For example, if an author is paid a modest advance of $ 2000. 00, and their royalty rate is 10 % of a book priced at $ 20. 00-that is, $ 2. 00 per book-the book will need to sell 1000 copies before any further payment will be made.

The second provided amnesty for all insurgents except those holding property valued at $ 20, 000 or more ; it also appointed a provisional governor for North Carolina and authorized elections.

Sen. Ross, who was the deciding vote in the Senate, reportedly received a bribe of $ 20, 000 to acquit Johnson.

His starting wage was $ 1. 20 per week.

As the end of the Spanish American War neared, the United States bought the Philippines from Spain for $ 20 million.

To counter what he perceived as imperialism on the part of the United States, Carnegie personally offered $ 20 million to the Philippines so that the Filipino people could buy their independence from the United States.

* After the Spanish American War, Carnegie offered to donate $ 20 million to the Philippines so they could buy their independence.

A free agent at the end of the season, on February 11, 2009, Dunn agreed to a two-year $ 20 million contract with the Washington Nationals.

* 1988 – Japanese American internment: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $ 20, 000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

Males had a median income of $ 26, 591 versus $ 20, 000 for females.

Italy was providing $ 20 million of developmental funding as well as several millions worth material, equipment and related services.

The median household income is $ 20, 541, and the median family income is $ 49, 762.

Men had a median income of $ 28, 060 versus $ 20, 000 for women.

On July 1, 2005, Selig suspended Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers for 20 games and fined him $ 50, 000.

By the time of his death sales of the company had reached C $ 20 million, which is the equivalent of C $ 160 million in 2004 dollars.

The price of a new bicycle can range from US $ 50 to more than US $ 20, 000 ( the highest priced bike in the world is the custom Madone by Damien Hirst, sold at $ 500, 000 USD ), depending on quality, type and weight ( the most exotic road bicycles can weigh as little as 3. 2 kg ( 7 lb )).

Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $ 7. 2 million ($ adjusted for inflation ) at approximately two cents per acre ($ 4. 74 / km² ).

In March 2006, the trade volume between the two countries amounted to $ 400 million.

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US $ 100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises.

* 1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $ 15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.

* 1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $ 146 million plus $ 50 million for charity.

Total loans extended to Armenia since 1993 exceed $ 800 million.

The Gross Domestic Product of Armenia stood at 8. 8 billion US dollars in 2010 ; with a population of 3. 2 million, this amounts to a GDP per capita of $ 2, 676 ( purchasing power parity $ 5, 178 ).

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

On March 27, 2006, the Millennium Challenge Corporation signed a five-year, $ 235. 65 million compact with the Government of Armenia.

" The compact includes a $ 67 million to rehabilitate up to 943 kilometers of rural roads, more than a third of Armenia's proposed " Lifeline road network ".

The Compact also includes a $ 146 million project to increase the productivity of approximately 250, 000 farm households through improved water supply, higher yields, higher-value crops, and a more competitive agricultural sector.

The original Millennium Challenge Account commitment for $ 235 million had been reduced to about $ 175 million due to Armenia ’ s poor governance record.

Furthermore, Armenian exports fell by about one percent to $ 520 million USD.

During the first 11 months of 2006, net imports grew by 21 percent to $ 1. 95 billion, while exports stood at $ 895 million, up 0. 3 percent from the same period in 2005.

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with the European Union totaled $ 200 million.

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

The project's budget was approximately $ 1 million a year, which was vastly higher than the development costs of most other computers of the era.

The $ 3. 4 million project's 160 buildings included 72 barracks and 16 supply rooms.

The project's budget was $ 257 million, with completion anticipated in 1972.

First proposed in the 1950s, the project's estimated cost has since risen to over $ 200 billion.

The project's initial NZ $ 32 million stage is to provide a strip for use by smaller regional-connection planes.

The delaying of this section was justified on the grounds that the expected daily patronage of 15, 000 passenger trips did not justify the project's $ 1. 2 billion cost.

Kobe is already the most indebted municipality in Japan with debts of over ¥ 3 trillion, and this project's cost ( estimated at over ¥ 1 trillion, or US $ 8. 7 billion ) has made it very controversial.

Although most of the GIMPS software's source code is publicly available, it is technically not free software as users must abide by the project's distribution terms if the software is used to discover a prime number with at least 100, 000, 000 decimal digits and wins the $ 150, 000 bounty offered by the EFF.

In October 1966, the USAF contracted the University of Colorado, under the leadership of physicist Edward U. Condon, for $ 325, 000 to conduct more scientific investigations of selected UFO sightings and to make recommendations about the project's future.

An ACT Auditor-General's review found that the project's $ 27. 3 million cost estimate had not undergone proper assessment, review or analysis.

The project's fundraising campaign reached its $ 900, 000 funding goal in its second day and Fargo said hopes that all of his future projects involve Kickstarter as it " offers all the freedoms that a developer hopes for.

Construction was completed at a cost of $ 21 million ( the tower project's total cost was $ 30. 6 million including equipment ) and will eventually reduce the current staff of 38 controllers in Dayton to 12.

Before his death in 1990, he had decreed that any building for which his charitable foundation gave more than $ 250, 000 would have the couple's name on it somewhere ...( Weinberg's ) charter allows the foundation to contribute no more than 30 percent of a project's cost.

Construction costs of the of the project's first phase in the 1970s and 80s amounted to $ 13. 7 billion ( 1987 Canadian dollars ).

In March 2009, Mohamed Ali Alabbar, chairman of the project's developer, Emaar Properties, said office space pricing at Burj Khalifa reached US $ 4, 000 per sq ft ( over US $ 43, 000 per m² ) and the Armani Residences, also in Burj Khalifa, sold for US $ 3, 500 per sq ft ( over US $ 37, 500 per m² ).

The project's estimated budget was $ 80 million ($ 30 million for Schrader's version and $ 50 million for Harlin's ).

A total of $ 24. 1 million had been set aside for the road by this point —$ 13. 3 million from the federal government and a combined $ 10. 8 million from the state and the New York State Thruway Authority — leading NYSDOT to consider making changes to the road's design in an effort to cut the project's cost.