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.

In 1855, Scott made it possible for Carnegie to invest $ 500 in the Adams Express, which contracted with the Pennsylvania to carry its messengers.

He also made several contacts among the Native American tribes in the area, at one point negotiating an $ 800, 000 settlement between the Creeks and other tribes and the federal government.

In January 2009 Aon was fined £ 5. 25 million in the UK after it made more than $ 7 million worth of " suspicious " payments to overseas firms and individuals.

According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

213 kg of amphetamine worth 40 million AED ( Nearly $ 11 million ) was seized by the United Arab Emirate Drug combat authorities on 30 November 2011 from an Iranian ship that was supposed to deliver the consignment in Malaysia and made a port stop in Sharjah.

The new packaging made the Lynx available without any accessories, dropping the price to $ 99.

Each of the six one-minute rounds recorded by the Kinetograph was made available to exhibitors for $ 22. 50.

Selig made $ 14. 5 million in the 12-month period ending October 31, 2005.

A consumer proposal can only be made by a debtor with debts to a maximum of $ 250, 000 ( not including the mortgage on their principal residence ).

Bacardi acquired the Cazadores blue agave tequila brand in 2002 and in 2004 purchased Grey Goose, a French made vodka, from Sidney Frank for $ 2 billion.

At a cost of almost $ 1, 000, 000, Chaplin felt it was the best film he had made to that point.

The place bets on the outside numbers ( 4, 5, 9, 10 ) should be made in units of $ 5, ( on a $ 5 minimum table ), in order to receive the correct exact payout of $ 5 paying $ 7 or $ 5 paying $ 9.

The place bets on the 6 & 8 should be made in units of $ 6, ( on a $ 5 minimum table ), in order to receive the correct exact payout of $ 6 paying $ 7.

Although previous big-name pitchers, including Bill Swift, Bret Saberhagen, and Darryl Kile, had struggled in Colorado, following the 2000 season O ' Dowd made two very splashy signings in the free-agent market, signing Denny Neagle to a five-year contract worth $ 51 million, followed five days later by signing Mike Hampton to an eight-year, $ 121 million contract.

By studying high speed movies made of this type of failure, the sequence of relationships as schematically illustrated in Fig. 9 could be observed.

9 / 11 pilot hijacker Ziad Jarrah aboard Flight 93 also made a similar error when he mistakenly transmitted announcements to Cleveland ATC about the hijacking.

Born at the Eyüp Palace, Constantinople ( Constantinople ), on 9 / 18 February 1830, Abdülaziz received an Ottoman education but was nevertheless an ardent admirer of the material progress that was made in the West.

28. 9 % of all households were made up of individuals and 13. 1 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Eisbock is a traditional specialty beer of the Kulmbach district of Germany that is made by partially freezing a doppelbock and removing the water ice to concentrate the flavour and alcohol content, which ranges from 9 % to 13 % by volume.

16, 904 households ( 36. 7 %) were made up of individuals and 4, 578 ( 9. 9 %) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2. 7 % of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 8. 9 %.

40. 7 % of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 6 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

This additional bet wins if the point is rolled again before a 7 is rolled ( the point is made ) and pays at the true odds of 2-to-1 if 4 or 10 is the point, 3-to-2 if 5 or 9 is the point, and 6-to-5 if 6 or 8 is the point.

John Smeaton made an important contribution to the development of cements when he was planning the construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse ( 1755 – 9 ) in the English Channel.

Kane made her Wicked debut on the 1st National Tour, playing the role from March 9 through December 19, 2005.

With its debut at No. 9, Day made history, becoming the oldest female artist to ever have had a top ten album on the Top 40 Official UK Album chart.

23. 9 % of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 4 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

While earlier versions of BIND offered no mechanism to store and retrieve zone data in anything other than flat text files, in 2007 BIND 9. 4 DLZ made available ( as a compile-time option ) zone storage in a variety of database formats including LDAP, Berkeley DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and ODBC.

The news about Davy's lamp was made public at a Royal Society meeting in Newcastle on 3 November 1815, and the paper describing the lamp was formally presented on 9 November.

The episodes are renumbered 1 to 9, although, in fact they are episodes 1-2, 5-6, and 9-13 ( a similar fault was made on the release of At Last the 1948 Show ).

Though it made Poe a household name almost instantly, he was paid only $ 9 for its publication.

35. 5 % of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 1 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

In the first year, she tended to 3, 000 new patients, who made 9, 300 outpatient visits to the dispensary.

Flags that are made to the prescribed 1. 9 ratio are often referred to as " G-spec " ( for " government specification ") flags.

26. 0 % of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 9 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

By 288, his period as governor now over, Constantius had been made Praetorian Prefect in the west under Maximian.

767 households ( 43. 9 %) were made up of individuals and 288 ( 16. 5 %) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

288 households ( 30. 5 %) were made up of individuals and 95 ( 10. 1 %) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

These schools, a mosque, a church, two rain-fed irrigation pools, and some 288 houses made up the built-up portion of the village just prior to the outbreak of the 1948 war.

In the second phase of the trial in which the court determined the appropriate amount of damages to be paid to Buchwald, Paramount testified that despite the movie's $ 288 million in ticket sales, it had spent so much money on the movie's development and marketing that, according to the formula specified in Buchwald's contract, Paramount had made " no net profit ".

He made no proposal to correct the accumulated error of ten days but looking to the future, he proposed to leave one day out of the calendar every 288 years.

Barrington had made only 4 and 0, but finished with 288 runs ( 41. 14 ) and 5 wickets ( 51. 40 ), having dismissed Sobers and Seymour Nurse twice each and the opener Steve Camacho.

His greatest century was against the West Indies in 1957 when England followed on 288 runs behind at Edgbaston, he made 285 not out, the highest score by an England captain until Graham Gooch's 333 in 1990, adding 411 with Colin Cowdrey ( 154 )-still an England record for any wicket-and destroyed the mesmerizing hold the spinner Sonny Ramadhin had over English batsmen.

The second ring of 1937 was removed, reducing capacity to 22, 288, and the stadium was made suitable for track and field competitions again.

Boras made the Florida State League All-Star team in 1976, but knee problems shortened his career and he retired with a career batting average of. 288.

The Scots and the Irish were mostly competing with Sri Lanka for the title as the best non-Test nation at the time – indeed, Ireland drew with Sri Lanka in a rain-hit first-class match in 1979, Ireland scoring a total of 341 for 7 in two innings, while Sri Lanka made 288 for 6 in one innings.

In six years at the club Powell made 288 first team appearances.

He then top-scored with 88 in Australia's first innings of 288 and made 55 in the second as Australia won by 148 runs in the Fourth Test in Adelaide to level the series.