Most of the growth in the finance industry over the past thirty years has involved putting dollar signs next to new realms of human existence, such as water – or, through futures and other derivatives, on the uncertainties of time itself.
They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.
It was a very faithful homage to a Six Million Dollar Man episode.
It was hard not to take it as a sign, a personal comment on my own Jewish dating failings.
If he did, it could be a sign that our politicians are ready to resume genuine policy-making across party lines.
President Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk that read: “The Buck Stops Here.”
The lack of bill buyers in foreign countries who will quote as low rates on dollar as on sterling bills.
At that time, the postage on letters from that region was very high, sometimes as much as fifty or sixty cents, or even a dollar.
In the metal of the tenor several coins are visible, one being a Spanish dollar of 1742.
It stands at one extreme of our currency, with a dollar of gold set aside behind each dollar of paper.
Its continued presence in pulmonary tuberculosis is, however, a grave prognostic sign, even when the physical signs are slight.