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The final price was $ 2, 500, 000 ( worth about $ 62m in 2007 ) in 50, 000 shares of the capital stock of the Beech Creek Railway Company with a minimum 4 % dividend guaranteed by the New York Central Railroad Company.
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The 1 and 2 forint coins were withdrawn in 2008, yet prices remained the same as stores follow the official rounding scheme for the final price.
At his first Cabinet meeting, Askin restored direct air services between Sydney and Dubbo, and required Joern Utzon, the Danish architect then working on the Sydney Opera House, to provide a final price and completion date for the Opera House, which had gone past the original estimates for both.
This type of synergy is a nearly ubiquitous feature of a corporate acquisition and is a negotiating point between the buyer and seller that impacts the final price both parties agree to.
* The first direct, ongoing payment by a fast-food industry leader to farm workers in its supply chain to address substandard farm-labor wages ( nearly doubling the percentage of the final retail price that goes to the workers who pick the produce ).
Alternatively, if the seller has set a minimum sale price in advance ( the ' reserve ' price ) and the final bid does not reach that price the item remains unsold.
When an auction's time expires, the last bidder wins the item and must pay a final bid price.
A reserve auction is safer for the seller than a no-reserve auction as they are not required to accept a low bid, but this could result in a lower final price if less interest is generated in the sale.
The Big Mac Index is presumably useful because it is based on a well-known food whose final price, easily tracked in many countries, includes input costs from a wide range of sectors in the local economy, such as agricultural commodities ( beef, bread, lettuce, cheese ), labor ( blue and white collar ), advertising, rent and real estate costs, transportation, etc.
Note that this final price is 110 % of the initial price ( 100 % + 10 % = 110 %).
For example, if the 10 % increase in price considered earlier ( on the $ 200 item, raising its price to $ 220 ) is followed by a 10 % decrease in the price ( a decrease of $ 22 ), the final price will be $ 198, not the original price of $ 200.
A bidding war resulted in the final $ 1, 000, 000. 00 selling price.
The U. S .- based eBay. com takes $ 0. 10 to $ 4 ( based on the opening price ) for a basic listing without any adornments and 8. 75 % ( 12 % for some categories, e. g. Clothing & Accessories ) of the final price ( as of May 2009 ).
The UK based ebay. co. uk takes from GBP £ 0. 15 to a maximum rate of GBP £ 3 per £ 100 for an ordinary listing and from 0. 75 percent to 10 % ( writing as of June 2009 ) of the final price.
They paid the final installment of the purchase price of $ 200, 000 ( equal to $ today ) on December 9, 1859, taking possession on February 22, 1860.
That the final selling price of a product from a non-participating country sold in a country with a VAT tax must bear not only the tax burden of the country of origin, but also a portion of the tax burden of the country where it is being sold.
In a souq, the final price of an item is reached by bargaining with the shopkeeper.
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`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.
The final issue of the Englishman, No. 57 for February 15, ran to some length and was printed as a separate pamphlet, entitled The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So-called.
While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.
In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.
In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.
As it was, his absence because of his final illness was a blow to the administration.
Mrs. Dwyer's husband, M. Joseph Dwyer, was taking a 10-year-old boy from Union County on the tour of the Capitol during the final weeks of the last session.
One had to believe in final events or one was stranded in the abyss of nothing.
Lublin was the seed of action for the `` final solution '' of the Jewish problem.
But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.
As was said in Gonzales, `` it is the Appeal Board which renders the selective service determination considered ' final ' in the courts, not to be overturned unless there is no basis in fact.
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The final sample was not significantly different from a normal distribution in regard to reading achievement or intelligence test scores.
In I wanted to tell him, but I was afraid to the final to is lightly stressed because it represents to tell him.
By these steps the final AIA list was reduced from 8,000 to 3,500.
The final mailing of the questionnaire was made late in August, 1960, to 4,900 firms consisting of 3,450 from the AIA list and 1,450 from the TR list.
Over 1,000 returns were received within two weeks after the final mailing was made.
The final step was a vote for a $230,000 bond issue for the construction of a sewage system by the 1959 town meeting, later confirmed by a two-thirds vote at a special town meeting June 21, 1960.
If Cynewulf was literate, the Beowulf poet may have been also, and so may the final redactor of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.
The final proof was a small incident.
The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.
Within a week after the injury, suffered in St. Louis's victory in the final game of the Kentucky tournament, Nordmann was sitting on the Bill's bench doing what he could to help Benington.
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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.
However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund derived from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenues.
* 2009 – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe devalues the Zimbabwean dollar for the third and final time, making Z $ 1 trillion now only Z $ 1 of the new currency ( this is equivalent to Z $ 10 septillion before the first devaluation ).
The Continental Army having been funded by $ 20, 000 in French gold, Washington delivered the final blow to the British in 1781, after a French naval victory allowed American and French forces to trap a British army in Virginia.
On January 3, 1825, the Harmonists and Robert Owen, a Welsh-born industrialist and social reformer, came to a final agreement for the sale of the Society's land and buildings in Indiana for $ 150, 000.
Produced at a cost of almost $ 9 million with a high-profile cast including John Hurt, Gabriel Byrne and, in his final role, Robert Mitchum, the film marked a significant departure for the director from his previous features.
In a final round of bids on March 13, 2000, the Foundation voted to accept Glass ' bid of $ 96 million, rejecting Prentice's revised bid of $ 115 million.
Before the final night's performance, $ 180, 000 of the band's money from gate receipts was stolen from a safe deposit box at the Drake Hotel.
The new Great Southern Stand was completed in 1992, in time for the 1992 Cricket World Cup, at a final cost of $ 150 million.
The final acceptance fee, on the Saturday prior to the race, is $ 45, 375.
For example, in the final betting round, if the pot is $ 30 and a player is contemplating a $ 30 bet ( which will give his opponent 2-to-1 pot odds for the call ), the player should bluff half as often as he would bet for value ( one out of three times ).
His final stop was lunch at Engine Company 55, which lost five men, in Chinatown, where he delivered five $ 11 pizzas from Sal's on Broome Street.
Sources differ on the film's final cost, offering figures between $ 93, 000 and $ 300, 000.
The project was funded at 1227 % of its initial goal, with a final pledge level of $ 294, 000 on Sunday 1 July 2012.
The estimated final cost of constructing the CVC was US $ 621 million.
Mike Matusow won the first prize of $ 1 million ( US ), and all the players at the final table were guaranteed a minimum of $ 25, 000 for the eighth and ninth place finishers.
A single grand prize, also called the Gold Award, is accompanied by a prize of $ 5000-judging is based only on the final illustration, not the initial portfolio.
The children's book Ten Mile Day by Mary Ann Fraser tells the story of the final, record setting push by the Central Pacific in which they set a record by laying of track in a single day on April 28, 1869 to settle a $ 10, 000 bet.
Through the efforts of screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni, the rights to For a Few Dollars More and the final film of the trilogy ( The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ) were sold to United Artists for about $ 900, 000 ( US $ in dollars ).
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