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Or she could give you a spikey response: “How ungrateful you are. Fine, don’t expect a red cent from me.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
He has taken 19 shots, hit the target 10 times and converted at 31.6 per cent.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
US officials have warned that many allies were "lagging behind" on their pledge to spend 5% cent of GDP on the military by 2035, the paper reports.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
For the quarter ended May 31, BlackBerry posted net income of $8.5 million, or 1 cent a share, up from $1.9 million, or zero a share, in the comparable quarter a year ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
What he said was, “Of course, I’d be delighted, fifty per cent down payment please, the rest before delivery, come back in a year, thank you very much.”
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
That’s down from a profit of $1.01 billion, or 74 cents a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Verizon’s second-quarter profit came in at $3.95 billion, or 92 cents a share, down from $5.12 billion, or $1.18 a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Stripping out certain one-time items, earnings came in at 87 cents a share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
That compares with net income of $119.9 million, or 85 cents a share, in last year’s comparable period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
She found a loaf of bread on sale for fifteen cents and a jar of peanut butter for seventy-one cents.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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