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Millions of dollars so far have been used to dredge pollutants out of the river, and the recent cleaning up and restoration of the Detroit River is remarkable, although other problems are still at hand.
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Millions of dollars are spent annually by natural resource agencies to control common carp populations in the United States.
Millions of advertising dollars were spent by the railway companies promoting the agricultural development of the land which they had to sell.
Millions of dollars of merchandise were sold relating to the title character, and the theme song, " The Ballad of Davy Crockett ", was a hit record that year.
Millions of dollars worth of construction and renovation projects have dotted the campus landscape in recent years.
Millions of dollars of gold and silver were kept in the basement vaults until the Federal Reserve Bank replaced the Sub-Treasury system in 1920.
Millions of dollars of pine and many endangered birds were lost, including an estimated 20 North Island brown Kiwi.
Millions of dollars in fines were imposed in 2008 by the Federal Communications Commission against vendors, including various name-brand retail chains such as Best Buy, Sears / Kmart and Walmart.
* In the film Brewster's Millions, the protagonist Brewster ( played by Richard Pryor ) is required under certain conditions, to spend 30 million dollars in 30 days.
Millions of advertising dollars were spent by the railway companies promoting the agricultural development of the land which they had to sell.
Millions of dollars were spent on perks including all-expense-paid ski trips, thirteen scholarships, Super Bowl trips, and plastic surgery.
Millions of dollars are spent each year by various institutions in oceanographical and geophysical research.
Millions of dollars of federal government money was given to projects as sought by connected politicians of both parties, in violation of rules governing such grants and expenditures.
Millions of dollars worth of food, clothing, medical equipment and supplies have been distributed in Poland, Hungary, Romania and Croatia.
Millions of dollars so far have been used for land acquisitions and to improve the environment around the river.
Millions of dollars were spent replacing the old terminal, which hosted a half-dozen airlines before its demolition.
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Millions of acres of farmland were damaged, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes ; many of these families ( often known as " Okies ", since so many came from Oklahoma ) migrated to California and other states, where they found economic conditions little better during the Great Depression than those they had left.
Millions who remained also lived and did not die of starvation, and the centuries-old system of farming was destroyed in a region so fertile it was once called " the breadbasket of Europe ".
: exchanged the handshake of trust with you through the concordat-the first foreign sovereign to do so .. Pope Pius spoke high praise of you ... Millions in foreign countries, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, have overcome their original mistrust because of this expression of papal trust, and have placed their trust in your regime.
* The programming additionally does not allow a ten-millions digit to be displayed for Raising Millions, so ASCII characters are used ; these do not reset during a session even if the value itself has been reset.
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Millions of hives of honey bees are contracted out as pollinators by beekeepers, and honey bees are by far the most important commercial pollinating agents, but many other kinds of pollinators, from bluebottle flies, to bumblebees, orchard mason bees, and leaf cutter bees are cultured and sold for managed pollination.
Millions of board feet of lumber could back up for miles upriver, requiring weeks to break up, with some lumber possibly lost if it was shoved far enough into the shallows.
Millions of political prisoners are being tortured in his infamous Labyrinth of Doom far beneath the surface of the planet.
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* Molly Millions, Henry Dorsett Case, and Peter Riviera all have some sort of cybernetic augmentation in William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy.
: Millions of words have been written about these horror camps, many of them by inmates of those unbelievable places.
Millions of years of erosion have since carved the volcanic region into the lava terraces, volcanic plugs, and dykes of Nandewar Range.
WSOP owner Caesars Entertainment and Aussie Millions host Crown Melbourne have teamed up to launch the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific, which will hold its first edition in 2013.
: Millions of words have been written about these horror camps, many of them by inmates of those unbelievable places.
Millions of people staged mass protests across the world in the immediate prelude to the invasion, and demonstrations and other forms of anti-war activism have continued throughout the occupation.
Since it replaced The Big Game in May 2002 ( see below ), Mega Millions ' advertised jackpots have started at $ 12 million, paid in 26 yearly installments ( unless the cash option is chosen ), increasing when there is no jackpot winner.
Nebraska ( March 20, 2010 ), Oregon ( March 28, 2010 ), Arizona ( April 18, 2010 ), Maine ( May 9, 2010 ), Colorado, and South Dakota ( the latter two on May 16, 2010 ) also have joined Mega Millions since the expansion.
The ' House of Millions of Years of Shoshenq, Beloved of Amun ' was probably the forecourt and pylon of the Ptah temple, which, if the royal necropoleis at Tanis, Saïs, and Mendes are taken as models, could very well have contained a royal burial within it or the temenos.
Millions of years of erosion have stripped all of the TMS from Signal Hill and that is why it looks very rounded compared to its sister peaks.
Millions of fish fossils have been collected from the area, commercial collectors operating from legal quarries on state and private land have been responsible for the majority of Green River vertebrate fossils in public and private collections all over the world.
Notable punk rock artists such as The Clash, Crass, Discharge, Dead Kennedys, Millions of Dead Cops, Aus-Rotten, Green Day, Anti-Flag, and Leftover Crack have been known to use political and sometimes controversial lyrics that attack the establishment, sexism, capitalism, racism, colonialism, and other social conflicts they see as problems in society.
Millions of units have been sold in both the Boulder Dash and Spy vs. Spy series of games, with Boulder Dash appearing in the coin-operated arcades four times.
Authors have proposed currencies that are incapable of replication such as the non-replicable " latinum " used by the Ferengi in the Star Trek universe, or the currency in Pandora's Millions by George O. Smith, which is booby-trapped to explode if scanned by a replicating machine.
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