Sentences with phrase «by hundreds of millions of dollars each year»

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Peter Rahal, who along with Jared Smith founded RXBar, recalls a pivotal moment that set the philosophy of their nutrition bar company — one that would eventually be acquired by Kellogg for hundreds of millions of dollars last year.

Graziosi, who's generated hundreds of millions of dollars with his brands, companies and investments, with a 15 - year television career, argues that creating a true vision for your future by looking backwards will get you exponentially better results than setting goals in the traditional sense.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

Anticipation runs so high that Jet's founder and chief executive, Marc Lore, is in talks with investors about raising hundreds of millions of dollars in additional capital by year end, according to people briefed on the discussions.

A few years ago, when the seventh largest corporation in America, Penn Central, was on the verge of forfeiting on hundreds of millions of dollars in short - term loans, the Federal Reserve saved hundreds of banks from bankruptcy — and the economy from catastrophe — by offering to cover all the loans required at that point to maintain stability.

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...?

«Over half a million workers are having hundreds of millions of dollars taken from their pay packets every year by the big end of town,» he said.

A City Hall spokeswoman said, «The truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment.

«We understand the Governor's obsession with the Mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» the spokesperson said.

Now his office will soon begin what is known as a forensic audit to determine whether fraud or any other illegality was involved in the hundreds of millions of dollars in overtime paid by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority over the past few years.

«We understand the governor's obsession with the mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» she wrote in an email.

The NYC School Construction Authority stashed $ 104 million in a low - interest checking account for two years — losing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars by not investing the money elsewhere, as required by law, according to an audit released yesterday.

By FPI Executive Director Frank Mauro: how New York State's approach to «contracting out» wastes hundreds of millions of dollars a year without increasing service quality.

«We understand the governor's obsession with the mayor has prevented him from learning how NYHCA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment,» mayoral spokeswoman Olivia Lapeyrolerie wrote in an email.

Since the 15 - year period of for non-payment of royalties expired in June 2014 the should collect arreas of royalties running to hundreds of million of dollars owed by the oil and gas companies operating in the area.

In a statement, a spokeperson for the mayor says, «We understand the Governor's obsession with the Mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment.

The city's School Construction Authority stashed $ 104 million in a low - interest checking account for two years — losing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars by not investing the money elsewhere, as required by law, according to an audit released Thursday.

DeepMind was bought last year for hundreds of millions of dollars by Google.

I'm letting hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues slip through my fingers every year by sending people to competitors sites.

While the State of Connecticut spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in our urban school districts, as required by Connecticut's Constitution and Courts, Governor Dannel Malloy is pumping more than $ 100 million a year into Connecticut Charter Schools despite the fact that they have become a primary vehicle for the segregation of our public school system.

But I will proudly stand by my statement that a Democrat who proposed doing away with teacher tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the poorest school; who refuses to de-couple inappropriate standardized tests from teacher evaluation; who diverts a hundred million dollars a year from public schools to prop up unaccountable charter schools that refuse to educate their fair share of bi-lingual students and students who need special education services; and who refused to settle the CCEJF lawsuit and develop a long - term change to Connecticut's school funding formula... DOES NOT deserve the badge of honor that comes with being endorsed by teacher unions.

But Howey also includes some charts that claim to break down author income by publishing type, and they show a number of self - published authors making hundreds of thousands, or even over a million, dollars per year.

This practice, endorsed by a federal agency, has cost consumers staggering amounts, with estimates ranging into the hundreds of millions of dollars a year during periods when mortgage rates were high.

If we apply the same thought process like we did with the savings account question, multiply that amount by a couple of years and the foregone growth and it quickly become a matter of hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions!

According to the Company's 2009 proxy statement, ModusLink paid out more than $ 13.8 million to its top three senior executives over a period of three years while Company's market value declined by hundreds of millions of dollars.

One can easily earn half a million points a year just by signing up for credit cards, and literally pay only a couple of hundred dollars at most in annual fees.

-- Owner of The Weeks Team — Mortgage Financial Services — Mortgage lender for more than 13 years — Closed thousands of loans totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in volume — Named top 1 % of loan officers in the nation — Mortgage Peace — Based in New Orleans, Louisiana — Say hi to her at http://weeksteam.com/ — Best Ever Book: The Go Giver by Bob Burg

Banks that offer frequent flier cards pay the airlines hundreds of millions of dollars a year, according to a 2008 report by IdeaWorks, an airline marketing consultant.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in expenditures by these companies each year is what some of us call «real money.»

While the fossil fuel industry tries it hands at by squandering billions of dollars of research on unfeasible technical solutions such as geological sequestration of carbon emissions from power plants, soils are a natural solution which has been proven for hundreds of millions of years of biological and evolutionary history.

This year I donated to AMF, SCI, Deworm the World, Project Healthy Children, and the Copenhagen Consensus Center... These were all recommended by GWWC except the Copenhagen Consensus Center — I chose to donate to them because I think that promoting global prioritization is one of the most important activities to be doing, and, though harder to be sure about, their influence is potentially measured in the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars.»

Having spent tens of millions of dollars of taxpayers» money to recuperate the species, politicians are now allowing its habitat to be invaded by hundreds of wind turbines, of the kind that are killing 2,000 vultures a year in Spain (1).

Now DeSmog Blog was founded with $ 300,000 of money from a man called John Lefebvre who is an Internet gaming fraudster convicted last year of making hundreds of millions of dollars — a large chunk of which he is now being made to pay back to the U.S. government — by unlawfully laundering money to do with unlawful Internet gaming.»

Weil recently secured another major victory for the Port Authority in its six year, multi-forum litigation battle with Maher Terminals, in which Maher, the Port's largest marine terminal operator, has alleged hundreds of millions of dollars in damages caused by its lease, which it claims is unfair and discriminatory.

As noted by the Insurance Information Institute, for a few hundred dollars per year, you can buy $ 1 million worth of protection.

Tuttle also notes the growing number of far - flung tech companies looking to list their share in the U.S. Among these are three China - based companies with plans to raise hundreds of millions of dollars by selling American depositary shares in the not - too - distant future, including Bilibili, a nine - year - old, Shanghai, China - based anime video sharing platform; iQiyi, an eight - year - old Beijing - based video streaming service; and OneSmart, a 10 - year - old, Shanghai, China - based K - 12 after - school education provider.

Think of the dozens of Habitat for Humanity builds we sponsor every year, the hundreds of causes served through REALTOR ® Magazine's Good Neighbor Award winners and nominees, the millions of dollars we pour into helping people impacted by natural disasters.

Over the course of 20 years, Mark and his team of trainers and coaches have helped tens of thousands of sales professionals raise their production and increase their revenues by hundreds of millions of dollars.

The lawyers involved need to consider the actual, real - life likely outcomes of «all» of the potential scenarios that «can» be produced by a tribunal's decision, and decide which «one» would realistically provide the best outcome for the consuming real estate public, and not just for a particular dissaffected former Realtor claiming to be acting as a reasonable facsimile of a modern day Robin Hood (my interpretation of Dale's apparent claim to have spent years studying ways and means to provide real estate services equal to or superior to current standards via CREA's operations at much less cost to consumers), all the while projecting profits of hundreds of millions of dollars (it's 50/50 that «Robin Hood» is a myth).