Sentences with phrase «dollar company trying»

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That fight began when the companies tried to overturn Austin's regulations by pouring nearly $ 9 million dollars into a local repeal referendum, saying they would leave if they didn't win.

If many more Chinese families and companies try to swap more renminbi for dollars, that could swamp the central bank's ability to prop up the renminbi.

Earlier this year, Schneider dismissed rivals he said were «spending millions of dollars» trying to replicate the company's size, after it reported an increased market share to 15.9 percent, up from 15.7 percent.

Bitfinex has come under fire for its relationship with Tether (a company, partially owned by van der Velde through Tether Holdings Limited, which purports to offer a blockchain - based equivalent to the US dollar and has been subpoenaed by the CFTC), but that hasn't stopped its executives from trying to turn over a new leaf.

It offers an opportunity to increase your stake in the company you've chosen while getting the advantages of a dollar cost averaging approach (buying regularly without trying to time the market).

Marijuana Penny Stock Scams With the proliferation of legal marijuana companies and the massive growth we've seen in the industry, it's no surprise that less - than - savory characters have tried to make a dollar off the boom through, shall we say, less honest means.

«More companies are trying to manage risk... but companies are still seeing highly uncorrelated moves [against the dollar] based on swings in one currency,» said FiREapps CEO Wolfgang Koester.

Just because hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into studies by companies trying to push more whey protein powder on unsuspecting customers, doesn't make it «better.»

The Byron Bay Cookie Company is being put up for sale this week and foreign buyers have already shown interest as bank - appointed receivers try to recover millions of dollars.

Diaper companies spend millions of dollars every year to design the thinnest and most absorbent product, trying to gain loyal customers along the way.

I have been trying to notify regulators & authorities of a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR scam that is putting states like NY & FL at risk, as well as, shareholders of companies including Intel, Lockheed, SGI, Warner Bros., Time Warner, AOL & IBM.

Not a Start Up NY program where the governor hands out, at his discretion, millions upon millions of dollars to try to get new companies to come in.»

When Karen asked if the company might ask other ad - targeting firms to pay a licensing fee or even try to force them out of the business, for instance, the answer that came back was, «I'm just a simple man trying to advance the cause of digital politics, you're talking way above my pay grade,» though we did also learn that the patent is «patent is a recognition of what we've done as a company» and that «taken us years to get to this place, it's taken millions and millions of dollars.»

While Cuomo claims he's trying to make New York business - friendly, an authoritative oil - and - gas industry source involved in Pennsylvania - based energy production told The Post the governor has repeatedly rejected offers of information on fracking from leading energy companies, which are prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on gas exploration in the state.

Well, remember that the courtroom battle will often cost the offending company millions of dollars as well: It may be less expensive for them to just pay you a small license fee, rather than pay a lot of money trying to make you go bankrupt.

This is 10x better than any ripoff energy supplements or any other crap that the supplement companies will try to lure you into paying top dollar for.

Adjusted for today's dollars, RCA and the other vacuum - tube companies spent upward of $ 1 billion trying to make the transistor work in the market as it existed at that time.

Instead, a portrait emerges of a company that tries to squeeze profits from public school dollars by raising enrollment, increasing teacher workload and lowering standards.

1.5 million dollars for a company that not only can locate (see Linda174's graphic above) 97 teachers of «dream» status in CT, but somehow discovered a concept overlooked by most educators when trying to teach their students.

K12, Inc., a Virginia - based for - profit company that runs online schools in 32 states and attributes nearly 85 percent of its income to public dollars, has been trying to make its way into North Carolina to open a virtual charter school.

I've been in many meetings with executives of car companies as I tried to attract GT1 competition into the series, and I wish I had a dollar for every time it was explained to me that there is such a dominant organization in GT1 that it's just not feasible to compete.

Some companies have even tried it, which led to a pretty ugly Department of Justice investigation and resulting lawsuit, one whose damages are reportedly going to be well into the one billion dollar mark before it's over.

The company has spent over two billion dollars trying to make it work but only a handful of devices ever employed it, such as the Kyobo and Koobe Jin Yong Reader.

The Nook division bleeds millions of dollars every single quarter for the last four years, although the company is trying to cauterize the wound by killing their Nook App Store, Nook Video and the UK e-book store.

However, when I finished this book, I made a reasoned decision to try promoting it as much as I could via the internet, since, as I said, I couldn't afford to hire a publicity company for thousands of dollars per month, etc..

The reality is these kind of «mistakes» generates millions of dollars to the company by screwing over the little guy who is ill equipped to deal with the training these «people» have based on the laws they try to take advantage of and the consumers total non-understanding of these or any protocols.

It offers an opportunity to increase your stake in the company you've chosen while getting the advantages of a dollar cost averaging approach (buying regularly without trying to time the market).

There are a lot of «student aid» companies out there that will try to scam you and want you to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to make this change for you.

He calls his 1964 decision to buy the textile company a $ 200 billion dollar blunder, sparked by a spiteful urge to retaliate against the CEO who tried to «chisel» Buffett out of an eighth of a point on a tender deal.

Prior to these changes, companies like these could (and did) charge high up - front fees, sometimes in the thousands of dollars, before even approaching creditors to try to negotiate on behalf of the debtor.

To give you some background on how debt collectors operate, most bad debt companies pay or receive literally pennies on the dollar for the debts for which they are trying to collect.

Companies try to maintain the dollar amount of the dividends and even try to rise it.

It feels like Nintendo is trying to say we got enough buttons (competely out of reach) on the remote teathered to the pad (I am going to assume they plan to make it so the remote is inserted into the pad for right now because a billion dollar company bragging about how smart they are at making controllers should be able to see how ridiculous it is to tell users let the remote hang from the pad's cord between your legs).

In the little corner of surface engineering technologies I work in, I am aware of tens of millions of dollars spent funding companies trying to replace one type of coating in particular.

I can't see that the complainant argument has a leg to stand on: That the oil companies somehow knew in the 1950s something that thousands and thousands of scientists have since spent billions of dollars over half a century trying to prove?

A lighter take on a serious subject, one day before the official start of winter... The tune is familiar, the words clever and the cause serious: Fracking for natural gas, occurring in a number of places as fossil fuel companies try to to tap into the billions of dollars worth of natural gas trapped in shale deposits, using a technique with some environmentally dubious consequences — flammable drinking water, anyone?

Companies spend billions of dollars trying to sell you the promise of them.

Partners and trial lawyers Gerald A. Klein, P.C., Mark B. Wilson, P.C. and Michael S. LeBoff, P.C. each have more than 20 years of experience in the courtroom trying «bet the company» cases with millions of dollars at stake.

Often, insurance companies try to keep payments to a minimum, leaving many people with thousands of dollars in medical bills they can't afford to pay.

If the pipeline isn't built on terms Kinder Morgan likes, the CBC informed us on Tuesday, «the Houston - based company could go on the offensive to try to recoup billions of dollars.»

If you try to negotiate a settlement with an insurance company on your own, you could be leaving tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table.

At Lerner and Rowe, we are ready to fight to get you every dollar you deserve from an insurance company — especially if they try to low - ball you with an unreasonably low offer.

Or perhaps you are driving overseas and don't want to have to try to work things out with your insurance company back home if there's a problem that you could have avoided for a few extra dollars a day.

On what planet do you actually think that you can buy a non refundable trip from (company A — Delta for example) that cost you couple hundred dollars then then go to go to (company B — Insurance company) and expect company B to refund you the traveler for a trip cost due to an event that has already taking place??????? I think i might try that with my car then.....

«We are one of the few companies trying to do fiat - to - bitcoin payments, and we want to specialze in processing US dollar payments and paying in bitcoin.

The startup company, which issues dollar - backed tokens, is now trying to prevent the funds from re-entering circulation.

If you are bound by confidentiality rules or work with a company with revenue or rankings that are convoluted, try to convert dollar figures into percentages.

I spend four years in the Air Force in the Medical field and after my tour I decided to try the private sector and applied for a position with a small South Texas grocery company which now is a multibillion dollar company.

They know that companies are making billions of dollars through producing, advertising and selling acne treatments (teenagers all do media studies at school), but they also really want to get rid of their acne, so they will try many products, and they will try hard to look after their skin, until perhaps they give up because their acne is so bad.