Sentences with phrase «far bigger stake»

You can have a majority support on school choice in polls but lose in elections because union members have a far bigger stake than the average voter.

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And what's at stake now is likely to have a far bigger impact on the ACA than the much cited Hobby Lobby case, which the Supreme Court decided at the end of June.

Steve Williams, head of the oldest and biggest operator in the business, gave his answer recently when Suncor Energy bought a further 10 % stake in the Fort Hills oilsands project for $ 310 million from partner Total SA.

Summary of the Robin Hood conference: Einhorn, Tepper, Druckenmiller etc [ValueWalk] Profile of Renaissance Technologies» secretive Medallion Fund [Bloomberg] Reflections on the Trump Presidency, after the election [Ray Dalio] How T. Boone Pickens sits tight in the riskiest of businesses [NYTimes] The next generation of hedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWalk]

Meanwhile, Markel pays no dividend, but instead uses its cash to buy other companies (or big stakes in them), which deliver further cash flow.

One of the biggest and costliest deals so far this year was the acquisition of a stake in the Interactive Data Corporation, a financial market data company, by two private equity firms, Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus, according to Capital IQ, which tracks the industry.

Arsenal are odds - on at 1/3 to win this game, which looks like a license to print money as far as I am concerned if you are a big time gambler, but being greedy I am going to look for a much better value bet and will probably increase my stakes by getting some bonuses from the best betting sites listed on bettingsiteoffers.co.uk.

But if Houston got into the Big 12, it'd further muddy the waters of a high - stakes recruiting area.

He is not too far off Vardy in the scoring stakes and he also has 10 Premier League assists to his name so there is a case for him being the bigger threat.

Taking a player and molding him into what you want can work some times but such a gamble is far too risky in today's world of high - stakes and big money football, the fact that Wenger is forced to resort to such strange measures, proves that there is something inherently wrong with the club.

These are huge stakes, far bigger than any prime minister's sense of entitlement, and far more important than the hand - to - hand combat going on just now.

But a big question hangs over their deliberations: Can the needs of relatively powerless young researchers hold their own against the large economic and political interests at stake for far more potent elements of the university system?

One of the biggest areas approved so far belongs to Australia, which got a green light in 2008 to stake claim to an area larger than California.

Staking claim on her fame with her role in the comedy - horror spoof Scary Movie, Regina Hall has frequented the big screen in roles that far from betrayed her age.

Big - budget screen adaptations should raise the stakes the further they go on.

But we have still a long way to go to overcome the forces of big money that are intent on privatizing our public schools, and imposing policies, including school closings, more high stakes testing, and the rapid expansion of online learning, that threaten to further damage our children and are unsupported by research.

AIG (NYSE: AIG) has come a long way toward selling off noncore businesses and getting the federal government's stake in the company down to a manageable level, and despite big share sales from the Treasury, the stock has jumped more than 40 % so far this year.

They're keeping quiet on how big the investment was and how big a stake Epic sold, but they insist Epic «will continue to operate independently and seek to further expand its game franchises across multiple platforms.»

Vodafone's $ 130bn (# 79bn) sale of its stake in Verizon — not only by far the biggest deal of the year but also the largest US - based corporate transaction since 2001 — was always likely to be a feeding frenzy for law firms.

Seller is wanting to sell because they own another big restaurant and bar far away from this location and want to focus energy where they have more at stake so looking for a quick sale.