Sentences with phrase «as a cash cow in»

Make no mistake he sees Roma as another cash cow in the long term.

I see the carriers seeing the data consumption of the Android platform as a cash cow in the very near future.

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And even the most successful companies in music streaming are hardly cash cows, saddled as they are with royalty payments to artists and labels.

Contrary to popular belief, defaulters are a cash cow for Treasury as punitive fees are added to their balances and low incomes are garnished — it's the complaining borrowers not in default who are getting bailed out.

«Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen.

It wouldn't matter who came in and replaced Wenger if the board continue to use AFC as a cash cow.

ARSENAL is a Cash Cow for him and the board, there is no secret nor mystery, BUT this does not take away another reality WENGER no longer is a successful manager nor will he be again, he has been given enough to build a winning team, but his managerial skills are there no more, instead his arrogance, living past glories, stubbornness substituted what once was a his attributes as a ground breaking Manager, he became obsolete, in many ways his accommodating the owner desires is simply to save his job and what he gets in return complacency from the board by covering his shortcomings specially the last few years.....

Among the 11 entries as of Monday were Skip Away (right), vying to become the Classic's first repeat winner, racing's alltime cash cow (a victory would give him $ 10 million in earnings) and Horse of the Year; 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Silver Charm; the last two Belmont Stakes victors, Victory Gallop and Touch Gold; Travers Stakes champ Coronado's Quest; and Swain, Europe's top horse.

soon as chambo turns out either in liverpool's or chelski colours he may as well change his name to the «cash - cow».

We fans are treated as cash cows only and disdained by all in charge, including the Dickensian joke Chairman.

At Arsenal, it seems that the powers that be are self serving and are not interested in the sport of football other than seeing the club as a business cash cow.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Mayor Michael Bloomberg has vetoed a City Council bill that would have raised the minimum wage in New York City to $ 11.50, calling the measure «a throwback to the era when government viewed the private sector as a cash cow to be milked.»

Megna has also joined the state Gaming Commission this year just as reports were coming in that New York's new upstate casinos might not be the cash cow supporters and consultants said they would be.

«The so - called living and prevailing wage bills are a throwback to the era when government viewed the private sector as a cash cow to be milked, rather than a garden to be cultivated,» said Bloomberg, in what aides said was his first public veto address.

In answering that question Tribble provides us with a provocative and disturbing glimpse into the gamesmanship of getting orphan drug status; using Medicare as a cash cow to the tune of $ 11 million - a-year; that cozy relationship between Pharma and patient advocacy groups mentioned above; and how a pill goes from $ 80 to $ 550 and can cost a patient $ 180,000 annually.

The announcement followed Burcon's recent boast that it was the first to achieve GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) status for use of its canola protein isolates Puratein ® and SuperteinTM in food in the U.S. With all these new «commercializable products,» Burcon hopes its GRAS - feeding will result in a whole herd of healthy cash cows (http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2009/26/c7915.html).

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) tells the story of Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton), a washed up actor who's biggest claim to fame was starring as the superhero Birdman in three cash cow Hollywood blockbusters.

Since the humor of The Office is the kind of sly, nuanced wit that doesn t exactly work well in the context of a two - minute movie trailer, I was holding out hope that the studio simply decided to cram the more obvious Robin Williams schtick into the previews to lure in the people who made cash cows out of such dross as RV and Night at the Museum and that the actual film would be more in the vein of The Office.

Since amiibo first shipped out in 2014, these toys to life figurines have gone on to be quite the cash cow for Nintendo and as such, are starting to become involved with a lot more of Nintendo's 1st party games, but so is dlc.

It's not really much of a surprise, as the films are pretty big cash cows, but it also shows the major confidence they have in the second film.

Money is in the air when thinking of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, as Disney is loathe to give up a cash cow after the special effects - laden trilogy had run its mediocre - but - lucrative course.

The deans of education we spoke with indicated that this is because the training of school administrators in certificate and degree programs is typically viewed (especially by the public universities) as a «cash cow,» expected to produce surplus revenue to be used by other, more important programs in the school of education.

Also tucked in the recommendations are such bold ideas as serious acceptance of alternative pathways and «residency» - style preparation; insistence on real standards for entering prep programs and getting certified; the demand that prep programs respond to K — 12 education's actual supply - demand numbers rather than enrolling as many people as possible (thus probably killing the proverbial ed - school «cash cow» within universities); and tracking the performance of those emerging from various prep programs and institutions — and actually closing those that don't produce successful professionals.

It has been described as a «Wall Street Cash Cow» because of its ability to suck money out of State tax payers in order to increase Wall Street profits.

The accrediting organizations have not been a target for reform because of resistance by teacher education colleges, the use of these colleges by universities as cash cows that bring in more students and money when standards are low, etc. etc..

Local authorities have also seen the special schools as potential cash cows in these straightened times.

In a crunch, proper cash cows, such as a baby Macan or a Cayenne coupe, would probably take priority over a front - engine coupe.

As one of the oldest models in the General Motors lineup, the Cavalier has been tweaked and tuned and «refined,» as the Chevrolet public relations people like to say, but the company has spent comparatively little to update its small cash cow, and it showAs one of the oldest models in the General Motors lineup, the Cavalier has been tweaked and tuned and «refined,» as the Chevrolet public relations people like to say, but the company has spent comparatively little to update its small cash cow, and it showas the Chevrolet public relations people like to say, but the company has spent comparatively little to update its small cash cow, and it shows.

It could be that a color Tablet becomes the new cash cow and that what we now know as a eInk reader become free (assuming the purchase of eBooks) or becomes highly subsidized, as in the case of the newest Kindle.

Even if Zynga's members are only 20 % of the cash cows that PokerStars members are, Zynga could add as much as $ 150 million per year in extra free cash flow.

In fact the law is the opposite, but as one writer stated, it is a cash cow by forceing customers to convert to Cdn $ after closing out a position and charging 4 to 10 basis points on the value of the trade.

As discovered in a recent CFPB study, overdraft fees continue to be a cash cow for banks nationwide, reinforcing a similar study on overdraft fees by the Consumer Federation of America last year.

Her «journey» in life so far has been devoid of living inside a home, living as a pet and not just a «cash cow,» getting needed vet care, and learning that people can be a good thing.

Case in point, the live - action «Believe» campaign for Microsoft's cash cow Halo 3 followed Gears of War «s tear - jerking example, inspiring almost as many mainstream media posts as the game itself, and it didn't show a single frame of actual game footage!

Similarly, as I discussed in length last week, there's pretty much no chance that the proven cash cows of the industry are going to up and disappear.

This can be seen as either a cash cow or a new way to breathe new life into a franchise, introduce new players and bring back returning players in the process.

Since amiibo first shipped out in 2014, these toys to life figurines have gone on to be quite the cash cow for Nintendo and as such, are starting to become involved with a lot more of Nintendo's 1st party games, but so is dlc.

The first trailer for Sledgehammer Games» instalment of Activision's yearly cash cow is in, and it bestows a sparkly new subtitle on this year's game, as well as giving us a look at what Advanced Warfare actually means.

Shocking as usual, its ok everyone saying we have a AAA sports game in nba.its no use to me in the UK where basketball isn't watched or played not one game in the last 10 months have I even considered keeping I have been loyal to Sony since ps1 and spent thousands what's happened in general to the developer s.games just aren't what they were, i think it's getting near time to jump ship and see if Microsoft has any interest in its customers I feel I've been a cash cow long enough.

And this goes right up to University administration levels as all of them see Climate Science as a cash cow to bring in grants and don't want to rock the boat.

By the time you've factored in the cost of conversion, perhaps also increases in insurance premiums and the uncertainty that our government, who treats the motorist as a cash cow, could raise taxes for LPG, it's not worth it.

It does not require a lot of thought to realize the only green in all this is the money changing hands to develop wind energy, seen as a cash cow by many who are very bad at math, one presumes.

The third is to «milk the cash cow» for so long as it is feasible and then withdraw or rather allow the portfolio to evolve in such ways that products, services and markets disappear.

When I wrote 409A as a Service: Cash Cows Get Slaughtered a few years ago, highlighting how eShares was using their own technology to trim the fat in an industry that (in my opinion) really was in many cases extorting startups, the response from the luddites was predictable.

How are injured Ontario auto accident victims ever to access justice in a reasonable time period given personal injury lawyers «treat» rogue insurer experts as their cash cows?

As well as increasing engagement and time spent in apps, games are proving to be a sizable cash coAs well as increasing engagement and time spent in apps, games are proving to be a sizable cash coas increasing engagement and time spent in apps, games are proving to be a sizable cash cow.