Word: dollars
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...have heard of the companies that Godin, in his distinctively tangy style, chooses to single out for praise. After all, CafePress.com which sells millions of dollars' worth of imprinted items every month, and Etsy.com a site specializing in handmade crafts and artifacts, are hardly General Electric. But being small yet scalable is the springboard of Web companies. "Why didn't American Express invent (or buy) PayPal?" Godin asks. "Why didn't Barnes & Noble become Amazon?" Because they were busy running multibillion-dollar businesses...
...Dominguez says that even though he and his committee were of the opinion that parts of HMI should go, their primary work is in broadening Harvard’s international focus. He points to one of his committee’s recent initiatives—a $1 million dollar project geared toward South Asia—as an example...
...Noble, the meager funding is not just a practical limitation, but a distressing sign of how Western governments undervalue Interpol. "Neither the U.S. nor any other country realizes that this is a billion-dollar-a-year problem, not a $50-million-a-year problem," he says. "They don't understand that Interpol is cost-effective." Noble spends weeks every year at police conferences and government hearings, pressing the point that Interpol's worldwide reach makes it uniquely positioned to collate data on everything from stolen motor-vehicle licenses and lost passports to fingerprints and DNA samples. Yet there is still...
...years you are: Washing dollar bills like laundry...
Even in today’s world of multi-billion dollar university endowments and generous research grants, $1 billion can still make a tremendous splash in the life-sciences pool. A new bill in the Massachusetts legislature will provide $1 billion in public funds to life-sciences research. This bill—released by Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 in May of 2007—would allocate $500 million for the construction of research facilities, $250 million for fellowships and grants, and $250 million in tax incentives over the next 10 years. Aimed at promoting Massachusetts...