Sentences with phrase «hundreds of millions every year on»

Some spend hundreds of million a year on legal services, while many more expect to increase their expenditure next year rather than reduce it.

Not exact matches

Among the most imaginative deals was a package that gave him a bonus despite the fact that his casino empire was losing tens of millions of dollars a year, and an agreement to that had the casinos spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Trump Ice bottled water for the mini-bars.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 that now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Building on their firsthand experiences, Hammer and Champy show how some of the world's premier corporations use the principles of reengineering to save hundreds of millions of dollars a year, to achieve unprecedented levels of customer satisfaction, and to speed up and make more flexible all aspects of their operations.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 which now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

The 32 - year - old chief executive of defunct Mt. Gox pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges relating to the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins and cash from what was once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange.

Global Mail Ltd., a $ 13 - million deliverer of international mail (# 35 on this year's Inc. 500 figures each «little» slipup costs it hundreds to thousands of dollars to fix.

Silicon Valley executives like Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey are going on Buddhist meditation retreats, high - end spas in big cities are installing «meditation pods,» meditation app Headspace has raised $ 75 million, and each year hundreds of Wall Streeters are following Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio's lead and paying almost $ 1,000 to learn Transcendental Meditation.

«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.

In fact, hundreds of million dollar and multi-million dollar properties are lingering on the market, sometimes for years.

Anticipation runs so high that Jet's founder and chief executive, Marc Lore, is in talks with investors about raising hundreds of millions of dollars in additional capital by year end, according to people briefed on the discussions.

We spend hundreds of millions of dollars on research and so on, we've been doing this for 37 years.»

Science has proven the world to be billions of years old, and has proven that life has existed on this planet for hundreds of millions of years.

Evolution has operated quietly on this planet for hundreds of millions of years, and will continue to do so long after there are no people left to not believe in it.

Science can discern, in the hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of years (Since Mankind's behavior on the «tree of Life» is rather that of a flowering than of an ordinary shoot, it is possible that the estimate of several million years, based on the average longevity of animal forms, should be materially reduced to allow for the acceleration due to the totalization of the Noosphere.)

Hundreds of millions of years of life on Earth boiling down to a belief in something that happened 2000 years ago makes so sense to me, and never will.

A few years ago, when the seventh largest corporation in America, Penn Central, was on the verge of forfeiting on hundreds of millions of dollars in short - term loans, the Federal Reserve saved hundreds of banks from bankruptcy — and the economy from catastrophe — by offering to cover all the loans required at that point to maintain stability.

The other Dr Snelling writes scientific articles on rocks at least hundreds or thousand of millions of years old and openly contradicting the Statement of Faith.

Feb. 13, 2013 — The greatest battle in Earth's history has been going on for hundreds of millions of years - it isn't over yet - and until now no one knew it existed, scientists reported Feb. 13 in the journal Nature.

Feb. 13, 2013 — The greatest battle in Earth's history has been going on for hundreds of millions of years — it isn't over yet — and until now no one knew it existed, scientists reported Feb. 13 in the journal Nature.

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

... I understand that alot of fan's won't agree with my thoughts but you will see in a few years from now, how these young players will make Arsenal fc Hundreds of millions from selling them on.

1) Ten years without a significant trophy yet the Manager is never questioned 2) Selling off key «World beater» Players season after season and replacing them with mediocre at best replacements 3) Keeping a 33 % shareholder who is one of the world's richest men AND a true football fan as far away from the board as possible 4) Charging possibly the highest prices in Europe but NOT reinvesting within the team in any really significant way 5) Classing 4th place in the EPL as a trophy 6) Boasting of a # 100 million war chest for transfers then quibbling over a few hundred thousand on deals.

Since The Force Awakens was released a year and a half ago, there have been hundreds, thousands — likely millions — of theories and conspiracies popping up on the internet about what will happen in Episode VIII, now known...

Spunking hundreds of millions on Ferrari with no return in F1 (Even when they fucking win, it is because Hamilton or Mercedes mess up) while Juve have been delivering for the last 7 years is a stale joke.

When we have a Pakistani diaspora of over one million people, and there are hundreds of thousands of journeys between our countries every year, what goes on in Pakistan matters on the streets of Britain.

This year, Hillary Clinton's team raised hundreds of millions of dollars online, built a massive data and human infrastructure to turn out their voters, invested their money in targeted TV advertising, created opportunities for volunteers to work in their own social circles on behalf of the candidate — all pieces Obama had shown should work.

Cross-posted on K Street Cafe Congress does not lack for citizen input — every year, hundreds of millions of emails, faxes, letters and calls crashland on the Hill, and some congressional offices are so overwhelmed that they've basically stopped accepting electronic communications...

Instead of focusing on what an individual politician says, we can assess millions of speeches over hundreds of years to show how political language changes over time, or how a specific kind of contentious issue develops.

Congress does not lack for citizen input — every year, hundreds of millions of emails, faxes, letters and calls crashland on the Hill, and some congressional offices are so overwhelmed that they've basically stopped accepting electronic communications from constituents.

(FastFood2) Fast food restaurants spend hundreds of millions of dollars on toys and other incentive - item giveaways every year.

With limitations on the agencies that are able to utilize design - build, New York is behind the forty - one states that widely use this form of procurement, adding hundreds of millions of dollars the city's 10 - year capital plan and years to project timelines.

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

That is in sharp contrast to the position 10 years ago and comes on top of many hundreds of millions of pounds of investment in recent years.

Malloy announced on Monday that he has reached a deal with state employee unions that will save hundreds of millions of dollars a year in state spending.

This vote builds on the landmark agreements we reached with Native American tribes this year, ending expensive court battles and unnecessary discord and restoring hundreds of millions of dollars to local governments.»

The NYC School Construction Authority stashed $ 104 million in a low - interest checking account for two years — losing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars by not investing the money elsewhere, as required by law, according to an audit released yesterday.

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.

More than 95 percent of the 13 million people who visit Woodbury Common each year come and go via the New York State Thruway, but hundreds of thousands of them are on buses.

After years of indulging in corporate loopholes and giveaways like more than $ 100 million in tax breaks for the new Goldman Sachs headquarters and paying consulting firms hundreds of millions of dollars to work on failed technology projects like CityTime, the Mayor saved one of his largest corporate handouts for the final moments of his tenure: hundreds of millions of dollars for developers through the midtown east rezoning.

«The question before the Capitol and the legislature is, are they going to fix a gigantic problem that was revealed last year,» Kaehny said, referring to the corruption charges, including bribery and bid rigging on projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The city's School Construction Authority stashed $ 104 million in a low - interest checking account for two years — losing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars by not investing the money elsewhere, as required by law, according to an audit released Thursday.

Speaking during an interactive session with journalists in Maiduguri on the activities of the command since his taking over in April, Mr. Joshua said, due to the insecurity, the command was given a target of sixty - two million naira (N62, 000,000.00) revenue to generate, adding that, they were able to hit seventy - five million naira (N75, 000,000.00), and hoped to hit one hundred million naira (N100, 000,000.00) by the end of this year.

About 170 million years ago, huge, long - necked dinosaurs called sauropods left hundreds of footprints on the floor of a shallow saltwater lagoon on a warm island in the midlatitudes.

That is enough to render cryovolcanoes unrecognizable in hundreds of millions to billions of years, suggesting there could have been other cryovolcanoes on Ceres, according to the new study.

Computer simulations show that a collection of stars as densely packed as those at the heart of M32 should collapse in on itself within only a few hundred million years.

Two hundred and fifty million years ago, the Permian extinction wiped out virtually all marine species and most life on land, clearing the path for the dinosaurs and setting back the rise of mammals by 50 million years.

The mandate, which applies to federal agencies that spend more than $ 100 million a year on research and development, will eventually make hundreds of thousands of papers once hidden behind paywalls available to anyone with an Internet connection.