Sentences with phrase «dollars in government funds»

Rutan managed to send human beings out of the atmosphere without the benefit of an army of engineers and hundreds of millions of dollars in government funds.

In April, state Senator Simcha Felder (D — Brooklyn) refused to sign off on the state budget unless yeshivas, which accept millions of dollars in government funding, were given more autonomy over curricula.

The latest progress report on Closing the Gap shows that efforts to address appalling levels of disadvantage have made marginal improvements, in spite of billions of dollars in government funding.

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These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

And while no specific numbers have yet been revealed in the Trump budget outline for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Republican replacement plan for Obamacare already has that agency in the cross hairs — by promising to eliminate a government prevention and public health fund that puts a billion dollars in the CDC's coffers, the Washington Post reports.

Meanwhile, in Buffalo, SolarCity was burning through hundreds of millions of dollars of government funding to get the factory built as fast as possible.

The U.S. media somehow neglect to mention that the U.S. Government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars abroad not only in the Near East for direct combat, but to build enormous military bases to encircle the rest of the world, to install radar systems, guided missile systems and other forms of military coercion, including the color revolutions that have been funded and are still being funded all around the former Soviet Union.

Yet these governments are forced to recycle dollar inflows in a way that funds U.S. military policies in which they have no say in formulating, and which threaten them more and more belligerently.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) and Trump have promised to send Texas officials an aid package worth billions of dollars — meanwhile, nobody seems to know how funding will work out in a bill to avert a looming government shutdown.

If I could extend that graph out to 2013 (which I can't), you'd probably see a small drop in government funding offset by an increase in (mostly international) tuition dollars.

Meanwhile, in Buffalo, SolarCity was burning through hundreds of millions of dollars of government funding to get the facility built as fast as possible.

Overall, the Strategic Total Return Fund remains positioned primarily to benefit from downward pressure on real interest rates and the U.S. dollar, but our overall exposure to risk is relatively conservative in all of the asset classes we hold - TIPS, precious metals, utilities, U.S. agency notes, and foreign government securities.

Another important factor is also in the picture: the huge annual government deficit of more than a trillion dollars that must be funded every year.

We conduct trillions of dollars annually in financial transactions for our customers, including the world's largest banks, broker - dealers, investment banks, trading firms, hedge funds, governments and investment firms.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

Oh, and while we're at it, it does actually pick my pocket, in that the convoluted government policies and their implementation are funded by my tax dollars.

It's ok to turn a blind eye to the governments funding of wars, spying, corporate welfare, wall street bail outs, millions of dollars that no one knows what happened to in Iraq?

Our two governments have put the machinery in place for their respective Attorneys - General to collaborate in ensuring the return to Nigeria of over five hundred million United States Dollars ($ 500) of looted funds siphoned away in banks around the world.

Since 2009, Albany has stolen roughly $ 260 million dollars from dedicated transit funds in an attempt to plug the state government's enormous deficits.

It seems fairly obvious that Make the Road, which receives millions of dollars from local and state government to provide social services, is siphoning some of that money to an ostensibly independent «Action Fund» in order to campaign for elected officials who will, lo and behold, allocate money to Make the Road.

Forand also cited DiNapoli's audits of state and local governments and school districts that save taxpayers millions of dollars statewide while using the investment clout of the pension fund to influence corporate behavior such as in addressing climate change.

«As alleged in the indictment, the defendant defrauded government agencies out of tens of thousands of dollars in public funds and tried to fraudulently obtain even more,» said United States Attorney Richard Donoghue.

In the United States, most consumers are used to paying a sales tax - a couple of percentage points per dollar of goods sold - that are used to fund government.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

In the motion, Brown said that there had been supports by some prominent Nigerians for the Federal Government to sell the multi-billion dollar NLNG to raise funds to be injected in the nation's economIn the motion, Brown said that there had been supports by some prominent Nigerians for the Federal Government to sell the multi-billion dollar NLNG to raise funds to be injected in the nation's economin the nation's economy.

But if there's anything taken away from the mega «extender» bill aside from funding the government for the next eight weeks or so, it's also billions of dollars in infrastructure and capital project money Cuomo had included.

And now today after the City and Federal governments have clearly failed to adequately fund NYCHA, the Governor is responding to our request by pledging an additional 250 million dollars in top of the 300 million dollars he had already pledged.

If the US government does provide the same degree of federal funding does this mean that a territory is always costing more in tax dollars then provided, and if so what is the incentive for The US to take on territories?

[29] Reed focused on bringing attention to wasteful government spending and supported budget amendments that saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by eliminating government funding for projects, including a sewer system in Tijuana, Mexico.

«While closing a $ 4.4 billion gap, this year's budget sends $ 16.5 billion in aid to the city — more than 40 percent of funding awarded to all local governments — and a half billion dollar increase over last year,» Peters said in a statement.

In 2017, Erie County funded a portion of this construction cost, but this $ 3 million dollar repair requires the collaboration of several levels of government.

The federal government is demanding that the state return $ 1.3 billion dollars in Medicaid funds that it says was overspent.

Despite having taken more than four hundred thousand dollars in taxpayer - funded government salaries, Claudia Tenney has gotten more done for New York City than her upstate constituents.

Together with Danny Donohue, and all of CSEA's membership, I will work to ensure that our state and local governments make every dollar that we spend count and that our pension fund remains one of the strongest in the nation.»

Hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds have flowed through the nonprofits — an arrangement that has been criticized by good - government groups who note that transparency laws that apply to state bodies do not govern the school's offshoots.

MIDTOWN — New York City could lose billions of dollars in federal aid after a spokesman for President Donald Trump said the government will seek to cut funding to sanctuary cities.

One of those three men — Sheldon Silver, speaker since 1994 — was charged on Thursday in federal court with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes to influence laws and government funding.

Amtrak, a for - profit public corporation run and funded in part by the federal government, owns Penn Station and Albany and Trenton spend tens of millions of dollars each year to rent concourses for their state and local train systems.

Funding equity: «Finally, I know that New York residents do not get a fair shake from the federal government in that we get about sixty cents back on every dollar we pay in taxes.

Mr. Rechnitz began testifying last week in Federal District Court in Manhattan in a government case against Norman Seabrook, the former head of the correction officers» union, who is charged with investing millions of dollars of retirement funds through a hedge fund in exchange for promised kickbacks.

In this column, I discuss the VC process from an unusual perspective: getting your venture funded with government research and development (R&D) dollars.

In addition to funding all government activities for another 6 weeks, the budget agreement raised by nearly a half - trillion dollars the amount of money that Congress could spend.

In May, the US government launched a National Microbiome Initiative with an overall budget of half a billion dollars, while the EU is funding more than 300 projects related to the microbiome.

He produced a document showing two of the plant's four coal - fired units provide about $ 14.2 million in tax revenue to state and local governments in Montana — dollars that help fund Colstrip's history museum, recreation center, golf course, schools and 32 colorful playgrounds.

Biologists pulled in billions of dollars to decipher the human genome, and physicists persuaded governments to fund the gargantuan Large Hadron Collider, which discovered the Higgs boson.

In order to bring about these sought after improvements, the bill proposes that the government set aside up to a half billion dollars in what would be known as a «Community Reinvestment Fund.&raquIn order to bring about these sought after improvements, the bill proposes that the government set aside up to a half billion dollars in what would be known as a «Community Reinvestment Fund.&raquin what would be known as a «Community Reinvestment Fund.»

Fueled by billions of dollars in government and foundation funding and adopted as a cause célèbre by no less than Bill Gates and Colin and Alma Powell, dropout prevention has been gaining momentum.

In 2010, the Florida legislature's nonpartisan Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability estimated that Sunshine State taxpayers saved $ 32.6 million, which is approximately $ 1.44 in state education funding for every dollar lost in corporate income tax revenue due to credits for scholarship contributionIn 2010, the Florida legislature's nonpartisan Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability estimated that Sunshine State taxpayers saved $ 32.6 million, which is approximately $ 1.44 in state education funding for every dollar lost in corporate income tax revenue due to credits for scholarship contributionin state education funding for every dollar lost in corporate income tax revenue due to credits for scholarship contributionin corporate income tax revenue due to credits for scholarship contributions.

The PDK / Gallup found that 46 percent of adults believe the lion's share of education funding should come from states, while 23 percent said they want the federal government to kick in the most dollars.