Some campaigns are for a hundred dollars, some campaigns are going over the million dollar mark.
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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.
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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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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).
The Senate bill has tried to address this concern by ramping up the rate at the million dollar mark, according to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in an interview with the Washington Post.
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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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 biggest dollar loser was Mark Zuckerberg.
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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.
As a result, the yen may break through the 100 mark against the dollar as early as this week.
The U.S. dollar tumbled against the yen and mark a few years back, but the U.S. economy exploded.
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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The yen is at a four-and-a-half year low against the US dollar, trading at about the 102 mark in Asia.
Despite numerous attempts, the dollar has failed to breach the 100 yen mark but most currency watchers think it's only a matter of time.
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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As it was assumed that a weakened dollar would solve the problem, in 1985 the leading western democracies and Japan announced the Plaza Accords to systematically push down the dollar against the Japanese yen and the Deutsche mark.
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The paradoxical fact is that weak currencies (like the Italian lira, in the pre-euro era, and the Turkish lira) often outperform stronger currencies (like the deutsche mark and the U.S. dollar).
But as the US began the inflation that would ultimately lead to its break with gold, it transmitted that inflation to all those currencies, such as the mark, that were fixed to the dollar.
Between 1980 and 1985, the U.S. dollar had appreciated 50% against the Yen, Deutsche Mark, French Franc and British Pound.
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.
In 1960 the German mark had a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar which, in turn, was officially fixed to gold.
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.
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