Sentences with phrase «by millions of dollars from»

They are backed by millions of dollars from investors and they put together the most current and most fresh online drivers ed program in the country and they aren't stopping.

The Sanders candidates are opposed by attorney Nick Melvoin and teacher Kelly Gonez, who support charter schools and whose candidacies have been backed by millions of dollars from groups funded by (among others) Walmart heir Alice Walton, Netflix founder Reed Hastings and real estate magnate Eli Broad.

Imagine an American citizen who, bankrolled by millions of dollars from the Soviet Union, spent his entire life as an apologist for Communist oppression, including Stalin's murder of many millions by planned famine and the terror of the gulag archipelago.

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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.

The U.S. says the money originated from a Swiss account controlled by Burzaco, part of what the businessman testified were the millions of dollars in bribes he paid to officials, including Marin, for the broadcasting rights to the Centennial tournament and another in Brazil.

Below are some of the more interesting details about the young man who just turned down billions of dollars for his startup (which, by the way, isn't generating any revenue but has raised $ 73 million from investors):

The quota has even driven theft on a massive scale, such as a 2012 incident involving millions of dollars worth of contraband syrup stolen from the federation's stockpile — as covered in Canadian Business by writer Tim Shufelt in his feature The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.

The number of million - dollar listings in Fort Lauderdale fell by 4 percent from 2016 to 2017.

The cybercriminals developed an army of automated web browsers, dubbed «Methbot» by the researchers, that stole millions of dollars per day from the biggest advertisers on the web, according to White Ops.

Most websites with as much traffic as Plenty of Fish would have by this point raised millions of dollars from venture capitalists, hired dozens of engineers and business - development types, and figured out a way to keep someone as unconventional as Markus Frind from making any major decisions.

He thinks the application could also help the U.S. Air Force shave tens of millions of dollars a year from its fuel budget by computing more efficient schedules for in - air refueling.

When said individual racks up compensation in the multiple tens of millions of dollars from an industry that was bailed out by taxpayer funds and then complains about changes in regulatory oversight, you know that individual is tone deaf.

Even in the current market I have been able to generate several hundred thousand in net loss carry forward from the stock portfolio, while the value of the portfolio has gone up by several million dollars.

The emergence of these peer - to - peer (P2P) lending platforms, offering loans ranging from as little as a few hundred dollars to several thousands, has so far been welcomed by Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest economy where tens of millions of people have little or no access to bank credit.

Portland topped the list in terms of growth by volume in dollars, snagging $ 42.6 million in Q1 of 2016 — a 675 percent increase from last year's mark of $ 5.5 million.

AT&T and Time Warner have said there won't be any incentive for a combined company to threaten to withhold content or increase prices, because by doing so, it would risk distributors walking away, leaving the company out tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue and subscription fees — far greater than any revenue AT&T might pick up from customers who would switch to its own pay - TV services in order to get Time Warner content back.

Data from the last two months shows that the Reserve Bank of Australia has allowed its reserves to increase by 862 million Australian dollars.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

Both parties have profited from tens of millions of gambling dollars, with the Democrats supported by Native American money and the Republicans by Las Vegas and Atlantic City money.

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

Should Albert Snyder be able to sue Pastor Phelps for millions of dollars in damages because of the «emotional distress» that Phelps caused by his protest ---- from about 1000 feet away - at Matthew Snyder's funeral?

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.

I know that many elders and churchgoers don't like the idea of their building becoming an office complex or dance club, but from God's perspective, is the building really accomplishing its purpose by sitting empty six days of the week, or being a place that Christians dump thousands and millions of dollars into every year just so they can have a place to talk about the Bible?

By pushing down the fee, well below the 5 per cent industry standard and then also charging a rebate on top of that, it could allow Coles to seize hundreds of millions of dollars from these middlemen and channel it back into its own revenue stream.

«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.

Report from Champions 12.3 shows that companies, consumers and governments can save billions of dollars and millions of tons of food by acting to cut food loss and waste

A book entitled Personal Fouls, by Peter Golenbock, was about to appear, accusing Valvano and his staff of fixing grades, hiding drug - test results from authorities, diverting millions of dollars from the alumni club to the players and paying the players off with automobiles.

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

But with the N.F.L. agreeing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit brought by about 5,000 former players who said the league hid from them the dangers of repeated hits to the head, a backpedaling league has corrected its lingo and hastily amended its methodology.

But the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission officials in Lagos claimed as follows: that «they have found a hotel being constructed by Governor Yari of Zamfara state with three million dollars he stole from London - Paris Club loan refund to Nigerian states.

Also at 11 a.m., Assemblyman Francisco Moya, representatives from the IBEW Utility Labor Council of NYS, James Slevin of UWUA Local 1 - 2 (Con Ed NYC), and representatives from utility companies, including PSEG, speak about the violence encountered by utility employees during the course of performing their duty, Million Dollar Staircase, 3rd Floor, state Capitol.

The DN has also reported several times now on the millions of dollars worth of Empire Zone tax breaks Paladino received, and the relatively few new jobs that resulted from that investment by the state.

Incompetence is when a government promises to reduce the import of rice by one third and in eight years rather preside over the increase of rice import from $ 100 million at the end of year 2000 to 500 million dollars by the close of 2008.

Republican Julie Killian, a former Rye city councilwoman, is taking on Democrat Shelley Mayer, an assemblywoman from Yonkers, in a contest that has generated national attention and sparked millions of dollars of spending by the candidates and their allies on both sides of the aisle.

Other charges included defrauding the IRS by not reporting millions of dollars in wages paid to employees of his restaurants and fraudulently collecting almost $ 1 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Cuomo is also trying to shake up education policy, by threatening to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in increases in school aid from schools that don't agree on teacher evaluation plans with teachers.

«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.

Politicians on two New York state ethics committees raked in nearly a quarter of a million dollars from companies controlled by Glenwood Management — the developer at the center of corruption trials that ended in convictions for two of Albany's top power brokers.

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

Many schools plan to add new student programs and services next year, aided by millions of dollars in fresh financial assistance from Albany, as well as reductions in state pension costs.

Since millions of dollars will likely pour into the elections from outside sources and money can easily be transferred, these aggregate totals are more useful for determining each party's financial status than district - by - district breakdowns.

Common Cause / NY Examines Fracking Contributions A new analysis by Common Cause / NY illustrates that millions of dollars have flowed from fracking interests in New York to state and local campaigns.

New York would have the power to recoup millions of dollars in state property - tax subsidies from wealthy homeowners who were ineligible to receive the aid, under legislation proposed by Cuomo.

A recent decision by the federal Department of Justice to scale back and eventually end the use of private prisons indirectly impacted New York City's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisons.

The reforms were proposed after the former Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was arrested and charged with illegally gaining millions of dollars from two private law firms by improperly using his political influence.

Juror Arleen Phillips was unsure if prosecutors were correct when they said ex - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had abused his office by receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from companies with business before the state.

And charter - school supporters, led by Mr. Loeb, have poured millions of dollars into ensuring that the State Senate remains in Republican hands — even as Democrats have won a majority of seats — backing Mr. Klein's renegade group, which first broke away from the party in 2011 and eventually formed a coalition with the Republicans.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used his office to mask millions of dollars in «bribes and kickbacks» as legitimate outside income from two private law firms over more than a decade, according to a bombshell 35 - page criminal complaint filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today.

And he is one of the very rare breed of Democrats who is not scared off by the Cuomo / Hochul horde of millions of campaign dollars collected almost exclusively from the one percent of corporate polluters, hedge fund billionaires and other rich special interests.

Totals reported by the state Democratic Party and its housekeeping account fell by more than half from 2013, when the party funded millions of dollars of advertisements supporting the governor's agenda, dropping from $ 9.9 million to $ 4.6 million.