Sentences with phrase «dollar commitments made»

Think of the multibillion - dollar commitments made by Microsoft's Bill Gates, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, and, more recently, Alphabet's Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

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To date FICAP has raised over $ 850,000 for a number of worthwhile charities and have made a commitment to reach one million dollars for the kids of NSW.

It requires students to make a serious commitment — usually three years, long study hours, and thousands of tuition dollars.

UC has made a «half a billion dollar commitment» to athletes over the last decade.

«Several years ago, the Park District made a commitment to make sure that there is an equitable distribution of tax dollars in parks all over the city,» said Park Board President Michael Scott.

«They're major employers in their communities, provide almost a billion dollars a year to education, and have always honored their commitment to New York, making sure our state gets every penny its entitled to.

Over the last decade, New York has made a statewide commitment to nanotechnology, investing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop shovel - ready sites and state - of - the - art facilities.

He also said they would make no specific dollar commitments this early to anyone, but would only spend money if the race appeared close in the home stretch.

«If you're going to take very expensive, well - trained state troopers and make a commitment of these millions of dollars to New York City, it would just seem there's much better uses than writing tickets on the Cross Bronx Expressway,» he said.

But Bloomberg sidestepped a question about whether private dollars might replace some or all of the public commitments the Obama administration made to the Green Climate Fund if Trump withdraws U.S. support.

Note that every student is asked to pay something for the course — even the most needy — in order to help stretch available dollars and make every student have some financial commitment to the program.

The Copenhagen Accord, agreed by major economies including the US and China, made a commitment to limit the rise in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius and raise 100 billion US dollars annually by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change.

Seeing first - hand the hard work and commitment to learning new methods makes every dollar that goes into this program worth it.

Putting her in charge of the Department of Education really is an insult to all of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud.

«State education chiefs recognize we can always improve on how state and federal funds are spent, but cutting these funds to zero wouldn't allow for an opportunity to improve how we spend those dollars and would turn our back on the commitments we have made to teachers and students.

««JPMorgan's commitment under these agreements is in the hundreds of millions of dollars,» Make the Road New York and the Center for Popular Democracy alleges on their website.

The federal government has made hefty financial commitments to education in recent years, including the implementation of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent waivers from the standards - based law as well as the influx of about $ 89 billion in stimulus dollars to prevent teacher layoffs, keep class sizes down and avoid program cuts.

Commitments were made on the spot from Mr. Baker's guests to fund future scholarships and Mr. Baker himself was so moved he committed to match the scholarship fund dollar for dollar «as long as he's alive».

Reverse repurchase agreements, loans of portfolio securities, dollar rolls, buy backs, futures, forwards, and the use of when - issued, delayed delivery or forward commitment transactions, and other derivatives, may give rise to a form of leverage, thereby amplifying the Fund's gains and losses and making the Fund more volatile.

In fact, of the half a trillion dollars worth of voluntary commitments made in Rio for the cause of sustainable development, over 60 percent were generated through this initiative.

Speaking as an engineer, we expect corresponding reliability and validation to reliably make such trillion dollar commitments.

On the eve of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Oil Change International and E3G have launched briefings showing that while some multilateral development banks are making good progress on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 2015.

We have the intelligence and the commitment to make sure you're getting the best results possible for your marketing dollar.

You can purchase legal advice online by the questions or issue and avoid spending hundreds of dollars for a consultation or making a commitment to a long term pre-paid legal plan where you are required to make a monthly payment whether or not you use the plan's services.

Since making a commitment to represent only injury victims, Mr. Fenimore has recovered millions of dollars for his clients in personal injury and wrongful death claims resulting from the negligence of others.

«The mysterious new car company making big promises» is something we've heard many times before with no result, but this particular new company is making big hires and even bigger commitments, including a brand new billion dollar factory.

Drive business development strategies and consistently exceed targeted sales goals; aggressively garnered more than $ 5 million dollars in retained company services (signed contracts) and more than $ 3 million in proposals within the first year at CESI Leverage a consultative sales approach in identifying client needs, and develop customized sales strategies to make product recommendations and gain customer commitment and ongoing loyalty.

According to the US Department of Agriculture (UDSA), this increase to the upfront guarantee fee for refinance transactions will make over $ 1.1 billion dollars in refinance commitment authority available to eligible homeowners.