Sentences with phrase «at pittance»

The original interests in the company were priced at a pittance, giving large profits to those who sold them.

The low compliance frustrates scientists because inoculation could basically eliminate yellow fever nationwide, and do so at a pittance.

But that is only because they employed everyone at pittance wages with no freedom.

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thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

This translated into a crushing debt load, even at present depressed rates: what forced Apollo GM to the negotiating table was a measly US $ 60 million interest payment, a pittance compared to what's coming due in 2019.

Even Paul's storied 500 is a pittance, considering that there were a couple of million people living in Israel at that time.

They will keep him from realizing not only that the payoff is at best the pittance for exploitation but that behind the payoff is a terrible double cost.

James went to BM for pittance, we could have used him for that money, his salary is low too at 120k.

Yes, Crystal Palace were probably not going to pay him what he earns at Arsenal but whatever they offer will not be a pittance and he will still be able to live comfortably and play regular football.

But those dark days are over, or at least we hope they are, with Arsene Wenger no longer having to scratch around to find the money to pay off the Emirates stadium loan and to find decent players available for a pittance.

Too bad we'll never see him fight in the Octagon (or anywhere else), as I think he'd potentially ragdoll anyone at LW or WW with a pittance of training.

No one can really be outraged at the Angels for paying him that pittance.

We paid 16mil because it's pittance for a player that ideally will have 15 years at the club.

The Frenchman may loathe paying over the odds for the Polish international after seeing him move for a pittance just six months earlier, but Arsenal are not in the position to quibble over the price too much at the moment.

A bizarre move considering funds aren't in short supply, according to the owners anyway, yet they opt for a man with absolutely no managerial experience at this level and whom will cost them pittance to keep on.

The 66 - year old is not trying to throw a spanner in the works of Gonzalo Higuain's future at the same time, but he is not going to let the striker leave for a pittance either.

Whenever I hear the pittance (currently it's 6.4 percent) of Fortune 500 companies that have female CEOs at the helm, I feel like we have a long way to go.

You can buy it online for a pittance, but if you're looking to spend your money at a small Chicago business, you can get a great starter kit at Chicago Electronic Distributors.

And while $ 100,000 would make a yuuuuge difference in your average state legislative race, it's a pittance at the presidential level.

An illegal war Uncontrolled immigration # billions leaking every year via new quangos Students (in England) now have to mortgage their futures to get to University 24 hour binge drinking breakdown of the family vast increase in licensed gambling External debt quadrupled to $ 11 Trillion making us the second largest debtor nation in the world after the USA at $ 12 Trillion (we may overtake them later this year) Pension funds pillaged for # 5Bn a year Gold reserves sold for a pittance Children leaving school unable to read or write NHS a basket case - 1 in 10 leave hospital sicker than when they went in.

why in earth are there not more makeup tips for women 60 and above — realize the market belongs to the young but we oldsters would like to have help also — we need to be our best at any age and the over 60 group is totally devoid of information except for a small pittance — almost an afterthought — have been a jane iredale customer since her inception and am feeling left out — we may not be gorgeous at our age but we do have a few attributes left — one being pride

If you're looking to attain all of the status that comes with owning a Rolex at the cost of a mere pittance, consider luxury replica watches to be your one way ticket to a more exciting lifestyle; you'll be glad you did.

At the same time, we are investing, by modern R&D standards, only a pittance ($ 260 million) to design and test the next generation of schools.

Peterson, director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard and Executive Editor of Education Next (of which I am a contributing editor), uses the Mac the Knife reference to suggest that loyalties can be bought «for a pittance.»

We stop to plunder a tidal riverbed teeming with mussels before paying a pittance for a lunch of fresh lobster at a roadside shack.

That may not seem like a lot, but considering the wait times (up to six months +) at literary mags and the pittance they usually pay (contributor's copies won't buy me a burger on the dollar menu), I'm ahead of the game.

-- if you complete the analogy by pretending that the only people allowed into the auto workers» union were the people working for General Motors (at least until very, very recently) and the plant owners told the union rep, «look, it doesn't matter that we pay you pittance, if a plant goes down because of those dealers, we're all out of work.

Some don't like its pay - per - book - upload business model, but if you're spending months writing a novel, the cost is a pittance, at the most $ 50 per ebook.

This would eliminate all those Fake Authors who are getting pittances for advances from Big Publishers and who sell only a few hundred copies, or those Wannabe Authors who aren't getting any advances at all from their small - press publishers.

But there are forces at work for whom one more life is a pittance to pay for their deepest desire....

For this pittance, you get thirteen months of writing prompts — from the creative minds at Indies Unlimited.

(And to wit, most editors and publicity assistants at NYC publishing houses who have any title other than «Executive Editor» are making pittance salaries and pay their Manhattan rent via family trust funds).

Yes, we are a pittance of the book market, and the e-book market particularly, but statistics clearly show that libraries play a significant factor in driving readers to purchase books later (I can't find the statistic but heard this at ALA) So what we do counts in sales for publishers later.

The only person who has any value at all in this process, the only one who creates something out of nothing, the author, is disrespected, treated like dirt and gets fobbed off with a pittance.

Yet the only translators willing to do such demanding, skilled work for a pittance or nothing at all will most likely be inexperienced at best and unqualified at worst.

Both clients had been paying mortgage payments close to $ 10,000.00 per month from their retirement accounts for the past year, and both clients were now at the end of their rope, with their retirement accounts dwindled to a mere pittance.

If you only require a pittance to obtain you on the short - term financial push on the street, you ought to side - step the actual APR and have a close take a look at what the actual financial mortgage will really price.

Especially at a time right now when you can accumulate asset - backed debt at such incredibly low rates and when your savings earn pittances.

The biggest increase in reserve balances at the Fed — banks lending to the Fed to receive a pittance in interest, because they have nothing better to do for now.

If you are in, or can get to Florida or Arizona this spring and want to do a little road tripping, car rentals are going for a pittance from most larger Florida cities and at least in Phoenix, AZ..

Your earnings are a pittance, at first; $ 1200 will let you replace your worn - out parts and keep you racing, but that's it.

They will only give state and federal coffers a pittance in extra revenue to fund better education, health care, etc., so state governments are putting our climate, our communities, and our aquifers and farming land at risk for almost no financial benefit.

He explained to me that «you win some, you lose some,» with flat fees — meaning that sometimes you end up with a crazy high hourly rate at the conclusion of the case, and other times you end up working for a pittance.

People with severe medical conditions are being put at risk; they are suffering unnecessarily for the saving of a pittance.»