Sentences with phrase «dollar industry who»

Directors of state lotteries now see themselves not as public servants, but as corporate managers of a billion - dollar industry who should do everything possible to maximize lottery revenue.

Not exact matches

But with the Republican bill in need of major surgery, the politics for the president are straightforward: Going after the industry, one of the country's least popular, would fulfill a promise he made to cash - strapped voters; it would allow him to highlight the unsavory deal the Obama administration cut with the sector to buy its neutrality during the original consideration of the law; and it would generate tens of billions of dollars Republicans could use to preserve some coverage for the estimated 24 million who'd lose it under their initial proposal.

Alcohol and cigarettes, which also «hook» people, destroy health and lives, and cause death and harm to those who don't use them (second - hand smoke, drunk driving, abused families) are legal, billion - dollar industries, and these drugs are available and consumed everywhere.

If you want to be a true expert in your niche — the type of expert who earns millions of dollars — then you need to know your industry inside and out.

I've met twenty - somethings who are worth millions of dollars, investing in VC, starting tech companies and disrupting industries.

We're talking about Cowtown's other notable Brian Hunter, the oil industry engineer who forced Bay Street to stop ignoring the average folks who collectively and unwittingly dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the now frozen market for asset - backed commercial paper (ABCP).

Why would we get more stressed out than the titans of industry who are running billion dollar companies?

«We know we have these huge investments and opportunities, particularly in a huge swath of northern Canada, through the massive multibillion - dollar investments in the extractive industries that will require tens if not hundreds of thousands of skilled workers who are not currently available,» Kenney said.

«Legal marijuana has become so entrenched in the U.S. — it's a multibillion - dollar industry — and I don't see the people who are behind this, people like myself, rolling over for the Justice Department, which means Congress will have to act,» Morse said.

Panama's Commerce and Industry Minister Roberto Henriquez said that «somebody who has 400 million dollars invested in Panama should not speak this way,» and that «I think it was a political stupidity on the part of Donald Trump,» AFP reported.

«These recognitions show individuals that the Anago franchise model appeals to many different groups of people, who can find long - term success in the ever - growing, 100 billion dollar commercial cleaning industry,» Povlitz added.

For a bank to put out rates a couple of points over prime, their profit margin is still very good, and when you are the lowest cost in your industry you can pick and choose who and where you put your dollars.

The advertising industry and who it works for all benefit from our dollars.

The article described how the «billion dollar industry» was opposed by many local pastors who feared «that with worship - by - tube, the living room sofa is supplanting the pew and gifts mailed to televangelists are taking the place of Sunday offerings.»

In regard to the million - dollar industry of» «conservative» talk, Dreher wants to edge out the predominance of «market - mad consumers who vote Republican... whose commitment to conservative ideals ends the moment it costs us something.»

It's an embarrassing advent, and so we leave it to those embarrassing Christians who have turned apocalyptic speculation into a billion - dollar industry — prophecy buffs with their computer charts and wrong predictions that are then folded back into new predictions in the kind of prophetic improvisation that Paula Frederickson calls «apocalyptic jazz.»

Who is driving the 25 Billion dollar a year industry?

Policy agendas for important issues like the 421a tax abatement and New York City rent laws are being set by publicly elected leaders who have become dependent on the real estate industry's onslaught of millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

Aggressive costumed characters who pose for pictures to drum up dollars in the Theater District are driving away customers from one of the city's biggest draws, industry leaders said.

Taxi medallion owners, who in 2013 were part of an industry that gave NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations, say he is betraying them by capitulating to Uber on wheelchair accessibility.

Yet the model has come in for repeated criticism from government watchdogs, who say an economic policy that tries to create risky new industries virtually from scratch, and that spends millions in taxpayer dollars to create every new job, is folly.

During his mayoral campaign last year, de Blasio promised to abolish the industry immediately upon taking office — a pledge that earned him significant support from horse carriage opponents, who helped wage a million - dollar campaign against one of his chief rivals, former Council speaker Christine Quinn.

Senate Republicans, who have received millions of dollars in campaign donations from the charter industry, pushed for the elimination of the charter cap and for unfreezing charter school tuition, which would have resulted in an enormous windfall for charter schools.

The white paper authors likewise did not consult any of the private investors who have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into the commercial spaceflight industry based on this proprietary information.

He meets with scientists, doctors and cancer survivors who reveal how it is in the best interest of the multi-billion dollar medical industry to dismiss the notion of alternative and natural cures.

Like most supplements in the bodybuilding industry, protein powders and shakes have been targeted by multi-million dollar supplement companies who market their product as the «best», «most effective» and «insert selling point here».

I made it pretty painfully clear that the industry I'm targeting is the JUICE FAST industry — that is, the folks who charge suckers clients hundreds of dollars for some gloried V8 juice and make claims that have all been proven to be complete bullshit, by me, in this very article.

And I know I already have a reputation here as someone who cares more about pork chops than the Oscars, but out in the real world people still put stock in them so it'd be a nice pat on the back for these billion - dollar industry ambassadors to get a little recognition for their efforts.

Jerry is the shark on the sidelines, the guy with the cellular phone who turns a first - round draft choice into a multimillion - dollar endorsement industry.

It put Gore Verbinski's name on the map and though that name is far less famous than you might expect for someone who has directed a billion dollar grosser, it is one respected and trusted in the industry.

(2014) dir Jeremy Snead [105 min; Digital] VIDEO GAMES: THE MOVIE is an epic feature length documentary chronicling the meteoric rise of video games from nerd niche to multi-billion dollar industry featuring in - depth interviews with the godfathers who started it all and the geek gurus looking towards the future.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry has then corporate executives and hundreds of millions of dollars «influence» the political and policy making system by «investing» in electing candidates who will do their bidding.

Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport undermined Bridgeport's public schools, supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.

«What we are seeking here today are lead California industries partnering with school districts, partnering with community colleges and partnering with regional and economic leaders to move forward multi-million dollar applications that will establish pathways that combine academic rigor and career application in the leading growth sectors of our economy,» Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, who championed the Career Pathways grant program through the Legislature, said during a media call.

They can mean a difference of several hundreds of dollars, according to those who follow the used - car industry.

By now, many of the original players — primarily those who saw instant dollars signs instead of a long - haul industry option — have moved on, leaving behind a few steadfast game changers.

And that's why self - publishing is such a bizarre and perverse industry; fueled on the tears and desperation of frustrated authors, who are spending thousands of dollars to publish books nobody wants to read.

The banning of foreign media in China will be a hard blow to companies like Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and the New York Times who have collectively invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build up the Chinese publishing industry and do reports in Chinese, for a Chinese audience.

«But now,» says Dana Beth Weinberg, a sociologist at Queens College who is studying the industry, «the self - published authors walk into the room, and they say, oh, well, «I made a quarter million dollars last year, or $ 100,000, or made $ 10,000.»

People who spend thousands of dollars on these animals should be ashamed of themselves for supporting an unethical industry and seeing nothing wrong with it.

The games industry is ruled by the quest for the almighty dollar, profit is king and us gamers are the ones who suffer as another edition of God of FiFA Dynasty Grand Theft Tomb Raider 9 is released.

The pair, Jason West and Vincent Zampella, who played key roles in the development of the multibillion - dollar military shooter franchise Call of Duty, have been embroiled in a bitter dispute with their former employer, Activision Blizzard Inc., which fired them a month ago in a move that shook the industry with the force of a rocket - propelled grenade.

Musicians and composers may be drawn to game music composition because the game industry is a multibillion - dollar, employment - generating economic powerhouse, but, Phillips writes, the most important qualification for a musician who wants to become a game music composer is a love of video games.

One of the videogame industry's dark little secrets is that the seemingly successful and beloved Rock Band franchise has actually been a pretty big flop for Harmonix's parent company Viacom, who have sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into the game and hasn't been able to recoup their losses.

These scientists (and, for that matter, anyone with a public profile who has anything critical to say about global warming) are whores — «industry shills», «corporate toadies», or part of the «well funded denial machine» — who not only prostitute themselves, but also sell us all out to an apocalypse for dirty, dirty dollars... Those who «deny» climate change are in fact, denying a «holocaust ``.

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

This Workshop was conceived by history professor Naomi Oreskes, who was obsessed with prosecuting fossil fuel producers with the same legal tools successfully used to win billions of dollars in penalties against the tobacco industry.

It seems reasonable to assume the reason that this has been blown up to this degree, is that there is a severe economic interest in AGW, both from governments (carbon taxes), and big businesses — carbon trade, and so forth, all of these are potentially multi-billion dollar industries, who has a very large interest in at AGW is promoted, and proven true.

This colossal global biofuels industry exists only because resource depletion and climate Armageddon ideologies do not die easily — and because politicians lavish government mandates and billions of dollars in taxpayer and consumer subsidies on firms that have persuasive lobbyists and reliable track records for channeling millions of those dollars back to the politicians who keep the racket going.

Yet, we see politicians block reform on climate change on a regular basis and the reason why is simple — the fossil fuel industry is spending millions of dollars on politicians who will support their bottom line on Capitol Hill.