Sentences with phrase «make multibillion»

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa437.pdf The settlement of the tobacco litigation, in November 1998, was a legal and public policy debacle of truly historic proportions.5 The tobacco companies agreed to abide by a new set of regulatory constraints and to make multibillion - dollar payments annually to the states (and the trial lawyers from private practice who were hired to represent most of them) in perpetuity.

Additionally, it comes at a time when oil prices are on the rise, but stuck in a range that makes multibillion - dollar projects in new offshore areas unattractive for many drillers.

The company, which produces $ 100 billion in annual revenue, has made multibillion - dollar deals in the United States, Europe and the rest of Asia, amassing big stakes in multinationals like Deutsche Bank and Hilton Hotels.

Fosun, run by a professed «Warren Buffett of China,» made multibillion - dollar deals for Club Med, Cirque du Soleil and other brands.

Ebook sales at Amazon have grown by 70 percent year over year, says Bezos, making it a multibillion - dollar category for the company.

Ms. Cisneros did not part easily with the selections she and her husband — a member of the Cisneros family that made its multibillion - dollar fortune in Latin American media — have been living with for 40 years.

Presently, China offers the potential for rapid growth, not least because the government is making multibillion - dollar investments in healthcare.

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But it is the only system where ideas once scribbled on a cocktail napkin can become multibillion - dollar enterprises, and make a lot of people rich along the way.

Sources earlier told CNBC that a deal was in the making that would marry Juniper, a multibillion - dollar networking company, with Nokia's infrastructure resources.

Think of the multibillion - dollar commitments made by Microsoft's Bill Gates, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, and, more recently, Alphabet's Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

Consumerism is continuously on the rise, creating the perfect playground for all business - minded individuals looking to make a claim in the multibillion - dollar ecommerce industry.

But the multibillion - dollar question is whether he will be able to steer the daily through the shoals and icebergs that make up the current media environment.

Its economic development unit, Empire State Development, has established a long - term, multibillion - dollar game plan to attract nanotechnology manufacturers to make not only solar panels but also semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and other products from very small materials (there are 25,400,000 nanometers in an inch).

Ryan Cotton, the Bain managing director who led the investment, identifies three strengths that he believes will make Toms, one day, a multibillion - dollar public company: its reputation as a philanthropic pioneer, its enthusiastic customers (who may want to become shareholders), and its potential to expand beyond footwear into a broad lifestyle brand.

Together, coaching and consulting make up a multibillion dollar industry.

Dating services make up a multibillion - dollar market, and Ginsberg said she sees room to further expand into new markets: in India, for example, where the stigma around online dating is beginning to erode.

Companies wouldn't keep making them if they didn't — just look at how home shopping has skyrocketed QVC into a multibillion - dollar business.

The $ 151 million in Chinese imports only make up a tiny portion of the multibillion - dollar US dog and cat food market.

Mr Trump has made narrowing the multibillion - dollar US trade deficit with China a priority for his administration.

California Wildfires Threaten to Make Local Wine «Unpalatable»: There are fears in California's wine industry over the possible impact of raging wildfires and whether they could damage this year's grape yield, potentially affecting the state's multibillion dollar business.

It's imperative that our pension and health benefits be significantly increased so players like me, who helped make the NFL into the multibillion - dollar cash cow that it is today, not be forgotten.

In its complaint against Bombardier, Boeing had made no reference to the multibillion - dollar tax breaks it receives from Washington state.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver conceded yesterday that the multibillion - dollar «millionaires tax» on those making $ 200,000 and up — which is overwhelmingly favored by his fellow Democrats — is dead.

Cuomo wants to pit seven Upstate regions against one another for $ 1.5 billion in one - time state aid made possible by multibillion - dollar bank settlements.

«Making reference to projects like «the multibillion naira Opon Imo, a contract that was allegedly awarded to or co-ordinated by the governor's son, N20.9 billion garment factory, RLG factory, white elephant Osun Airport that has gulped billions of Osun people's money, it is unfathomable how Aregbesola is able to sleep in the night knowing full well that his government is running on deceit.

The discovery helped pave the way for a multibillion - dollar business of making drugs to pump up the immune system in chemotherapy - ravaged cancer patients.

He says, «Tom, I am not going to make a 40 - year multibillion dollar bet on a 15 - minute price signal.»

Trendy mind - altering substances aside, it makes sense that shamans would be finding more acceptance, given the prevalence of other alternative therapies such as yoga, Reiki, massage, acupuncture, and meditation — once - fringe practices that are now slick, multibillion - dollar businesses nationwide.

NY POST - Mar 31 - Melissa «Midwest» Harrington, a popular ex-porn star is being dropped as the face of a multibillion - dollar lawsuit against Match.com, making her the second hottie since January to be removed from the case.The suit accuses Match.com and affiliated sites of posting fake dating profiles featuring photos of pretty people to attract paying members.

On the verge of making partner, Josh Pratt's life is turned upside down when the SEC investigates the head of his multibillion - dollar hedge fund for insider trading.

With the crash looming and layoffs inevitable, Sophie's attractive but ruthless boss Ethan Pearce pulls her into a multibillion - dollar merger that could make or break their careers.

The new system is aimed at giving Kachi and his peers the chance to make a living by doing what they love and helping Japanese software developers join a multibillion - dollar global industry that had left them behind.

To the existing vagaries of the show's name are now added those of a multibillion - dollar US firm which makes its money from capital markets, and of its Republican owner.

Paul Glass Qualified: 2002 Made partner: 2015 Key cases: Advising a global multibillion - dollar company in relation to data breaches and theft of customer data by third parties; advising a global multibillion - dollar technology and IT company on disputes arising out of IT projects.

Tom Cummins Qualified: 2007 Made partner: 2015 Key cases: Advising Rusal on a multibillion - dollar shareholder arbitration concerning Rusal's investment in Norilsk Nickel; advising Rusal on an LCIA arbitration relating to a $ 50bn commodity supply contract.

It's enough to forgive him for his part in making televised poker a multibillion - dollar industry and giving us not one, not two, not three, not four, but five Transformers movies (and counting).

-- Speaking of Amazon: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said President Trump has no involvement in the decision - making process that will determine which tech company wins a multibillion - dollar Pentagon cloud computing contract that Amazon is vying for.