Sentences with phrase «bit about the dollar»

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And although he talked about putting a bit of money in himself, and he did put some money and some in as cash, most of it as loans, that's my understanding, you know, you were competing against the machine and she had dollars coming out of everywhere.

This is when people poured thousands of dollars to start their companies, such as Laundromats, store fronts etc; But if you really look at this scenario, maybe about the 5 % who did make it past the first five years, 3 of them were struggling just to pay rent and stay alive, 1 was doing a little bit better than the others, and the other 1 was doing exceptional.

I think the dollar could run quite a bit further before anyone did anything about it.

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..

They sit back, and they usually joke around a bit about how they want God to give them a million dollars and a mansion on the beach and let them live forever in perfect health.

Plus, not only is it inexpensive (a 2014 study noted a rotisserie chicken cost about five dollars less at any given supermarket versus a pound of the raw meat), but it also cuts down your cooking time by quite a bit.

«I could care less about the business, I could care less about the million dollars worth of product I've sold in this business in just a little bit over a year,» Turley says.

Starting at about nine dollars a pop, the price point is very similar to other BPA free bottles, maybe a bit more affordable.

``... I think that any time you have a situation where something happens again and again and again, and it happens on the part of people who should know better, and it happens on the part of people who should be able to engage in a decent and reasonable calculus about whether or not it's worth going to jail and being separated from your liberty for a few thousand dollars, that something is broken in the system,» he continued a bit later.

At this writing, in February 2002, the price is about $ 21 per barrel (current dollars, equivalent to a bit over $ 20 per barrel in 2000 dollars).

You're getting a bit ahead of yourself thinking a about a transmission swap in a 1200 dollar car.

With 755 horsepower the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette zr1 is the most powerful Corvette ever it's also the most technologically advanced behind me are the rolling s's at Road Atlanta and we're here to see if we can reach to the supercar levels of performance afforded by this thing's massive power big tires and the tall wing on the back after that we'll take to the streets to see if a car this powerful can behave itself in public this is a monster of a car I've had some brief track opportunities moving this morning to get used to the pace of this machine which is phenomenal we're gonna warm up as we get out to the road Atlanta and sort of build up to the pace that this car can operate at now initially when you hop in this car you have this shrine to the engine right above you you see the line of the hood it kind of dominates the center of the view you can see over it it doesn't affect visibility but it's immediately obvious and that kind of speaks to what makes this car special it's a monster of an engine listen to that [Music] that is tremendous tremendous acceleration and incredible power but what I finding so far my brief time here at the Atlanta is that everything else in the car is rut has risen to match hurt me while I lay into it on the back straight look you know 150 mile - an - hour indicated we're going to ease up a little bit on it because I need to focus on talking rather than driving but like I was saying the attributes of the rest of the car the steering the braking capability the grip every system of this car is riding to the same level of the power and I think that's what makes it really impressive initially this is undoubtedly a mega mega fast car but it's one that doesn't terrify you with its performance potential there's a level of electronic sophistication that is unparalleled at this price point but it's hard not to get you know totally slipped away by the power of this engine so that's why I keep coming back to it this car has an electronically controlled limited slip differential it has shocks filled with magnetically responsive fluid that can react faster to inputs and everything this car has a super sophisticated stability control system that teaches you how to drive it quick but also makes you go faster we haven't even gotten into exploring it yet because the limits of this car are so high that frankly it takes a while to grow into it but [Music] I think what's impressive about this car is despite how fast it is it is approachable you can buy this car to track dates with it and grow with it as a driver and as an owner I think that's a really special [Music] because you will never be more talented than this car is fast ever unless you are a racing driver casually grazing under 50 miles an hour on this straight okay I'm just going to enjoy driving this now [Music][Applause][Music] this particular Corvette zr1 comes with the cars track performance package a lot of those changes happen underneath the sheet metal but one of the big differences that is immediately obvious is this giant carbon fiber wing now the way this thing is mounted is actually into the structure of the vehicle and it makes you know loading the rear hatch a bit more difficult but we're assuming that's okay if you're looking for the track performance this thing delivers also giving you that performance are these Michelin Pilot Sport cup tires which are basically track oriented tires that you can drive on the street but as we wake our way to the front of the thing what really matters is what's under the hood that's right there's actually a hole in the hood of this thing and that's because this engine is so tall it's tall because it has a larger supercharger and a bunch of added cooling on it to help it you know keep at the right temperature the supercharger is way larger than the one on the zo six and it has a more cooling capacity and the downside is it's taller so it pops literally through the hood the cool thing is from the top you can actually see this shake when you're looking at it from you know a camera from the top of the vehicle this all makes for 755 horsepower making this the most powerful Corvette ever now what's important about that is this not just the power but likewise everything in the car has to be built to accommodate and be able to drive to the level of speed this thing can develop that's why you had the massive cooling so I had the aerodynamics and that's why I had the electronic sophistication inside [Applause] we had a lot of time to take this car on the track yesterday and I've had the night to think about things Matt today two crews on the road and see how this extreme performance machine deals with the sort of more civil minded stuff of street driving the track impressions remain this thing is unquestionably one of the most capable cars you can get from a dealer these days a lot of that's besides the point now because we're on the street we have speed limits they have the ever - present threat of law enforcement around every corner so the question is what does this car feel like in public when you slow this car down it feels like a more powerful Corvette you don't get much tram lining from these big wheels though we as the front end doesn't want to follow grooves in the pavement it is louder it is a little firmer but it's certainly livable on a day to day basis that's surprising for a vehicle of this capability normally these track oriented cars are so hardcore that you wouldn't want to drive them to the racetrack but let's face it you spend more time driving to the track than you do on the track and the fact that this thing works well in both disciplines is really impressive I can also dial everything back and cruise and not feel like I'm getting punished for driving a hardcore track machine that's a that's a really nice accomplishment that's something that you won't find in cars that are this fast and costs maybe double this much the engine in this car dominates the entire experience you can't miss the engine and the whole friend this car is sort of a shrine to it the way it pops out of the hood the way it's covered with coolers around the sides it is the experience of this car and that does make driving this thing special and also the fact that it doesn't look half bad either in fact I think it has some of the coolest looking wheels currently available on a new car this car as we mentioned this car has the track package the track package on this car gives you what they call competition bucket seats which are a little wide for my tastes but I'm you know not the widest person in the world this automatic transmission works well I mean there's so much torque again out of this engine that it can be very smooth and almost imperceptible its clunky on occasion I think I'd might opt for the manual although Chevy tells me about 80 % of its customers will go for the automatic I don't think they're gonna be disappointed and that's gonna be the faster transmission drag strip on the street - and on the racetrack man it was a little bit more satisfying to my taste though we've talked about the exhaust I have it set in the track setting let's quiet it down a little bit so you can hear the difference now I've set that separately from everything else so let's put it stealth what happened to the engine sound that's pretty that's pretty amazing man stealth is really stealth and then go back to track Wow actually a really big difference that's that's pretty great the Corvette has always been a strong value proposition and nowhere is that more evident than this zr1 giving you a nearly unbeatable track performance per dollar now the nice thing is on the road this doesn't feel like a ragged edge track machine either you could genuinely drive it every day the compromises are few and that's what makes this car so special if you like what you see keep it tuned right here and be sure to visit Edmunds.com [Music]

You can buy a very tolerably equipped Voyager with a V - 6 for about $ 20,000 or a similar Dodge with a bit more equipment for a few dollars more.

Two years ago, I couldn't get anyone in the publishing world to listen or believe me when I relayed the stories I was hearing from the trenches, stories about unknown authors making thousands of dollars a month (and many making quite a bit more than that).

My hope was that if people liked book 1 even a little bit, they wouldn't even think twice about paying just a dollar for the second book.

Just to piggyback a little bit about what you said is that now a smaller investor could get a globally diversified portfolio with just a few dollars.

If they do try to tinker about with their freedom a little bit, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will still be charging high interest rates to take a little bit of the risk of themselves.

So yeah, it's just being a little bit smarter on putting these portfolios together, and it's all about, not only your rate of return, but it's mitigating your risk — it's two things in one, and that gets especially important when you're near retirement and you start drawing the dollars out of your portfolio.

Things get a bit more uncertain for split dollar arrangements involving partnerships and LLCs because the IRS rules are very unclear about how to classify the life insurance benefits.

Companies, especially in emerging economies, borrowing in US dollars, typically at quite low rates, and forgetting a bit about future currency risk or future revenue and growth risk on their side.

See you soon, I have a Beach Cottage Favourite Things to show you, I was dragged to the mall kicking and screaming by my friend Michelle today, she enlightened me on Missoni and Missoni Tarjay no less, I did not have the slightest clue who Missoni was or is — am I the only person in Australia who has no idea who Missoni is and wonders why lots of women were getting there knickers in a twist about geometric lines and patterns???? I did lighten myself of a few dollars and came home with a Missoni item but the other thing I bought, a bit like the bag the other week, is much more beachy and much more me and I am thinking you will likey very muchy.

After Notch and Tim Schafer tweeted a bit about the situation, they went quiet for the most part, and the news got overshadowed by Tim Schafer» development studio, Double Fine, raising almost two million dollars on Kickstarter for the development of an adventure game.

When we do the PV system, it will about double the total dollars spent, and only add about 2.5 % to the energy saving, so it will cause the average return to go down a fair bit.

But while still maintaining that such analysis is useful, I increasingly wonder if assigning dollar figures to currently unpriced nature, just undermines efforts to get people to see that there is more to nature, there is more to the world than the economic or financial value we place on it?I've been going back and forth about writing something about this ever since my colleague Stephen Messenger tried to explain why we must not consider nature priceless, but never quite got around to it — partly because I realize it's swimming upstream a bit and I wondered if I wasn't just overreacting or worrying to much about an abstract eco-philosophical concept.

Billions of dollars are spent on futile efforts, like employing the proverbial Chinese Army of compliance officers, most of whom may know a bit about AML, but next to nothing about the actual business and transactions.

You and I have talked a bit about how too many lawyers think that marketing means being known as Dallas divorce lawyer and that they then spend all of their marketing time and advertising dollars on things like billboards or even search engine optimization and Google ads for Dallas divorce lawyer and that I think that isn't how a lot of clients find lawyers.

The last we spoke with Gert Demmink, he spoke on the fact that billions of dollars are spent on futile efforts, like employing the proverbial Chinese Army of compliance officers, most of whom may know a bit about AML, but next to nothing about the actual business and transactions.

Millions of dollars are spent and made on selling and marketing investment products like mutual funds, but most of these activities aren't the least bit helpful to the average Canadian who is slipping behind financially and stressed about money.

So we now know a little bit about how your life change rate is determined will cover the difference between term and permanent more in the next paragraph but here are some sample rates that you can expect for 5 million - dollar life insurance policy.

The Euro has been sliding against the Dollar for some time now, and anyone who travels to Europe with Dollars will be feeling a bit better about expenses there.

Learn a bit about the tax system and save yourself thousands of dollars.

So how about simply swapping out something round...... for something else round during the holidays... Or how about simply hot gluing some cinnamon sticks...... and wrapping a little bit of jute twine...... around plain, inexpensive Dollar Store candles... They look great and smell good -LSB-...]