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Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Given that disparity, it shouldn't be too surprising that the Tigers posted an operating loss of $ 36.4 million dollars last year, while the league as a whole averaged an operating income of $ 34 million.

The other party in these disputes, such as the CBSA, have expenses as well and we can not forget the dollars spent for adjudication (the CITT's net cost of operations was over $ 12 million last year).

Since last year, the near - term price of WTI crude, in Canadian dollars, has dropped by almost $ 25 per barrel, and the long - term futures price by $ 10, when you take into account futures market prices for Canadian dollars as well.

The stock first slid below a dollar late August, and has continued dropping ever since as Aéropostale reported its third consecutive year of falling sales during its fourth - quarter earnings report last month.

Revenue growth has slowed as many companies sink more resources into developing the next blockbuster drug; what's more, the «patent cliff» for the last round of megabillion - dollar drugs — when generics firms typically see a sales spurt — happened a few years ago.

The dollar index, which compares it to a basket of global currencies, was down around 10 percent last year after several years of gains as the U.S. economy improved following the global economic crash.

Viagra may be down to three - quarters of the U.S. market, but Katen still oversees nine billion - dollar blockbusters as well as $ 39.6 billion in sales last year.

As of last year, the U.S. dollar accounted for 63.5 percent of countries» allocated reserve currencies, compared to the yuan, which had only a 1.12 percent share.

The last time the G - 20 issued such a firm statement against currency wars Japan was in the spotlight as its campaign of monetary stimulus pushed the yen to its lowest level against the dollar in about five years.

So it's been very dynamic over the last several years as we shifted lots of dollars towards the Internet.

«What I am struck by is that Uber is not significantly worse than companies that have been around twice as many years and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity in the last three years and have diversity departments of a dozen people,» Klein said, speaking of Uber's much larger tech brethren such as Facebook, Apple and Google.

Targeting infrastructure dollars to clean energy (p. 122 and 149): Last fall, the government included clean energy as potential investments under its $ 21 - billion, 11 - year green infrastructure fund — but the list of other options for those dollars was long.

Also contributing to the decrease, the company's Latin America sales channels were down roughly $ 2.1 million compared to the second quarter of last year, as the company continued to be impacted by a stronger U.S. dollar.

The currency is one of the few to have appreciated against the US dollar over the past five years (up 6 percent as of last Thursday), Thomson Reuters data show.

Bonds denominated in renminbi in the Hong Kong market, known as CNH bonds, outperformed dollar - denominated and other local currency bonds in Asia last year, with a more than 6 % total return in dollar terms, as investors sought stability in the resilience of the Chinese currency, according to a report by HSBC.

China outstripped Australia as New Zealand's largest trading partner last year thanks to dairy exports, whereby milk powder made up for approximately 40 % of Chinese imports.1 Furthermore, a mutual agreement now makes direct Chinese Yuan - New Zealand Dollar trading possible.

But unlike the criticism he has delivered over the last few years, he now sees a collapse in the value of the US Dollar, the US equity markets as well as US bonds.

The decline in earnings over the past year owes largely to a fall in Australian dollar prices, as the appreciation of the Australian dollar has more than offset rising world commodity prices evident since mid last year (see section on commodity prices and the terms of trade below).

In addition to raising a total of $ 22.6 billion in high - grade bonds for Apple and T - Mobile USA last year, Deutsche served as the go - to bookrunner for the multibillion - dollar bonds deals of Italy, Spain other beleaguered European governments — and even the European Financial Stability Facility.

One of the biggest stories of last year was the surge in the value of the U.S. dollar, something that boosted our buying power as Americans.

Buyers from China once again exceeded all countries by dollar volume of sales at $ 31.7 billion, which was up from last year's survey ($ 27.3 billion) and topped 2015 ($ 28.6 billion) as the new...

New Chinese acquisition deals in the United States once totaled tens of billions of dollars annually, according to Rhodium Group, which tracks Chinese investments abroad, though last year they fell sharply to $ 8.7 billion as China cracked down on money leaving its borders.

Orsu appears to be a bit of a recovery play as its share price has been decimated over the last few years and now trades at pennies on the dollar.

Tmall, which serves as a gateway to China for large foreign brands, controlled six of every 10 dollars spent overall for business - to - consumer sales online in China during the second half of last year — and even more in sectors like apparel.

 Almost a quarter of that was the auto aid. It was important for preserving jobs, for sure. But does it count as «stimulus,» in the sense of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffsof that was the auto aid. It was important for preserving jobs, for sure. But does it count as «stimulus,» in the sense of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffsof stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffsof a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffsof credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffsof which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffsof GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffsOf course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffsof many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffsof its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs).

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

If you are 55 or under and hope to enjoy some of those benefits you have been paying into from your paychecks for the last 30 years, of which the Government has borrowed 5 trillion dollars for other spending such as defense and tax breaks for the rich, which is why the current social security system is in jeopardy, then you will be voting for Obama.

Last year one advertisement for a beaded handbag costing thousands of dollars featured a model with her eyes closed, looking beautiful but comatose, as the words «Comfort and Joy» blazed across the page.

Treasury Wine Estates Rejects Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Offer: Treasury Wine Estates Ltd. rejected a 3.05 billion Australian dollar (US$ 2.85 billion) takeover bid from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., pitched as the world's No. 2 vintner grapples with a string of setbacks including poor U.S. sales that forced it destroy thousands of gallons of wine last year...

But priorities have changed as a result of last year's collective bargaining agreement, which puts a ceiling on the number of years and dollars for which he can sign.

So what is the arsenal fans excuse now that I have put out facts that as of this time last year, Walcott had scored more goals than a 40 million dollar striker.

As I noted before, the dollars handed out this weekend either on the free agent market through extensions just don't jive with the slow climb of the salary cap over the last few years.

Bettina, just wanted to let you know that, thanks ENTIRELY to you and your petition to take pink slime (YOUR WORDS) outta school lunches, I now dread going to work — thinking «this may be my last day of work at BPI», a company I've beem proud to work for for the past 10 years; a company that has taken recycling to the utmost heights (recycling lean beef trimmings to separate out the fat and reuse the remaining protein as a suppliment to other processed meats (such as hamburger, sausage, etc) and which customers, such as McDonald's, had WILLINGLY purchased in order to stretch their purchase dollars to give us consumers more value for our buck.

Efforts to combat heroin and opioid abuse over the last several years have totaled millions of dollars in new efforts as well as regulations placed on insurance companies to deal with the issue, marking one of the few bipartisan issues facing lawmakers at either the state or federal level.

Cuomo issued a similar challenge last year, urging Syracuse to come up with a plan worthy of attracting as much as a billion dollars, which Cuomo orchestrated for Western New York.

Police began finding the bodies as part of their search for Gilbert, a 24 - year - old prostitute last seen in Oak Beach, a gated community of million - dollar waterfront homes on Long Island's south shore.

Last year his business holdings collapsed as Singh, deeply in debt, was accused of 13 federal charges, including bribing an Oyster Bay official to obtain millions of dollars of municipal loan guarantees.

Payroll records revealed that eight senators — including three members of the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, who collaborate with Republicans to run the Senate — have received tens of thousands of dollars in stipend payments as vice chairmen of committees during the last three years, even though the money is earmarked for the committee chairmen.

The Bronx non-profit Regional Aid for Interim Needs also made out well, getting an earmark of $ 171,000, despite Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's finding last year that the group's management used taxpayer dollars as a personal «piggy bank.»

Conklin, who is retiring and is on her last year on City Council, said that «Ensuring that we, as a city, are fiscally responsible is a duty that I take seriously, and I am proud to have had the awesome responsibility of ensuring that city residents» tax dollars are spent in a responsible, effective and efficient manner.»

The feds have indeed funded bear DNA research — b - e-a-r DNA research — to the tune of almost five million dollars over the last five years, which is way more than the three million dollars that John McCain keep springing up as an example of wasteful government spending.

As it is now, the mayor claims marijuana brought in over a million dollars to the town last year alone, accounting for more than 30 % of all collected revenue.

Some, for instance, find much to admire in the simultaneously milquetoast and monstrous Million Dollar Baby, which I've always read as Eastwood's last laugh at disability - rights activists for a failed lawsuit involving an inaccessible inn he ran years prior; others dismiss Gran Torino, his most watchable film since Unforgiven, as a rare spot of trash.

Last year alone EA — a company that has more or less dedicated itself to the concept of games as a service rather than a one - time purchase — made more than a billion dollars selling DLC, add - ons, and season passes for its games.

While the AFT's L.A. local and its traditionalist allies in were none too fond of this funding, and did as much as they could to characterize the dollars as being akin to carpet - bagging, the likely presence of dollars from the national AFT and its statewide affiliate (as well as the fact that traditionalists have long benefited from national alliances, including the NEA's move last year to pour $ 5 million into successful campaigns to pass Prop. 30 and its $ 50 billion in tax increases as well as defeat Prop. 32) meant that they couldn't play up the outside money angle as effectively as they desired.

While the Legislature continues to be woefully behind on providing funding to keep up with rising costs across the last decade, HB7055, in a sudden show of largesse, will alter the PECO funding structure so that well over 3,000 traditional schools must split $ 50 million dollars while 650 charter schools, many of which are managed by for - profit companies such as Academica, Charter Schools USA, and Charter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled this way?).

As far as financial outlay, Cato's Andrew Coulson reports that we have seen a tripling of education funding — in constant dollars — nationally (doubling in CA) over the last 40 years and have nothing to show for iAs far as financial outlay, Cato's Andrew Coulson reports that we have seen a tripling of education funding — in constant dollars — nationally (doubling in CA) over the last 40 years and have nothing to show for ias financial outlay, Cato's Andrew Coulson reports that we have seen a tripling of education funding — in constant dollars — nationally (doubling in CA) over the last 40 years and have nothing to show for it.

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