Sentences with phrase «billions of dollars every year by»

Has my hon. colleague studied the estimates that the Canadian economy could be experiencing losses of billions or tens of billions of dollars a year by failing to take action?

At an energy hearing earlier this month, state officials, including energy czar Richard Kauffman and Public Service Commission Chairwoman Audrey Zibelman, said R.E.V. initiatives would save consumers billions of dollars every year by making the entire energy grid more efficient.

By far the largest is California's Proposition 30, which would generate billions of dollars a year by hiking sales and income tax rates.

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Now, 14 years after inheriting her father's semi-successful company, she took in $ 10 million last year by overseeing a half - billion dollars of hotel construction and living the life she has always wanted.

Technology mid-caps CGI Group of Montreal and Macdonald Dettwiler & Associates of Richmond, B.C., made strategic international acquisitions earlier this year that will jack up their revenues by billions of dollars.

Last year, health insurer Anthem said it would set up its own pharmacy - benefits management unit, after earlier accusing Express Scripts of overcharging by billions of dollars.

The legendary B.C. development family saw their president of nearly 10 years, David Negrin, leave the company for a new opportunity — building and managing residential projects on the billion dollars» worth of land owned by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil - Waututh First Nations.

Over the last five years, Catamaran has grown from an $ 80 million revenue business into a $ 9 billion dollar revenue generating company and he expects it to make $ 16 billion by the end of next year.

Operating profit fell 8 percent to 12.4 billion Danish crowns ($ 2.00 billion) in the January to March quarter compared with a year ago, hit by the depreciation of the U.S. dollar, but beat an average 11.8 billion crown forecast in a Reuters poll of analysts.

Operating profit fell 8 percent to 12.4 billion Danish crowns ($ 2.00 billion) in the January to March quarter compared with a year ago, hit by the depreciation of the U.S. dollar.

Billions of dollars have been poured into over 1,000 new digital coins issued by startups so far this year.

In the years prior to 2008, Hollywood saw production explode, fed by billions of dollars flowing in from flush Wall Street funds.

Yesterday, foreign exchange reserves data from the People's Bank of China showed holdings fell by more than $ 512 billion in 2015 to stand at $ 3.33 trillion dollars at year - end, the lowest level in more than three years.

China is entering week - long Lunar New Year holiday and 6.5 million travelers are expected to be spending that break overseas, splashing billions of dollars over the break, according to a report by country's tourism authority and travel website Ctrip.

A few years ago, northwest British Columbia seemed headed for boom times, with billions of dollars in projects planned by the liquid natural gas (LNG), mining and other resource sectors.

The brothers dream of creating a billion - dollar global company (they give themselves 15 years) that improves the culture by promulgating inspirational messages and — this is the important part, they say — by raising money and awareness for sick and disadvantaged children.

By the end of last year, Big Ass Solutions» revenue had grown to a quarter of a billion dollars and our payroll to a thousand.

Over the past couple of years, Emirates» expansion into the US market has been met with pushback from a coalition lead by American, Delta, and United Airlines (the US3) that claim Emirates» growth has been fueled billions of dollars in government subsidies.

By the end of this year, internal job titles will mean nothing at the billion - dollar startup.

At stake: a $ 5 billion facility that will employ 50,000 and boost state coffers by adding billions of dollars in additional investment in the surrounding community over the next 10 to 15 years.

The available short - term capital resources Bombardier needs to stay in the air fell by a billion dollars at the end of the last fiscal year, to 3.8 billion dollars.

We have created hundreds of billions of dollars of shareholder value over the last 30 years by convincing boards and CEOs to take the steps necessary to greatly increase the value of their companies.

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

On one hand, the streaming service has added billions of new dollars into the television business in recent years, building up its offerings by licensing programs from TV groups.

Specialty coffee sales are increasing by 20 % per year and account for nearly 8 % of the 18 billion dollar U.S. coffee market.

The ELA cost $ 2 million a year to maintain, but its research saved governments around the world billions of dollars by preventing water contamination, Schindler said.

The kingdom had been squeezed by years of low oil prices, and Prince Mohammed was seeking to recover hundreds of billions of dollars in alleged illicit gains.

And even before the disclosure of the record - breaking purchase in a New York art auction by one of his associates, Prince Mohammed's extravagance had already raised eyebrows, most notably with the impulse purchase two years ago in the south of France of a Russian vodka titan's 440 - foot yacht, for half a billion dollars.

But six years into the current expansion, a growing chorus of critics argues that the ability of HP and companies like it to respond to those shifts is being hindered by billions of dollars in buybacks.

Said Barbara Roper, director of investor protection of the Consumer Federation of America: «By closing loopholes in the current regulations and subjecting all retirement investment advice to a fiduciary duty to act solely in the best interests of the client, a well - crafted DOL rule has the potential to save millions of Americans billions of dollars each year.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

The executives» corner - cutting on compliance adds to the embarrassment and regulatory headaches for Zurich - based Credit Suisse, which has had to pay billions of dollars of fines to U.S. authorities in recent years over a wide range of allegations, including mis - selling of mortgage - backed securities, deficiencies in its anti-money-laundering program, front - running clients on foreign - exchange trades and violating U.S. sanctions by secretly funneling money from Iran through American banks.

The letter continued: «Our ad reminds viewers that Kim Jong - un and his army of hackers have been stealing billions of dollars of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the past few years, funding their rogue nuclear weapons programs and thwarting efforts by the rest of the world to sanction this behavior.»

A series of cuts known as the sequester slashed spending by tens of billions of dollars early in the year, until a deal to restore some of the reductions this year.

This high demand from early adopters, coupled with the fact that commercial lunar transportation is projected to generate multiple billions of dollars in annual revenue by the year 2020 (Anderson 9) suggests that lunar payload delivery is a very real, viable business opportunity for enterprising space startups and their visionary investors.

In recent years, highly regulated institutions such as Bank of America — burned by billions of dollars in fines — have shied away from the mortgage business.

The first was routine: Constellation Brands, who stunned the beer world by paying a cool billion dollars for Ballast Point two years ago, announced the purchase of Florida's Funky Buddha.

American multinationals like Apple can legally dodge tens of billions of dollars in taxes each year by parking costs at home while moving profits abroad.

Buyers from China once again exceeded all countries by dollar volume of sales at $ 31.7 billion, which was up from last year's survey ($ 27.3 billion) and topped 2015 ($ 28.6 billion) as the new...

To this end, iShares Canada has seen the dollar amount of custom creations — a process by which institutional investors convert their individual bond holdings into units of ETFs — double in the past year to over $ 1 billion through June, according to BlackRock data.

By 2015, the Harper government will have imposed permanent budget cuts of at least 10.8 billion dollars per year to federal departments and agencies.

They printed a massive amount of Swiss Franc which they've converted to other currencies which they bought equities and they've done so well so the paper profit 55 billion last year equal to eight percent of their GDPall through the creation of money in order to keep the Swiss Franc weak, which they've managed to weaken against the Euro last year also by about 10 percent even though the Swiss itself held against the dollar was a little bit stronger..

Last year, American farmers sent more than a billion dollars» worth of pork to China, their largest export market by value after Japan and Mexico.

And that can raise prices like Amazon, which is raising the price for its Prime membership by $ 20, from $ 99 to $ 119 a year, adding billions of dollars to its revenues to the bottom line.

This network effect took years, as well as billions of dollars to create — something that won't easily be replicated by any new entrant.

Here is the headline, pastors at a vast majority of church's do nt handle the finances... and oh, by the way, if all Christians are so corrupt, who pays for the billions of dollars in humaintarian aid through the Red Cross each year?

Right now we send 10's of billions of dollars to Israel to defend their borders but if you ask them whose land it is the Israelite's say «It is our land, promised to us by God on high 3500 years ago!»

Airwaves are filled with commercials for antidepressants; by sales, the antipsychotic medication aripiprazole, marketed for depression, is the number - one drug in the U.S., with sales of well over a billion dollars per year.

6 --(yawn) Not sure what you are talking about due to your usual vagueness, but I'll take a stab at it — If I am right, and there is no heaven and no hell, you, as a believer and minister lose nothing by wasting years and years of your life preaching a lie, and convincing hundreds, perhaps thousands to believe that same lie, and waste millions, no, billions of dollars to pay for the continued propagation of that lie...?

Lower dairy prices represented a mixed blessing, reducing ingredient costs for consumer products but also weighing heavily on the company's farmer - shareholders whose collective incomes have been slashed by billions of dollars in the last two years.