollar of spending was a measly quarter.
We now have - the state of Massachusetts is now saddled with a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar debt over his government-mandated health care system.
Although he's on the dollar bill now and on the quarter, "Washington would probably object, " says Douglas Mudd, curator of the museum at the American Numismatic Association in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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