Sentences with phrase «dollars are on the line»

As I've said before, it's my opinion that when hundreds of millions of dollars are on the line, investors should expect accountability, transparency, and verification.

Rating: Hoopla Factor: Every time the characters refer to the alethiometer, they quickly follow it up with «golden compass» (though tellingly off - camera), and this goes to show just how «careful» people are when 180 million dollars are on the line.

A billion dollars is on the line for these schools every year, this money includes most of the income of private companies and are operating for these for - profit colleges.

Well, millions of dollars are on the line.

Why upset anyone with the facts when billions of public dollars are on the line?

For those who find this concept difficult to enact when potential commission dollars are on the line, the real estate brokerage business does not need your services... to yourself.

Humans are fallible, and often crooked when extra dollars are on the line.

Not exact matches

Shifting from TCO awareness to understanding and measurement is critical for midsize business owners to gain insight into the dollars they're putting behind employees and their impact on the bottom line.

BUDAPEST, May 3 - The crown eased versus the euro on Thursday as expectations for hawkish comments from the Czech central bank were outweighed by indications from the U.S. Investors in Central Europe have been closely watching the euro / dollar cross in the past weeks, which hovered around the 1.2 line on Thursday.

The hundreds of millions of dollars Target has been pouring into its e-commerce to help it self - cannibalize its sales rather than lose business to Amazon.com (amzn) and a resurgent Walmart.com (wmt) among others took a big toll on its bottom line.

It may not be an issue depending on your expected income in retirement, Peter, but OAS clawback reduces your OAS pension by 15 % of every dollar your net income on line 236 of your tax return exceeds $ 74,789 in 2017.

Other major advantages of this type of financing include putting dollars back on a company's bottom line because interest payments are tax - deductible, which lowers the company's taxable income.

The silver lining of this month's weak payroll number is a greater likelihood that the Federal Reserve will hold off on raising interest rates, which could lead to a softer dollar.

With this much public money on the line, monitoring how US tax dollars are spent in the recovery will be crucial to prevent waste, fraud, and shoddy work.

Another chart from NOAA shows the that number of billion - dollar disasters in a given year is on the rise (bars), and 2017 reached an unprecedented peak in the cumulative total in damage (gray line):

Likewise, if you run your own business and focus on keeping costs low, margins sufficiently high, and reduce spending in - line, you're probably going to come out ahead of the game by using these downturns to dollar cost average into your portfolio.

It was all bullshit and a majority of the audience fell for it — lining up to pay thousands of dollars on speculative investing products that promised 30 % + per year.

Focus will be on the inflation figures, with anything in line with or better than a forecasted uptick to 1.8 % supporting the Dollar, personal spending also expected to impress.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

The dollar's sell - off was also helped by investors betting on tighter monetary policies by major central banks, bringing them in line with the Federal Reserve.

But I respect any company that knows how to draw a line in the sand, and Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO) is setting itself apart from competitors Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (NYSE: KKR) and The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG): By putting a limit on its pursuit of retail money, the firm is thinking of the big long - term picture, and not just the short - term dollar signs.

«It always seems nuts because they are leaving perhaps matched contributions on the table, so free money... but we have to remember there are a lot of employees living pretty closely to the line, so finding some additional dollars to save for their retirement is pretty tough.»

The bottom line is that there is no way that the United States can defend depreciation of the dollar on terms that oblige other countries to take a loss on their holdings.

Only instead of betting a couple dollars, or the Mortgage, they are laying their eternal life on the line.

In all likelihood, soon after he is sworn in, federal dollars will start flowing toward research on new embryonic stem - cell lines, bringing with it new battles to fight.

Blair's Death Sauces have always been the hottest sauces on the market and the extract line of sauces have become high dollar collector's items.

I do not understand the economics of the business well enough and there always seems to be contradictory reports about everything (dollars, skills, scheme fit etc.) From my admittedly naive, fan - based vantage point, we needed to strengthen the offensive line and the linebacker corp, add some punch to the running game (while keeping an eye on the draft for a fleet - footed youngster), and bring some leadership to a clubhouse that was akin to Animal House last year (of course, winning makes grown ups out of everyone).

Whether beating up a woman is worse than cheating on taxes or drunk driving is an odd line of thinking to comment on as the degree of all three could vary materially but if we are talking about cheating a few thousand dollars on your taxes vs beating up a woman then to me that is laughable.

Bettors may not see many teams receiving at least 75 % of spread dollars, but there's plenty of value capitalizing on these artificially inflated lines during the postseason.

However, with bets and dollars coming in on Jacksonville plus the points, the line is back down to where it opened.

This reverse line movement would indicate that even though more bettors are taking Team B, more total dollars have been wagered on Team A. Reverse line movement is a sure sign that smart money, or large wagers made by wise guys or betting syndicates, has come in on Team A.

This is the percentage of actual dollars being wagered on each side, and it helps explain which factors are responsible for line movement.

When the line was first posted at Pinnacle on Sunday evening, the Steelers were listed as 2.5 - point favorites and they received 67 % of early spread tickets and 83 % of spread dollars.

The books are usually very hesitant to raise the line solely based on a large amount of public dollars and this is a great example of that.

With 76 % of dollars landing on the side that's getting less than 50 % of bets, you can safely assume that the bigger, sharper wagers are coming in on Jacksonville, especially when you factor in the 1.5 point line move towards the Jags.

Getting under the tax threshold was key, as the repeat - offender Red Sox were in line to pay a 40 percent tax on the dollars over the limit.

However, the percentage of dollars (represented by the green line) on the Packers has slowly been rising over the past few days.

Billions of dollars are riding on those adorable bottom lines.

I loved thisnstroller when I got it and it didn't even last me a year I wanted a good quality stroller I could give to my daughter when she has children and what a waste of 400 dollars my front wheels get stuck I can't take it any where and countless times I've been stuck in a parking lot or intersection it's very dangerous I took it back to the store they wouldn't give me a refund or another stroller so I called the bliss customer service line and sat on hold for thirty mins.

We're talking about ultimately tens of millions of dollars that was on the line,» the mayor said at the time.

They are accused of trying to fix this year's mayoral ballot, allegedly exchanging thousands of dollars in cash, so - called payoffs for Republican party officials to agree to put Smith, a Democrat, on the GOP line.

«While the Independence Party supports a bipartisan slate of candidates, it's disingenuous for divisive Democrats to rant about the IDC's relationship to the Independence Party when Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins not only runs on the line, but donates hundreds of dollars to the Independence Party.

«With more than $ 1 billion on the line every single year, it is our responsibility to ensure that every Medicaid dollar is accounted for and spent properly.

Poloncarz concluded, «With more than $ 1 billion on the line every single year it is our responsibility to ensure every dollar is accounted for and spent properly on the provision of health care services to those in need.

Gift cards in small denominations for local fast food restaurants, dollar stores and on - line purchases are also greatly appreciated.

«He's got other packages, he's on the Independence line but he's not independent of those 331 people that gave him 22million dollars.»

The bottom line is no public dollars are going into the legal work on my behalf.»

Mayor Bloomberg is taking some heat for the full - color mailer he sent out to NYC residents that slams Albany for trying to balance the state budget for «cutting billions of dollars» from the city and touts his own efforts to hold the line on taxes, create jobs and protect «vital services.»

We have been stewards of taxpayer dollars by cutting government and holding the line on property taxes.

Savino and Tabone were both part of a criminal complaint that alleged that accepted thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for endorsing Smith's run on the Republican line by signing the waiver known as a Wilson - Pakula.