After a morale-boosting start, Mr Cavallo then confused markets with an ill-timed proposal to amend the currency board so that the peso might in future be pegged half to the dollar and half to the euro.
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In December less than half the number of companies announced new stock buybacks, less than half the dollar amount of new cash takeovers of already public companies were announced and insiders are also buying less than half as much as during all of 2011.
At the half million dollar asking price, the sellers of this house will probably just break even after owning it for four years.
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.
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.
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.
He backed off at least a little from rejecting the idea of taxing health benefits as a way to pay the bill's estimated one and half trillion dollar cost.
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.
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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 told me that Nebraska has 4.5% unemployment and a half-billion dollar state surplus.
Right now about half of every dollar spent at the movies goes to the studios.
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Colorado representative Jared Polis created two half-billion dollar companies from scratch before joining Congress as a Democrat in 2009.
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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.
Earlier this year, Argentina was able to wear down a collection of private bondholders to the point where nearly all would settle for half on the dollar.
Extending those tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people would deal with more than half, in dollar terms, of the impact caused by the fiscal cliff.
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".
The value of the Turkish lira fell by nearly half against the dollar, a bevy of banks went under, and only a much bigger intervention by the Fund prevented wholesale meltdown.
The euro has risen by half against the dollar from its low of 83 cents in July 2001 and this a currency that was almost as universally hated as the dollar is now.
Moreover, slightly more than half the total dollar volume of U.S.-based deals was accounted for by one deal General Motors and many of the IPOs in the United States were actually done by Chinese companies.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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