Prize Money and Tournaments
In 2010, total official prize money on the LPGA Tour was $41.4 million, a decrease of over $6 million from 2009. In 2010 there were 24 official tournaments, down from 28 in 2009 and 34 in 2008. Despite the loss in total tournaments, the number of tournaments hosted outside of the United States in 2010 stayed the same, as all four lost tournaments had been hosted in the United States.
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... Credit theories of money, also called Debt theories of money are concerned with the relationship between credit and money ... Proponents assert the essential nature of money is credit (debt), at least in eras where money is not backed by a commodity such as gold ... of thought within these theories are the idea that money originated as a unit of account for debt, and the position that money creation involves the simultaneous creation of money and debt ...
... duck and receives 100 ducats, but is unable to spend all the money in one day ... Because of that he gives the remaining money to a beggar, who tells him that it's not money that brings luck ... A drunkard and bon-vivant, he has no trouble spending all the money on drinking with his friends ...
... When gold and silver are used as money, the money supply can grow only if the supply of these metals is increased by mining ... Deflation was the more typical situation for over a century when gold and paper money backed by gold were used as money in the 18th and 19th centuries ... Modern day monetary systems are based on fiat money and are no longer tied to the value of gold ...
... does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple but while he casts the money ... It does not matter what sum the money is the woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this act made sacred ...
... IMF has said that between $600 billion and $1.5 trillion of illicit money is laundered annually, equal to 2% to 5% of global economic output ... Today, offshore is where most of the world's drug money is allegedly laundered, estimated at up to $500 billion a year, more than the total income of the world's poorest 20% ... "These offshore centers awash in money are the hub of a colossal, underground network of crime, fraud, and corruption" commented Lucy Komisar quoting these statistics ...
Famous quotes containing the words prize and/or money:
“The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)