Vicky Kowalski meanwhile learned that several of her fellow students had collected almost $25 for her family during the lunch hour yesterday at Fuhrmann Junior High School, 5155 Fourteen Mile road east.

Sustaining members may sign up at $25 for the ten-concert season ; ;

In 2010, spending on advertising was estimated at $ 142. 5 billion in the United States and $ 467 billion worldwide

As part of the company's advertising, Ed Whitacre announced the company's 60-day money-back guarantee and repayment of $ 6. 7 billion loan from government ahead of schedule.

); over 5 billion dollars worth of mobile gaming ; and various news, entertainment and advertising services.

* Hollywood movie distributors spend about $ 4 billion a year to buy paid advertising ( 30-second TV commercials, newspaper ads, etc.

For the fiscal year 2006, the CBC received a total of $ 1. 53 billion from all revenue sources, including government funding via taxpayers, subscription fees, advertising revenue, and other revenue ( e. g. real estate ).

The city government has set a revenue target of IDR 3. 5 billion from advertising alone .. Palembang was also one of hosts of the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.

Unilever is one of the largest media buyers in the world, and invested around € 6 billion ( US $ 8 billion ) in advertising and promotion in 2010.

They are also seeking $ 1. 04 billion as a fine for the companies ' advertising and marketing campaign allegedly targeting Nigerian youth, and has asked the companies to fund an awareness campaign to educate young people about the dangers of their product.

Since Fogle's advertising campaign began, Subway sales have more than doubled to $ 8. 2 billion, though the portion of the gain attributable to Fogle and his more than 50 Subway commercials cannot be determined.

More than a quarter of a billion dollars worth of advertising was donated during the first three years of the National Defense Savings Program.

Around 1931 advertising started for hemp as the new billion dollar crop because of a decorticator working miracles on the hemp crop and taking the amount of time to harvest an acre of hemp down to 1 – 1. 5 hours when 2 hours was the best time they could get harvesting cotton.

From 1994 to 1995, fluid milk sales in the 12 regions totaled 23. 3 billion pounds, and increased advertising expenditures amounted to $ 37. 9 million.

It was reported by Borrell and Associates ( a media research group ) in March 2012 that online directories have a 12. 6 % share of the $ 19 billion local online advertising pie.

In May 2000 WPP agreed to acquire the United States-based advertising company Young & Rubicam for $ 5. 7 billion, in what was at the time the largest ever takeover in the advertising sector.

The EclipsePlus line of campaign management solutions schedule more than 100 million spots per month, and manage some $ 2. 5 billion of annual advertising revenue ( March 2012 ).

With paid clicks costing as much as US $ 100 and an online advertising industry worth more than US $ 10 billion, this form of Internet fraud is on the increase.

Expenditures on direct-to-users advertising have more than quintupled in the seven years between 1997 and 2005 since the FDA changed the guidelines, from $ 1. 1 billion in 1997 to more than $ 4. 2 billion in 2005, a 19. 6 % annual increase, according to the United States GAO ( Government Accountability Office, 2006 ).

Ghosemajumder worked at Google from 2003 to 2010, where he led product management efforts for protecting their advertising services against click fraud, to safeguard over US $ 20 billion in annual pay per click revenue.

In exchange for keeping the control over Lycos Europe, Bertelsmann agreed to spend US $ 1 billion worth in advertising at Terra Lycos through a five-year period.

The result: $1.1 billion added to the deficit in the federal budget.

the administration's official budget review, which estimates a 6.9 billion dollar deficit for the current fiscal year, isn't making anyone happy.

The defense budget in 2005 totaled 1. 16 billion US Dollars.

Economic analysts say that the project would cost at least $ 1 billion ( equivalent to about 40 percent of Armenia's 2008 state budget ).

The total annual state budget of Berlin in 2007 exceeded € 20. 5 ($ 28. 7 ) billion including a budget surplus of € 80 ($ 112 ) million.

The Congressional Budget Office reported budget surpluses of $ 69 billion in 1998, $ 126 billion in 1999, and $ 236 billion in 2000, during the last three years of Clinton's presidency.

In July 2009, the minister of defense, Nelson Jobim, said that Brazil will expend about 0. 7 % ( US $ 13 billion ) of the GDP per year to modernize the forces in addition to the 2. 6 % yearly defense budget.

Colombia also entered into an agreement with the International Monetary Fund which provided a $ 2. 7 billion guarantee ( extended funds facility ), while committing the government to budget discipline and structural reforms.

The EU's budget ( which is around 116. 4 billion euro ) is subject to a form of the ordinary legislative procedure with a single reading giving Parliament power over the entire budget ( prior to 2009, its influence was limited to certain areas ) on an equal footing to the Council.

The global reach of the United States is backed by a $ 15 trillion economy, approximately a quarter of global GDP, and a defense budget of $ 711 billion, which accounts for approximately 43 % of global military spending.

In 2006 the Danish military budget was the fifth largest single portion of the Danish Government's total budget, significantly less than that of the Ministry of Social Affairs (~ 110 billion DKK ), Ministry of Employment (~ 67 billion DKK ), Ministry of the Interior and Health (~ 66 billion DKK ) and Ministry of Education (~ 30 billion DKK ) and only slightly larger than that of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (~ 14 billion DKK ).

`` As we look to the $800 billion economy that is predicted for 1970 and the increase of about 40% in consumer expenditures that will be required to reach that goal, management can well be restless about how this tremendous volume and number of new products will be created and marketed '', Peterson said.

It is home to the world's main wine fair, Vinexpo, while the wine economy in the metro area moves 14. 5 billion euros each year.

The economy grew intermittently under Castro until the collapse of the Soviet Union, which provided Cuba with $ 4 billion to $ 6 billion in subsidies annually.

Furthermore, Cyprus was dealt a severe blow by the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion in July 2011, with the cost to the economy estimated at € 1 – 3 billion, or up to 17 % of GDP.

These visitors contributed more than billion to Chicago's economy.

An important aspect of the Dominican economy is the Free Trade Zone industry ( FTZ ), which made up U. S. $ 4. 55 billion in Dominican exports for 2006 ( 70 % of total exports ).

Remittances are increasing at an annual rate of 6. 5 %, and an estimated $ 1. 35 billion will enter the national economy during 1999.

With the stabilization of the new market economy, Hungary has experienced growth in foreign investment with a " cumulative foreign direct investment totaling more than $ 60 billion since 1989.

This has reportedly added A $ 5. 2 billion to the Australian economy ; exports account for about A $ 450 million alone.

The $ 512 billion economy expanded 4. 4 % in the first quarter from a year earlier and last month, the IMF revised its 2009 forecast for the country to 3-4 % from 2. 5 %.

The Iran – Iraq War depleted Iraq's foreign exchange reserves, devastated its economy, and left the country saddled with a foreign debt of more than $ 40 billion.

In 2010, the island's economy, as measured by GVA, declined by 5 % to £ 3. 5 billion.

* 1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $ 20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.

It confirmed Karachi ’ s status as Pakistan ’ s largest economy, well ahead of the next two biggest cities Lahore and Faisalabad, which had a reported GDP ( PPP ) in 2008 of $ 40 billion and $ 14 billion, respectively.

Lebanon's economy has made impressive gains since the launch of " Horizon 2000 ," the government's $ 20 billion reconstruction program in 1993.

In 2007, the economy of Malaysia was the 3rd largest economy in South East Asia and 28th largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity with gross domestic product for 2008 of $ 222 billion with a growth rate of 5 % to 7 % since 2007 Malaysia also accounts for two thirds of global $ 82. 2 billion sukuk market in 2007.