However, in October 2000, Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi, an economist with The University of the West Indies, bet $ 1000 with David South that the inflation-adjusted price of oil would decrease to an inflation-adjusted price of $ 25 by 2010 ( down from what was then $ 30 / barrel ).

In 1991, it gained its first South Australian team, Adelaide, which paid five million dollars to enter the AFL.

PLAN task groups also paid visits to Indonesia in 1995 ; North Korea in 1997 ; New Zealand, Australia, and the Philippines in 1998 ; Malaysia, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and Canada in 2000 ; and India, Pakistan, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand in 2001.

* April 25 – Soyuz TM-34: South African Mark Shuttleworth blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome ; he had paid £ 15 million for the trip.

Declining an offer from the Duke of Sussex that they travel to South Africa on a Navy ship, Herschel and his wife paid £ 500 for passage on the S. S. Mountstuart Elphinstone, a ship of 611 tons, which departed from Portsmouth on 13 November 1833.

Government revenues largely come from the lease of its highly fortuitous. tv Top Level Domain ( TLD ); sales of stamps and coins ; fishing licenses ( primarily paid under the South Pacific Tuna Treaty ); direct grants from international donors ( government donors as well as from the Asian Development Bank ); and income from the Tuvalu Trust Fund ( established in 1987 by the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand ).

( According to The Guardian of 26 July 1991, Pik Botha told a press conference that the South African government had paid more than £ 20 million to at least seven political parties in Namibia to oppose SWAPO in the run-up to the 1989 elections.

There were over ten million paid admissions to the six main exhibitions over a period of five months: The most popular event was the South Bank Exhibition with almost 8. 5 million visitors, over half of them from outside London.

The new cathedral was also paid for by donations, principally by all the canons and vicars of South East England, who were asked to contribute a fixed annual sum until its completion.

When the county seat was named Abbeville the early settlers paid respect to their earlier home in Abbeville, South Carolina.

The Transvaal government was paid almost £ 1 million in compensation by the British South Africa Company.

Filmmaker and actor Sylvester Stallone paid tribute to Ross in his 2010 multi-star blockbuster The Expendables, about a group of mercenaries who undertake a mission to overthrow a South American dictator.

He returned to Sydney and continued to write for the Bulletin which, in 1892, paid for an inland trip where he experienced the harsh realities of drought-affected New South Wales.

But when it came to jobs the white South Africans received the higher paid and less dangerous ones, leaving the black South Africans to risk their lives down in the mines for limited pay.

Four years later, he and his father paid $ 1. 50 apiece to take their first aircraft ride in a Ford Trimotor at Black Hills Airport with a famed South Dakota aviator, Clyde Ice.

Hence, on one occasion he paid a state visit to South Africa where he met his South African counterparts at Stellenbosch.

For example, compensation was paid to South Korea for comfort women-related crimes in the 1965 Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea.

Isaac Kaye, who had previously paid the National Party in South Africa, also made a payment to the campaign for Labour Deputy Leadership.

The television series Friends, Miranda, Killinaskully, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Psych, Reba, The Simpsons, Spin City, Scrubs, Spaced, South Park, The Office, Coronation Street, Chuck and the motion picture Diary of a Mad Black Woman are among the productions that have paid tribute to this scene.

He mentions that Samudragaupta exterminated nine north Indian states, Subdued eithteen Atavika kingdoms near Bajalpur and Chhota Nagpur, and in his blitz-like campaign humbled the pride of twelve South Indian Kings, Nine border tribes, and five frontier states of Smatata, Devaka, Karupa, Nepal and Krtripur ' paid taxes, obeyed orders and performed obeisance in person to the great Samudragupta '.

The South West Coast Path starts from the western side of Minehead, in Somerset, at a marker erected in 2001 and partly paid for by the South West Coast Path Association.

In some areas ( especially in London and the South East ) the Regional Councils of the TUC ( dominated by paid officials of the unions ) effectively took over the role of the County Associations of Trades Councils and these paid officials replaced elected lay-members as the spokespersons for the Trade Union Movement at County and Regional level.

Between 1976 and 1990 the paid fare had declined approximately thirty percent in inflation-adjusted terms.

Furthermore, the tax bands are not typically inflation-adjusted, so a higher share of nominal income must be paid in tax each year even as real incomes remain flat.

He was 25 years old, and paid $ 40.

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

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.

Up front, he paid $ 1, 500 of the total $ 1, 800 value of the property ; the rest was meant to be paid by the Alcotts over a two year period.

Butler's investigation was tainted by the rumor that Butler paid Wendell $ 100, 000 to testify during the investigation, in order to expose the Astor House acquittal committee.

Carnegie's share of this amounted to $ 225, 639, 000 ( presently, $), which was paid to Carnegie in the form of 5 %, 50-year gold bonds.

The Atlanta Falcons franchise began on June 30, 1965 when NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to 41 year-old Rankin Smith Sr .. Smith an Executive Vice President of Life Insurance Company of Georgia at the time, paid $ 8. 5 million the highest price in NFL history at the time 1965 for an NFL franchise.

A $ 130 million franchise fee was paid to Major League Baseball.

In December 2011, Aon Corporation paid a $ 16. 26 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA ).

As of 2002, the city of Seattle had paid over $ 200, 000 in settlements of lawsuits filed against the Seattle Police Department for assault and wrongful arrest, with a class action lawsuit still pending.

Walker paid Riddle US $ 10 million for the CAD technology.

The Chief Justice has certain administrative responsibilities that the other Justices do not and is paid slightly more ($ 223, 500 per year for the Chief Justice and $ 213, 900 per year for each Associate Justice ).

In return, they received up to of land and were paid $ 963 million.

He later agreed to an out-of-court settlement and paid $ 850, 000.

Another is the 1988 Koko case in which 5 ships transported 8, 000 barrels of hazardous waste from Italy to the small town of Koko in Nigeria in exchange for $ 100 monthly rent which was paid to a Nigerian for the use of his farmland.

The Boston Globe estimated that the project will ultimately cost $ 22 billion, including interest, and that it will not be paid off until 2038.

The price paid was half the amount of the 6, 250 m² Admiralty II plot, for which the MTR Corporation paid HK $ 1. 82 billion in cash.

Brooks's institute has charged varying fees to prospective clients who wished to learn how to live without food, which have ranged from US $ 100, 000 with an initial deposit of $ 10, 000 to one billion dollars, to be paid via bank wire transfer with a preliminary deposit of $ 100, 000, for a session called " Immortality workshop ".