He sought to adapt it on numerous occasions, though the project would carry a substantial price tag, and has yet to appear onscreen ( Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report bears striking similarities to De Palma's visual style and some of the themes of The Demolished Man ).

The tag will be issued by the Quartermaster's Department gratuitously to enlisted men and at cost price to officers ..."

It was initially offered to loyal and reoccurring customers, each of the 399 made ( minus the 400th which was donated to the Vatican for charity ) had a price tag of $ 650, 000 apiece.

It was also revealed that the price tag of the Hummer brand was $ 150 million.

The console was test marketed in Fresno, California, in 1979 with a total of four games available, and was released nationwide in 1980 with a price tag of US $ 299 and a pack-in game: Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack.

Upon Millet's death a decade later, a bidding war between the US and France ensued, ending some years later with a price tag of 800, 000 gold francs.

Four battleships of the Helgoland class were laid down in 1909 – 1910, with displacements of 22, 800 tons, twelve 30. 5 cm guns in 6 turrets, reciprocating engines generating a maximum speed of 21 knots, and a price tag of 46 million GM.

PetPerks is PetSmart's reward program ; members get a pre-determined discount on any item in the store that displays a PetPerks tag under the regular price tag.

Although its high price tag kept it out of the mainstream gaming market, a strong game lineup likely contributed to the cult status of the Neo Geo, enabling it to outlast the more popular Sega Mega Drive / Genesis.

Another example might be Fisher v Bell, where it was held that a shopkeeper who placed an illegal item in a shop window with a price tag did not make an offer to sell it, because of the specific meaning of " offer for sale " in contract law.

Porsche also decided to re-introduce the 924 to the American market with an initial price tag of under $ 20, 000.

The price tag for the Cyclops array was $ 10 billion USD.

The significantly larger price tag contributed to driving away potential Game Gear buyers.

* The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is being increasingly viewed as a " white elephant " by the US military, due to its astounding price tag of some $ 380 billion for nearly 2, 500 aircraft in three differing versions, to equip nine nations ' air forces.

At the time of the announcement, a price tag of $ 2 billion was announced.

Within a few months, the USSR had sent jet airplanes, tanks, heavy and light artillery for a heavily discounted price tag of $ 25 million.

For instance, in 2010 Cisco occupied a meaningful share of the packet-optical market, revenues were still not on par with US $ 7 billion price tag paid in 1999 for Cerent.

Speed-tested to 365 km / h or 227 mph ( according to some stories, the testing team ran out of road during the test ), it holds the Guinness World Records for most powerful production motorcycle and most expensive production motorcycle, with a price tag of US $ 185, 000.

Delphi has said the 5 kW system for Class 8 trucks will be released in 2012, at an $ 8000 – 9000 price tag that would be competitive with other " midrange " two-cylinder diesel APUs, should they be able to meet those deadlines and cost estimates.

The store is also seen in the couch gag of " Lisa the Drama Queen ", where The Comic Book Guy puts a price tag on ( then berates ) a Simpsons couch gag toy.

However, PC DOS sold for $ 40, while CP / M-86 had a $ 240 price tag.

# End the practice of awarding business on the basis of a price tag.

The price tag for construction was $ 44 million ( 1962 USD ) and was to head for, accessing the Somerset Freeway, Interstate 287 and Route 28 before terminating at US 22.

Despite generally good levels of income, we see greater price pressures than ever before -- traveling back along the chain from consumer to distributor to manufacturer.

In this model, we abstract from all non-wage sources of cost changes, so that the `` public-limit price '' only rises as the wage rate rises.

We are abstracting from the fact of strikes here, but it should be obvious that the extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is also a function of the show of resistance put up by the industry.

We assume further that the union recognizes the possibility that price-level increases may offset wage-rate increases, and it does not entirely disregard the effect of price increases arising from its own wage increases upon the `` real '' wage rate.

Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

In the Shikhali district an estimated 7, 000 head of cattle were taken away from Hazaras and 350 men and women of the Jaghori district had been sold at Kabul markets each at the price of 20 – 21 Afs.

Arbitrage tends to reduce price discrimination by encouraging people to buy an item where the price is low and resell it where the price is high ( as long as the buyers are not prohibited from reselling and the transaction costs of buying, holding and reselling are small relative to the difference in prices in the different markets ).

As an example, if one was trying to profit from a price discrepancy between IBM on the NYSE and IBM on the London Stock Exchange, they may purchase a large number of shares on the NYSE and find that they cannot simultaneously sell on the LSE.

Because of a wine glut ( wine lake ) in the generic production, the price squeeze induced by an increasingly strong international competition, and vine pull schemes, the number of growers has recently dropped from 14, 000 and the area under vine has also decreased significantly.

The anniversary was also celebrated with a 40-page issue ( instead of 32 pages ; the 60th birthday issue also had extra pages, 48 instead of 24 ) guest edited by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, price £ 1. 50 ( not 99p ) and an issue of Classics from the Comics devoted to the Beano.

Dutch-Bandanese relations were mutually resentful from the outset, with Holland ’ s first merchants complaining of Bandanese reneging on agreed deliveries and price, and cheating on quantity and quality.

In his book The Myth of the Robber Barons, Burton W. Folsom, Jr. distinguished those that engage in crony capitalism — designated by him " political entrepreneurs "— from those who compete in the marketplace without special aid from government, whom he calls " market entrepreneurs " who succeed " by producing a quality product at a competitive price "

Single-walled nanotubes are dropping precipitously in price, from around $ 1500 per gram as of 2000 to retail prices of around $ 50 per gram of as-produced 40 – 60 % by weight SWNTs as of March 2010.

The canals caused price convergence between different regions because of their reduction in transportation costs, which allowed Americans to ship and buy goods from farther distances for much lower prices compared to before.

Since then, consistent liberalization and astute economic management has led to the removal of 95 % of all price controls, low unemployment, a positive balance of payments position, a stable exchange rate, a shift of exports from former communist economic bloc markets to Western Europe, and relatively low foreign debt.

The price of a new bicycle can range from US $ 50 to more than US $ 20, 000 ( the highest priced bike in the world is the custom Madone by Damien Hirst, sold at $ 500, 000 USD ), depending on quality, type and weight ( the most exotic road bicycles can weigh as little as 3. 2 kg ( 7 lb )).

Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphéas ( from the water lilies series ) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £ 36, 500, 000 ($ 71, 892, 376. 34 ) ( hammer price ) or £ 40, 921, 250 ($ 80, 451, 178 ) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist and representing one of the top 20 highest prices paid for a painting at the time.

Mail from dead combatants was frequently looted and was used by the new owner or sold for a lucrative price.

" In 1606 he killed a young man in a brawl and fled from Rome with a price on his head.

As early as 1904, John Gaynor, a Wisconsin grower, and A. U. Chaney, a fruit broker from Des Moines, Iowa, organized Wisconsin growers into a cooperative called the Wisconsin Cranberry Sales Company to receive a uniform price from buyers.