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I read in the news that milk prices will be shooting up about 50 cents a gallon.
The company's share price then finished at a new low of 2.7 cents at the close of trade yesterday.
The basic monetary unit is the Somali shilling, with one hundred cents equal to one shilling.
To make things easier, the penny will also go up in value one cent each year until it is worth five cents.
Add up all those measly little pennies and the total cost for one slice of pizza comes to 78 cents.
He was also a budding go-getter who used to work in his family's furrier shop and stretch animal hides for 25 cents each.
Now we're up closer to 80 cents, and that does take a fair bit off the bottom line for the Australian winery.
In mid-2001, Lucy again hung out her shingle and offered psychiatric help for five cents.
For five cents, consumers could enjoy a glass of Coca-Cola at the soda fountain.
Despite the announcement, Datalex shares dived around 18 per cent to close at 70 cents on the Nasdaq.
The average wholesale price for power calculated to be 5.1 cents at the end of November.
We are told that debt consolidation now absorbs 80 cents of every tax dollar.
The firm will pay an interim dividend of 4.5 cents per share, a 12.5 per cent increase over last year.
In all honesty, they probably leave it out for the power reason and to save a few cents on build complexity.
An interim dividend of 16.5 cents per share was declared, up from 14 cents.
You need management that can oversee the dollars and cents responsibly while remaining sensitive to the artistic process.
The rate payable on DVD recordable discs, DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM, has also been cut, from 7.5 cents to 6.5 cents.
Bargaining with management became a matter of dollars and cents, not life and death.
If it costs too much he is likely to sell it for two cents on the dollar in an effort to remedy the error.
The amounts by which they do each of the above are decided in terms of dollars and cents.
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At present, brown sugar paid one and a half cent a pound duty, and molasses three cents per gallon.
Norma stopped to give twenty-five cents to an old Italian organ grinder, and worked him into her theme as she went on.
The annual crop is tremendous, and the pickers get only three to ten cents a pound for the ungraded nuts.
At present the duty on brown sugar was one and a half cent per pound, and on molasses three cents per gallon.
The openers are paid from 20 to 30 cents per gallon, according to the size of the scallops.
The net saving in coagulant alone amounted to 30 cents per million gallons.
Many a batch of flap jacks have I stirred up in that old coffee pot, paying the sutler 25 cents a pound for self-rising flour.
The currency in the Straits of Malacca is the Spanish dollar divided into cents.
It was indeed a blanket rate, like the fixed charge of two cents for postage.
The national standard coin of Haiti is a gourde, which is worth 20 cents in American money.
The fare from Valdosta to Madison is eighty-five cents, and I only had sixty cents.
According to Philemon it amounted to one obolus, about four cents of our money.
A book of the same kind for our very small brothers and sisters is skyward and Back, price 30 cents, post-paid.
A bushel o' thet corn, sledded over ter ther nighest store fotches in mebby forty cents.
Four grades of delicate pink silesia and two and one-half yards of unbleached muslin for interlining, made an item of fifty cents.
During the heat of excitement, Kolbe dropped the fare to three cents, which the company followed.
The charge is only two and one-half cents for a ride, but it costs ten cents for a rikisha boy to take you to the car.
Called Par Excellence Creme, wrapped in silver foil with a gold label, it sells for fifteen cents and costs you ten.
They also issue the work in semi-monthly parts, at fifty cents, each part embracing a complete novel.
The earliest silver coin issued in France was the livre, which appeared in 800, of the value of eighty cents.
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