Not exact matches
With city data indicating that African - Americans have been
charged with marijuana crimes twice
as frequently
as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50
percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.
Chaffin: The Barter Group
charges 6
percent cash on each transaction
as well
as a monthly maintenance fee of $ 10 in cash and $ 10 in trade.
As a non-profit organization, the company only
charges a 1
percent fee to cover operating costs, compared to standard platforms that
charge upwards of 10
percent.
Small business owners are taking on a large share of this responsibility,
as 39
percent reported that they themselves are in
charge of online security at their company.
Online retailers like Amazon and eBay
charge a standard 15
percent commission that merchants calculate
as they would any standard cost of doing business.
Updegrave adds, «
As for choosing investments for your portfolio, I recommend you focus mostly, if not exclusively, on broadly diversified low - cost index funds or ETFs, many of which
charge just.2
percent of assets or less in annual expenses.
One former employee also
charged that
as late
as 2014, Theranos did fewer than 10
percent of its tests on Edison machines.
The move could be looked at
as a competition - focused one: While Walmart also
charges 15
percent across the board for grocery items sold through its online marketplace, its subsidiary Jet.com
charges only 10
percent for most non-gourmet packaged foods, according to its website.
But
as research by author Noam Wasserman (author of The Founder's Dilemma) has shown, by the time a venture is three years old 50
percent of founders are no longer in
charge, a cliff - like decline that continues to plummet by upwards of 10
percent every year thereafter.
So instead of
charging a smartphone, running it down to 10
percent power, and then heading home in a panic to plug it in, users would connect the phone to a baby stroller or a rolling suitcase,
charging the phone
as they pushed or pulled.
For example,
as low - cost
as BillFloat might be compared with
charges for bounced checks, 3
percent per month works out to a near - Sopranos level of 36
percent annually.
But net income fell 28
percent to $ 53.7 million, or 31 cents per share, in the quarter ended March 31
as the company recorded a $ 15 million restructuring
charge and $ 23 million related to settlement of a legal dispute.
The most promising features is the low monthly rate of $ 19.95, which only
charges a 1.6
percent charge for credit card swipes,
as opposed to the standard 2.40
percent rate.
Furthermore, the 1
percent you pay to your money manager doesn't always cover the costs of buying and selling the stocks and bonds in your portfolio or the sales
charges (also known
as loads) and administrative fees
charged by the mutual funds your manager puts you into.
She suggests sticking with funds that have expense ratios below 1
percent, and preferably below 0.5
percent,
as well
as steering clear of so - called «load» funds, which
charge extra at the point of sale.
Furthermore, merchants that decide to use cloud services outside Brazil for their online stores are
charged 40
percent on top of the invoice
as an additional tax.
Its stock fell
as much
as 12
percent in the four weeks after it agreed on Sept. 8 to pay $ 185 million to settle
charges by regulators and a Los Angeles prosecutor regarding the sham accounts.
After the
charges went through, SolarCity relocated 85 employees out of Arizona,
as residential applications for solar fell 96
percent.
Commentary: «Credit trends continued to improve
as net
charge - offs declined 14
percent from last quarter to $ 262 million or 1.32
percent of loans and leases.
As Congress considers a Passenger Facility
Charge (PFC) increase on American passengers, U.S. airports collected an all - time high $ 28.8 billion in revenues in 2016, up 80
percent from 2000 and 7
percent from 2015, thanks to rising airport fees, rent and PFC collections from travelers.
, which was on full display on October 19, 1987 (a.k.a. Black Monday),
as investors
charged out of the market and stocks fell by more than 20
percent — the largest one - day drop in history.
Depending on the type of loan you have, you could face collection
charges as high
as 24
percent of your loan balance.
Surrender
charges can be extraordinary — sometimes
as much
as seven
percent of plan assets in the first year of an annuity contract!
This is expressed most directly in paragraph 156 of the complaint which argues that a «two
percent annual flat fee on assets under management [
as charged by an actively managed hedge fund seeking superior returns]... is not justified in the defined contribution plan context.»
The higher - than - average annual fees SAC
charges clients —
as much
as 3
percent of assets and 50
percent of profits — cover the expenses of running his hedge funds, including employee compensation, and generate profits for Cohen
as the principal owner.
Unfortunately, few believe 401 (k) plans actually
charge fees
as a recent study shows that 67
percent of individuals don't believe there are fees in their 401 (k) plan.
Most hedge fund managers
charge a 2
percent management fee and 20
percent of the profit earned, known
as «2 and 20.»
He estimated 10,000 bitcoin exchanges total,
charging his customers 10 to 20
percent commission.He also admitted to operating
as a money services business and failing to file currency reports or ask for customer information, the documents say.
Branch
charges 15
percent interest on a loan
as low
as $ 2 at the end of one month.
They paid depositors the same rate (equivalent to 20
percent)
as they
charged customers, so there was no intermediation markup
as in modern banking (Bogaert 1966).
Annuity fees can amount to
as much
as three
percent a year; tax considerations and other
charges could drive the costs higher.
The TRAI chairman Rahul Khullar told the press that, the free roaming regime, will result is cross-subsidization
as only 13
percent of the mobile subscribers use roaming facility and telecom companies could recover their cost by the local call
charges, and the impact of this move will be reviewed after a year instead of three years.
China released a $ 3 billion list of goods it said it might
charge with higher tariffs, including a 25
percent tariff on pork and aluminum scrap,
as well
as a 15
percent tariff on steel pipes, wine and ethanol.
Adjusted EBITDA,
as adjusted for organizational and separation related costs and other
charges, totaled $ 28 million, a 27
percent increase from the second quarter of 2011, on an adjusted pro forma basis.
Such third - party firms usually
charge management fees of 1.5
percent to 2
percent, keep 20
percent of profits and require lockups of committed money for
as long
as 10 years.
Kingdom Trust, for example,
charges a monthly $ 20 comment price
as well
as a 0.07
percent holding price on your comment balance.
As our business partner we will provide you with our next level software system free of
charge and you get to keep ninety - seven
percent of the profits while we profit from the remaining 3
percent only.
Many are forced to turn to loan sharks, who may
charge interest of
as much
as 10
percent a day.
Orange Leaf
charges comparatively low franchising fees, such
as a royalty fee of 4
percent and a marketing fee of 1
percent.
The starches were eliminated when the Center for Science in the Public Interest
charged that some baby foods contained only about 30
percent food (such
as strained bananas), with the rest being water, modified starch, and sugar
However, the USDA study noted above found that participation was only about 3
percent lower in districts that
charged $ 2.00 per meal
as compared to $ 1.50 per meal.
Most girls like to be in
charge, but self - doubt can impact pursuit of leadership opportunities
as 46
percent of girls report they don't say what they are thinking or disagree with others because they want to be liked and one in three girls are afraid to be a leader
as they don't want others to think they are bossy.
A 2012 National Women's Law Center report found that the vast majority of best - selling health - care plans
charged women higher premiums than men of the same age — sometimes
as much
as 80
percent more, even when they didn't cover maternity services.
[60] Camden and Islington councils sought to require a high proportion of the resulting new homes to be made available for social rent, but Johnson overturned this and allowed homes designated
as «affordable» to
charge rents of up to 80
percent of market rates.
The county is increasing property tax by 32
percent and making the towns responsible for paying for county costs such
as the board of elections, Rockland Community College
charge backs, police intelligence unit, and police narcotics task force.
Senators approved dozens of bills authorizing localities to
charge an extra penny (or more) of sales tax beyond the three
percent authorized
as of right; Democrats in the Assembly yoked them into an omnibus bill that also extended mayoral control for two years.
The National Democratic Congress Minority in Parliament will challenge the School Feeding Programme's 30
percent allocation of the schools in each district
as protocol for the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, «I want to serve notice that the Minority will challenge it because we think that it should not be allowed to go and this is not a
charge...
Even then, he collected $ 378,631, or 77
percent of his $ 490,000 salary at the school, before leaving the payroll
as he faced corruption
charges, according to a database released Monday.
The Commission is
charged with recommending ways to eliminate at least 20
percent of the total number of agencies, authorities and other bodies
as well
as identifying improvements that can increase efficiency.
Grimm
charged that Recchia,
as a council member, voted to raise property taxes by 18.5
percent and voted in favor of a congestion pricing plan that would have instituted an $ 8 toll on the Brooklyn Bridge.