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  • Mattel Inc. has long known that its image among mothers with little girls could use some work, and now it's going to patch things up with the benefit auction of a half-million-dollar Barbie doll.

    Rare Diamond Nominally Attached to Barbie For Sale (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The home has a half-million-dollar entertainment system, including mirrors in the bathroom that can turn into video screens, the person said.

    Former Citi Employee Charged in $19 Million Theft Chad Bray 2011

  • In the book world today is news that a traditional NYT-bestselling novelist has turned down a half-million-dollar deal to self-publish.

    M.J. Rose: The Writing Publishing Pit and the Pendulum M.J. Rose 2011

  • The list is impressive: A "guilty" plea to charges that it illegally dumped aviation fuel into Mississippi River wetlands and dumped a million gallons of wastewater laced with ammonia into the Mississippi River A half-million-dollar fine after a jury found it guilty of stealing oil from Native American lands and repeatedly lying about it.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: MadisonWorld: A Future Where Corporations Have Human Rights ... And Humans Don't RJ 2011

  • Last year the group launched a half-million-dollar campaign in support of chocolate milk; the campaign is now turning up the volume just in time for the school year, with several professional athletes in tow.

    Jeanne Ponessa Fratello: The Great Chocolate Milk Debate Jeanne Ponessa Fratello 2010

  • In the book world today is news that a traditional NYT-bestselling novelist has turned down a half-million-dollar deal to self-publish.

    M.J. Rose: The Writing Publishing Pit and the Pendulum M.J. Rose 2011

  • Marshall approved another half-million-dollar plan to recruit commandos to take over the Cape Verde Islands, another Portuguese possession off the northwest Africa coast.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • His was a life already replete with dramatic twists, from his sister being killed by a drunken driver when he was 5 to making the 2002 Olympic team after a teammate was injured to his 2003 disclosure that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child to a half-million-dollar blackjack payout in Las Vegas.

    Aerial skier 'Speedy' Peterson now sober, more responsible 2009

  • Marshall approved another half-million-dollar plan to recruit commandos to take over the Cape Verde Islands, another Portuguese possession off the northwest Africa coast.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • ÂThe list is impressive: ÂA "guilty" plea to charges that it illegally dumped aviation fuel into Mississippi River wetlands and dumped a million gallons of wastewater laced with ammonia into the Mississippi River  A half-million-dollar fine after a jury found it guilty of stealing oil from Native American lands and repeatedly lying about it.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: MadisonWorld: A Future Where Corporations Have Human Rights ... And Humans Don't RJ 2011

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