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Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphéas ( from the water lilies series ) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £ 36, 500, 000 ($ 71, 892, 376. 34 ) ( hammer price ) or £ 40, 921, 250 ($ 80, 451, 178 ) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist and representing one of the top 20 highest prices paid for a painting at the time.

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

In December 2009, one copy sold at Christie's, New York for $ 662, 500, a record price paid for a work of American literature.

It also set a record for the highest price paid in auction in Norway.

Described as the first guitar Hendrix set fire to, another of his Stratocasters was sold at an auction for a record price in London two years later in 2008.

* On December 6 2010, a copy of Birds of America was sold at a Sotheby's auction for $ 11. 5 million, a record price for a single printed book.

Chauvin's distinguished record of service and his love and devotion for Napoleon, which endured despite the price he willingly paid for them, is said to have earned him only ridicule and derision in Restoration France, when Bonapartism became increasingly unpopular.

Garçon à la pipe sold for US $ 104 million at Sotheby's on 4 May 2004, establishing a new price record.

The disc system gradually became more popular because of its cheaper price and better marketing by disc record companies.

With that improvement, the team was sold to Robert Kraft in January 1994 for a ( then ) record price of $ 200, 000, 000 — an astonishing price considering the Pats had generally been considered a laughing-stock and second rate team, had the worst stadium in the league, and couldn't sell out save for select home games resulting in most games going without television coverage — sports in New England centered on the beloved Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox, not the NFL team orphaned in remote Foxborough, Massachusetts, forty miles outside Boston.

A world record price of £ 1. 24 million was set by a Fabergé clock, and the Poltimore tiara, worn for her wedding in 1960, sold for £ 926, 400.

Collectibles experts tend to agree that a collector should begin keeping a record as soon as they start collecting, of all details of purchase and price.

Stationary MiniDisc player / recorders never got into the lower price ranges, and most consumers had to connect the portable player to the hi-fi in order to record.

Lisa had a dream of making new artists able to record music at a low price, in a high-end studio at her house.

In 1997, it was sold at Christie's auction house in London for $ 1. 2 million, setting a price record for a piano sold at auction.

By setting this record, Steinway broke its own 1997 price record of $ 390, 000.

FERC was also given added responsibility to hear appeals of DOE oil price control determinations and to conduct all " on the record " hearings for DOE.

Later that year at Sotheby's in London, Peinture ( Etoile Bleue ) ( 1927 ) brought nearly 23. 6 million pounds with fees, more than twice what it had sold for at a Paris auction in 2007 and a record price for the artist at auction.

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As an expensive painting, it has only recently been surpassed, in terms of actual price, by four other paintings: the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt, which was sold for $ 135 million, the Woman III by Willem de Kooning sold for $ 138 million in November 2006, and No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock sold for $ 140 million in November 2006 and one painting from The Card Players series by Paul Cezanne sold for a record of more than $ 250million.

On October 27, 2010, Swann Galleries set a record price for a Whistler print at auction, when Nocturne, an etching and drypoint printed in black on warm, cream Japan paper, 1879 – 80 sold for $ 282, 000.

and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.

This enviable record would have been maintained but for a great and unexpected disaster which struck the world with murderous stealth.

DeKalb's budget for 1961 is a record one and carries with it the promise of no tax increase to make it balance.

Confidence in the state's economic future is reflected in the Georgia Power Company's record construction budget for this year.

He is basing his guess on new government statistics that show business has broadened its stride -- a new record high in personal income, an increase in housing starts, a spurt in retail sales and a gain in orders for durable goods.

RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures In Music '', which is an instructional record library for elementary schools.

The record of past earnings and prospects for the future must indicate it has the ability to repay the loan out of current and anticipated income.

The Government of India shall maintain or cause to be maintained books and records adequate to identify the goods and services financed for agreed projects pursuant to paragraphs 1 ( B ) and 1 ( C ) of Article 2, of the Agreement, to disclose the use thereof in the projects and to record the progress of the projects ( including the cost thereof ).

A student to be eligible for the captaincy of any Carleton team must have a scholastic record of at least 1.00.

It truly relives another age for the inhabitants use carriages rather than autos and old British and French forts are left intact for tourists to visit and record.

Even though the registers may have an incomplete record of persons present in a particular area or include persons no longer living there, they contain precise information on ages, by date of birth, for some of the persons present ( especially children in relatively stable communities ) and supplementary information ( such as records of marital status ) for many others.

However, as witnessed by the large corporate bond calendar at present, as well as the record amount of municipal bond issues approved by voters, the over-all demands for capital funds seem likely to remain high, so that any downward pressure on rates from reduced demand should not be great.

But before discussing it, I should like to record one vote of thanks to them for the clarity with which they have stated their case.

A DUF entry must be supplied for every unit record file describing the type of file and the unit record equipment to be used.

An accompanying record of paralanguage factors for the second example might also note a throaty rasp.

Those were his only interludes behind bars, although he collected four more charges on his police record in 1921 and 1922, three for burglary and one for robbery.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

Parker insisted that the size of the record would have been drastically reduced but for an unavoidable duplication of testimony.

Since it is important, for the record let's have the full name ''.

He is publicly on record as believing Mr. De Sapio should be replaced for the good of the party.

Ryne Duren and Roland Sheldon, a rookie righthander who posted a 15-1 record last year for the Yanks' Auburn ( N.Y. ) farm club of the Class-D New York-Pennsylvania League, are the probable rival pitchers.