The good negotiators set their objectives in terms of range, which they might formulate as "We hope to get two dollars, but if we get one dollar and fifty, it will be all right."

History records say that in only four years the area around Dawson produced more than fifty-one million dollars in gold. This would be worth more than one thousand million dollars today.

This means you'll be spending around fifty to a hundred dollars in a single night, on someone you've never even taken out on a date before!