Sentences with phrase «in hock $»

On average, they're in hock $ 209,200 to their creditors.

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Six of the 25 schools whose MBAs graduate with the highest average loans are public, including Kenan - Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, where the average debt burden is $ 93,898 and 61 % of all graduates are in hock.

Broadcom Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan is a voracious acquirer, and he's played a key role in a wave of consolidation engulfing the $ 300 billion semiconductor industry over the last three years.

With the government deep in hock and forced to borrow another $ 70 billion to cover its latest shortfall, he was certain lenders soon would demand higher rates, not lower.

Earlier in the 2013 election season, Hocking had raised $ 20,700 in donations for mayoral contender Bill Thompson.

Of that surplus, totalling $ 262.2 billion, the U.S. was in hock for $ 256.3 billion.

In hock to a drug lord, Chris needs money quick and stumbles onto the scheme of hiring a hit man to dispatch his mother, whose $ 50,000 life insurance policy is supposed to go to his sister Dottie (Juno Temple); Dottie will split the money with Chris.

Amanda Hocking — who became the poster child for self - publishing on the Kindle after she made more than $ 2 million from a series of young - adult novels she wrote and published in the past year — signed a $ 2 - million deal earlier this year with St. Martin's Press, a unit of publishing giant Macmillan, to write a new series of young - adult novels (my colleague Cyndy Aleo wrote a series of posts recently based on her interviews with several young authors about the changes in the industry).

In a blog post that she wrote about her deal, Hocking said something that drove home just how much the industry has changed: she said that she chose to accept the $ 2 - million offer from St. Martins even though she knew she could probably make more money by self - publishing the books.

Amanda Hocking, a 29 - year - old from Minnesota, first experienced success when she self - published her YA paranormal books on Amazon and Smashwords in 2010; the rights to her Watersong series were sold for $ 2 million a year later.

In America, Amanda Hocking has gone from selling more than a million self - published vampire and zombie ebooks to signing a $ 2 million deal with a leading publisher.

«â $ ˜Iâ $ ™ ve done as much with self - publishing as any person can do, â $ ™ Ms. Hocking said in an interview on Thursday.

«Amanda Hocking's deal for four books for $ 2 million in today's economy is an aggressive number.

The poster girl for self - publishing, Amanda Hocking (her ten YA urban fantasy and paranormal romances have grossed around $ 2 million since she began publishing them through Amazon's CreateSpace last year), was profiled in Sunday's New York Times Magazine.

Self - pubbed phenom Amanda Hocking was definitely daunted by the extra effort of marketing, but her efforts paid off for her in the form of a $ 2MM deal from St. Martins, winner of the auction.

Meanwhile, some authors are making millions by self - publishing multiple inexpensive e-books: Amanda Hocking became famous in the industry over the past six months for making over $ 2 million by self - publishing a dozen fiction books for younger readers, and recently signed a hefty contract with an existing publisher based on that success.

Some writers start with a series of two - or three - word phrases that describe them, like this one from Amanda Hocking, the paranormal romance young - adult fiction author who sold more than $ 2 million in ebooks in one year.

The 2006 exhibition «Money Changes Everything» featured documentation from a conceptual work by Elizabeth Sisco, David Avalos and Louis Hock, in which the artists used a $ 5,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant for a program in which they systematically gave $ 10 bills to illegal immigrants in San Diego, enraging conservative politicians.

Lenovo sports near identical specs in its Flex 15 for $ 799, Acer hocks the similar TravelMate TMP455 for $ 959, and the Dell's Inspiron 15 7000 can be outfitted with even more impressive hardware for $ 949.