Sentences with phrase «hundreds of millions of dollars each year for»

The credit card programs are important to airlines, because in addition to keeping fliers from defecting to other carriers, the airlines» banking partners pay them hundreds of millions of dollars a year for the right to issue the cards.

«Will legislators at the same time force consumers, through a non-bypassable charge, to pay hundreds of millions of dollars each year for the next six years to bail out Exelon nuclear plants?»

Not exact matches

Fast - growth companies like Airbnb and Uber have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding in the past few years, which has pushed their valuations into never - before seen territory for startups.

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.

During the 13 years Trump spent as chairman, the company lost a total of $ 1.1 billion and declared bankruptcy twice — all while Trump essentially paid himself roughly $ 82 million and also had the company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Trump Ice bottled water for their mini-bars.

Lilly faced a devastating clinical setback last year with a late - stage failure for its experimental Alzheimer's treatment, the studies for which cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

Shifting to alternate - day delivery or community mailboxes for every home could yield operational savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

• Expanding upon data gleaned from the «black budget,» the NSA is found to be paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year to US companies for access to their networks.

Peter Rahal, who along with Jared Smith founded RXBar, recalls a pivotal moment that set the philosophy of their nutrition bar company — one that would eventually be acquired by Kellogg for hundreds of millions of dollars last year.

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.

The Justice Department said AT&T would use Time Warner's films and movies to force rival pay TV companies to pay «hundreds of millions of dollars more per year for Time Warner's networks» in its lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Washington.

Over the past five years, Imperial Oil, ExxonMobil, BP and Chevron have all pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for drilling rights to parcels of the Beaufort Sea.

As Fortune has noted in the past, Spotify's biggest problem is that it is still losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and the main culprit is the massive payments it makes to the music industry for licensing fees.

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.

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

Martin, a native of Scotland who has been with the company for 19 years, declined to disclose specifics about Inventus» revenue, but he said it is in the «hundreds of millions» of dollars annually.

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

Millions of Americans go under the knife for plastic surgery, inject toxins and chemicals into their face and lips, pay hundreds of dollars a year dying their hair, buying cosmetics, etc..

(I have worked as a paralegal for famous civil rights attorneys in the U.S., they won hundreds of millions of dollars, the US Supreme Court heard one of their cases a couple of years ago, and they move in to legal action very quickly.)

6 --(yawn) Not sure what you are talking about due to your usual vagueness, but I'll take a stab at it — If I am right, and there is no heaven and no hell, you, as a believer and minister lose nothing by wasting years and years of your life preaching a lie, and convincing hundreds, perhaps thousands to believe that same lie, and waste millions, no, billions of dollars to pay for the continued propagation of that lie...?

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.

17 June, 2014 MEDIA STATEMENT Australian Beverages Council responds to calls for soft drink tax «The non-alcoholic beverages industry is not anti-tax and pays hundreds of millions of dollars in tax each year, but it is against discriminatory and regressive measures such as taxing specific products, such as soft drinks — as a means to -LSB-...]

If Wenger can achieve the incredible double of winning the EPL and Europa it will bring in extra hundreds of millions of Dollars to the Clubs kitty; TV Rights and Revenues; More sponsors;, advertising Contracts — especially in a World Cup year if you are in CL — and so many myriad avenues for raking in the moolah if you are the EPL Champion and Europa Cup winner and are in the CL and a small matter of having high - profile players or hugely talented stars / starlets in your squad — it will attract the big ad - spenders to the Club like nothing else does.

New NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer is calling for an end to what he describes as a tax loophole that allows New York City private equity firms, hedge funds and venture capital firms to keep several hundred million dollars a year in their coffers instead of giving it to the tax man.

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.

A year before the indictment of top Cumo aides and important Upstate business leaders, leading transparency and fiscal watchdog groups warned that the state's use of a mixture of non-profit groups like Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, SUNY Polytechnic and SUNY Research Foundation to award business subsidy contracts «[b] lurred responsibility and reduced the accountability for decisions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.»

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans, a Newsday review of public records shows.

DiNapoli said for the past several years, hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts connected to the governor's Buffalo Billion and other projects were negotiated largely in secret without any outside monitoring.

Last year's business tax and estate tax reform also put hundreds of millions of dollars worth of additional tax cuts into the fiscal pipeline for the next few years.

Mr. Cuomo also proposed budgeting an extra $ 1 billion in education funding this year, a $ 2 billion investment in clean - water infrastructure and various other expensive projects, including hundreds of millions of dollars in economic - development for Buffalo ($ 500 million), a life sciences research and development cluster ($ 550 million) and new airports in Syracuse and Plattsburgh.

Both issues have been central to federal and local prosecutors» probes of Nassau contracts, which account for hundreds of millions of dollars a year paid to outside companies.

«We know that it'll only cost $ 2 per New Yorker, and that's a small price compared to the hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars that are handed out every year in sweetheart deals for CEO campaign contributors.»

Interestingly, some of these investigative firms have no track record; they were formed this year (2017) for the sole purpose of investigating NDC officials; yet they are raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions of cedis.

Hundreds of Nassau County contracts worth a total of nearly $ 10 million have been awarded in recent years at amounts just dollars below the threshold for legislative approval.

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.

Gerard Terry, an influential political operative and chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee, has for years received government work paying him hundreds of thousands of dollars even as he compiled an income tax debt of $ 1.4 million and battled lawsuits alleging fraud and failure to pay back loans.

«The prospect of these across the board closures was very real and not only would have been devastated these communities, but caused ripple effects in New York's dairy industry and beyond,» Cuomo said in a statement «This agreement reverses course and, saves hundreds of local jobs and commits Kraft - Heinz to invest millions of dollars in the Upstate economy, with the potential for job increases in the years to come.

«We have companies that spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the past couple of years, competing for a casino franchise license, so this is a valuable commodity.»

There is also a huge revenue loss to the M.T.A., well into several hundred million of dollars over the years — every time the toll goes up more drivers avoid the Verrazano and opt for free passage across Downtown.

While Mulrow was listed as a Blackstone lobbyist working to influence the $ 289 billion New York state pension system, Blackstone secured hundreds of millions of dollars in new pension investment commitments for the firm — far more than it had during the four - year period before Cuomo's first term.

Since the 15 - year period of for non-payment of royalties expired in June 2014 the should collect arreas of royalties running to hundreds of million of dollars owed by the oil and gas companies operating in the area.

In a statement, a spokeperson for the mayor says, «We understand the Governor's obsession with the Mayor has prevented him from learning how NYCHA funding works, but the truth is NYCHA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to fill the hole left by state and federal underinvestment.

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.

Council members and Education Committee Chair Robert Jackson told Mulgrew that they appreciated his leadership in identifying the DOE's huge failure to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursement for special education services over the last two years.

And it also means that he has to stop supporting the use of fossil fuels, including his idea to spend perhaps a hundred million dollars to expand the gas plant that is heating the Empire State Plaza and lock in gas emissions into a low - income people - of - color community for the next 30 years in the Arbor Hill area.»

«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.

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.

DiNapoli says for the past several years, hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts connected to the Governor's Buffalo Billion and other projects were negotiated largely in secret without any outside monitoring.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

With costs running into hundreds of millions of dollars for replacement satellites, and with replacements needed every 12 to 15 years, extending a satellite's life beyond the average could result in billions in savings.