Sentences with phrase «as multibillion»

In 2012, brothers Ben and Dan Miller founded Fundrise, a Washington, DC - based start - up, with one goal: Give everyone the ability to invest directly in the same real estate as multibillion - dollar institutions — online.

While this form of contracting works well when purchasing commoditized products or solutions, it has increasingly been used to fulfill more complex IT requirements, including engineering services, and very large scopes of work such as the multibillion - dollar Navy NGEN contract,» she told the E-Commerce...

From director Benjamin Franzen, this acclaimed doc, which originally aired on PBS» «Independent Lens,» traces the rise of hip - hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion - dollar industry.

Traffic jams could afflict New York City's heavily traveled West Side Highway for three years as a multibillion - dollar train tunnel is built under the Hudson River, draft proposals obtained by...

As I told Liz, this has served as a multibillion - dollar «peace dividend» that has mostly helped net importing markets, including «Chindia» — China and India combined, where 40 percent of the world's population lives — Japan and the European Union.

New NAFTA rules could increase the cost of a car by hundreds or even thousands of dollars, act as a multibillion - dollar tax, and ultimately hurt sales as consumers keep their wallets shut, a new study predicts.Thursday, April 26, 6:00 pm ET

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Porowski, for one, was able to license her product, now known as the GoGown, to MedLine Industries, a multibillion - dollar medical supply manufacturer.

Beck and Merrill are still reconciling their dual role: corporate executives of a multibillion - dollar company who still see themselves as hardcore gamers.

It's possible to imagine Estonia's idea becoming a multibillion - dollar business in the years ahead — turning the whole view of government as a bureaucracy offering public services into an entity generating profits.

U.S. military veterans will meet with tribal leaders on Saturday as they continue to entrench themselves in a North Dakota camp where thousands of activists are protesting a multibillion - dollar pipeline project near a Native American reservation.

Many praised the move as giving financial institutions «the green light» to finally serve the multibillion dollar cannabis industry.

The downturn has cut into profits at U.S. casino operators such as Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn Resorts Ltd., which have multibillion - dollar projects in the pipeline.

Lurie said Goldberg saw online survey company SurveyMonkey as a data platform player that could disrupt a multibillion industry.

It has imperiled multibillion - dollar deals and could ravage business relationships for years to come, as well as pummel the earnings of countless U.S. businesses, from oil producers to investment banks.

It's certainly possible — but not until 2022 at the earliest, because CBS, NBC and Fox have the rights to the contest sewn up until then, as part of a multibillion - dollar deal signed in 2012.

But for Cott Corp. (TSX: BCB), low - profile names such as these — and dozens of others — constitute a multibillion - dollar business.

Trump loves real estate and has used it as a platform for building a multibillion dollar empire that now spans many industries.

UBER — SOFTBANK: Uber's dialing down the drama as its warring board members agreed to a deal that allows a multibillion - dollar investment by SoftBank Group to proceed.

But as a health care technology innovator intent on revolutionizing a multibillion - dollar industry, I've come to realize that it's far more important to be a visionary than a dreamer.

Ryan Cotton, the Bain managing director who led the investment, identifies three strengths that he believes will make Toms, one day, a multibillion - dollar public company: its reputation as a philanthropic pioneer, its enthusiastic customers (who may want to become shareholders), and its potential to expand beyond footwear into a broad lifestyle brand.

Takeda told Reuters in September that it was scouting for multibillion - dollar acquisitions in the United States and other overseas markets as it seeks to boost its core therapy areas, including gastrointestinal medicine.

Financial regulators on both sides of the Atlantic imposed multibillion - dollar fines on five global banks Wednesday as part of investigations into rigging of key foreign exchange markets.

The rest have been mired in legal challenges brought by drugmakers such as AbbVie Inc to protect its multibillion - dollar rheumatoid arthritis treatment Humira.

According to a report from Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair, Trump sees himself as being at «war» with Amazon and Bezos and is considering a number of ways to strike out, including canceling Amazon's potential multibillion - dollar contract with the Pentagon to provide cloud computing services and encouraging state attorneys general to investigate Amazon's business practices.

As a corporate accountant and financial analyst for nearly a decade, I spent my workdays looking into the details of products at multibillion dollar companies.

Investors are hungry for high quality, multibillion - dollar debt deals, as shown by Anheuser - Busch InBev Finance Inc. of Belgium's success with two corporate bonds totaling more than $ 60 billion in 2016.

In addition to raising a total of $ 22.6 billion in high - grade bonds for Apple and T - Mobile USA last year, Deutsche served as the go - to bookrunner for the multibillion - dollar bonds deals of Italy, Spain other beleaguered European governments — and even the European Financial Stability Facility.

As an aside, those who believe that the province should simply «take back Translink» as a crown corporation (or similar) should understand that in practical accounting terms this would also involve taking on Translink's multibillion dollar debt (supported as it is by ridership fees, gas taxes, etc.), and that this would almost certainly immediately denigrate the province's AAA credit ratinAs an aside, those who believe that the province should simply «take back Translink» as a crown corporation (or similar) should understand that in practical accounting terms this would also involve taking on Translink's multibillion dollar debt (supported as it is by ridership fees, gas taxes, etc.), and that this would almost certainly immediately denigrate the province's AAA credit ratinas a crown corporation (or similar) should understand that in practical accounting terms this would also involve taking on Translink's multibillion dollar debt (supported as it is by ridership fees, gas taxes, etc.), and that this would almost certainly immediately denigrate the province's AAA credit ratinas it is by ridership fees, gas taxes, etc.), and that this would almost certainly immediately denigrate the province's AAA credit rating.

Investec's Hillcoat said it's unlikely that Rio will embark on any «multibillion - dollar expansions» to chase M&A growth or pay a premium for other commodities, such as copper, given the industry's history of overspending.

HONG KONG — Global bank HSBC said Friday it's launching its latest multibillion - dollar share buyback, as it released its first quarterly earnings report under its new chief executive, John Flint.

Brian Bollinger, CPA, runs Simply Safe Dividends and previously worked as an equity research analyst at a multibillion - dollar investment firm.

The trademarked functional fitness program is a multibillion - dollar business with what some describe as a cult - like following.

This term has entered the lexicon and this segment has quickly grown into a multibillion - dollar industry of its own with potentially significant implications for other Kona commodities as demand and awareness expand.

The Ethiopian government of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has signalled that it is not impressed and that it will carry on with work on the multibillion dollar Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a move seen by some as raising temperatures further, possibly triggering the «water wars» that pessimists have long predicted will characterise the geopolitics of the 21st century.

New York City announced it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their «contributions to global warming,» as it said it would divest fossil fuel investments from its $ 189 billion public pension funds over the next five years.

Weeks later, Gov. Paterson picked the company, which boasted influential Queens pastor and former Congressman Floyd Flake as an investor, for the multibillion - dollar casino deal at Aqueduct Racetrack.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo faced a breakfast revolt from three liberal Assembly Democrats yesterday as they challenged his plan to allow the multibillion - dollar «millionaire's tax» expire at the end of the year.

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

Ghana's new status as a producer and exporter of petroleum, he said, offers the perfect opportunity to create a petrochemical industry, including monetising the country's gas to create a multibillion dollar gas feedstock industry.

As the city continues to grapple with rising homelessness and conducts an overview of its services, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday the appointment of Herminia Palacio, who will serve as Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, overseeing eight agencies and a multibillion dollar budgeAs the city continues to grapple with rising homelessness and conducts an overview of its services, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday the appointment of Herminia Palacio, who will serve as Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, overseeing eight agencies and a multibillion dollar budgeas Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, overseeing eight agencies and a multibillion dollar budget.

The New York Times reported in 2011 that Cuomo, as New York's attorney general in 2009, used his office to threaten legal action against Chevron when Hinton was being paid $ 10,000 a month as a lobbyist for a group suing the oil giant in a multibillion - dollar court action alleging massive environmental damage in the Amazon.

National Farmer's Day celebrates the industry, noting that one - quarter of New York's total land area is utilized as farmland, and that farming is a multibillion - dollar industry that supports thousands of jobs.

Monday was the first full day of session in the New York State legislature, and lawmakers have a lot to contend with, including a multibillion dollar budget deficit, as well as the beginning of an election year.

ALBANY — Just a day before the deadline for a new multibillion - dollar spending plan, negotiations over the final pieces of the New York State budget slowed to a crawl on Friday, as Democrats in the Assembly effectively blamed a Brooklyn senator for holding up talks over a provision that would ease state oversight of religious schools.

And, because the project requires no new railways or private land acquisition, it comes with a relatively modest price tag compared to multibillion - dollar undertakings such as the Second Avenue subway or the LIRR extension to Grand Central Station, the officials add.

KERRY: In the last several years, the senator proposed or backed several multibillion - dollar programs to promote industrial innovation, in - cluding $ 10 billion for research to develop a system that uses hydrogen as a fuel.

In a report, the commission argues that «[g] lobal governments should unite to offer multibillion - dollar incentives for drug developers, and pharmaceutical companies should pool their billions in support of early - stage research,» as Kelly Servick wrote Thursday at ScienceInsider.

In the coming months, the multibillion - dollar laser built into a customised Boeing 747 will try to shoot a ballistic missile as it rises above the clouds.

In other words, the easiest solution might be for the next decadal survey to simply proceed as planned and to recommend that NASA pursue a portfolio of smaller, cheaper space telescopes rather than more multibillion - dollar behemoth in the 2020s.

«The Parliament has produced a charter for the multibillion - pound animal - research industry to carry on business as usual, with scant regard either for animal welfare or public opinion,» says Michelle Thew, chief executive of the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments.