Sentences with phrase «books at the dollar»

It's super easy to find inexpensive books at the dollar store that they can do pretend homework.

And frankly, I've never bought a book at the dollar store.

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Since then, «Wimpy Kid» has become a brand valued at nearly half a billion dollars — thanks to the books, licensed products and three feature films that have earned $ 225 million at the box office.

During that earlier period, American business earned an average of 11 percent or so on equity capital employed and stocks, in aggregate, sold at valuations far above that equity capital (book value), averaging over 150 cents on the dollar.

After taking a very deep breath and then reading about the success of open book management at other organizations, I started to relay more specific dollar amounts to the team.

In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

Furthermore, many institutional investors close their books at the year - end, a deadline for taxation and performance reporting, a time seen leading to dollar selling pressure, analysts said.

However, as he argued in his most recent book, The End of Energy Obesity, modern societies have at their disposal the technological tools, and possibly the social pressure, to consume less energy in absolute terms, not just per capita or per dollar of GDP.

Bryant Simon, a professor at Temple University, whose book Boardwalk of Dreams chronicles the history of Atlantic City, including Trump's business dealings there, says business owners who worked on the Taj Mahal were often paid just 10 cents to 20 cents on the dollar in the bankruptcy.

Now we're seeing the result: $ 20 bottles of Pappy going for several hundred dollars, a cultish following for anything labelled «small batch» or «single barrel» and folks like me booking vacations in Kentucky to experience what some are calling the «Sonoma of the South» (and maybe score a coveted bottle of this fall's new Antique Collection from Buffalo Trace while I'm at it).

That would mean that, ostensibly, Tether Holdings Limited added $ 600 million dollars (or its equivalent in various fiat currencies) to its books at some point before minting those USDT.

The Starwood Preferred Guest ® American Express Luxury Card allows you to earn 6 points on Starwood and Marriott direct purchases, a 3 points per dollar at U.S. restaurants and flights booked directly with airlines, and 2 points per dollar for all other purchases.

With the Starwood Preferred Guest ® American Express Luxury Card, cardholders can earn 6 points per dollar spent at Starwood and Marriott, 3 points per dollar spent at U.S. restaurants and flights (when booked directly through the airline), and 2 points per dollar spent on all other purchases.

Thailand's reserves are up $ 10 billion since the end of June (Thailand also has a big forward book, but that has been constant); it is now intervening at 33 baht to the dollar.

We composed a blend of five key valuation metrics — including forward price - to - earnings ratios and price - to - book value — and examined how strong the relationship was between starting valuations — or valuations at the time of purchase — and the variability of subsequent U.S. dollar returns over time.

Officials booked Dollar into jail at 2 a.m, and a judge set a $ 5,000 bond during a morning hearing, according to the report.

He knows how much the different versions of the first edition of Ulysses cost in francs, pounds, and dollars, how much Eliot received from all sources for publishing The Waste Land and how that compares with the per capita income of the United States at the time, and how much Ezra Pound's first book had increased in value by 1924.

Christianity requires little more than belief and a 2,000 year old book that you can buy at any store for a few dollars.

Live - action Disney movies have been hugely successful at the box office in the last few years: The Jungle Book, Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland have taken in more than two and a half billion dollars at the global box office.

I was talking to a person if he went to church and he stated all they want is your money.You got to give your money to read books about GOD, I mean like thirty dollars and more and the same for a dvd or like if you could give 1,000 or more to keep on the air.He and I both think we are better off stay at home and read the Bible and study it.I think if you are born with the new sperit of GOD you will understand the Bible without the loss of great somes of money.After they sell so many dvds it becomes 100 % profit and they never lower the price so can obtain one.For this is wrong, it states in the Bible that this would happen preachers for money to learn about everyones GOD.They forgot one thing JESUS never forced money from you to hear the wordof salvation Im a follower of JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD He is the way.Im not a so called Christian just.

If you really had that ability, you could move to Las Vegas, place your bets at the sports books, and win millions of dollars each year.

Lucas took the enterprise to another level in 1976 when he came out with his first book, which he sold for five dollars, at the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic at the Colonial Country Club.

Even though Green Bay is receiving 86 % of the dollars, the books are comfortable with Detroit at +3.

That was one of the topics discussed at a workshop in Vancouver, B.C., on love put on by Carrie Jenkins, a philosophy professor at the University of British Columbia, that featured many wonderful speakers besides Jenkins, whose thought - provoking book, What Love Is And What It Could Be, comes out in a few weeks, including Marina Adshade, UBC professor of economics, author of of Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and entertaining TEDx speaker; and Mandy Len Catron, who teaches writing at UBC and whose Modern Love essay on how to make anyone fall in love with you was one of the most - read Modern Loves, and that lead her to write a book on love essays that comes out in 2017.

Most bloggers would charge at least a few dollars, if not many more, for a comprehensive, 50 - page book like this one.

reading more about your idea for using 4 × 6 photo books, that u picked up at dollar general, on your post... requires an invite on a blogger website.

Also, the dollar spot at Target has tons of little books and small toys that you can put into a bag special for the trip.

For a more comprehensive look at the state's revenue and budget challenges, see the Fiscal Policy Institute's 2018 - 2019 budget briefing book, which includes a discussion of many other progressive pro-revenue tax proposals which would generate billions of dollars that New York needs to remain competitive in the future.

If he pocketed millions of dollars in undisclosed payments in exchange for tailoring state laws to the needs of specific benefactors, then throw the book at him.

Not once, but twice, this newspaper has wagged its finger at Suffolk County government for dipping into its Drinking Water Protection Program without just cause, using the voter - approved preservation dollars to balance its general fund books.

Finally: Pork opponents brace themselves for the annual «pig book»: CNN Congressional Correspondent Brianna Keilar gets her hand son the latest edition of an annual publication that takes a closer look at how Congress is using your taxpayer dollars.

Graber: Speaking of a lot more work to do, you say in the book, you know, at the very beginning, you say that there are millions and millions of dollars that have been spent on fertility technologies — and certainly many people spend lots of money out of their own pocket to get pregnant — and you also say that little attention has been paid to nutrition; why is that?

I bought this book for a few dollars used, but at one point it sold for as much as $ 150!!

And then, of course, there's the film's eventual premiere, when Wiseau first endures the feeling of having audiences laugh at his work, for which he had bared his soul and burned several million dollars of a fortune whose origins are anybody's guess (although «such nosy person» Sestero's best guess in the book, involving a shady business called Street Fashions USA, isn't even mentioned in the film).

The book though runs much cheaper at around $ 15 dollars but I still would prefer to pay a bit more and get a nice hardcover.

Xavier Dolan — «Mommy,» «Tom at the Farm» Cheryl Dunye — «My Baby's Daddy,» «The Watermelon Woman» Deniz Gamze Ergüven — «Mustang» Valerie Faris — «Ruby Sparks,» «Little Miss Sunshine» Shana Feste — «Endless Love,» «Country Strong» Hannah Fidell — «A Teacher» Anne Fletcher — «The Proposal,» «Step Up» Ari Folman — «The Congress,» «Waltz with Bashir» Anne Fontaine — «Gemma Bovery,» «Coco before Chanel» Cary Joji Fukunaga — «Beasts of No Nation,» «Jane Eyre» Nicole Garcia — «A View of Love,» «Charlie Says» Juan Antonio Garcia Bayona — «The Impossible,» «The Orphanage» Sarah Gavron — «Suffragette,» «Brick Lane» Lesli Linka Glatter — «The Proposition,» «Now and Then» Ciro Guerra * — «Embrace of the Serpent,» «The Wind Journeys» Laura Amelia Guzmán — «Sand Dollars,» «Carmita» Sanaa Hamri — «Just Wright,» «Something New» Mia Hansen - Løve * — «Eden,» «The Father of My Children» Mahamet - Saleh Haroun — «Grigris,» «Our Father» Mary Harron — «The Notorious Bettie Page,» «American Psycho» Marielle Heller * — «The Diary of a Teenage Girl» Albert Hughes — «The Book of Eli,» «Dead Presidents» Hou Hsiao - Hsien — «The Assassin,» «Three Times» Patty Jenkins — «Wonder Woman,» «Monster» Naomi Kawase * — «Still the Water,» «The Mourning Forest» Abdellatif Kechiche — «Blue Is the Warmest Color,» «Black Venus» Abbas Kiarostami — «Certified Copy,» «Taste of Cherry» So Yong Kim — «For Ellen,» «In Between Days» Kiyoshi Kurosawa — «Seventh Code,» «Pulse» Karyn Kusama — «Jennifer's Body,» «Girlfight» Francis H. Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,» «I Am Legend» Tobias Lindholm * — «A War,» «A Hijacking» Phyllida Lloyd — «The Iron Lady,» «Mamma Mia!»

I never got around to doing that, even when the kid - oriented package with a bright blue handle and «fun activity book» inside was selling for just a few dollars at Big Lots.

The trouble is that while the printed memoir available at Amazon for under eleven dollars may be filled with reminiscence, the book, unlike the movie, comes across principally as a celebration of life while the film is a dreary downer, however filled with Slawimir Idziak's hallucinatory scenes.

In the year 2006, during the Bush administration, the FBI were investigating the library at UCLA to see what books students were checking out, the same year I was placed at the top of the «Dirty Thirty «list of leftist professors by a right - wing group who offered to pay students one hundred dollars to secretly audiotape my seminars, and 50 dollars to provide notes from my classes.

This summer we'll launch a subscription - based service for elementary school, which will be around 100 dollars a year, and considerably less for those purchasing the elementary school books at the same time.

-- Frederick M. Hess is director of education - policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and co-editor of the new book Stretching the School Dollar.

TITLE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE This book covers the complicated and often misunderstood regulations aimed at preventing states or local school boards from replacing state and local money with federal dollars.

The answers came thanks to a Zig Ziglar tape given to me by my general manager and Zig's See You at the Top book, which I purchased with what I felt were my last dollars.

luckily i was able to put down their «marketing» consaltant, she did try to press on useless marketing service at cost of 5thousands dollars, what a shameless b... ch, she had nothing to say on question how can i be sure that i will have a return on such «investment», can you guarantee me that i will actually sale a book, and with author royalty like 40pence how many do i have to sell to get back my money?

If you're looking at this from a raw dollars - and - sense POV, however, look at how much money you've spent on paper books within the last three years.

I would rather sell a million books at 99 cents than one book at a million dollars, because i have found a million potential future customers.

So if you want to make any profit at all, you're asking for nearly 20 dollars for a paperback book.

As we've written a number of times at GigaOM, the traditional book - publishing business continues to be disrupted, with some self - published authors such as Amanda Hocking making millions of dollars without using a traditional agent or publisher, by selling their own books through Amazon's (s amzn) Kindle platform.

The dollar bin at the back of Walmart is full of books that were supposedly good enough for a traditional publishing deal.

Says Maria Harrison, whose trade paperback of less than 200 pages was priced at $ 24.95, «Why would anyone want to buy an overpriced book from an unknown author when they can buy a wonderful book by a best - selling writer for less than ten dollars?