Security researchers warmed to the idea that vulnerabilities were worth real dollars.
The result: the amount of private resources put into research and development has fallen in real dollars.
"They know that at the end of the day you need to put real dollars into things that are falling apart."
Myth or not, the real dollars the running back cost amount to $5.4 million over four years.
President Bush's tax plan will do a tremendous amount to get real dollars back to consumers to support their lives.
Between 2007 and the first half of this year, it rose by about three per cent in real dollars.
In the last 15 years teachers' salaries in real dollars have gone down.
"We do this so buyers know they are going getting real dollars at the end of the road," she said.
Spending on intelligence declined by about 5 percent in real dollars this year, other officials have said.
This was a 16.2 percent increase since 1982, in real dollars.