Sentences with phrase «dollar empire on»

When viewers met Tony back in 2008's Iron Man, he had already built a billion - dollar empire on his smarts and was continuing to design and perfect weapons in order to protect what he considered to be the greater good.

In other words, Stewart built a multi-million dollar empire on being the most boring, average woman on the planet (other than the insider trading thing, but let's not go there).

So Google pretty clearly has a vested interest in the open web, since that is what it has built its multibillion - dollar empire on.

Not exact matches

Among the most imaginative deals was a package that gave him a bonus despite the fact that his casino empire was losing tens of millions of dollars a year, and an agreement to that had the casinos spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Trump Ice bottled water for the mini-bars.

-- Tai Lopez, investor and advisor to many multimillion - dollar businesses, who has built an eight - figure online empire; connect with Tai on Facebook or Snapchat

The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.

Would it be totally out of the question to posit that Peltz wants to make sure that his billion - dollar burger and roast beef empire is liquid to move on an undervalued investment in restaurant land even if Peltz's other investment capital is tied up elsewhere?

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.

So firm was Lopez's hold on his Democrat - dominated borough that elected officials and would - be elected officials alike would routinely make the pilgrimage to the taxpayer - funded Ridgewood - Bushwick Senior Center picnic he threw every year, and those with the power to do so approved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of NYC and state member items that the assemblyman used to build his senior services empire.

E.J. McMahon with the Empire Center, a fiscal watchdog group, say there might be some positive political fallout if the attention on the criminal charges cause New Yorkers to look more closely at some of the big projects now financed with public dollars, like the $ 750 million subsidy to the Solar City factory in Buffalo, run by Tesla chair Elon Musk.

The ranks of the anti-Cuomo protestors were stronger, with more than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marching through the Empire State Plaza concourse, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of the governor's plan.

And they're framing their campaign to push voters on the issue by saying the Empire State is losing at least one billion dollars to full - blown casinos in other states.

Krueger recalled that the ill - fated Empire Zones program, which was created by former Gov. George Pataki in 1999 (it actually morphed out of the New York State Economic Development Zones) ended up being an ill - conceived boondoggle that gave away millions of dollars worth of publicly - funded incentives and tax breaks to businesses that pledged to create jobs and then often didn't make good on those promises.

ALBANY — More than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marched through the Empire State Plaza concourse on Monday, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of Governor Andrew Cuomo's education reform proposals.

«I felt like it would be going into the evil empire, that they were going to take projects away from me based on money alone, that the science wouldn't be as high - quality as it is the academic world, and that all decisions are driven by the almighty dollar,» she says.

He's literally built a multi-million dollar empire including Amazon books (diet and workout), supplements, and custom meal plans by giving away so much free information on his blogs.

Mr. Untouchable (R for brief nudity, violent images, pervasive profanity and continuous drug content) Uncritical documentary revisits the rise and fall of Nicky Barnes, the notorious Harlem heroin dealer whose million - dollar empire collapsed soon after he was featured on the cover of Time Magazine for being above the law.

It is a pleasant and easygoing diversion that demands little of viewers, whom it rewards with the wit and light character - driven comedy on which Schulz's multi-million dollar empire was built.

Turner - Agassi builds a real - estate empire with tax payer dollars on secretly negotiated charter school land deals Tennis star Andre Agassi has invested heavily in charter schools nationwide.

Wilma Woo · April 8, 2018 · 10:30 am Venrock, the venture capital arm of the financial empire began by John D. Rockefeller, is placing a multi-million dollar bet on the bright future of cryptocurrency....

You may be skeptical, but all of the real estate giants who make millions and billions of dollars built their empires on these strategies.