Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited Angola in June 2006, offering a US $ 9 billion loan for infrastructure improvements in return for petroleum.

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

The Gross Domestic Product of Armenia stood at 8. 8 billion US dollars in 2010 ; with a population of 3. 2 million, this amounts to a GDP per capita of $ 2, 676 ( purchasing power parity $ 5, 178 ).

In comparison, in 2006, the GDP was estimated to be 6. 6 billion USD per calendar year and the GDP per capita ( purchasing power parity ) was estimated at $ 5, 400 US.

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

revenues: $ 155. 4 million ( 37 % in local revenue and 63 % in US grants )

$ NA ; note-important financial support from the US, more than $ 40 million in 1994

* 2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees ( US $ 200 million ) in damage.

In 2005 the World Bank defined extreme poverty as living on less than US $ 1. 25 a day.

This meant living on the equivalent of US $ 1. 25 a day, in the US, buying US goods.

In 2011, this means surviving on the equivalent to US $ 1. 50, A $ 2 or £ 1 per day.

As of early 2008, the wholesale price for abalone meat was approximately US $ 40. 00 per kilogram.

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

US $ 75, 000 ).

* 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).

AA GSO limits contributions to US $ 3, 000 a year.

Solid backs and sides can also contribute to a pleasant sound, although laminated sides and backs are acceptable alternatives, commonly found in mid-level guitars ( in the range of US $ 300 –$ 1000 ).

Ford retained a US $ 77 million ( or 12. 1 %) stake in Aston Martin, valuing the company at $ 925 million.

On 12 March 2007, a consortium led by Prodrive chairman David Richards purchased Aston Martin for £ 475m ( US $ 848m ).

Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.

The New Mexico US Extension Service recommends a mix of not more than 1 / 3 clay, not less than 1 / 2 sand, and never more than 1 / 3 silt.

The defense budget in 2005 totaled 1. 16 billion US Dollars.

Export partners: Russia 17. 5 %, Netherlands 14. 9 %, Germany 14. 7 %, Ireland 11. 1 %, Belgium 8. 7 %, Georgia 7. 6 %, US 6. 6 %, Switzerland 4. 3 %, Bulgaria 4. 1 %, Ukraine 4 % ( 2007 )

Import partners: Russia 17. 5 %, Netherlands 14. 9 %, Germany 14. 7 %, Ireland 11. 1 %, Belgium 8. 7 %, Georgia 7. 6 %, US 6. 6 %, Switzerland 4. 3 %, Bulgaria 4. 1 %, Ukraine 4 % ( 2007 )

Upon the American INvasion of Puerto Rico, 10 US dollars were needed to buy 1 Puerto Rican peso.

The terms of the Artistic License 1. 0 were at issue in a 2007 federal district court decision in the US which was criticized by some for suggesting that FOSS-like licenses could only be enforced through contract law rather than through copyright law, in contexts where contract damages would be difficult to establish.

The acquiring price was US $ 1. 75 billion or £ 935 million, with US $ 170 million of debt.

Alan Jay Lerner's pattern of financial mismanagement continued until his death from cancer in 1986, when he reportedly owed the US Internal Revenue Service over US $ 1, 000, 000 in back taxes, and was unable to pay for his final medical expenses.

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More recently, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, `` admitted '' to a news conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, that the US might fall behind Russia ( he apparently meant in weapons development ) if the Soviets continue to test in the atmosphere while we abstain.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

Now, the picture is clouded, and even US Sens. James O. Eastland and John C. Stennis, who remained loyal to the ticket, are uncertain of their status.

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

Franz Boas publicly objected to US participation in World War I, and after the war he published a brief expose and condemnation of the participation of several American archaeologists in espionage in Mexico under their cover as scientists.

Anthropologists, along with other social scientists, are working with the US military as part of the US Army's strategy in Afghanistan.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that " Counterinsurgency efforts focus on better grasping and meeting local needs " in Afghanistan, under the Human Terrain System ( HTS ) program ; in addition, HTS teams are working with the US military in Iraq.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

* Animal ( 2005 film ), US film by David J. Burke with Ving Rhames and Terrance Howard

Oxford, UK and Indianapolis, US, The Fridtjol Nansen Institute & The International African Institute in association with James Currey and Indiana University Press.

The term " android " appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-like toy automatons.

He and Russell Porter are generally credited with having initiated the amateur telescope making movement in the US.

Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally.

AFI FEST is the only film festival in the US to hold FIAPF ( Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films ) accreditation.

Elevated levels of americium were also detected at the crash site of a US B-52 bomber, which carried four hydrogen bombs, in 1968 in Greenland.

At the end of World War II the US Army occupied Obersalzberg, to prevent Hitler from retreating with the Wehrmacht into the mountains.

Some US School districts and systems return to school in August.

* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.