Sentences with phrase «$ billions of other peoples»

If recycling is an environmental «good», then the wind industry can proudly wear its ability to recycle hundreds of $ Billions of other peoples» money as a badge of honour.

Not exact matches

Program spending was up $ 8.3 billion, or 3.3 per cent, due to increases in major transfers to persons and other levels of government and direct program expenses.

This news comes at the heels of fellow online company Udemy's $ 65 million funding round in June, LinkedIn's acquisition of Lynda.com in April for $ 1.5 billion, and a partnership between Udacity and Google to teach people skills like Android development, among others.

Brother's Brother Foundation, a Pittsburgh - based international charity, has provided over $ 4 billion of medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, textbooks, food, seeds, and other humanitarian supplies to people around the world in 149 countries since 1958.

The foundation — which controls an endowment of more than $ 40 billion — aims to lift millions of people out of poverty, with a heavy focus on eliminating HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases.

Within program expenses, major transfers to persons were up $ 1.1 billion, primarily due to higher old age security payments, reflecting an increase in the number of recipients and higher inflation, as benefits are indexed to quarterly changes in the consumer price index, major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 0.6 billion, reflecting legislative increases; while direct program expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion, as lower «other transfer» payments more than offset increases in departmental / agency operating costs.

Program expenses were lowered by $ 5.4 billion in that Update, with all three major components contributing to the decline: major transfers to persons down $ 1.8 billion, primarily due to lower employment insurance benefits; major transfers to other levels of government, down $ 1.4 billion, primarily reflecting the recovery of the sales tax harmonization transitional payment from British Columbia; and direct program expenses, down $ 2.2 billion, due to lower other transfers.

Uber is hoping to raise roughly $ 1 billion at a valuation of $ 60 billion to $ 70 billion, other people told The New York Times in October.

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

Given that the pipeline is anticipated to create about $ 4 billion per year in profits to the Enbridge shareholders and oil sands producers, these are odious profits that come at the expense of people in other countries and into the future.

In 2015 Chinese tourists spent a record $ 7.7 billion on holidays in Australia, but more crucially for retailers their average spending of $ 7000 a person was double other visitors.

Today, whilst the government is busy chasing Ghanaian youth out of small scale mining for Chinese and other nationals to take over, we wish to remind the Ghanaian people that China as a country has over 102 types of mineral deposits in over 3000 mine beds with an estimated value of about $ 100 billion.

The additional funds — only a fraction of the city's $ 78 billion budget — would be used to support programs to reduce the spread of HIV infection in local communities and provide people living with HIV with access to care, medications that make viral loads undetectable, and other treatment supports.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

A White House proposal on immigration will contain a path to citizenship for up to 1.8 million young people brought into the United States as children as part of a package that also includes $ 25 billion for a border wall and other security measures.

The 2011 earthquake in Haiti, on the other hand, killed some 200,000 people and resulted in economic losses approaching an estimated $ 8 billion, which is more than 80 percent of Haiti's GDP.

In the new documentary film $ 29 Billion Reasons to Lie About Cholesterol, Justin Smith states,»... between 1994 and 2006 the percentage of men aged 65 to 74 with «high» cholesterol decreased from 87 % to 54 %... Despite this, the rate of coronary heart disease for this age group stayed about the same... Other age groups have experienced an increase in the rate of heart disease as the number of people with «high» cholesterol has decreased.»

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a Online dating, once a fringe and stigmatized activity, is now a $ 2 billion industry.

The Communiqué is supported by The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group (23 global companies employing 2 million people worldwide with combined revenues exceeding $ 170 billion) and other business organisations working with thousands of corporations and investors, including The B Team, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the We Mean Business coalition.

«The near $ 40 billion reduction in non-defense spending is nearly five times larger than any other cut in history, and is the result of this new Republican majority's commitment to bring about real change in the way Washington spends the people's money.»

The centerpiece is a series of short video advertisements, featuring Harrison Ford, discouraging people from buying pets, curios, medicines or other goods that are part of this $ 10 - billion - a-year illicit trade.

The UN Green Climate will get more than $ 10 billion of other people's money to spend, but are arguing that they shouldn't need to obey the laws and taxes that other people do.

Speaking of droughts, in Zimbabwe, drought has become so intense that the country is asking for an additional $ 1.6 billion in aid to help buy grains and other food to help more than 3 million people already in desperate need.

IMO their estimate of the taxes needed to accomplish this were very low (and discussant Paul Joskow pointed this out in his included remarks, noting that other people estimated these taxes as being 20 times bigger because they assumed that CO2 emissions would grow a lot faster without the tax), but for what it's worth they found a fairly small equivalent variation (loss) of about $ 250 billion (in 1990 dollars) for the U.S. in carrying out this policy.

Over the past 10 years, 3,852 disasters killed more than 780,000 people, affected more than two billion others and cost a minimum of $ 960 billion.

Other effects of global warming would include more storms of the kind that displaced millions of people and caused $ 15 billion in damage to coastal provinces (according to reports from Xinhua in August 2006).

Can the coal industry afford to hire doctors, economists, environmentalists, website designers, computer scientists, psychologists, advertising agencies, and lots of other people on $ 100 BILLION per year?

Professional Experience Peanuts Worldwide (New York, NY) 1996 — Present Supervisor, Product Development Department -LRB-[Insert Start Date]-- Present) • Lead and manage a five - person team in all aspects and procedures of quality assurance administration for over 50,000 new product designs on an annual basis with annual retail sales in excess of $ 1 billion • Oversee the development and maintenance on high - profile global relationships, including MetLife and the worldwide use of Snoopy to establish brand identity • Supervised product development staff on a daily basis, focusing on high - quality process execution, creative implementation, and professional customer relations • Work closely with IT department and other business areas to troubleshoot various technical issues with computers and company - wide systems both for internal and client use, along with the launch of new digital company - wide approval system