Sentences with phrase «big a cut from»

If they actually wanted to help the authors, they wouldn't be trying to take a bigger cut from them.

So siding with Amazon that it's terrific that Amazon stops selling books as its favorite negotiation ploy, and that it's terrific that Amazon wants a bigger cut from authors for letting the books sell there — I don't see that as being a terribly smart business decision for authors.

And for those of you commenting here who obviously didn't read Ann Voss Peterson's original post, she spelled out how Harlequin actually created a separate entity to ensure that they took a bigger cut from their authors.

I could work only a day or two a week and I made only about $ 100 a week — a big cut from what I had been earning.

Uber revealed that it has been inadvertently taking too big a cut from many of its NYC drivers since 2014.

Not exact matches

With the Acceptable Ads Platform, the publishers deal with the big exchanges as usual — they get their 80 % cut of ad revenue from Google or AppNexus, and Adblock Plus collects its cut of the remaining 20 %.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Poloz indicated in his statement that the prospect of a big spending push by the federal government caused the committee to move away from its intention to cut interest rates.

Conor Muldoon of Causeway Capital Management says the bank is benefiting from a cost - cutting campaign that involved closing branches and making big tech investments — one that's helping it expand more profitably in new markets.

I use to do the whole analytical thing and I am still a big fan of collaborative decision - making and have seen great things can come from it, but at the end of the day if there is no clear cut decision I ask the man upstairs.

Jabbar al - Luiebi has argued that Iraq, the second biggest producer in the cartel, should be exempt from any cut (like Nigeria and Libya).

Most folks have figured out the basic filters that help cut down on the crap they're seeing every day and all the big guys are already building in (often default) ad blockers to try to delay the inevitable and ongoing migration from websites and email to messaging services that is accelerating among the mobile millions and putting a critical damper on online web ad sales.

The explosion in demand for these secondary cuts helped drive New Zealand's sheep meat trade to China to $ 550 million in 2013, up around five-fold from 2010, and a big boost for a farm sector that has seen sluggish demand from traditional markets in Europe.

Meanwhile, Google's own travel service, which features listings from OTAs, takes a big cut out of the commissions they earn, the Journal reported.

It wasn't all good news — the tighter job market hasn't translated into much bigger paycheques, with average weekly wages rising at just 1.1 % from the year before, meaning that after inflation Canadians took a slight pay cut.

Tuesday's surge cut the market's overall losses from the big selloff from 8.3 % to 6.2 %.

They see the efforts of big business to get Congress to reform the tax code and cut corporate income - tax rates as a diversion from the Tea Party's fight to lower personal income - tax rates.

At a sprawling plant run by New Zealand's biggest meat processor, rows of lamb carcasses hang from meathooks on their way to a cutting room to be chopped, trimmed and shipped out in increasing quantities to China.

The biggest driver of economic growth next year will be from household consumption, which policy makers reckon will get a boost from the federal government's tax cuts and its decision to augment monthly child benefits.

The tax bill lowers the corporate tax rate from 35 % to 21 %, eliminates the penalty under the Affordable Care Act for failing to have health insurance, a narrower estate tax, and cuts the top effective marginal tax rate for S corporations to a top rate of 29.6 percent, among other measures that gives the biggest breaks to the wealthiest individuals and companies.

The biggest loser from the dividend cut would be Belgium, which owned 10.3 % share of the bank as of Dec. 31 and received about $ 261 million in dividend payments for 2013.

Cut back on television and cable bills by casting TV shows from your smartphone to the big screen via Google Chrome, Roku or Apple TV.

PARIS, Oct 28 - Executives from nearly 100 of France's biggest companies called on the Socialist government on Sunday to cut payroll taxes by 30 billion euros over two years to regain waning competitiveness.

The deal, which is still making its way through Congress after an eleventh hour push from party bigs, has three main components: It immediately raises the debt ceiling, includes around $ 2.1 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, and creates a special Congressional committee to come up with long term deficit - reduction suggestions by this Thanksgiving.

As part of that bigger deal, he said, Republicans would be open to additional revenue, so long as it was paired with deep spending cuts and didn't come from higher tax rates.

And when companies from retail giants to professional sports franchises talk about implementing big data solutions, the conversation often involves analyzing tweets and posts rather than true cutting - edge meta data analytics.

The New York State Common Retirement Fund, which is the third - biggest public pension fund in the U.S., cut its target last month from 7.5 percent to 7 percent.

Some said it would be from tax cuts (unlikely to pass this year), others said it would be from infrastructure spending (also unlikely), and then there were those like Buiter who saw a trade war as the biggest threat.

In the same class was a student whose dad made big money from working for a company responsible for cutting down those very trees.

Jon Salas, 28, recently took a big pay cut to leave the «cardboard dry culture» at a multinational human resources consulting firm where he felt isolated from bosses and colleagues.

They cut their net long euro position to 130,594 contracts from a record 151,476 the week before, the biggest reduction since December.

And they book in big savings from program cuts that are still working their way through the federal government.

In the last 2 years, HSE and Training has been set back 20 years, why MONEY of course, that is the only thing that counts, so constant cut backs from the big 3 Iron Ore producers, want everything as cheap as possible, as a result, standards have dropped to appalling standards, but they are cheap, and that is all that matters, and injury figures are easily falsified.

There is considerable debate in Washington about who would benefit most from the tax cuts, with Republicans asserting they would help the middle class and Democrats insisting that wealthy Americans would be the big winners.

That may not be a big jump but definitely shines a light on Google's efforts to cut down its dependence on revenue from advertising, where it competes with Facebook Inc..

To win any new deal, Greece will have to overcome deep distrust among partners, above all Germany, Greece's biggest creditor and the EU's biggest economy, where public opinion has hardened in favour of cutting Greece loose from the euro.

Although he's got his work cut out for him, he took time out during his first week back on the job to talk not only about big - picture industry issues, but what he did with his personal time in recent months when he was barred from working for Zillow.

A big part of President Obama's climate legacy will be the U.S. Clean Power Plan, which will cut pollution from U.S. coal plants — and, importantly, allows imports of new Canadian clean power to help states meet their targets.

If it's passed as is — and that's a big if, as many Democrats oppose it and some Republicans have questioned whether projected economic growth can offset the loss of revenue from these tax cuts — most Americans could see some benefit.

But the steep tumble from $ 100 - per - barrel oil has helped cut short the age of big, multi-year mine developments, forcing companies to shelve other large projects; analysts expect smaller, more modular expansion projects from here on in.

The brand has been hurt by weak demand in the United States, its biggest market, and from competition from better - positioned rivals Nike and Adidas, which cut into Under Armour's profit and growth.

Progressives often present corporate - tax cuts as having transferred billions of dollars from the Canadian government to big business.

He also frequently discusses the big - picture trends that are putting the squeeze on the bottom 90 %, offering work - arounds and expense - cutting tips to help readers carve out more money to save in their budgets — AKA breaking the «savings barrier» and transitioning from debtor to saver.

She had the address lists of the Democratic Party, worked with cutting - edge big data analysts from BlueLabs and received support from Google and DreamWorks.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

Are you a big business benefiting from the tax cuts or a smaller business that might be impacted by the deduction removals?

The trend away from energy scarcity and toward energy abundance creates big losers as well as winners and is only a net positive for global demand if the winners» boost in consumption offsets the losers» cut in consumption and capital spending.

If a one year experiment cuts working life from (say) 40 years to 39 years, the effects of a lifetime of basic income will be 40 times bigger than measured by a one year experiment.

In February 2012, the IMF cut Norway's growth forecast, saying that the Norwegian housing bubble is the country's biggest economic risk and threatens everything from banks to economic growth.

But much of the research conducted thus far suggests otherwise; the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, for instance, recently concluded that workers would receive a maximum of only a quarter of the benefits from tax cuts; and even then, it is most likely to be the higher earners that would be the biggest beneficiaries.