Iomega's HipZip is a portable MP3 player that uses disks about the size of a half-dollar coin to record songs from the Internet.
His chips, the size of a half-dollar or smaller, are made with two layers of rubber, relying on a technique similar to injection molding used to make toys.
In Saudi Arabia, holder of the world's largest proven oil reserves, the youth jobless rate is right near the regional average, despite a half trillion dollar diversification package from King Abdullah.
Patients might experience numbness in an area on the outside of their ankle about the size of a half-dollar, but that's a small price to pay for a healthy sex life.
On Feb. 27, and after years of trying, Embraer finally won the hearts of the Defense Department when it awarded them a half billion dollar order to build 20 Super Tucano aircraft.
FORBES: In Dispute, Brazil's Embraer Temporarily Loses $427 Mln U.S. Air Force Gig
With the prosecution resting on a civil complaint charging Gold and Silver Reserve, Inc. with operating as an unlicensed money-transmitting business, Jackson finally acquiesced in July 2008 and plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering (a victimless crime) and operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business rather than the alternative threat of 20 years in jail and a half million dollar fine.
"He's promising a trillion-dollar tax cut and a trip to Mars... and he has a half-trillion-dollar deficit, " said Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean.
He told me that Nebraska has 4.5% unemployment and a half-billion dollar state surplus.
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.
FORBES: Did Citi Dupe Its Own Employees About Risky Investments?
So gold mining firm Gold Corp opened up a set of its geological data to the net and offered a half-million dollar prize fund to anyone who could "find gold".
Among this year's MacArthur fellowships sometimes called the "genius grant" is a half-million dollar award to a psychiatrist who helps heal combat veterans with post traumatic stress disorder by talking about the mythological Greek warriors Achilles and Odysseus.
And when she appeared in a full-page Wall Street Journal ad cutting a hundred-dollar bill in half as a symbol of her discount philosophy, her long-time clearing house dropped her, and she was briefly threatened with Securities and Exchange Commission expulsion.
Eurodollar futures and options, where investors hedged or speculated on the interest rate paid on a 90-day deposit of a dollar overseas, were half of the Merc's business, with 1.5 million contracts traded per day.
I. agent (Don Cheadle), who has been sent there to intercept a half-billion-dollar drug shipment and to arrest the smugglers.
Yes, solar-panel-maker Solyndra recently went belly up, leaving 1, 100 people out of work and the federal government with a half-billion-dollar liability.
FORBES: Most Green Energy Projects Are Thinly Veiled Exercises In Crony Capitalism
But at least your penny-and-a-half of profit on the sales dollar comes with a scant dose of capital.
The central banks cut the rate on ECB dollar loans by half a percentage point, triggering a rush by banks to secure dollar funding at cheap rates.
Huguette has a signed will, who do you think might be in line to get that half-a-billion-dollar estate?
"I mean, you are talking about saving a dollar and a half, two dollars a gallon and that's unheard of, " said Pickens, who, as an investor in Clean Energy, has a stake in the success of natural gas.
For Novartis, a pharmaceuticals giant, a 9% earnings gain in dollar terms during the first half of 2011 turned into a 16% loss in Swiss-franc terms.
Waxman points to a half-a-billion-dollar contract that went to a company called AshBritt.
Her group lost their mice as well as their radiation equipment, including a brand new, half million-dollar machine that took two years to obtain.
In the past year and a half, for instance, the dollar has risen as high as 147 yen and fallen as low as 104 yen.
Richard Mille takes a lot of pride in how their movements are perceived, which no doubt is a huge part of their half million dollar price points.
The downbeat news pushed the euro to a two-and-a-half-month high against the dollar this week.
The yen is at a four-and-a-half year low against the US dollar, trading at about the 102 mark in Asia.
It came as no surprise to me to learn that Michael Jackson paid off a substantial portion of his half-billion dollar debt after he passed away.
Furthermore, on the ratio question, the President's proposals have, taken together, shown roughly two and a half dollars in spending cuts for every dollar in revenue.
应用推荐