At $118.5 million, the dollar total of Jeter's contract would be the second highest in team sports.

The exact dollar total of the damages could not be ascertained however.

Those dollar totals are already just a memory even though the full effects have not yet hit home.

Buyouts represented 17 percent of the dollar total for 2006, compared with 12 percent last year.

Given that imbalance, exports would have to rise at nearly twice the rate of imports to reduce the dollar total of the deficit.

Although the dollar total is proper, he said, in its particulars the request is "seriously out of balance."

The dollar total of about $49 billion is second to 1988, when $127 billion, or 38 percent, of the deals were hostile.

Under this formula, Wyoming does receive the largest amount per capita, but its dollar total is the smallest of all 50 states.

Mr. Gates said the dollar totals would grow larger still.

A dollar total could not be obtained.