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.
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.
"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.
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.
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He told me that Nebraska has 4.5% unemployment and a half-billion dollar state surplus.
Colorado representative Jared Polis created two half-billion dollar companies from scratch before joining Congress as a Democrat in 2009.
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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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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.
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.
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".
All three REITs are similarly capitalized, each with a market cap in the half-billion-dollar range.
"These guys are selling half-million- dollar watches, but they're living check to check, " says Clymer, 28.
And some Democrats on Capitol Hill have been talking in the half-trillion-dollar-plus range.
The half-billion-dollar Phoenix Mars Lander touched down on the planet Sunday night to begin at least three months of experiments.
The number of half-million-dollar-plus condos up for sale in Miami is twice the number in Los Angeles, whose population is four times as large.
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.
The downbeat news pushed the euro to a two-and-a-half-month high against the dollar this week.
Huguette has a signed will, who do you think might be in line to get that half-a-billion-dollar estate?
Waxman points to a half-a-billion-dollar contract that went to a company called AshBritt.
Hedge funds call this pair-trading, and right now he is keeping a 10% portfolio position with one-half allocated to the UUP, the bullish dollar ETF, and one-fourth to both the EUO and the ProShares UltraShort Yen (YCS).
But at least your penny-and-a-half of profit on the sales dollar comes with a scant dose of capital.
Together, they account for more than half of the country's trillion-dollar retail food market.
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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.
We see a rising probability of pressure on the renminbi-to-the-dollar exchange rate in the second half of next year.
This move has raised concerns that Merck is not as interested in pushing a joint-venture drug that yields only half of each profit dollar.
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.
Daewoo's dollar-denominated bonds are now worth less than half of their face value, according to the firm.
The average dollar bill lasts almost two-and-a-half times longer in circulation than it did at the end of the last century.
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