Word: cent
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...with the business of getting rich. He's promised them a million baht for every village, has told them of his One Village, One Product plan, has instituted a new micro-lending program, and he's already delivered on his pledge to offer 30-baht (60-cent) medical care to everyone in the country. No Thai Prime Minister has accomplished this much in his first few months in office...
Peer pressure can hit lower-income families especially hard. George Valadez, a hot-dog and beer vendor at Chicago's Wrigley Field, has sole custody of his three young kids. His concept of being a good provider is to pour every spare cent into them. The family's two-bedroom apartment is crammed with five television sets, three video-game consoles and two VCRs. Next month his kids want to attend a church camp in Michigan that costs $100 a child. So two weeks ago, abandoning their custom of giving away outgrown clothes and toys to neighbors, the family held...
After high school, one of her first jobs was in a mail-order company where women made $3 an hour for working the line. Boe decided to load mail trucks with the guys for a 50-cent raise in pay. At 21, she was driving a meat truck around the North Shore, braving slaughterhouses and blood-covered butchers to haul crates of beef. Not long after, she was driving 18-wheelers. All jobs that relatively few Smith students have on their college resumes...
...Microsoft's great news that it had beaten revenue expectations for the quarter was tempered by the fact that it would also record $2.6 billion in investment losses, bringing their 42-cents-a-share earnings back down to 1 cent per share. The stock popped $4, or 6 percent, in Thursday-morning trading...
...quickly lost altitude. By last December, a new injection of cash was necessary to keep the company afloat. SAirGroup, whose overall business was facing disastrous losses, started pumping $45 million a month into the ailing French company but was unable to convince Seillière to cough up another cent. Though officially the majority shareholder, Seillière insisted that he was only a financial partner and that SAirGroup was responsible for managing the crisis. Declared the baron: "We are not the pilot in this matter, we are the passenger...