Sentences with phrase «big cutting of»

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.

U.S. pharma giant Merck (mrk) and partner Samsung Bioepis are trying to take a big cut of Johnson & Johnson's (jnj) drug revenues.

Boxers of his level just get big cuts of the pie.

Another long - shot challenger, Green Party candidate Kevin Bott, suggests a different approach: Institute a progressive city income tax to raise more revenue, and demand that state leaders share a bigger cut of New York's income tax receipts with Syracuse and other cities.

The extra-wide 3» feed tube lets you feed whole fruits and big cuts of vegetables rather than chopping into small pieces.

In the FY2013 budget request, NASA's planetary science budget took the biggest cut of all of NASA's mission areas.

Barbecue means big cuts of meat cooked low and slow.

Because of your current weight you'll start off fairly high, so you if you aren't losing weight at that level you can take a bigger cut of around 200 calories and repeat the process.

It's an operation overseen by the erratic Geran (Kingsley), who asks for a bigger cut of the earnings — a request which Hagen rebuffs.

No one book or author has been singled out as more important or getting a bigger cut of the promotional pie than any other.

Undoubtedly, publishers will have to give authors a bigger cut of ebook revenue, and if they can prove their worth in terms of distribution and marketing (a test they are failing right now), it will be a good deal and a relief to many authors.

It's the best way, they believe, to reach readers quickly, increase their audience, and receive a far bigger cut of the revenues.

In a new deal, Amazon wanted to lower e-book pricing and also take a bigger cut of sales.

Total control (of the finished product, of price point, of cover, of everything); a much bigger cut of the net; the same marketing that most authors get if they are traditionally published.

But since Amazon has been effective in trying to control price to stomp out book - selling competitors, and since it uses its still considerable leverage to extract a bigger cut of sales by doing things like freezing publisher book sales in negotiations, some publishers are renewing and expanding direct mail sales but with e-books as an experiment, just as Amazon is experimenting — for the third time in its history — with publishing books with their own imprint, as well as selling them.

And their dispute with Hachette is to get a bigger cut of the e-books sales they are selling.

Quite simply, Amazon wants a bigger cut of the sale of all the books of Hatchette it sells, in whatever form.

If we speak to the relative quality of the work, as opposed to the production costs, then it is the authors, not the publisher, who should be getting the bigger cut of e-book sales.

And authors can now easily publish their work themselves without a great outlay, maintaining professional quality and getting a bigger cut of the profits.

I certainly hope Hachette loses these negotiations, and a good deal of that is that I think the behemoth that helped create the ebook market that brings Hachette so much $ $ should get a bigger cut of the ebook pie.

Get a bigger cut of each credit card transaction fee.

EA ceded the rights to the Kingdoms Of Amalur IP in order to acquire a bigger cut of the proceeds, and the rights currently reside with the state of Rhode Island.

This means a bigger cut of the profits for themselves by putting online gamers behind the eight ball and making Plus mandatory for online play.

The service claims to offer a «decentralised» marketplace where publishers get a bigger cut of the sale of new games, and where players are able to sell back the digital games they finish.

These platforms tend to take a big cut of your profits — Facebook's Watch feature takes 45 % of all revenue, for example.

We came to learn that she was providing herself with a bigger cut of the commission than the buyers» agent, potentially, deterring other agents from showing our home.

Not exact matches

MONTREAL — Watching television on the Internet is cheap and convenient, but so far only a small number of Canadians have cut the cord on traditional viewing as TV providers offer discount prices and spend more on programs to keep customers who pay bigger monthly bills.

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 %.

Anecdotes of thousand - dollar bonuses by big companies sharing the wealth of their tax cuts haven't shown up in the data.

Verizon Communications, among the biggest beneficiaries of the corporate tax cut this year, said it would double its commitment to fostering science, technology, and engineering education (STEM) in schools that lack such resources.

However, the bigger concern is that this is one more threat to your retirement nest egg, on top of low interest rates, a low - growth economic outlook, uncertain stock markets and potential government cuts to other programs, such as health care and nursing - home subsidies.

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.

The test reflects the increasing adoption of technology by big retailers as they try to keep up with online retail giant Amazon (amzn), which uses robots in some of its warehouses in addition to other cutting - edge technology.

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.

In 2015, on the one - year anniversary of its report, Bragg delivered a harsh message to fans of big government: The province needs to cut its civil service, he said in a keynote address, and use the savings to dig Nova Scotia out of debt.

It was also then that some of the biggest marketers succeeded with a business model that may still hold about an 80 percent share of the DRTV market: Find products created by a would - be Edison somewhere in America, market them on DRTV, give a small royalty cut to the inventor, and share the risk of a capricious DRTV audience across your product portfolio.

And the biggest fish remains WeWork, which, despite some recent hiccups — like cutting 7 percent of its staff in June — still counts 65,000 co-working members packed into 90 locations spread across eight countries.

franchises moved to offset Ontario's minimum wage hike by cutting paid breaks and forcing workers to cover a bigger share of their benefits.

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.

To me, and obviously to a substantial number of U.S. businesses both big and small, it is clear that unless America cuts its high business tax rate it will struggle to maintain a competitive edge and remain attractive for investment.

Unit affected: Someone inside the firm tells us that some big names were cut, he knew of ~ 5, and for every big trader let go, it means 10 people in the back - office left

«In terms of actual tax - code adjustments, there will be arm - wrestling and adjustments, but for me, cutting to the chase, the big thing is simplification for my small - business members and small business in general,» said Keith Hall, president and CEO of the National Association of Self - Employed.

All of Britain's big four supermarkets — market leader Tesco, Wal - Mart's Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons — have seen sales and profits hit as they cut prices to stem the flow of shoppers to German discounters Aldi and Lidl.

The fancy sourdough bread we like was still $ 6 a loaf, a big bag of Kettle Krinkle Cut chips remained $ 5.39 and, dare I admit it, our new puppy's favorite all - natural dog treats were still $ 11.99 a bag.

But even a tepid funding climate can carry big consequences for startups: Payfirma decided it would be prudent cut 30 positions, more than a third of its employees.

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

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.

These start - ups are on the cutting edge of big consumer and business shifts — and already worth billions.

There's a real movement to create social media platforms that cut - through the censorship of big brother, and give users more control.

Last year, the central bank sounded an alarm, ranking the expansion of personal credit as the biggest threat to the economy, which is why everyone was shocked when Poloz suddenly cut interest rates in January.