Dollar in sentence

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What makes a hundred dollar bill valuable, on the other hand, is how many or few of them are around.

Throughout history, most currency, including the US dollar, was linked to valuable commodities and the amount of it in circulation depended on a government's gold or silver reserves.

But after the US abolished this system in 1971, the dollar became what is known as fiat money, meaning not linked to any external resource but relying instead solely on government policy to decide how much currency to print.

Why doesn't the Fed just decide to print infinite hundred dollar bills to make everyone happy and rich?

On the other hand, if the money supply remains the same, while more goods and services are produced, each dollar's value would increase in a process known as deflation.

If you're looking at a large library or a large library system, the dollar amount can be high.

That is indicative of an absolute racial wealth gap where the typical black household has about 10 cents for every dollar held by the typical white family.

That means a dollar received when lying is worth to them only 75 cents without any incentives you put in place for them to behave honestly.

The Washington Post recently released a study showing that films that feature women make 23 cents more on every dollar than films that don't.

And it was a perfect drug; you could buy the cocaine that went into it for a dollar, sell it for five dollars.

I knew I had to give them books under a dollar.

Would you like lesbian love stories written in Hindi, priced under a dollar, to be read in the privacy of your phone?

But we already, and we will by the end of this year, have about half a million stories, many priced at under a dollar.

And my job on this mission was to install this two-billion dollar Columbus laboratory.

If your bank account's one dollar, and you flip a single bit, you could end up with a thousand dollars.

Today, the Boeings and the Lockheeds don't spend a dollar of their own money in R&D.

And you know, when you give to a nonprofit, you might have 50 cents on the dollar.

It was a two million dollar study.

So we're spending less than a dollar, OK, on lunch.

The video game industry in 2005 became a 29 billion dollar business.

Another striking image comes from Brendan McMahon for the "Huffington Post," saying that out of the one trillion dollar budget for military and defense-related spending, if only 0.05 percent were allocated to the arts, we would be able to pay for 20 full-time symphony orchestras at 20 million dollars apiece, and give over 80,000 artists an annual salary of 50,000 dollars each.

Only one dollar?

I bet Taylor Swift, one of the most well-known and richest singers in the world, didn't need more money or fame when she came forward with her groping case for one dollar.

There are ecological reasons for eating lower on the food chain too, whether it's the deforestation in the Amazon or making more protein available to the four billion people who live on a dollar a day, not to mention whatever ethical concerns people have.

So that means that dollar for dollar, relatively small differences in family income were associated with proportionately greater differences in brain structure among the most disadvantaged families.

And every dollar that flows into that will be spent more efficiently by a factor of 10 to 15.

I mean, there are those films that people are making for quality, but the first thing you have to remember about this society is that Africa still has people that live on one dollar a day, and these are the people that really watch these films.

And we can't fight the threat in the kind of stupid way we're doing, because a million-dollar act causes a billion dollars of damage, causes a trillion dollar response which is largely ineffective and arguably, probably almost certainly, has made the problem worse.

But the foreman was kind enough to give us each a check for a dollar, but my mother would never let us cash it.

It costs you a dollar to buy the ticket and, if you win, you get 20 bucks.

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