The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

* 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.

Interleaved binary data SHOULD only be used if RTSP is carried over TCP. Stream data such as RTP packets is encapsulated by an ASCII dollar sign ( 24 hexadecimal ), followed by a one-byte channel identifier, followed by the length of the encapsulated binary data as a binary, two-byte integer in network byte order.

Characters are written by preceding them with a dollar sign:

From a user's perspective the Bourne shell was immediately recognized when active by its characteristic default command line prompt character, the dollar sign ($).

* The year ends with hyperinflation showing no sign of slowing down in Germany, with 7, 000 marks now needed to buy a single American dollar.

Alphabetic or character constants are stored as integers and written using the dollar sign as a delimiter ($ ABCDEF $) with double dollar-signs used to enter a true dollar sign ($$$. 56 $ is 56 cents ).

One of the commonly held theories about the origin of the dollar sign derives it from the above personal device, which appeared on the Spanish dollar from which the American one was derived-thus, the two vertical lines on the Dollar Sign ultimately represent the Pillars of Hercules.

Glomgold's bin substitutes the dollar sign ($) that appears on Scrooge's with a pound sign (£).

: If a word contains a dollar sign, "", the following characters are taken as the name of a variable and the reference is replaced by the value of that variable.

The Stop Esso campaign continues to use the dollar sign logo.

Modern peso and dollar currencies have a common origin in the 15th – 19th century Spanish dollar, most continuing to use its sign, "$".

Variable names must be composed of upper-case alphabetic ( 65-90, 41 < sub > 16 </ sub >- 5A < sub > 16 </ sub >) and numeric ( 48-57, 30 < sub > 16 </ sub >- 39 < sub > 16 </ sub >) characters, starting with an alphabetical character, and for strings terminating with a dollar sign ( 36, 24 < sub > 16 </ sub >).

They finally could not work together, especially after Martin told his partner he was " nothing to me but a dollar sign ".

For example, an after a category means that the geek's feelings on this category are not very rigid and can change with time, while a dollar sign implies the geek is in the enviable position of being paid for their work in this category.

In the video for the song Zakk Wylde wears a mask with the likeness of Swaggart and Osbourne cavorts with swine, his pants around his ankles, carrying around a large staff decorated with a dollar sign.

The original version ( ISO 646 IRV ) differed from ASCII only in that in code point 0024, ASCII's dollar sign ($) was replaced by the international currency symbol (¤).

He invented the dollar sign and first used it in a textbook he had published in Lansingburgh.

The dollar ( sign: $; code: BSD ) has been the currency of The Bahamas since 1966.

Such a depreciation policy would also, we believe, prove a very important factor in strengthening the competitive position of the U. S. textile and other industries, thus helping to strengthen the position of the dollar in foreign exchange.

Millie Jansen, high school senior from Verboort, had the championship dollar dinner, and Jody Jaross of Hillsboro also won a blue ribbon.

The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.

Each currency typically has a main currency unit ( the dollar, for example, or the euro ) and a fractional currency, often valued at of the main currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar, 100 centimes = 1 franc, 100 pence = 1 pound, although units of or are also common.

The change to the dollar also precipitated a trend toward lower interest rates in El Salvador, helping many to secure credit in order to buy a house or a car ; over time, displeasure with the change has largely disappeared, though the issue resurfaces as a political tool when elections are on the horizon.

The FSTA filed an amicus curiae in support of CBC, also arguing that if MLBAM won the lawsuit it would have a dramatic impact on the industry, which was largely ignored by the major sports leagues for years while a number of smaller entrepreneurs grew it into a multi-billion dollar industry, and a ruling could allow the MLBAM to have a monopoly over the industry.

There may also be extensive capital flight or flight to a “ hard ” currency such as the US dollar.

For example, USD ( United States dollar ) has code 840 which is also the numeric code for the US ( United States ).

Supranational currencies, such as the East Caribbean dollar, the CFP franc, the CFA franc BEAC and the CFA franc BCEAO are normally also represented by codes beginning with an " X ".

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio which includes technology companies, real estate holdings, and stakes in other technology, media, and content companies.

In addition, many albums have been named with allusions to proverbs, such as Spilt milk ( a title used by Jellyfish and also Kristina Train ), The more things change by Machine Head, Silk purse by Linda Rondstadt, Another day, another dollar by DJ Scream Roccett, The blind leading the naked by Vicious Femmes, What's good for the goose is good for the gander by Bobby Rush, Resistance is Futile by Steve Coleman.

As in the 1997 crisis, Korea's currency also experienced massive fluctuations, declining by 34 % against the dollar.

Silver coins and bullion are also used as an investment to guard against inflation and dollar devaluation.

Individuals are also allowed a deduction for personal exemptions, a fixed dollar allowance.

The chart also shows the consumer price index ( CPI ) as a measure of inflation from the same source and the end-of-year U. S. dollar exchange rate from the Central Bank of Uzbekistan database.

It is also widely used as a reserve currency after the U. S. dollar, the euro and the pound sterling ..

The act also authorized the president to devalue the gold dollar so that it would have no more than 60 percent of its existing weight.

Implicitly, then, all currencies pegged to the dollar also had a fixed value in terms of gold.

This coin was the ancestor of many of the major European coin denominations to come later and also of the US dollar.

Banks also appeared on the Australian currency paper $ 5 dollar note before it was replaced by the later polymer currency.

His critics, notably Steve Forbes, attributed the rapid rise in commodity prices and gold to Greenspan's loose monetary policy, and by late 2004 the price of gold was higher than its 12 year moving average ; these same forces were also blamed for excessive asset inflation and the weakening of the dollar.

The uncompensated or non-reimbursed amounts are written off as bad debt thus becoming a tax write off and the unpaid bills are also sold to third party collection agencies for an average of 20 cents per dollar.

They also threatened with a multi-million dollar lawsuit, but both suits were dropped due to the band members ' personal lives.

A and an are also used to express a proportional relationship, such as " a dollar a day " or "$ 150 an ounce " or " A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play ", although historically this use of " a " and " an " does not come from the same word as the articles.