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On the one hand, payout per dollar of premium might be reduced if insurance companies believe that wealthier retirees will live longer.

All effects are then expressed in a dollar value.

I have also estimated models using the log of the actual size of the agency's initial budget in 1992 dollars.

Between 1862 and 1872, the federal government spent millions of dollars and allotted over 100 million acres of land to railroad corporations.

The island continually flipflops from water rationing for over a million of its inhabitants to flooding that causes millions of dollars' worth of property loss.

Within-class orderings avoid the problem of having better-known or better-supported therapies crowd out lesser known ones when it comes to allocating dollars for more research.

A course of treatment is also costly; an increasingly important consideration as the population ages and health care dollars must cover expanding types of therapies.

Most large, developed nations spend billions of dollars every year on their criminal justice systems.

It would have required millions of dollars and taken many years to develop adequate railroad and highway networks.

He not only invested all his time into it, but also thousands of dollars over the years in buying materials for his teaching.

Thus, the largest firms control a disproportionately large share of the construction dollar, and a good share of that is coming from international sources.

They had also for some years converted their dollar balances into gold without regard to the pressure on the dollar.

Thus, the dollar amounts of private pension wealth accumulated by dual private pension households are substantial.

This, in turn, caused the devaluation of the peso in the black market, aggravating inequities between those with access to dollars and those without.

There are those who are lucky or clever enough to possess dollars.

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