Sentences with phrase «making hundreds of millions of»

Now DeSmog Blog was founded with $ 300,000 of money from a man called John Lefebvre who is an Internet gaming fraudster convicted last year of making hundreds of millions of dollars — a large chunk of which he is now being made to pay back to the U.S. government — by unlawfully laundering money to do with unlawful Internet gaming.»

Blizzard is making hundreds of millions of dollars.

But it's tough, when you see Grand Theft Auto IV out there as the biggest thing going right now, when they're making hundreds of millions of dollars, and we don't see any of it.»

And when there isn't — when crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars — we're surprised.

But not yet: «There's a big step between making one transistor and making hundreds of millions of them that all work.»

Fast forward five years and the line is now making hundreds of millions of pounds for the taxpayer.

Sheep exporters have been making hundreds of millions of dollars and all the while subjecting animals to the most unimaginable cruelty.»

Icahn had spent the 2000s making hundreds of millions of dollars the new - fashioned way: Creating a hedge fund structure, so that he could invest his own money alongside people willing to give him 2.5 % of their investment, plus 25 % of their profits, for the privilege.

If a trader does well, he can make hundreds of millions of dollars in a year.

A few months ago we saw a CEO present who had personally made hundreds of millions of dollars in a financial services business and had a plan to capitalize on the current market conditions.

Page Six has learned that Jana Partners hedge funder Barry Rosenstein — who is set to make hundreds of millions of dollars from Amazon's potential acquisition of Whole Foods, thanks to his 9 percent stake in the supermarket chain — is hosting a cocktail party for Cuomo at his luxurious East Hampton estate on Saturday.

He made hundreds of millions of dollars by speculating against the real estate market before it collapsed.

What is time - consuming is to actually commercialize that, so that it can be used to make hundreds of millions of doses.

An organic chemist based at Emory University in Atlanta who has helped start several biotech companies, Schinazi has made hundreds of millions of dollars from the drugs, which treat HIV and hepatitis B and help cure hepatitis C.

Cyworld and QQ alone make hundreds of millions of dollars from virtual goods.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi embodies about what you'd expect out of a marriage between the political firestorm that is Benghazi and Michael Bay, the action director everyone seems to love to hate, despite the fact his films make hundreds of millions of dollars.

Of course a third movie is on the far off horizon, but when The Hangover Part 2 makes hundreds of millions of dollars, it's only a matter of time before everyone agrees to do the final installment.

Publishers stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars selling new Common Core books and products, and there are lots of things out there that say they're «aligned» to the Common Core.

The district's rapidly increasing obligations to the Chicago Teachers» Pension Fund represent one of its biggest liabilities, putting enormous stress on the school system's budget as it makes hundreds of millions of dollars worth of annual pension payments.

Meanwhile, CMHC has made hundreds of millions of dollars from its insurance products, and most of that money ends up in the federal treasury.

Set aside for the moment the fact that Buffett invests in derivatives and has made hundreds of millions of dollars from them and take time to read his original letter on the matter.

But I will ask a question back: Do you think it would be financially responsible of Sony to not make a third game that has made hundreds of millions of dollars for their company?

The billionaire has made hundreds of millions of dollars selling art, including works by Jackson Pollack, Jasper Johns and David Hockney, according to a person familiar with the collection who says he still maintains art assets valued at more than $ 2 billion.

3Due to business as usual decisions on manufacturing processes, DuPont stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars in «early action» carbon credits under a cap - and - trade energy rationing system.

America's environmentalists, legislators, judges and bureaucrats have already made hundreds of millions of acres of resource - rich land off limits — and rendered centuries of oil, gas, coal, uranium, geothermal and other energy unavailable.

He made hundreds of millions of dollars.

«If even a fraction of the impacted customers implement security freezes, Equifax stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars from its security failings,» Schatz wrote.

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«Hundreds of millions of people may never set foot in the United States, but thanks to you they've experienced a small part of what makes our country special.

The problem is that while most probiotic formulas contain tens of millions of beneficial bacteria, like Lactobacillus acidophilus, fewer than a hundred or so of those bacteria actually make it into your gut.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

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.

The exorbitant cost of television advertising can cost companies hundreds - 0of - thousands of dollars, making it prohibitively expensive to place your product in front of millions of viewers.

Santorum made his original remarks over the weekend while roughly two million people at hundreds of «March for Our Lives» events across the US rallied against gun violence in America.

«It would also likely be the catalyst for other countries to enact similar laws, paralysing multi-national corporations under the weight of what could be dozens or hundreds of country - specific laws,» Apple said, as well as making the personal data of millions of law - abiding citizens less secure by weakening encryption standards.

A few companies, such as BCE and Canadian National, have voluntarily made special contributions worth hundreds of millions of dollars to their employees» plans.

• The head of bankrupt Bitcoin exchange could make hundreds of millions from failure (by David Z. Morris)

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.

We made money — our revenues went up by hundreds of millions over several years.

The recent investment that Warren Buffett's holding company Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) made in Apple has paid off to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in value.

Usually, the biggest celebrities just kept increasing their spending the more they made, until one day they realized they had run out of money despite having tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

In this particular case, depriving hundreds of millions of ordinary Chinese access to «House of Cards» and «Homeland» will only make the new regime deeply unpopular.

With hundreds of millions of people having already downloaded augmented reality games and apps, many retailers are now building their own apps to make shopping more convenient.

There's a snag, though: Emerging markets, home to hundreds of millions of potential consumers of made - in - the - U.S.A. products industry, are in a funk.

Opposition leader Jason Kenney claimed Suzuki «makes millions defaming the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of Albertans.»

It recently forged a cross-licensing patent deal with Nokia, agreeing to make a one - time payment in hundreds of millions of dollars and pay continuing royalties.

The premier made the pact with Alcan to disregard the deal the original contract and legislation and permit, indeed partnered with Alcan to give Alcan a sweetheart deal to make hundreds of million dollars making electricity for sale instead of expanding aluminum production as the deal called for.

Democrats created a plan to avoid losing hundreds of millions of dollars, but Republicans are using it to try to make political inroads in this deep blue state.

«The thing that's very different about Apple is that in one day we can make AR available to hundreds of millions of people,» he said.

«Thank you to the millions of customers and hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees all around the world who made this holiday better than ever before.

People who make in the high hundreds of thousands of dollars a year or just over $ 1 million a year could see the biggest benefits.