* in Lebanon the SBG, represented by Yehia bin Laden, has been ( before the July War ) holding negotiations with the local authorities for a $ 50 million share in the project to rebuild the Beirut Central District within the framework of the Solidere Project and in conjunction with the al Baraka Group and the bin Mahfouz Group.

The historic first basin of the port, which presently hosts the Beirut Naval Base, will be completely redeveloped by Solidere, the $ 2 billion Lebanese real estate company that is rebuilding the Beirut Central District ( BCD ).

Located in Foch Street in the Solidere area, FFA Private Bank is home to many temporary exhibitions of contemporary local artists as well as to a

Solidere, a private real estate company set up to rebuild downtown Beirut, was a symbol of Hariri's strategy to link economic recovery to private sector investment.

Cable One, Cedarcom, GlobalCom Data Services, Pesco, Sodetel, Solidere, LCNC S. A. L., TRISAT S. A. R. L., Waves S. A. L.

Since the end of hostilities, however, many of the buildings have been rebuilt within the framework of the urban renewal project of Solidere in Beirut Central District.

It was built on a $ 1. 2-billion budget and the final extension from Commercial Drive Station to VCC – Clark Station was opened on January 6, 2006.

" While at RAND, Khalilzad also had a brief stint consulting for Cambridge Energy Research Associates, which at the time was conducting a risk analysis for Unocal, now part of Chevron, for a proposed 1, 400 km ( 890 mile ), $ 2-billion, 622 m³ / s ( 22, 000 ft³ / s ) Trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline project which would have extended from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan and further proceeding to Pakistan.

The $ 2-billion Fort Irwin Solar Project will create jobs both during construction and long-term plant operations, as well as generate additional revenue for local businesses.

The sale of CanWest's Australian media operations reduced some C $ 582-million in debt tied to the Australian TV network, raising the total value Canwest can erase from its overall debt to more than C $ 1. 2-billion.

Nalcor Energy will spend $ 2. 9 billion to build a power generating facility at Muskrat Falls, while Emera will invest $ 1. 2-billion in the Maritime Transmission Link underwater power connection and $ 600 million in the Muskrat Falls facility in exchange for 20 % of the 800-megawatts of capacity.

The councilman guided his colleagues on a bus tour of his district in May 1989, pointing out such problem sites as the proposed 1, 300-acre Porter Ranch development, " where a plan to develop the pristine rolling hills into a major $ 2-billion residential and commercial city center is at the forefront of public debate ," and a development project in the Bryant-Street Vanalden neighborhood ( below ).

Mark Anderson, president of Strategic News Service, a research firm based in Friday Harbor, Wash. was quoted as saying The kind of goals he had sounded good to shareholders -- like being a $ 50 billion company by the year 2000, or to beat I. B. M.

Represented by attorney Robert Winslow and the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp LLP, courts awarded Day $ 1 million punitive damages, $ 5. 6 million plus $ 2 million interest for losses incurred in a sham oil venture ; $ 3. 4 million plus $ 1. 2 million interest over a hotel venture ; $ 2. 2 million plus $ 793, 800 interest for duplicate or unnecessary fees paid to Rosenthal ; more than $ 2 million to recoup loans to Rosenthal ; $ 3. 9 million plus $ 1 million interest for fraud, and $ 850, 000 attorney fees for Day.

In 2003 GDP was estimated to have grown by 2 percent, a slight improvement over 2002, the last year for which firm figures are available, when GDP expanded by 1. 8 percent in real terms to about US $ 600 million.

Feeling that he was underpaid for the quality of his work for Silsbee ( at $ 8 a week ), the young draftsman quit and found work as a designer at the firm of Beers, Clay, and Dutton.

In 2006 there was one operational set of traffic lights but in July 2007, a modern system was installed by Indian firm CMS Traffic Systems Limited, through a US $ 2. 1 million line of credit to the government from India ’ s EXIM Bank, providing signals for both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Dutch firm Akzo Nobel ( owner of Crown Berger paints ) bid £ 7. 2 billion (€ 10. 66 billion or $ 14. 5 billion US ) for ICI in June 2007.

O ' Hagan was a partner in a law firm representing Grand Metropolitan, while it was considering a tender offer for Pillsbury Co. O ' Hagan used this inside information by buying call options on Pillsbury stock, resulting in profits of over $ 4 million.

In 2005 year-end filings, Ashcroft's firm reported collecting $ 269, 000, including $ 220, 000 from Oracle Corporation, which won Department of Justice approval of a multibillion-dollar acquisition less than a month after hiring Ashcroft.

In 2009, the operations and maintenance contract for the day-to-day management and operation of the Fence was awarded to Five Rivers Services, LLC, based out of Colorado Springs, CO. On September 30, 2011, Five Rivers Services was awarded a $ 7, 022, 503 firm fixed price with cost reimbursable line items contract modification to manage, operate, maintain, and logistically support the nine Air Force Space Surveillance System field stations, presumably for Fiscal Year 2012.

In June 2004 SGI sold the business, later renamed to Alias Systems Corporation, to the private equity investment firm Accel-KKR for $ 57. 1 million.

The firm of Japy Frères, copper merchants, donated all the copper needed to build the statue, a gift valued at 64, 000 francs ( about $ 16, 000 at the time or the equivalent of US $ in ).

In a suit brought in 2005 by Spitzer, the California firm Intermix Media, Inc. ended up settling, by agreeing to pay US $ 7. 5 million and to stop distributing spyware.

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.

* 1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $ 76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.

* 1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $ 146 million plus $ 50 million for charity.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, in 2005, cash remittances from Armenians working abroad reached a record-high level of $ 1 billion, which is worth more than one fifth of the country ’ s 2005 Gross Domestic Product.

In 2010, the volume of bilateral trade with Iran was $ 200 million-which is approximately equal to the trade between Armenia and Turkey.

In June 2010, Transport Minister Manuk Vartanian revealed that Yerevan is seeking as much as $ 1 billion in loans from China to finance the railway ’ s construction.

As of April 24, 2008, the average monthly salary is 75, 000 drams ( about $ 242 US dollars ).

According to the ROA National Statistical Service, the average monthly salary during January-June 2008 is 86, 850 drams ( about $ 287 at the time ).

Athena ( Minerva ) is the subject of the $ 50 1915-S Panama-Pacific commemorative coin.

There is an active trade in the shells, which sell for more than US $ 1, 400 per metric tonne.

This is equivalent to $ in present day terms.

Damage occurs to monuments in Washington D. C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $ 200 Million-$ 300 Million.

Minorities in the U. S. spend a combined $ 142 billion on food and by 2010, America's ethnic population is expected to grow by 40 percent.

* 1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $ 500, 000.

For example, if James's will states that he is leaving his $ 500, 000 yacht to his brother Mike, the yacht would be a specific devise.

DARPA has around 240 personnel ( about 140 technical ) directly managing a $ 3. 2 billion budget.

The requirement, with minor exceptions, applied to firms managing in excess of US $ 25 million with over 14 investors.

In addition to US hedge funds, many overseas funds with more than 15 US clients and investors, and managing more than US $ 25 million for these clients, are to register with the SEC by March 30, 2012.

Funds with more than 15 US clients and investors managing US $ 25 million or more will have to register with the SEC by July 21, 2011.

While managing clients ' portfolios, he began to invest his own money, banking on a tip he had received from an uncle about the workers ' takeover of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, making approximately $ 6 million off his $ 100, 000 initial investment.

" The document sold for US $ 21. 3 million on December 18, 2007 to David Rubenstein, managing director of the Carlyle Group and kept on display at the National Archives.

He saw them play live and eventually started managing the band after buying their contract out for $ 5, 000.

Brian De Palma was in contention to direct before Weir took over, managing to make the film for $ 60 million against the estimated $ 80 million budget.

He subdues the driver and the Civics commandeer the truck, managing to steal over $ 6 million in merchandise of TV-s and electronics that were on the truck.

As the vast majority of Raytheon's revenues have been obtained from defense contracts, there has been a tight relationship of cooperation between itself and the U. S. Department of Defense and other U. S. government departments and agencies ( e. g. in the Fiscal Year 2007 the National Science Foundation awarded Raytheon $ 152 million dollars in grants, more than to any other institution and organization in the country, for managing NSF South Pole Station ).

:" Among the Knight Lab's goals is to maximize use of open-source software already developed through the Knight News Challenge, a $ 25 million worldwide media innovation contest now in its fifth year, as well as from other grantees from Knight Foundation's $ 100 million media innovation initiative ... Those include projects such as Open Block, an aggregator of public information ; Document Cloud, for managing and displaying original documents ; Public Insight Journalism, which helps newsrooms tap the wisdom of the community to find better news sources ; and Spot. Us, a new way of " crowd-funding " journalism.

Ian Schottlaender, former managing director in CIBC's corporate leveraged finance group in New York initially contested the charges but on July 12, 2004 he agreed to pay US $ 528, 750 as well as be barred from serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company for a period of five years.

Owens was elected to statewide office as Colorado State Treasurer in 1994, where he was responsible for managing the state's $ 5 billion in investment funds.

In particular, the PEC must be satisfied that the potential candidates are persons of integrity, good character and reputation ; and if they have not previously held certain key government offices or acted as chairman of the board of directors or CEO of a company incorporated or registered under the Companies Act with a paid-up capital of at least $ 100 million, that they held a position of comparable seniority and responsibility in the public or private sector that has given them experience and ability in administering and managing financial affairs.

Title I of the CFMA adopted recommendations of the PWG Report by broadly excluding from the CEA transactions in financial derivatives ( i. e. “ excluded commodities ”) between “ eligible contract participants .” The definition of “ eligible contract participant ” covered the same types of “ sophisticated ” parties as the existing “ swaps exemption ” in its definition of “ eligible swap participants ”, but was broader, particularly by adding permission for individuals with assets of $ 5 million rather than $ 10 million, if the transaction related to managing asset or liability “ risk .” The PWG had recommended “ considering ” an increase in this threshold to $ 25 million, not a reduction for actual hedging.

In September 1963, Frosch went to Washington, DC to work with the Advanced Research Projects Agency ( ARPA ) in the U. S. Department of Defense, serving as Director for Nuclear Test Detection ( Project VELA ), and then as deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, sharing responsibility for managing a $ 270 million per year program of research and development.

In addition to managing the city's $ 80 billion pension fund, the Comptroller advises the mayor and the City Council on all financial matters, fiscal policy and financial transactions.

The Comptroller is a trustee on four of the five New York City pension funds, and serves as investment advisor to all five, representing $ 80 billion of assets, meaning s / he is responsible for managing the assets of the pension funds.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers is managing the restoration funded with $ 5 million in federal money and $ 2. 7 million raised by the city.