Sentences with phrase «get millions of dollars a year»

«They get millions of dollars a year for giving their seal of approval to highly processed industrial foods like low - fat, high - fiber oat cereals, despite the fact that they often contain six different kinds of sugar.»

Not exact matches

During next year, Williams said, the aim is to «generate a half billion dollars for publishers» — a figure derived from getting 10 million users to each set up a monthly budget of $ 5.

He bought the factory buildings for $ 190,000 and expects to spend two million dollars over the next year in getting the factory up - to - speed and the first wave of 2,000 bikes into stores.

The seed round of a few million dollars — in which venture fund Polaris also participated — will go toward getting the technology prepped for human trials, which 30 - year - old CEO Carl Schoellhammer anticipates will happen within the next 12 months.

Graziosi, who's generated hundreds of millions of dollars with his brands, companies and investments, with a 15 - year television career, argues that creating a true vision for your future by looking backwards will get you exponentially better results than setting goals in the traditional sense.

A few years ago when Home Depot wished to get rid of their CEO it cost them 200 Million Dollars.

A few years ago, diehard fans of Veronica Mars raised $ 5.7 million dollars through a Kickstarter campaign to help get that movie made.

Also could never figure out why 9 million children under the age of 5 die every year from simple causes like diarrhea in third world countries while archbishops are building 2 million dollar mansions and the Vatican has billions of dollars in art... think they could may get these kids some clean water and some vaccinations?

Rush is an entertainer — he gets paid millions of dollars a year to entertain those who wants to be entertained.

Today this is no longer true, mainly because no network can afford to let the opposition get even slightly ahead in the ratings which determine the rates for hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising billings each year.

So let me get this straight (no pun) The man who drives the Bentley, makes a million dollars a year and owns a stable of property is the victim?

Every couple months some news outlet runs a story of the millions of dollars worth of pot they get, but only after months and months sometimes years of tracking things down.

Supply chain technology has advanced to a point where companies can now get their own global operating platforms via the cloud versus having to spend countless millions of dollars and years of implementation time to get a handle on what's happening across their value chains.

Except for the 16 - year - old who isn't going to get millions of dollars from the Phillies.

The player earns a surfeit of dollars in 2007 — 08 — Gomez will get $ 10 million of his seven - year, $ 51.5 million deal this season — but there can be a windfall for the teams near the end of these contracts.

There were no guarantees of future success and four - million - dollars - per - year contracts when these coaches got started in the business.

he earns 8million pounds a year to play fifa with arsenal interactively, I take that back I think u can actually get fired when underperforming in fifa, so arsene is basically playing sims with millions of pounds, I salute arsene, how does an individual run a billion dollar empire so unbelievably poorly without anyone 2 answer

I had oversupply with my son (now 2.5 years) and actually called the Parenting Center where I took my «Breastfeeding Class» and told the instructors my story and asked them to mention it in their classes.As all of the above have mentioned, all focus was on UNDER SUPPLY and I was at a loss until I went to an amazing LC (who should be getting paid a million dollars) and diagnosed me.

The same will be true in the struggle for control of Congress next year, as state parties, individual campaigns and outside groups spend tens of millions of dollars targeting their voters and working to get them to the polls.

When Karen asked if the company might ask other ad - targeting firms to pay a licensing fee or even try to force them out of the business, for instance, the answer that came back was, «I'm just a simple man trying to advance the cause of digital politics, you're talking way above my pay grade,» though we did also learn that the patent is «patent is a recognition of what we've done as a company» and that «taken us years to get to this place, it's taken millions and millions of dollars.»

But UFC promoters have spent nearly a decade and millions of dollars on lobbying to get it legalized in New York, which until this year remained the last state where pro matches had been illegal.

If he lives another 20 years, he'll get at least $ 1.2 million of our tax dollars.

If New York went ahead with its casino development in New York City, that, too, could have major consequences for Aqueduct and Yonkers, which get tens of millions of dollars each year from VLTs for operating funds and purses for horsemen.

A day after it was disclosed Albany would get $ 10 million dollars stretched over 10 years in exchange for supporting the Rensselaer casino project, the Times Union revealed that that proposal was made in response to a $ 7 million offer from developers of the Capital View Casino and Resort in East Greenbush.

When employment figures begin going up, and real affordable universal health care is soon to be available, and wasteful Bush fantasies like Star Wars are back to being experimental programs on the fringes of public awareness and costing only hundreds of millions of dollars a year, when all of our long term allies are back to being on speaking terms with us, those 25 % ers will get their 25 % s and Congress will be even more democratic Party than now.

Silver and Skelos were once two of the «three men in a room» - the other being Gov. Andrew Cuomo - who controlled $ 150 billion a year in state spending, decided what legislation would get voted upon and what bills would die, and controlled millions of dollars in campaign donations that they could use to help elect lawmakers across the state.

Last year, the Observer discovered that Safariland, the parent company of VieVu, had been forced to cough up millions of dollars in fines and ill - gotten profits for knowingly manufacturing defective flak jackets and for bribing a United Nations procurement official.

A year later, Silver helped Taub's family member get a job at a nonprofit that received millions of dollars in state funding.

STATEN ISLAND — One city agency under constant criticism from the Staten Island borough president for its late and expensive work got the OK to build a new office closer to its critic — at a cost of about half a million taxpayer dollars a year.

The Old Bethpage - based company has gotten at least $ 100 million in publicly bid county work since 2002, and millions of dollars in road contracts from Oyster Bay in recent years.

«The temptation for Cuomo will be to use state - budget surpluses to avoid the problem for a couple of more years — that is, give them a few hundred million dollars a year out of the state budget to cover the operating budget deficits that will get bigger as the M.T.A. devotes more money to debt service,» she emailed.

Aside from raising the millions of dollars needed for campaign advertising in one of the nation's most expensive television markets, Bharara, as an independent, would need to pull together a statewide organization of paid staff and volunteers that could compete with get - out - the - vote efforts run by the Democratic and Republican Parties, particularly in a year when they'll be running gubernatorial campaigns.

Although no one agrees just how to deal with the knowledge that one is likely to get Alzheimer's, millions of dollars is spent on research into the disease each year.

Getting such transgenic crops into the global market requires years of research, safety testing and millions of dollars, Wurtele said.

In fact, I just got out of a seminar yesterday, where one of my mentors (he runs a $ 20 million dollar per year coaching business) said,

And get this: Of the $ 520 million dollars a year spent on exercise equipment, abdominal machines get a $ 208 million dollar piece of the piOf the $ 520 million dollars a year spent on exercise equipment, abdominal machines get a $ 208 million dollar piece of the piof the pie!

In 2014, the app got angel funding from GSR Ventures, and the next year landed millions of US dollars of pre-A financing led by IVP, SOSVentures, and Linear.

And over the last 14 years there has got to be thousands of consumers that have fallen for this misleading trick resulting and millions of dollars in profit for the owners of BeNaughty.

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As a career performance, it doesn't feel far off from Clint Eastwood's turn in Million Dollar Baby: After years of playing hard men, both finally get to embrace the youthful energy of their onscreen protégé.

An audit in the Berkeley Unified School District, in Berkeley, California, showed that the district was spending nearly a quarter million dollars each year to get rid of garbage, much of it produced in kitchens and cafeterias.

You may be thinking to yourself «that's great, but I can't invest millions of dollars and years of development to get to the next generation.

Colorado students who get into trouble after they are expelled from school cost state taxpayers millions of dollars a year, according to a new study.

We're sustainable by the end of year three, but I'm currently supported by the Drexel Fund and in the process of raising a million dollars to help get this thing going.

Within five years of opening, the school anticipates a budget shortfall of half a million dollars, an ongoing deficit that will get worse over time.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

«Now, this of course, comes from a school district that gets hundreds of millions of dollars from New Jersey state taxpayers every year because of a failed, and I believe, unconstitutional court requirement that we put disproportionate funds into a small number of school districts,» he said.

Chicago Public Schools officials are set to authorize $ 200 million of new borrowing to manage a cash crunch through the end of June while also taking out a separate line of credit to borrow nearly a billion dollars to get through the coming fiscal year.

If Gov. Roy Cooper has his way, the average teacher will get an 8 percent raise next year, other state employees will get their biggest raise in a decade, and schools will get millions of dollars to upgrade security, buy supplies and hire new resource officers, nurses, counselors, social workers and psychologists.

Several years ago, Hyundai got into some trouble with its EPA fuel economy ratings, and the company was forced to both reduce the estimates and pay millions of dollars as part of a settlement with vehicle owners.