Sentences with phrase «few dollars of profit»

Puppies — even purebred puppies — are in abundant supply and selling an entire litter often results in only a few dollars of profit or a financial loss for several months of headaches.

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For large institutional traders, transactions a few milliseconds faster can mean millions of extra dollars in profit each year.

I've heard of a small company that missed its profit - sharing trigger by just a few thousand dollars due to an employee who was stealing merchandise; as a result, the company didn't give out bonuses and ended up with a very bitter staff.

The system also provides its traders or investors special undisclosed approach that will eventually help out the traders to make huge profits with just a few dollars of initial investment.

For examples to do with cryptocurrency, someone might develop an app that lets you put a couple dollars on it in the morning, and will then micro-loan it out throughout the day to make a few cents» profit, using a system of smart contracts.

A serious trader who decides to cut costs by forgoing paying for a service might initially save a few dollars but could be in essence losing out on hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in profit.

I declined as I didn't want to profit from this gift I was given, but as I know from the story of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 that the Lord uses testimonies to draw others to Himself, so at my own expense I had my testimony printed at a local print shop for a few hundred dollars, and am distributing it with New Testaments to people as the Lord leads.

Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

«But, instead those programs and schools are likely to be on the chopping block if «Schools of Hope» passes, and instead a few millionaires who are politically connected and run for - profit schools will get our tax dollars intended for our children and the public school teachers the resources they need to do their job.»

The union always claims that the Vergara Lawsuit, the film «Waiting for Superman», Students First, Michelle Rhee, Students Matter, are all part of a proposal / plot by billionaires to do the following: A. Privatize all public education to funnel billions of dollars in profits to the top 1 % and mostly to a few billionaires.

If you've wondered why your favorite European brand won't see you a diesel stick - shift station wagon, the reason is that profits from a few hundred sold would never pay for the million or so dollars of certification costs.

In order to regain sales, increase profits and, hopefully, retain its independence, Jaguar has offered a new base model XJ6 that is actually within a few thousand dollars of the new Infiniti and Lexus flagships.

Singeing your customers with disappointment for a few dollars of short - term profit simply isn't worth it.

In the past few years, Apple's margins have grown tremendously as it keeps more and more profits from the same dollar of sales.

On the flip side, a few additional thousands of dollars invested in sensible low - cost index funds have the potential to turn your short - term travel hacking profits into long - term financial success.

Granted, it may only be a few dollar's worth of profit from you that the company loses, but when combined with the efforts of others, sometimes many others, and amplified by social media, it can impact both the company's finances and its public image.

For examples to do with cryptocurrency, someone might develop an app that lets you put a couple dollars on it in the morning, and will then micro-loan it out throughout the day to make a few cents» profit, using a system of smart contracts.

If she is so concerned about one small segment of the community being exposed to anti-competitive practises and excessive costs, then why doesn't she go after the big boys in the oil industry who rake in billions of dollars in profits and negatively impact the lives of every Canadian, not just a select few?