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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During the administration of Bush I, the EPA suppressed the findings of a decade-long, half-billion-dollar study of acid rain NAPAP, the main scientific conclusion of which was that acid rain was not the culprit in increasing the acidity of lakes until after Congress passed Clean Air Act of 1990.
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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".
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.
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.
I. agent (Don Cheadle), who has been sent there to intercept a half-billion-dollar drug shipment and to arrest the smugglers.
He talked enthusiastically about the half-million-dollar grant the Institute received last year from India that government's first such grant to a U.S. museum.
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.
To finance its half-billion-dollar annual budget, the Hamas government has instituted an effective tax regime, raising duties on tunnel imports, including cigarettes, petrol, clothes and bread.
"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.
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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