Sentences with phrase «losing hundreds of millions a year»

Richard Martin, senior editor for energy at MIT Technology review, called the plan «bonkers» and that «the idea of combining solar power with automaking is a bit like Ford buying ExxonMobil — if both were losing hundreds of millions a year.»

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.

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.

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.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

It's a «myth that Jamie Dimon is a good risk manager,» she said, noting that a couple of years ago J.P. Morgan lost «hundreds of millions» due to speculative derivative trading in which they «monopolized the entire global coal market.»

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...?

At Barca, Bayern, Man U, Chelsea and other ambitious clubs they could build the most beautiful golden stadium and training grounds with a balance sheet that contained hundreds of millions in cash, if no ambition and success was shown for 10 years those fans would not give a rats as about how beautiful the stadium was in which they sat whilst losing 5 - 1 to a big club for the umpteen time.

While other clubs have wealthy owners who are willing to lose tens or hundreds of millions per year in order to make an attempt at championships, the point is that it does not make business sense.

Since then, we've had 6 straight years of IDC - Republican control of the Senate; that's 6 budgets where thousands were held unjustly in pre-trial confinement, nearly a hundred thousand units of affordable housing were lost, and millions of kids attended underfunded schools.

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.

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.

«In a league where hundreds of millions of dollars are lost in a year to injury, every effort should be made to control known risk factors related to injury.

Right now, oil and gas companies are losing hundreds of millions of tons of methane each year, which wastes, in turn, hundreds of millions worth of natural gas.

Yes, it's a spectacular failure for the hundreds of millions of people, mostly women, who try, over and over, year after year, to lose weight.

But while Edison, the New York City - based company whose educational program does include free computers, has lost hundreds of millions of dollars and fallen out of favor with investors, National Heritage last year turned a small profit managing more than two dozen...

You see people win the lottery for hundreds of millions, then 3 years down the road lose it all.

His co-author, Oliver Phillips, professor in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds in the UK, says that «the Amazon has been providing a tremendous service, taking up hundreds of millions more tonnes of carbon every year in tree growth than it loses through tree death.

Every year, hundreds of millions of nurdles, tiny pieces of plastic, are dumped into or lost at sea, where they eventually make their way into the food chain by acting as sponges for a variety of anthropogenic chemicals (e.g. hydrocarbons and DDT).

Hundreds of thousands or even millions of Bitcoins may have been lost in the early years, at a time when Bitcoins were basically worthless.