Sentences with phrase «making pittance»

(And to wit, most editors and publicity assistants at NYC publishing houses who have any title other than «Executive Editor» are making pittance salaries and pay their Manhattan rent via family trust funds).

But ZDNet has uncovered one Amazon scammer who didn't make a pittance... he made millions.

Why should I muck that up to make a pittance more?

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Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

To make that happen, they charged department stores a pittance while charging other tenants much more.

That fee might be a pittance for a very wealthy person — regardless of what Trump's net worth actually is, $ 130,000 probably didn't make much of a dent in it.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

«Small - scale mining is the second biggest global employer, and many of those mines force their workers to labour long hours in dirty and dangerous conditions for a pittance, whilst we enjoy the high value, glittering jewellery made using their gold.»

Cherry season makes me want to do a happy dance and this year was no exception, especially because I scored both Bing and Rainer cherries on sale for a pittance!

I think the argument that you're trying to make applies perfectly to a bigger club that do not rely on UCL money because for them, it's a pittance.

It is time for justice for people who keep these buildings running, the cleaners toiling for a pittance to make these places fit to work in.

And while $ 100,000 would make a yuuuuge difference in your average state legislative race, it's a pittance at the presidential level.

The salary drawn for members of Congress is a pittance compared to what they make by other means while in office.

McLaughlin called the $ 500,000 payments made by SUNY Poly to the city over the last three years «a pittance.»

An illegal war Uncontrolled immigration # billions leaking every year via new quangos Students (in England) now have to mortgage their futures to get to University 24 hour binge drinking breakdown of the family vast increase in licensed gambling External debt quadrupled to $ 11 Trillion making us the second largest debtor nation in the world after the USA at $ 12 Trillion (we may overtake them later this year) Pension funds pillaged for # 5Bn a year Gold reserves sold for a pittance Children leaving school unable to read or write NHS a basket case - 1 in 10 leave hospital sicker than when they went in.

Offering to pay more than the cheap items were worth earned the trust of the seller, and the strategists also made the most profit overall: they sacrificed comparatively little on cheap deals and paid a pittance for expensive objects.

It is a billion - dollar commercial industry of studio software, marketing courses, ad copy that uses women sitting in lotus to sell yoghurt, workout clothes, upmarket retreats, 1 %, apps that make money for their platforms but pay their content providers pittances, and now $ 1000 yoga mats made of leather.

if you're tired of living life on a pittance and not being able to make ends meet, isn't it time you found someone to be your benefactor?

Particularly with the custom of those betters hiring caddies for a pittance to compete against one another on the course, like so many race horses on a track, and winning large sums on the side bets they make with one another.

Fiscally it managed to make back its $ 110 million budget plus a pittance more, but both critical and audience responses were lackluster.

The Walk brought in $ 3.7 million in its second week of release, but has made back only a pittance of its $ 35 million costs.

Please compare that to the pittance that charter school operators make for improving the lives of your children in most cases!

Screw you, you're not worth my goodwill or making my books available on your platform because you dared to go against the stream of uber popularity and get a Nook (or a Sony or Kobo or any other reader out there) and I'm way more interested in trying to take my share of the pittance I'm likely to actually earn out of the $ 500,000 Amazon has designated for the month of December.

The other major facet was that Target hasn't been making any money on digital content and making only a pittance on the hardware sale.

It also could explain why it subjects regulation violators to fines of $ 25, a pittance for puppy mill operators who made $ 9 million in Holmes County in 2009.

If you do own a Wii U though I highly recommend you pick it up for the pittance its worth now as the local multiplayer modes they'll be excising from this updated release are actually some of the best the system has to offer, making actual use of the Wii U's gamepad like no other game has since.

While you might make millions from a particularly high - paying heist, the vast majority of it is automatically transferred to an overseas account, leaving only a relative pittance for you to spend.

Okay, Jon Stewart made precisely zero reference to TreeHugger, but it is true you can subscribe to TreeHugger on Kindle for a pittance on ye olde paperless Kindle original flavor, or on the bright shiny K2.

While there's no shortage of competition in the wireless streaming marketplace, the Chromecast Audio is among the simplest, cheapest, and most convenient ways to make virtually any audio device in your home wireless, while linking a few together can bring multiroom audio to your home for a pittance.

What amazed me is that you guys accepted this listing knowing the total commission would be a pittance compared to the time and effort that you and Giedra would need to put in... Living in Texas and deploying several times overseas during the process made it even more of a challenge for you.