Sentences with phrase «big slug»

Part of the story stems from the increasing reluctance of large banks — partly due to stiffer regulations enacted in recent years — to absorb big slugs of debt from desperate sellers.

Just be aware that the capital gains tax isn't the only tax you'll pay, if you take a really big slug of profits all at once.

He's been used to making every play because he didn't have to worry about being touched with those two big slugs [Siragusa and Adams] inside.

We also grew corn (although the raccoons often got to it first), cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, green beans, cauliflower, celery, cabbage (big slug attractor so that was short lived), Brussels sprouts (too buggy), watermelon (a big fail but we tried!)

If the writers take advantage of Amazon's new «70 % royalty plan», they'll make a much bigger slug of that $ 10 than they do of the $ 15.

Now researchers from Dartmouth and the University of Chicago have examined years of pay data to offer up a new explanation: Boards have been handing CEOs bigger and bigger slugs of company stock because they don't understand how stock options — a key component of CEO pay — work.

The money sat in my pitiful 0.1 % money market savings account for two full months before I decided to invest a big slug of it in a Dow Jones structured note which provided 100 % downside protection and 115 % participation to the upside over six years last summer.

That said I think a private investor choosing to holding a big slug of cash instead of bonds today as part of their fixed income allocation can make sense, and it's certainly where I am personally.

A big slug of it belongs to mega-buyout funds that are already at or approaching their use - by date.

You don't need to be there bashing it down into the blades from air to a big slug of almond thick sludge.

Krissy's lawyer's time would have been more in the public interest if she had tried to stop Shelly Silver from spending taxpayers money to pay off a sexual harasssment case against one of the biggest slugs in the legislature, Vito Lopez.

Turbocharging helps deliver more power lower on the tachometer, along with a bigger slug of torque — 192 pound - feet — so you don't have to rev the bejeezus out of it to achieve strong acceleration.

Costa coughed into a gloved hand and stamped his feet, thinking about the taste of a big slug of grappa hidden inside a double espresso and how little activity there could be on a night such as this, when even the most crooked Roman hoods would surely be thinking of nothing but a warm bed.

I was somewhat skeptical about the health of their DB plans, partly because GM had contributed a big slug of its own common stock as an asset in the past.