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Is Andrew Cuomo saying that New Yorkers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year on testing and wasting nearly two weeks of instructional time for «practice»?

As 2014 neared, states were spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year on testing and on test preparation materials; the schools in some districts and states were allocating 20 percent of the school year to preparing for state tests.

In the real estate industry, we spend hours upon hours evaluating properties, and consumers spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on appraisals.

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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.

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.

«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.»

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.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

If a plant runs $ 5 billion in «overnight» costs and the money is spent over five years, interest on capital during the period of construction — the utility's version of a home builder's construction loan — could add hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.

Its user traffic grew 220 % in 2012, and now has four million users who spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year in hours on the site.

Chad Hartigan, who premiered his third film Morris from America at this year's festival, described a larger epidemic of movies becoming two things: «One is the hundred - million - dollar movies you see in the theater, and the other is everything else you watch on iTunes or Netflix.»

If she hangs on for another six years, the pension picture changes dramatically: her pension will be worth close to $ 1 million, hundreds of thousands of dollars more than the contributions.

With the practice of spending only about 5 % of assets each year and given the large (and effective) efforts the Foundation makes in developing country health - care, Gates only spends a couple hundred million dollars on education reform each year.

Public school loyalists have seized on this and on a recent Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) memo as proof the voucher system will suck hundreds of millions of dollars out of the public - school system — up to $ 800 million over 10 years, to be exact, according to the memo.

State Defunds Program to Fix «Slum» Schools Eight years after California settled a landmark lawsuit promising hundreds of millions of dollars to repair shoddy school facilities, more than 700 schools still are waiting for their share of funds as students take classes on dilapidated campuses with health and safety hazards.

Amisha Patel, the Executive Director of the Grassroots Collaborative said that the budget «leaves hundreds of millions of dollars on the table and continues to underresource Chicago neighborhood schools at the expense (sic) of charter and magnet schools» and alleged that «Every year CPS continues to allow tax increment financing funds to divert critical resources away from schools.»

California placed a year - long moratorium on the use of Common Core exams to make «accountability» decisions, a modest step that drew threats from Duncan to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education aid.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has given Los Angeles Unified a one - year reprieve from a ruling requiring the district to spend potentially hundreds of millions of additional dollars on English learners and low - income children to comply with the state's new school funding law.

So, after years of work and hundreds of millions of dollars, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Consortium Assessment organization claims that the ELA Performance Task is a vital, critical, and essential part of the test to determine if a child is on route to be «college and career ready.»

For the year, businesses on Amazon sold hundreds of millions of units worth billions of dollars worldwide.

Millions of families leave hundreds of dollars of tax savings on the table every year.

Due to the fact that the agency we're affiliated with does hundreds of millions of dollars per year in Cruise bookings, we have deals on just about every sailing out there... the above is simply the «Best of the Best».

While the fossil fuel industry tries it hands at by squandering billions of dollars of research on unfeasible technical solutions such as geological sequestration of carbon emissions from power plants, soils are a natural solution which has been proven for hundreds of millions of years of biological and evolutionary history.

Working heavily in the sunny states of California and Arizona, the three firms collected hundreds of millions of dollars in federal cash grants to pick up a share of their costs on thousands of home installations during the past three years.

In our nearly 30 years, we have represented hundreds of thousands of clients nationwide in a wide variety of practice areas, and we've recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on their behalf.

The personal injury lawyers at The Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus have handled thousands of injury cases for clients in the greater Los Angeles area for more than 30 years and recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements on their behalf.

For more than 20 years, the injury attorneys at Malman Law have collected hundreds of millions of dollars on the behalf of our clients.

This shock is actually less severe than what occurred in the life settlement market a few years ago, leading some institutional investors to suffer losses of hundreds of millions of dollars on their portfolios.

For instance, Netflix, which runs on the AWS cloud, spends hundreds of millions of dollars in storage expenses every year.

Although Opus declined to disclose the specific dollar amount on outstanding debt, if Opus South is any indication the company is facing hundreds of millions of dollars in maturing loans over the next two years.

They spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars, each year on search engine optimization because traffic is their business.