Because of inflation, officials said, the $390 million settlement is worth $200 million in current dollars.

In current dollars, the price in 1980 was about $2 a gallon.

The record had been held by the 1906 earthquake and fire, which would have cost as much as $5.8 billion in current dollars.

In current dollars, the estate would be worth about $250 million.

Preliminary estimates of its long-term cost in current dollars range up to $8 trillion.

Those numbers are based on current dollars, however, meaning the actual cost of the reactor will be much higher by the time it is completed.

The average teacher salary rose to $31,304 for the 1989-90 school year, 5.9 percent higher in current dollars than the previous year's figure of $29,547.

That would be more than $67 billion in current dollars.

At right, a chart from the report, translated into current dollars.

At the end, after overhead and taxes, he would be clearing about five million a year in current dollars.