Sentences with phrase «multibillion state»

But the new effort wants to change the terms of the debate from multibillion state deficits and macro economics.

Not exact matches

His legal background proved invaluable in 1991, when the state of California and its insurance commissioner John Garamendi seized Raleigh's then - financial partner Executive Life Insurance Company after the value of the insurer's multibillion - dollar portfolio collapsed — a fate tied to its massive investments in the junk bond market of the go - go 1980s.

Now, officials suspect pot grown legally in Oregon and other states is also being smuggled out, and the trafficking is putting America's multibillion - dollar marijuana industry at risk.

Brennan has interviewed billionaires, heads of state, thought leaders and chief executives of multibillion - dollar corporations and her profile story on Equity Group Investments chairman Sam Zell was one of five magazine covers featured on the 2013 Forbes 400 issue.

These types of operations, though, aren't just reserved for nation states or multibillion - dollar global enterprises

The multibillion - dollar industry, where players draft fantasy teams for sports including football, basketball and baseball, has drawn increased scrutiny since last year with the attorneys general of several U.S. states, including New York, Illinois and Nevada, questioning the legality of the games.

The growing, multibillion - dollar fantasy sports industry dominated by DraftKings and FanDuel has drawn increased attention from state regulators over the past year, with the attorneys general of New York, Illinois and Nevada challenging their legality.

The multibillion - dollar fantasy sports industry has drawn increased scrutiny since last year, with the attorneys general of several U.S. states including New York, Illinois and Nevada questioning the legality of the games.

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).

JPMorgan Chase, seeking to avert a wave of litigation from the government, is negotiating a multibillion - dollar settlement with state and federal agencies over the bank's sale of troubled mortgage securities to investors in the run - up to the financial crisis.

Takeda told Reuters in September that it was scouting for multibillion - dollar acquisitions in the United States and other overseas markets as it seeks to boost its core therapy areas, including gastrointestinal medicine.

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.

According to a report from Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair, Trump sees himself as being at «war» with Amazon and Bezos and is considering a number of ways to strike out, including canceling Amazon's potential multibillion - dollar contract with the Pentagon to provide cloud computing services and encouraging state attorneys general to investigate Amazon's business practices.

Dow Chemical Co. and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC have announced plans to build multibillion - dollar chemical plants in Texas, Louisiana and other states.

The Hualong One, developed by two state - owned companies, is one multibillion - dollar facet of the Communist Party's aspirations to transform China into a creator of profitable technology from mobile phones to genetics.

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.

GlobalFoundries, which has racked up Empire Zone tax benefits estimated at up to $ 586 million (in addition to a $ 665 million cash grant from the state and other perks) built a multibillion - dollar chip fab in Saratoga County that now employs more than 3,000 people.

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

A Manhattan federal jury convicted a Turkish banker Wednesday of participating in a multibillion - dollar scheme to evade Iran sanctions in a sensitive case that has roiled diplomatic relations between the United States and the president of Turkey.

An infrastructure briefing by senior administration officials to a bipartisan group of senators was derailed on Tuesday by New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D.), who accused the administration of «killing people» by not prioritizing a multibillion - dollar tunnel project for her home state, a source familiar with the briefing told the Washington Free Beacon.

With the state facing a multibillion - dollar budget, Cuomo proposed a number of tax code changes, including $ 1 billion in higher taxes.

Representatives of the state Public Service Commission were in court Monday defending their decision last August to award a multibillion dollar, 12 - year subsidy to a group of upstate nuclear power plants along Lake Ontario.

The President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has announced the construction of a multibillion naira rice processing plant in Hadin, Jigawa State.

The state is giving more time for energy and environmental interests to react to a multibillion dollar plan by the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would subsidize renewable energy and nuclear power.

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.

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

This year there is a huge multibillion - dollar hole in the state's budget.

New York State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan wants to extend the state's property tax cap to New York City — saying such a move would have provided «multibillion - dollar savings for the people of the city of New York» if implemented over the past five yState Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan wants to extend the state's property tax cap to New York City — saying such a move would have provided «multibillion - dollar savings for the people of the city of New York» if implemented over the past five ystate's property tax cap to New York City — saying such a move would have provided «multibillion - dollar savings for the people of the city of New York» if implemented over the past five years.

Facing a multibillion - dollar gap in state finances, Governor Cuomo has turned to one of Albany's favorite piggy banks: the health care industry.

The state is giving more time for energy and environmental interests to react to a multibillion dollar plan by the Cuomo administration that would subsidize renewable energy and nuclear power.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Albany, where he will be delivering his executive budget at 1 p.m. at the State Museum — a proposal that is expected not to include a lot of good news news to a multibillion dollar deficit and funding cuts from Washington.

Even with New York facing a multibillion - dollar deficit, state legislative Democrats are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to include a «fair and sustainable» revenue source for the cash - strapped MTA in his upcoming budget proposal.

A Manhattan federal jury convicted a Turkish banker of participating in a multibillion - dollar scheme to evade Iran sanctions in a case that has roiled diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkish President Recep Erdogan.

Bill Hammond: «Facing a multibillion - dollar gap in state finances, Governor Cuomo has turned to one of Albany's favorite piggy banks: the health care industry.»

Increased oversight of the state's multibillion dollar economic development program — «aka corporate welfare.»

The chairman of the Assembly Committee on Racing and Wagering, J. Gary Pretlow, a Democrat from Mount Vernon, announced on Thursday that there would be a vote on a bill to legalize daily fantasy sports, the multibillion - dollar sports - betting industry that was bulldozed from New York last year after the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, ordered its two largest purveyors, DraftKings and FanDuel, to stop operating.

Legal weed could be a multibillion - dollar industry from which the state and New York City could reap hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year, according to an analysis City Comptroller Scott Stringer released Tuesday.

That report, called a draft environmental impact statement, will provide a recommendation to the New York State Department of Transportation on what multibillion - dollar option they should select for the project.

ALBANY — Even with New York facing a multibillion - dollar deficit, state legislative Democrats are calling on Gov. Cuomo to include a «fair and sustainable» revenue source for the cash - strapped MTA in his upcoming budget proposal.

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Several proposals in Washington right now including the changes to the Affordable Health Care Act, could mean multibillion dollar budget gaps for New York State.

Monday was the first full day of session in the New York State legislature, and lawmakers have a lot to contend with, including a multibillion dollar budget deficit, as well as the beginning of an election year.

ALBANY — Just a day before the deadline for a new multibillion - dollar spending plan, negotiations over the final pieces of the New York State budget slowed to a crawl on Friday, as Democrats in the Assembly effectively blamed a Brooklyn senator for holding up talks over a provision that would ease state oversight of religious schState budget slowed to a crawl on Friday, as Democrats in the Assembly effectively blamed a Brooklyn senator for holding up talks over a provision that would ease state oversight of religious schstate oversight of religious schools.

Thanks to a multitude of civil and criminal settlements with banks, New York state has a multibillion - dollar windfall to spend.

Since the 1997 enactment of the multibillion - dollar state School Tax Reduction program, New York has seen a pattern of relatively high school - budget approval rates — even in tough times.

DiNapoli also said the large, multibillion dollar bank settlements that have boosted state coffers for the past few years may be slowing.

It is committed to supply major backing for the proposed multibillion - dollar Atlantic Wind Connection, which hopes to deploy an offshore backbone transmission system to deliver energy from wind farms into mid-Atlantic states.

In 1994 tobacco industry executives were hauled before Congress to defend themselves, en masse, for the first time — and were soon to face multibillion - dollar lawsuits by states seeking to recoup the cost of caring for people with smoking - related diseases.

Albany NanoTech, a multibillion - dollar research complex affiliated with the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany in New York state, involves more than 250 corporations, many of which provide major funding for university faculty members.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have received a $ 1.1 million U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative cooperative award to improve the performance and lower the cost of solar materials for the multibillion dollar industry.