Sentences with phrase «cents you spent for»

It's been worth every cent I spent for it.

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For instance, business spending on research and development has actually dropped to 0.89 per cent of gross domestic product in 2011 from 1.29 per cent 10 years earlier.

In other words, women in Louisiana earn 70 cents for every dollar men in Louisiana make, or they spend 10.5 hours of each 35 - hour work week «working for free,» as Expert Market's research team puts it.

The retailer is considered an economic bellwether, with the company accounting for nearly 10 per cent of nonautomotive retail spending in the U.S.

While Chase markets the card as «cash back,» it actually earns Ultimate Rewards points that you can redeem for cash (1 point = 1 cents), so that's 1.5 Ultimate Rewards points on every dollar spent.

The study estimated that each dollar the company spent on the disease management program saved $ 3.78, compared to savings of only 48 cents for the lifestyle segment.

More strikingly, CGA - Canada has calculated that before the financial crisis Canadians borrowed on average 31 cents for every dollar spent on new vehicles; today it's 95 cents.

The on - line publisher spends 10 cents a minute for the fax service instead of the 15 cents to 20 cents it used to pay, which CEO John Westergaard says he finds «very attractive from a financial point of view.»

The Tampa Bay Times, for instance, reported that Kids Wish Network was spending less than 3 cents of every donated dollar on the children it promises to provide for.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

So the budding entrepreneur spent his free time cranking out pages of repentant prose and then selling those sentences to troublemakers for 10 cents a pop.

Professor Scarthe also recommends that, once the deficit is eliminated in 2015 - 16, any future government should gradually start creating a deficit by, for example, spending on infrastructure and this could be done while at the same time maintaining a stable debt to GDP ratio of around 25 per cent over the medium to longer term.

The Commerce Department's report on Monday also showed consumer spending, which accounts for more than two - thirds of US economic activity, increased 0.4 per cent in March after being unchanged in February.

In fact, for every $ 1 spent on digital advertising, 42 cents goes to an AdWords campaign.

In North America, for example, U.S. clean energy spending grew by seven per cent in 2015, while Mexico's more than doubled.

(Online sales accounted for 6 per cent of retail spending in Canada last year, compared with 9 per cent in the U.S., according to Haywood Securities Inc..)

Although China is still set for sub-8 per cent growth in 2012, its weakest in more than a decade, momentum picked up noticeably in the fourth quarter after the government increased its spending on infrastructure.

Only 10.6 per cent of the nearly $ 100 billion in new infrastructure spending is for trade and transportation.

The negotiation of a «fair» agreement for taxpayers with Quebec's 430,000 public workers, whose payroll absorbed 59 per cent — or $ 37.3 billion — of government spending in 2013 - 14.

And affordability is an even more serious problem for another 22 per cent of people in Kamloops, who spend more than half their income on rent.

Of the major reasons for increased spending, 32 per cent of respondents pointed to higher living expenses while 25 per cent mentioned unexpected expenses.

The U.K.'s Office of National Statistics on Thursday said the economy grew 0.3 per cent in the second quarter, after 0.2 per cent in the first, the lowest growth for any major advanced economy since the start of 2017, according to Reuters, which also reported flat business investment and little growth in household spending.

Based on my experience in the manufacturing industry, I would bet the people who don't think they needed financing are the same ones that went out and spent a significant chunk of their working capital on a new machine, figuring they would save themselves the interest, and then the following year they were part of the 49 per cent of respondents who said they needed to borrow money for working capital.

Beach also nudged up guidance for full - year production by about 2 per cent and shaved capital spending plans by about $ 50 million.

They account for about 60 per cent of total spending.

The result for the month of June, a fall of 0.8 per cent, incorporates a substantial decline in spending in department stores; this may partly reflect recent changes to the timing of mid-year sales, as there was a similar fall recorded the previous June, followed by a strong bounce - back the next month (Graph 13).

Adjusted for age and pension credits, she could pay tax at 22 per cent and have $ 5,940 per month to spend to age 95.

Trump seems to view NATO's aspirational goal of 2 per cent of GDP for defence spending as a condition of membership.

With a grand total of 89 cents in the Jar of Contention, I spent an hour and 29 minutes on the roof Monday morning doing penance for a month's worth of complaining, nagging, exaggeration, gossip, and snark.

Analysts dismayed at the extent of CCA's profit slide in the last two years are divided over the strategy, which also includes a plan to sell a 30 per cent stake in Indonesia in return for $ 570 million cash to spend on capex and market development.

So, the net result of my awkward Whole Foods antics was that I spent 50 cents for a half tablespoon of lime juice.

Representing 2.8 per cent of group sales, Kerry is at the lower end of ingredients industry spending on research and development, that for some can tip in excess of 12 per cent.

And little comfort was derived from a flagged 50 per cent increase in the marketing spend for 2015 given the «associated inventory outlook» generated by the muted outlook for the Australian and Chinese markets.

European sales of private label goods has now reached $ 207 billion, accounting for 23 per cent of total consumer packaged goods spending, according to a recent Datamonitor report.

A KMPG report for the Australian Food and Grocery Council in May found that rebates and allowances, known as trade spend, accounted for about 25 per cent of suppliers» sales, while analysts estimate that supplier payments account for about 10 per cent of retailers» revenues.

Mr Clarke said that during the six months ended December 31, 2016, Treasury had «front - ended» a 30 per cent jump in advertising and promotional spend for the US business to deliver extra oomph to the US brands.

Allen says that, when Grown first opened, they spent 60 cents on food for every dollar in sales, which is double the restaurant average.

The changing of the FFP rules by Uefa which will once again allow mega rich owners to pump shedloads of cash at their club could be disastrous for the Gunners, as our own man at the top Stan Kroenke has proved himself reluctant to spend a single cent of his own money on Arsenal.

It could be our best chance for a while as well, with City and United willing to throw buckets of money at their squads while we have the miserly Stan Kroenke unwilling to spend a cent of his own cash.

Ivan sends another email to congratulate everyone for another «successful» transfer window without spending a single cent.

Portsmouth up their bid for Gareth Barry to  # 4.25 m â $ cents Djibril Cisse to spend this season on loan to Marseille â $ cents Blackburn in for Villa defender Mark Delaney on a free â $ cents West Brom to hold talks with Swiss national keeper Pascal Zuberbuehler â $ cents Boro want Bret Emerton off Blackburn, for around  # 1.5 m â $ cents Gary Megson will pip Paul Ince to be new Wolves boss

I made a bet that on this blog that no new keeper is coming in and based non wenger comments last nite i can sadly say its true two weeks to go lets see if this man is for real after all the problems we had in goal last season to go back with the same bunch because you do nt want to spend a cent wenger do nt care about the fans only himself

«They were not in their 100 per cent best moment and other clubs would have spent more on him so I thought immediately: «What a good transfer for them.»

Even so, the directors still recommended the payment of a dividend on the company's shares of five per cent, free of income tax, and the spending had even increased for the new season with the signing of Frank Casper, a 22 - year - old attacking midfielder from Rotherham United.

Indeed, of the 5,877 minutes spent on the pitch by Forest's young Englishmen, 2,264 — 38.5 per cent — were accounted for by on - loan Everton attacker Kieran Dowell.

When I have only $ 1.36 to spend on food for school lunch ($ 0.23 for white skim milk, $ 0.27 for all - you - will - eat salad bar fresh veggies, $ 0.10 for 1/2 cup steamed veggie, 40.23 for 1/2 cup fresh fruit, $ 0.10 for 1/2 cup canned in juice fruit... leaving me $ 0.43 cents for an entrée that has 2oz protein and 2 servings whole grain rich grain), it leaves many of us no choice but to offer other alternatives to stay in the black.

Our government is borrowing 35 cents of each dollar it spends, leaving a debt our grandchildren won't be able to pay off, to buy votes for incumbents through entitlement programs.

The second proposal asked for a 10 - cent tax hike that would have been spent to develop baseball and soccer fields on the site.

In addition to the cash reimbursements, which they can spend on any food they want to serve in the lunchrooms, schools also get 14 cents for every lunch they serve.

Congress has failed to pass Child Nutrition Reauthorization that is now over a year past due and even if it had passed, would only have allocated 4 1/2 to 6 cents additional funds per student, so even for the mere pennies per lunch that we could have added to the current $ 2.72 that we spend on school meals, our elected officials couldn't come together for the health of our children.