Sentences with phrase «as dollars and cents»

Intangible benefits often don't appear as dollars and cents on your paycheck but can have an equal or greater affect on your overall life.

Not exact matches

The Canadian dollar fell 0.6 of a cent to 97.34 cents US as the U.S. dollar and bond yields headed higher after the announcement.

As you exercise, Charity Miles measures your distance and donates 10 cents to your chosen charity for every mile you bike, and 25 cents for every mile you walk or run, up to the company's initial million - dollar corporate sponsorship goal.

The company's lone outstanding junk bond, worth $ 1.8 billion and maturing in 2025, briefly dropped two points to as low as 85 cents on the dollar for a yield of around 8 percent on Monday, according to MarketAxess data.

With an eye to the future, he bought used furniture at auctions and from companies that were going out of business, for as little as 10 cents on the dollar.

As the Government Accountability Office explains, the markets began quoting prices in decimal increments rather than fractions of a dollar, while the minimum price increment was reduced to a penny on the stock market (and 5 or 10 cents on the options market).

Canada made its name in Hollywood as a low - cost location in the days of the 65 cents dollar, and since a federal film tax credit was instated in 1997, each province has been scrambling to stand apart.

Some marketers, especially in the affiliate arena, and questionable data brokers, see everything as «dollars and cents.»

The top three US equity benchmarks closed mixed with the Dow slipping as IBM plunged 7.5 per cent after it reported narrower profit margins in the first quarter and no revenue growth unless one factors in help from a weak US dollar.

Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.

(a) Share of total Australian dollar assets (per cent), subcomponents are the share of liquid assets (b) While deposits with other banks are a store of liquidity, they do not contribute to the stock of liquidity held by the banking system as a whole, since the recipient banks will, in turn, need to hold additional liquidity against these deposits; consequently, they are excluded from this table (c) Includes Commonwealth Government Securities and securities issued by the states and territories (d) Includes notes and coins, Australian dollar debt issued by non-residents and securitised assets (excluding self - securitised assets)

The exchange rate has declined recently and is now around 9 per cent below its mid-February peak against the US dollar; in trade - weighted terms it has fallen by a smaller amount, as some of the fall against the US dollar has been a reflection of recent US dollar strength.

Of every dollar a full - service restaurant brings in, it spends roughly a third on food and alcohol; another third on salaries, wages and benefits; up to 10 cents on rent; and up to 20 cents on other costs such as marketing, according to studies by restaurant associations.

Hence, as a result first of large depreciations of a number of Asian currencies during the Asian crisis of 1997 and 1998, and then their more recent decline with the US dollar, the Australian dollar is now some 60 per cent higher than its post-float average against a group of Asian currencies (Graph 23).

As discussed in the chapter on «International and Foreign Exchange Markets», the Australian dollar has continued to appreciate over recent months, rising on a trade - weighted basis by 5 per cent since early November and 21 per cent over the past year.

Why couldn't the Fed and Treasury do for Lehman what they did with other Wall Street investment firms and stock brokers: let it reclassify itself as a bank so it could pawn off its junk mortgages at the Fed's discount window for 100 cents on the dollar, sticking taxpayers with the loss?

The Japanese authorities slowed the very heavy intervention they had been undertaking in earlier months and the yen appreciated by as much as 8 per cent to 108 against the US dollar between end August and late October — its highest level for nearly three years — before weakening a little.

The list of billionaires includes Bill Gates - founder of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation who has already given away billions of dollars to charity as well as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who pledged to give away 99 per cent of his wealth during his life time in 2015.

The increase in cheese and dairy prices has also helped cushion exports from the relentless rise of Australian Dollar, which now buys 76 US cents, as against 55 US cents two years ago.

Accolade is still 20 per cent owned by New York Stock Exchange - listed Constellation Brands which bought the entire wine business for $ 1.9 billion in 2003 when it was known as BRL Hardy, and then sold down most of its stake in 2011 for a much lower multiple after a sustained slump in profits as the high Australian dollar hit profit margins on exports.

Shares in Treasury Wine Estates, the world's biggest listed winemaker and owner of brands such as Penfolds, Wolf Blass and Rosemount, have rocketed nearly 15 per cent this morning on rumors that global French drinks giant Pernod Ricard could be circling to snap up key assets of the business including its billion dollar US vineyards and wine labels.

Clothing prices are expected to rise across the board for the first time in five years as suppliers and retailers raise prices after a 17 per cent slump in the Australian dollar.

Exports to China slipped by 7.6 per cent to $ 223 million as a combination of austerity measures imposed by the Chinese government to limit spending by government officials and organisations on luxury products, and a higher dollar, hit sales.

If the food security budget were to double by 2016, and the aid program increased to 50 cents in every 100 dollars of government income as both major parties had committed to do, food security would be around 11 % of the aid budget.

Getting 86 % of bets and 90 % of dollars, Boston's line has remained stagnant, dropping only a few cents as sportsbooks reduce the overall juice approaching game time.

As the second largest Park District in Illinois, Fox Valley currently receives.05 cents from every resident's tax dollar, and that figure would remain about the same.

Not only will The Wellness Impact help you make your case for the positive impact school breakfast has on student cognition and behavior, it can help you make your «dollars and cents» case as well; BIC often has a dramatic impact on participation numbers at breakfast, which means leaving fewer federal reimbursement dollars on the table.

Through an analysis of documents between 1970 and 1996, the authors of the book discovered that for every dollar of money loaned to African countries, as much as 80 cent departed the country in the form of capital flight that very year.

200 million dollars in bookings, and we'll do a hundred and fifty million dollars in revenue this year, growing again by 50 per cent, as well as building 25 hydrogen fueling stations.

The notion that females earn 79 cents for every dollar earned by men for doing the same work, an article of faith for feminists and the Obama administration, has been debunked as often as the much - repeated nonsense that a «rape epidemic» exists on college and university campuses.

Martin concluded that society as a whole makes a profit of between 30 and 40 cents a year for every dollar it invests in R&D.

Take the money you'll save on the shorter coverage period and buy a shorter waiting period, benefit for home care (as many policies pay out only 50 cents on the dollar for long - term - care at home), and compound - inflation protection riders.

Almost all the clothes and accessories in the new Regent Street store are on sale for the same amount of pounds as dollars, meaning a $ 350 (# 219) black blazer is retailing at # 350 — an increase of 60 per cent.

Cite Coney Island, as writer scripter Nick Hornby does in a screenplay based on Colm Toibin's novel, and you think of how your dad gave you a dollar in 1945, about the same amount as your friends received from their folks, an amount which gave us four hours of fun in Coney Island where Nathan's hot dogs were fifteen cents and a bag of fries the same.

Irons tops things off as the company CEO who sees everything in the cold calculation of dollars and cents, with the human factor never entering the equation.

As was the case statewide and elsewhere, the pension time bomb was ticking; pension obligations would soon require more than 10 cents of every dollar CPS spent.

Charter educators and families in Buffalo (where the disparity is greatest at 60 cents on the dollar) recently held an event where they decried being treated as three - fifths of a person — harkening back to another kind of insidious discrimination enshrined in law.

These brave charter school parents argue the state funding formula results in their children receiving only 60 to 75 cents on every dollar and no facilities funding denies them access to a sound basic education, as required by the New York State Constitution.

Kids will now begin representing these numbers as Decimals, beginning with writing money amounts in dollars and cents, using the decimal point (ex: $ 2.45).

Resolved, that the Superintendent, or designee, be, and hereby is, authorized to enter into a Lease Agreement with Landsman Development Corporation, 3 Townline Circle, Rochester, NY, to lease approximately 8,737 square feet of the four story building located at 30 Hart Street, Rochester, NY, (commonly known as the Family Learning Center), for the period March 1, 2018, or as soon thereafter as the Agreement is fully executed, through June 30, 2022, for a rental rate not to exceed Four Thousand Seven Hundred Thirty Two Dollars Fifty Four Cents ($ 4,732.54) per month, plus all additional charges under the Lease Agreement, including but not limited to Common Area Maintenance (CAM) charges, property taxes, utilities and repairs, for a sum not to exceed One Thousand Four Hundred Seventy Nine Dollars Seventy Five Cents ($ 1,479.75) per month, funded by the Department of Educational Facilities, contingent upon budget appropriations and contingent upon the form and terms of the Agreement being approved by Counsel to the District.

These brave charter school parents argued the state funding formula results in their children receiving only 60 to 75 cents on every dollar and no facilities funding denies them access to a sound basic education, as required by the New York State Constitution.

Already some convenience stores in Sanford are advertising leaded gas for as low as 96.9 cents a gallon and unleaded only a smidgen more than a dollar.

As a reference, I sell pdf and ePub versions of The Variant and only give up 11 cents on the dollar.1

Keep that in mind as you look as this side by side comparison of author royalty earnings in dollars and cents.

Eisler, a former CIA operative turned author, has been one of the most prominent examples of self - publishing, along with fellow writers J.A. Konrath and young - adult author Amanda Hocking — who made more than two million dollars by publishing her own books via the Kindle marketplace (often charging as little as 99 cents for them) before signing a $ 2 - million deal with a traditional publisher earlier this year.

It's not as good a reading experience as on the Kindle, but since I can get 99 cent books for 99 cents, and not 3.74 dollars which is what Amazon charges for them, then that's a saving worth making.

I may have failed this year from a dollar and cents perspective, but the skills I have learned, as well as the network I have built, are worth more to me than the money.

TORONTO — The Canadian dollar traded below 69 cents US early Friday for the first time since 2003 as crude oil futures dropped below US$ 30 a barrel and overseas stock markets fell sharply.

Some do so as a means of staying active but for others, it's a matter of dollars and cents.

As I noted this past January in Sixteen Cents: Pushing the Unstable Limits of Monetary Policy, a collapse in short - term yields to nearly zero is a predictable outcome of QE2, based on the very robust historical relationship between short - term interest rates and the amount of cash and bank reserves (monetary base) that people are willing to hold per dollar of nominal GDP: