Papa had right around two hundred and fifty dollars in his purse as I had reason to know since I kept his books for him.

NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

Several years ago, Texas passed a tough malpractice law that capped pain-and-suffering awards at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

NEWYORKER: The Cost Conundrum

The company grew to two hundred and fifty million dollars in annual sales, with customers including Apple, Samsung, and Motorola.

NEWYORKER: Green Giant

He ordered Prokopi not to travel beyond northern Florida once he got home, and he raised the bond to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

They required complete control of the budget for campaign expenses. (One of their rules: save seventy-five per cent of your budget for the month before Election Day.) The firm grossed about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.

NEWYORKER: The Lie Factory

Like all institutions of high culture in America, the Met depends upon the patronage of donors and private endowments for its survival: box-office receipts count for about half of its annual budget, which last year was two hundred and fifty million dollars.

NEWYORKER: Man Behind the Curtain

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

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