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States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).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 ).

* T-1A Jayhawk Military version of Model 400 used as a trainer for pilots of large aircraft in the US military.

On 27 November 2007, Textron announced that Cessna had purchased the bankrupt Columbia Aircraft company for US $ 26. 4M and would continue production of the Columbia 350 and 400 as the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 at the Columbia factory in Bend, Oregon.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

Of the two, remittances far exceed foreign aid and are estimated to have reached US $ 400 million per year in 1999, the last year for which figures are available.

In January 2010, Global Graphics completed a survey with 400 Chief Information Officers from organisations with over 1000 employees across the US and the UK that showed three quarters ( 76 per cent ) of large organisations use free software across the enterprise with over half ( 51 per cent ) planning to deploy more free software in 2010.

By comparison, in 2008 Koenigsegg with its staff of 45 produced 18 cars at an average price of US $ 1 million each ; Saab employed 3, 400 workers and made more than 93, 000 cars.

* Oceania ( also known as " The Atlantis Project ", but unrelated to the 1970s project listed above ), another libertarian artificial island project that raised US $ 400, 000 before going bankrupt in 1994.

ADM ultimately settled Federal charges for more than US $ 100 million and paid hundreds of millions of dollars more to plaintiffs and customers ( US $ 400 million alone on a high-fructose corn syrup class action case ).< ref name =" KaplanFox ">

In 2002 Paraguay conducted more than US $ 400 million in trade with Argentina and nearly US $ 800 million with Brazil.

Paraguay had a negative trade balance of about US $ 400 million in 2004.

Ministers in Singapore are the highest paid politicians in the world, receiving a 60 % salary raise in 2007 and as a result Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's pay jumped to S $ 3. 1 million, five times the US $ 400, 000 earned by President Barack Obama.

Approximately 1. 8 million US dollars was pledged, four times more than the 400 thousand dollar goal.

By some estimates, his personal wealth soared to US $ 400 million in 1974.

Turkmen manats per US $ 1 – 5, 200 ( January 2000 ), 5, 350 ( January 1999 ), 4, 070 ( January 1997 ), 2, 400 ( January 1996 )

When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

However, in May 2006 the World Bank adopted an assistance strategy for Yemen under which it will provide approximately US $ 400 million in International Development Association ( IDA ) credits over the period FY 2006 to FY 2009.

* On 27 June 1957 Hurricane Audrey demolished Cameron, Louisiana, US, killing 400 people.

* June 27 – Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana, US, killing 400 people.

The war had begun with a Mexican slaughter of American soldiers in territory disputed by Mexico and the US ; Polk insisted that Mexican soldiers had " invaded our territory and shed the blood of our fellow-citizens on our own soil ".

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.

In the US and some other countries, because of legal and tax restrictions on alcohol consumption, ethanol destined for other uses often contains additives that make it unpalatable ( such as denatonium benzoate ) or poisonous ( such as methanol ).

US House Resolution 106 was introduced on January 30, 2007 later referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In 1874, Mackenzie negotiated a new free trade agreement with the United States, eliminating the high protective tariffs on Canadian goods in US markets.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

They were originally buried where they died, but were later moved on the orders of the US military government to the cemeteries of their previous homes.

The US Chamber of Commerce argued that the costs of the ADA would be " enormous " and have " a disastrous impact on many small businesses struggling to survive ".

So named due to its resemblance to a traditional agricultural plough ( or more specifically two ploughshares ), many manufacturers produce a plough-style design, all based on or direct copies of the original CQR ( Secure ), a 1933 design patented in the UK ( US patent in 1934 ) by mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor.

Based on his industry experience on Air Force missile projects, Mueller realized some skilled managers could be found among high-ranking officers in the US Air Force, so he got Webb's permission to recruit General Samuel C. Phillips, who gained a reputation for his effective management of the Minuteman program, as OMSF program controller.

* US Presidents on US postage stamps

* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

Most of the US midwest is on square mile grids for surveying purposes.

* Ranald MacDonald, first man to teach the English language in Japan and one of the interpreters between the Tokugawa shogunate and Commodore Perry when the latter made his trips to Japan on behalf of the US government in the early 1850s

In 1941, interviews on American radio and favorable articles in US magazines, including a piece by Jack Alexander in The Saturday Evening Post, led to increased book sales and membership.

Plans were also made for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB, ( renamed in 2005 to Chase Field ) to be built in an industrial / warehouse district on the southeast edge of downtown Phoenix, one block from the Suns ' America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ).