Leading the way were five fancy colored diamonds, one white diamond and an emerald all exceeding the million-dollar mark with four items smashing top pre-sale estimates.
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Research firm eMarketer estimates that Web video ad sales could reach the billion-dollar mark in 2010.
That additional expense is what boosts the price over the billion-dollar mark at today's value.
For two decades EDS thrived, passing the billion-dollar mark in annual revenue.
The stock market remains in the doldrums and the baht, rather than stabilizing in the mid-30s as once hoped for, has quickly slipped below the psychological 50-to-the-dollar mark.
But what really matters is a hundred or so companies, per year, that launch, find a market, execute, scale, learn, adjust and sail over the billion-dollar mark within two decades.
"We're now about to go over the half-trillion-dollar mark in the deficit because the president insists on his reckless economic policies at home, as well as his reckless adventures abroad, " he said.
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).
So, one thing we can be sure of is that as unsettled as the mobile-payment sector might seem to be right now, that situation will only get more complex over the next few years on the way to that trillion-dollar mark.
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But what really moves the needle on economic growth are 100 or so companies each year that launch, find a market, execute, scale, learn, adjust and sail past the billion-dollar annual revenue mark within two decades.
Signs of proof can be found in the return to profit of some of Japan's exporters, in part due to the yen's weakening against the U.S. dollar past the 100-yen mark.
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In March, after a devastating earthquake and tsunami, the Bank of Japan and other major central banks around the world intervened in the markets when the dollar was trading around the 76-yen mark.
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The thousands of women I meet who want to grow their business but are not sure how and the realization I had reading US Census data that says only 250, 000 or approximately 2.6% of all 10 million women-owned business are at the million dollar mark in gross revenue.
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The ads mark the first stage of a multimillion-dollar global rebranding campaign that is anticipated to run throughout 2011 and possibly several years beyond that.
So, too, would a cut in the retail mark-up charged by the state-owned dollar stores.
The U.S. dollar had a good day today to close over the 100-yen mark for the first time in four years.
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Though the show is cunningly directed by Phyllida Lloyd and given the proper vulgar acrylic touch by the designer Mark Thompson, the question a multimillion-dollar McGuffin remains unanswered.
The yen is at a four-and-a-half year low against the US dollar, trading at about the 102 mark in Asia.
Moreover, while the Federal Reserve has stopped cutting its key interest rate target for the time being, the central bank does not show any signs of raising rates above the 2% mark any time soon--a good indication of the dollar's relative weakness.
Mark Spencer finishes his barbecue and resumes wreaking havoc on the multibillion-dollar phone equipment business.
Indeed, the dollar is little more than halfway through one of its classic ten-year bull runs versus the mark.
Even with Fannie and Freddie inflating the bubble and the Fed and the rest of the Bush Administration weakening the dollar, the crisis never would have become so unprecedentedly destructive but for a seemingly arcane accounting principle called mark-to-market, or fair value, accounting.
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