Sentences with phrase «money pit for»

1 they don't know better; 2 they've been bamboozled; 3 they don't think / know there is another option; or 4 they think that this is a way to start out with minimal moneys, not knowing that they, in turn, become a money pit for the company they sign up with.

One of my favorite stores in the WORLD and a huge money pit for me!

Do they stand with Connecticut's students, teachers, parents, public school advocates and taxpayers or will they continue to turn our public schools into little more than testing factories and money pits for an industry that is gorging itself on scarce taxpayer funds while undermining the role of teachers, parents and the local control of public education.

As Recode points out, though, these peer - to - peer payment systems are usually money pits for companies looking to break into the space.

Not exact matches

«Fast Money» trader Dan Nathan takes a look at the implied move for Costco in the options pit ahead of earnings.

Doctoroff, company chairman Peter Grauer, and Pearlstine all opposed the idea, viewing the magazine, headed for a $ 62 million loss in 2009, as a money pit.

Now, it's no longer a place where people go for surgeries and emergency care; it's a money pit — a heavy, recurring capital expenditure with costly MRI and CT scanners, brigades of uniformed employees, and floor after floor of patient rooms that need to be forever cleaned and equipped.

Featuring the world's top pit - masters vying for $ 50,000 in prize money, the event represents the single most prestigious concentrated assemblage of past, present and future barbecue masters ever.

Hamlin's team, Joe Gibbs Racing, was widely acknowledged for having «tricked up» pit guns that it spent a significant sum of money developing.

This might be heaven for many managers who are earning a fraction of what Wenger is, but quite honestly all of the top managers today have a bottomless pit of money to spend on players.

On top of it, most of them are arrogant about it and can not fathom that if it were not for their bottomless pits of money, they would not even be supporting them.

Our club is in serious decline, our transfer window activity compared to the other big clubs is pathetic, clearly profit driven for greedy Kroenke, wenger is a subservient puppet and gazidis is just another yes man, none of the current board have any interest or backbone for the club they represent, as long as the silly fans keep the money coming all the management are happy, to keep their respective snouts in the trough (money pit) and laugh all the way to the bank.

and the others who never played or had only a handful of appearances could not even be loaned out some of them, that's good business they were cheap, now we knwo why they were cheap, now look merterseker, sanchez, ozil, theo, koschilney off contract, how much money is there alone, also wenger has a habit of buying kids spending 5 - 8 years developing them then other clubs say thanks we will have him, oh well he wasn't good enough, as he plays for his country, when are we going to start pressuring kroenke, gazidis and wenger with lowering of the stocks and merchandise so we are not profitable to the greedy self centred yank who uses us a a money pit.

Giroud # 1 for France and sees the new boy come in for big money and knows he'll likely push him pit of the club and take his France place.

Now this, I think, is where many of the club's detractors, and of course Wenger's too, simply overlook a simple and obvious fact — the majority of the top clubs, and some of those in the second tier, from whom we want to buy relevant top players, are owned by incredibly rich men, known as oligarchs for a good reason, or bottomless money pits, known as state - owned clubs, and we all know who they are, simply do not need the money, however much is offered.

«Spending extra money on things like pre-washed and pre-cut lettuce, for example, is a huge money pit,» says Stacy, «buying whole foods and preparing it yourself will not only cut back on costs but it will ensure you are not eating extra preservatives or additives in packaged foods.»

«When will they learn that the Assembly does not have a bottomless pit of money from which they can plunder resources to pay for their own self - aggrandisement?

The big - money free - for - all is pitting New York City real state, business, and charter school interests — which support the Republicans — against the teachers unions and other liberal activists backing the Dems.

I do not see how supporting a statelet that sees the USA as a bottomless money pit and a potential source of cannon fodder can possibly contribute to the conditions needed for our maintaining a viable state here at home.

The contest pits Moya against Hiram Monserrate, who is trying to make a comeback after he was expelled from the state Senate for slashing his girlfriend's face with glass, and did jail time for stealing city money in a separate fraud case.

The Park District race pitted a high school senior against one of the city's most influential businessmen, and ultimately Harig gave Paladino a somewhat unexpected run for his money in what many consider «Carl Country.»

Today, even former service chiefs are being made to account for fighting the money that was meant for insurgency but diverted and kept in pit latrines.

He charged that Labour believes there is a bottomless pit of public money for every problem, a government solution for every situation, and a Whitehall initiative for every issue.

AN AMERICAN man who hired a «luxury» dating service to help him find love instead found a money pit, according to a claim for damages.

2018-04-08 13:33 AN AMERICAN man who hired a «luxury» dating service to help him find love instead found a money pit, according to a claim for damages.

What The Money Pit and Funny Farm were striving for is here in all of its glory.

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House builds heavily on it's predecessors (Jack Benny's «George Washington Slept Here» for one, and W.C. Fields movies in general, for another), while at the same time, inspiring future «do - it - yourselfers - gone - wrong» movies («The Money Pit» for one and «Are We Done Yet?»

The career mode allows you to race across multiple seasons and pick up sponsorship money and buy upgrades for your car and pit crew.

Though Armored Core 3's main single - player mode revolves around a mission - based structure, there's also an arena mode where you can pit your AC against a number of increasingly difficult computer - controlled foes in one - on - one battles for prize money.

There is dialogue that advances a scene and there is dialogue that fills a page count, and David Giler's screenplay for The Money Pit toils almost exclusively in the latter.

Yet for some reason, a similar rumour never leaked out about The Money Pit despite the ever - diminishing pedigree of actor - turned - director Richard Benjamin, the man responsible for My Stepmother Is An Alien, Milk Money, and The Shrink Is In, to name a few.

Howard directed his all - time worst movie The Da Vinci Code in 2006 (even though it did what it was supposed to do — make a truckload of money), but he made up for the errors of his ways two years later with the riveting, brilliantly made Frost / Nixon, which pitted Frank Langella against Michael Sheen to mesmerizing effect.

Since returning from teaching at Harvard University to start a charter school in his hometown, Lawrence P. Hernandez has become well - known for two things: coaxing top - flight test scores from his mostly low - income and Latino students, and fighting like a pit bull for the money to do it.

When you have teachers scrambling and pitted against each other for a small amount of money [based on how their students perform on a test], what it does is narrow the curriculum to what's on the test, even if you don't set curriculum specifically.

Gresham was referring to the federal Education Department's signature program, which pit states against one another to compete for millions in grant money — initially $ 4.35 billion from the 2009 stimulus initiative.

Now its pretending to be competition for for the unreliable lack of quality money pit pos TESLA..

Money Pit: This is simple science and yet again, GM for what ever reason is just trying to «spin» the decision to uses premium fuel

Yet the 2.7 - litre Cayman lacks relatively little, as we learned from pitting it against the 3.4 - litre Cayman S. Buyers do get 19 - inch alloy wheels (versus 18 - inch alloys), the larger engine, added leather upholstery and bi-xenon headlights for that extra money.

I doubt FCA has the resources nor the will for such a money pit.

In a few weeks, Toyota will hold their annual Long Beach Grand Prix Toyota Pro / Celebrity Event which pits celebrities and pro drivers in a race to help raise money for children's hospitals.

While it is a very nice car and it works well for our family, it has been a money pit with one problem after another.

In the tradition of Sherlock Holmes, this newest mystery in the Charles Lenox series pits the young detective against a maniacal murderer who would give Professor Moriarty a run for his money.

Those must be a serious cash cow for the company and a money - pit for new writers.

There are plenty of options for avoiding high - cost, name - brand money pits.

This means that unless you want to, or are willing to work for it, or have the expertise, or willing to learn it, you are often better off doing what works for you rather than jumping into something that can turn into a money pit or become an anchor dragging you down.

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«Checking the water dispenser for issues on a fridge isn't standard,» says Tom Kraeutler, a former home inspector, author of «My Home, My Money Pit: Your Guide to Every Home Improvement Adventure,» and a syndicated radio host.

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If you're on the hunt for a house, here are some tips to help you weed out potential money pits before calling in a professional inspector.