Tom didn't give me an ounce of trouble.

Start with a 16 ounce portion of big fish.

Adulteration It takes many pounds of rose petals to distill one ounce of essential oil.

Gold prices since the fall of 2013 have tumbled from 1,900 per ounce to around 1,200.

So I buckled down and, using my last ounce of strength, won that pitiful tee shirt.

IRVINE , CALIFORNIA One Troy ounce (31 grams) of gold is now selling for approximately 1,150 on the open market.

The old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure applies with particular force to monetary policy.

The Bank of England stood ready to convert a pound sterling into an ounce of (11 12 fine) gold on demand.

There is no doubt that gold s heady rise to the peak, from around 350 per ounce in July 2003, had investors drooling.

NEW YORK Gold prices have been rising sharply, breaching the 1,000 barrier and in recent weeks rising towards 1,200 an ounce and above.

You know that you can hold a 40 ounce bottle of rum and two bottles of coke in a wineskin? So what, right?

It took Tom every ounce of courage he had to admit to Mary that he had once been part of a terrorist group.

The primary check was that other countries could demand conversion of their growing dollar reserves into gold at the fixed price of 35 per ounce.

And instead of charging a dollar fifty for the eight ounce bottle, the way that French's and Gulden's did, they decided to charge four dollars.

The Bretton Woods system linked the US dollar to gold at 35 per ounce, with other currencies linked to the dollar (though occasionally allowed to make adjustments).

In April, gold was selling for close to 1,300 per ounce and the price is still hovering below 1400, an almost 30 drop from the 2011 high.

There, the prospect of recovering a fraction of an ounce of gold or platinum entices communities to discount heavily the toxic risks and health effects of chronic exposure.

Judging from the outcome of last month s meeting of the ECB s Governing Council, that ounce of prevention appears to be right around the corner for the euro zone economy.

VENICE The run up in gold prices in recent years from 800 per ounce in early 2009 to above 1,900 in the fall of 2011 had all the features of a bubble.

Listen closely Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is he joking? advice.

(Gold prices, for example, at 1,050 per ounce at the end of November, are far off their peak of nearly 1,890 in September 2011, and copper prices have fallen almost as much since 2011.)

So, does the collapse in gold prices from a peak of 1,900 per ounce in August 2011 to under 1,250 at the beginning of July 2013 represent a vote of confidence in the global economy?

But prices have moved mostly downward since then. In April, gold was selling for close to 1,300 per ounce and the price is still hovering below 1400, an almost 30 drop from the 2011 high.

I discovered this bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side that hosted a weekly poetry open mic, and my bewildered, but supportive, parents took me to soak in every ounce of spoken word that I could.

Her tiny shoots, sprouts, amaranth and kohlrabi leaves grow year round they grow quickly in the summer, Leadley can make a crop in seven days and they sell for well over a dollar an ounce.

The snow leopard (in heraldry known as the ounce) (Aq Bars) is a national symbol for Tatars and Kazakhs a snow leopard is found on the official seal of the city of Almaty, and a winged snow leopard is found on Tatarstan's coat of arms.

For example, Stephen Harmston s oft cited 1998 study points to anecdotal evidence that an ounce of gold bought 350 loaves of bread in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who died in 562 BC. Ignoring the fact that bread in Babylon was probably healthier than today s highly refined product, the price of gold today is not so different, equal to perhaps 600 loaves of bread.