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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.

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

In December 2009, one copy sold at Christie's, New York for $ 662, 500, a record price paid for a work of American literature.

It also set a record for the highest price paid in auction in Norway.

Described as the first guitar Hendrix set fire to, another of his Stratocasters was sold at an auction for a record price in London two years later in 2008.

* On December 6 2010, a copy of Birds of America was sold at a Sotheby's auction for $ 11. 5 million, a record price for a single printed book.

Chauvin's distinguished record of service and his love and devotion for Napoleon, which endured despite the price he willingly paid for them, is said to have earned him only ridicule and derision in Restoration France, when Bonapartism became increasingly unpopular.

Garçon à la pipe sold for US $ 104 million at Sotheby's on 4 May 2004, establishing a new price record.

The disc system gradually became more popular because of its cheaper price and better marketing by disc record companies.

With that improvement, the team was sold to Robert Kraft in January 1994 for a ( then ) record price of $ 200, 000, 000 — an astonishing price considering the Pats had generally been considered a laughing-stock and second rate team, had the worst stadium in the league, and couldn't sell out save for select home games resulting in most games going without television coverage — sports in New England centered on the beloved Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox, not the NFL team orphaned in remote Foxborough, Massachusetts, forty miles outside Boston.

A world record price of £ 1. 24 million was set by a Fabergé clock, and the Poltimore tiara, worn for her wedding in 1960, sold for £ 926, 400.

Collectibles experts tend to agree that a collector should begin keeping a record as soon as they start collecting, of all details of purchase and price.

Stationary MiniDisc player / recorders never got into the lower price ranges, and most consumers had to connect the portable player to the hi-fi in order to record.

Lisa had a dream of making new artists able to record music at a low price, in a high-end studio at her house.

In 1997, it was sold at Christie's auction house in London for $ 1. 2 million, setting a price record for a piano sold at auction.

By setting this record, Steinway broke its own 1997 price record of $ 390, 000.

FERC was also given added responsibility to hear appeals of DOE oil price control determinations and to conduct all " on the record " hearings for DOE.

Later that year at Sotheby's in London, Peinture ( Etoile Bleue ) ( 1927 ) brought nearly 23. 6 million pounds with fees, more than twice what it had sold for at a Paris auction in 2007 and a record price for the artist at auction.

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As an expensive painting, it has only recently been surpassed, in terms of actual price, by four other paintings: the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt, which was sold for $ 135 million, the Woman III by Willem de Kooning sold for $ 138 million in November 2006, and No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock sold for $ 140 million in November 2006 and one painting from The Card Players series by Paul Cezanne sold for a record of more than $ 250million.

On October 27, 2010, Swann Galleries set a record price for a Whistler print at auction, when Nocturne, an etching and drypoint printed in black on warm, cream Japan paper, 1879 – 80 sold for $ 282, 000.

On April 12, 2010 the team set a club record for the lowest paid attendance in Camden Yards history, only 9, 129 attended the game versus the Tampa Bay Rays

Rockefeller calmly informed his golfing partners of the amount of the fine, and proceeded to shoot a personal record score, later stating, " Judge Landis will be dead a long time before this fine is paid.

In 1977, Liverpool manager Bob Paisley paid a British transfer record of £ 440, 000 to bring Dalglish to Liverpool.

At the start of the 1994 – 95 season Dalglish paid a record £ 5 million for Chris Sutton, with whom Shearer formed an effective strike partnership.

Many rock drummers have cited Moon as an influence, including Neil Peart and Dave Grohl The Jam paid tribute to Moon on the second single from their third album, " Down in the Tube Station at Midnight ", in which the B-side of the single is a cover song from The Who: " So Sad About Us ", and the back cover of the record is a photo of Moon's face ; the Jam's record was released about a month after Moon's death.

But Shula's hard work paid immediate dividends, as Miami improved to a 10 – 4 record and their first-ever playoff appearance, losing 21 – 14 at Oakland.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Brando was paid a record $ 3. 7 million ($ in today's funds ) plus 11. 75 % of the gross profits for 13 days work playing Jor-El in Superman, further adding to his mystique.

Music writer Everett True has claimed that Cobain's record label paid $ 100, 000 to the original Nirvana to permit Cobain's band continued use of the name.

* 1892 – William " Pudge " Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

Martínez paid immediate dividends in 1998, with a 19 – 7 record, and finishing second in the American League in ERA, WHIP, strikeouts, and the Cy Young voting.

Lombardi's hard work paid off, and the Packers improved to a 7 – 5 regular season record in 1959.

After more standardized ballots were introduced, these practices continued, applying methods such as requiring voters to use carbon paper to record their vote publicly in order to be paid.

Ex-dividend date ( typically 2 trading days before the record date for U. S. securities ) is the day on which all shares bought and sold no longer come attached with the right to be paid the most recently declared dividend.

However in the first part of the 20th century the record producer's role was similar to the role of a film producer in that the record producer organized and supervised recording sessions, paid technicians, musicians and arrangers, and sometimes chose material for the artist.

The duty is levied at the time of import and is paid by the importer of record.

The record for largest health care fraud settlement is now $ 3 billion, which GlaxoSmithKline paid the U. S. government in July 2012.

The band's efforts paid off in 1985, when fourteen-year-old Selena recorded her first album for a record company.

Beneventum indeed seems to have been a place of much literary cultivation ; it was the birthplace of Orbilius the grammarian, who long continued to teach in his native city before he removed to Rome, and was honored with a statue by his fellow-townsmen ; while existing inscriptions record similar honors paid to another grammarian, Rutilius Aelianus, as well as to orators and poets, apparently only of local celebrity.

Another important difference between Blue Note and other independent labels ( for example Prestige Records, who also employed Van Gelder ) was that musicians were paid for rehearsal time prior to the recording session: this helped ensure a better end result on the record.