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One would think that the BBC and ITV would be out to milk every last penny from the great TV programmes of the past.
I payed $14.95 for it it's worth every penny.This movie is pure exellence and all my friends agree with me.
does not worth a penny..i looked its rating before getting it,but i am very disappointed.this is the worst show i have ever seen.
I wonder why this stupid movie has made even a penny.
Hilariously entertaining tale of a man with double amnesia: a dull penny pincher on one hand, a thieving con artist on the other.
Lana Turner is young and gorgeous in this light comedy about a waitress with a lucky penny and the dream of getting out of her humdrum life.
The penny works wonders.
I can't believe anyone can spend one penny to produce this... thing.
It's not even worth a penny ! 100 % JUNK
trust me its worth every penny of your money if you loved this one then you will love Jason goes to Hell which I loved it was fantastic
The 1990's saw an unprecedented rise in the number of quarters in which earnings beat analysts' estimates by a penny a share, suggesting that more irregularities could be discovered.
But the fact that earnings beat estimates by a penny a share every quarter is itself only a sign of quarter-to-quarter manipulations of earnings, not of their wholesale fabrication.
Another is the capacity for price discrimination by new electronic market makers like Uber, which thus appropriate every penny of the old “consumer surplus” of microeconomic theory.
In the long run, if donor countries insist on being penny wise and pound foolish, they run the risk of contributing to outbreaks of more virulent strains of HIV and TB than they ever imagined possible.
This plan would allow us to bail out good banks and allow bad banks to fail – without costing the taxpayer a penny.
According to the Zimbabwean finance minister, Tendai Biti, four years after the military took over the diamond fields, the national treasury has received not one penny of royalties from the sale of Marange diamonds.
National savings amounted to roughly 50% of GDP in 2005, which apparently means that households are so afraid of hospital bills, school fees, and the down-payment on the new apartment they dream of that they save every penny they earn.
They then extend their product lines instead of developing new products; cut costs by putting pressure on their workers; lobby governments for favorable treatment; merge with competitors to reduce competition; and manipulate customers to squeeze out every last penny.
Indeed, Turkey did not have to spend a penny of taxpayers’ money on bank recapitalization or rehabilitation during the global financial crisis.
Thus, it is now subject to the discourse of economic orthodoxy, which, in insisting that all debts be paid to the penny, ignores that public spending is also an engine of growth.
And yet the penny has not dropped in London that focusing European investment funds accordingly would create opportunities to build stronger businesses and increase competitiveness in the technologies of the future – and to share these gains within and beyond the EU.
If people saved every extra penny of borrowed money that the government spent, the spending would have no stimulating effect.
Every problem must be set right before a single penny comes back.
China’s suspension of North Korean coal imports alone – part of its obligations under the Security Council resolution – will reduce the North’s export earnings by an estimated $400 million this year (while also costing China a pretty penny).
The Campaign for Fair Food’s agenda is to persuade every major tomato purchaser to sign on to the Fair Food Program, which, for a small premium – a penny per pound – changes the lives of workers and their families’ substantially.
Provided we do not deceive ourselves about where real power lies, let presidents and parliaments be three a penny if that is what makes people feel good about themselves.
When the great General George C. Marshall – whose memoirs of World War II and of his tenure as America’s Secretary of State would have been worth every penny – was offered $1 million by a publisher in the1950’s for his autobiography, the old man replied, “Why would I want $1 million?”
On the contrary, we have to count the cost down to the penny which our rhetoric has despised.”
Areas that lack the necessary infrastructure are still far away from the global trading system that carries high-end German manufactured washing machines from Westphalian factories to California warehouses for just a penny a pound.
Every penny invested in Africa counts today and to secure Africa’s future.
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