Sentences with phrase «accepted by billions»

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What probably will make a difference is whether the board — which last fall paid out a $ 300 million special dividend to shareholders — accepts the offer by Arthur T. Demoulas to acquire the 50.5 percent stake in the $ 4.6 billion company now controlled by his cousin Arthur S. Demoulas and other family members.

With no plans to accept Apple Pay, and no set launch date for MCX, it appears Walmart could wait no longer without risking missing out on a major shift in customer behavior: Forrester Research has forecast that mobile payments by U.S. consumers will go from $ 52 billion last year to $ 142 billion by the end of 2019.

The discovery comes at a particularly sensitive time for merchants, not only because this is the busiest time of the year for most, when by some estimates U.S. retailers will notch $ 630 billion in sales, but also because most merchants are now in the process of switching over to terminals that accept chip cards, also known as EMV cards.

That's a trend that isn't unique to Elliman: In 2015, seven Manhattan plans projecting total sellouts north of $ 1 billion were accepted by the AG.

«The decision by the Liberals to meekly accept what Ottawa was offering means that British Columbia could be losing as much as $ 5 billion in transfers over the next 10 years,» said Darcy.

Volkswagen's 6.7 billion euro ($ 9.22 billion) offer for its Swedish truck division Scania was accepted by minority shareholders, a big step in the German automaker's plan to create a trucks alliance to compete in global markets.

The U.S. Senate on June 29 approved a bill that will allow Puerto Rico to restructure roughly $ 70 billion of debt in return for accepting involvement by a federal oversight board.

When Israel accepts billions of $ from US taxpayers then they should be forced to abide by our wishes.

If you ask the community in general the sworn testimony of 9 billion people over the history of mankind that God exists is accepted by the community.

It is wholly illogical and downright arrogant to accept a simple watch was made by someone but our planet Earth with its BILLIONS OF LIFE FORMS is not... it saddens me that with our amazing supercomputer, our brain, that people can throw logic clear out the window.

The IBO estimated that by June 2013, the tab will hit $ 3.8 billion — and that assumes most unions accept retroactive raises of just 2 percent, about the rate of inflation.

Accepting that the government is able to grow the economy by 5.4 percent, it will take approximately 13 years to double our 2014 GDP of a paltry 38.65 billion dollars.

«Would you accept that the apparent diversion and sharing of the over $ 2 billion was largely due to your failure to ensure: (1) that system was in place to ensure a transparent and accountable spending of budget for military operations in strict accordance with the standards of international law including the UN Convention against Corruption; (2) that any such system was operating in a continuous and effective manner; and (3) that violations of the standards were punished when detected by that system?

Altice N.V., the Netherlands - based cable and telecommunications company that is purchasing Cablevision Systems Corp., said it «accepts the conditions of approval» set down by the state Public Service Commission for approval of the $ 17.7 billion deal.

Unlike Senate Republicans, who had to accept a minimum wage increase to $ 15 in the New York City area, Democratic lawmakers in the Assembly are largely happy with the final agreement, which also includes a 12 - week paid family leave program and a boost in education aid by $ 1.5 billion.

It reports that Duncan Smith is said by friends to be ready to resign rather than accept a # 2 billion Treasury raid on Universal Credit, his main welfare reform.

Today widely accepted as the standard version of the Big Bang theory, inflation holds that regions of the universe that are currently separated by many billions of light - years were once close enough to each other that they could exchange heat and reach the same temperature before they were wildly super-sized.

If the concept is proven — and perhaps a bigger if, accepted by the automobile industry — it could go a long way toward helping to dispose of the 2.7 billion kilograms of chicken feathers generated each year by commercial poultry operations.

In an $ 11 billion game industry dominated by dull and bloody «first - person shooters» — not to mention a country where five out of 10 people do not accept evolution — a blockbuster game like Spore that communicates science to the public is sorely needed.

Most of this $ 10 billion industry is still tied up with subscriptions, paid primarily by libraries, but a growing slice comes from gold open - access publishing, the business model in which authors of accepted papers pay up front for their publication.

Regardless of when the cyanobacteria appeared, it is widely accepted that they comprised the predominant form of life on early earth for some two billion years, and were responsible for the creation of earth's atmospheric oxygen, consuming CO2 and releasing O2 by photosynthetic metabolism.

Today soy protein isolate forms the basis of a $ 1.6 billion market of imitation foods — from tofu burgers to soy milk — purchased by consumers who have accepted the fallacy that traditional foods are bad for them and must be avoided.

By 1932, it was The generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar system is about billion years (plus or minus about 1 %).

Laura is more a symbol of the collateral damage of Mexico's billion - dollar drug war than a character, and she kind of becomes a numb zombie by the movie's latter half, perhaps accepting her doomed fate.

The CEA's endorsement means that the leadership of all of the major public employee unions in Connecticut have thrown their support behind the candidate who has pledged that he will not propose or accept any tax increase during this second term, despite the fact that Connecticut is facing a $ 4.8 billion budget shortfall over the next three years.While Connecticut's millionaires continue to celebrate the fact that they have been spared the need to «sacrifice» by being required to pay their fair share in taxes, Malloy's policies will ensure massive increases in local property taxes for the middle class and widespread cuts in local education budgets.

The cumulative par amount accepted by NY FRB from 11/04/10 through 04/07/11 is $ 523.2 billion

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Qatar Foreign Minister Mohammed Al Thani, relates to charges levied for years by U.S. legacy carriers and airline industry unions that Qatar Airways is accepting billions of dollars in state subsidies that are forbidden under the U.S. - Qatar Open Skies aviation agreement.

The Stamford, Connecticut - based company said Friday it had received and would accept a $ 13.2 billion takeover bid from a Chinese consortium led by Anbang Insurance Group, terming it a «superior proposal» to Marriott's $ 10.8 billion cash - and - stock merger from last November.

United, Delta, American and U.S. aviation labor unions have called for sanctions against Qatar, Emirates and Etihad, accusing the Gulf carriers of violating aviation agreements by accepting $ 50 billion in state subsidies since 2004.

In 2005, a record high 6.06 billion offers were mailed out by credit card companies, but only a record low 18 million offers, or about 0.3 percent, were accepted.

Five days after hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen's firm SAC Capitol Advisors accepted responsibility for insider trading by at least six of its employees — an admission that could cost the firm $ 1.8 billion in penalties — Mr. Cohen did a little trading of his own at Sotheby's.

We accept a projection of nine billion people on the planet by 2050 as «inevitable.»

Polls show that despite hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars squandered on global - warming alarmism, the American public still refuses to widely accept the man - made warming theories advanced by an increasingly discredited UN and its allies.

$ 100 billion, a myth fed by confirmation bias that no skeptic would ever accept without auditing the statements of account and tracing the spending to where it's actually happening.

From what I gather, until last year the estimate accepted by nearly all scientists with knowledge in the field was that the carrying capacity of the oceans was around 1 billion tons of fish.

And at some point someone here is going to call anyone who is not convinced by this uncited, in - expert commentary (anyone, in other words, who accepts the mere possibility that the billions of humans on the planet and their massive technocracy might, just might have an effect on the environment) as a «true - believer.»

In accepting $ 4.5 billion of cash from Singapore Power for a suite of Australian electricity and gas distribution assets, Alinta shareholders will lift the total value of Australian business assets controlled by the Singapore Government to almost $ 30 billion.

The world's largest gold mining company, Canada» Barrick Gold Corp.'s $ 7.3 - billion bid for Equinox Minerals Ltd. was accepted by the Equinox board yesterday, pushing out a lower bid from China's Minmetals Resources Ltd..

Mills Corp.'s decision to accept a $ 7.5 billion buyout offer from Toronto - based Brookfield Asset Management Inc., including cash and assumption of debt, came as a March 31 deadline to pay pack a $ 1.06 billion mortgage loan from lenders represented by Goldman Sachs Mortgage Co.was creeping closer.

Mills Corp.'s decision to accept a $ 7.5 billion buyout offer from Toronto - based Brookfield Asset Management Inc., including cash and assumption of debt, came as the March 31 deadline to pay back a $ 1.06 billion mortgage loan from lenders represented by Goldman Sachs Mortgage Co. crept closer.