Sentences with phrase «new multibillion»

Nor would a carbon tax create a new multibillion - dollar global commodity whose value would depend on political manipulation.

How the world's richest person plans to tackle global warming with a new multibillion - dollar fund.

Andrew Revkin talks to the world's richest person about his plan to tackle global warming with a new multibillion - dollar fund.

They were about to move into a new multibillion - dollar world that had virtually no regulation — a burgeoning Wild West of gambling centered on a game they'd spent countless hours playing online, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

The companies rely heavily on overseas investment, often up to two - thirds of each new multibillion - dollar note offering, to help pare funding costs and keep mortgage rates low.

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 schools.

Otherwise, these new multibillion - dollar constructs will collapse under their own weight.

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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.

According to McGowan's website, her new memoir promises to explore «the truth about the entertainment industry,» «dismantle the concept of fame,» and «shine a light on a multibillion - dollar business built on systemic misogyny.»

A multibillion - dollar investment and thousands of new jobs will raise housing costs, tighten labor markets and clog streets.

But this service's multibillion - dollar annual outlay for new programming necessitates another challenge: helping each program get discovered by the subscribers most likely to enjoy it.

The new warnings represent a challenge to Florida's multibillion dollar tourism industry, with Miami Beach accounting for nearly half of visitor stays in the Greater Miami area.

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.

OUTLOOK The multibillion - dollar video business looks strong, and so does this racker's growth prospects, especially if the new owner works a few more days a month to expand the client list and territory.

The Queen City is the crown jewel in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's multibillion - dollar business - development strategy to revitalize economically depressed Upstate New York by turning it into a 21st - century manufacturing powerhouse.

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: A new class - action lawsuit against Facebook for complaints of privacy violations is a «multibillion - dollar threat,» Bloomberg News writes.

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.

New York REIT, which has been liquidating its multibillion - dollar office and retail portfolio, has had better luck.

HONG KONG — Global bank HSBC said Friday it's launching its latest multibillion - dollar share buyback, as it released its first quarterly earnings report under its new chief executive, John Flint.

The World Video Game Hall of Fame has inducted «John Madden Football,» a giant of the multibillion - dollar video game industry that another new inductee — the 1962 «Spacewar!»

And one may, without being unpleasant about it, note that the mainstream media and the scientific establishment who beat the drums for the necessity of killing embryos in order, they said, to find cures for all kinds of illnesses, along with politicians who agitated for multibillion - dollar referendums in California, Missouri, and New Jersey, were, not to put too fine a point on it, dead wrong.

New York City announced it filed a multibillion dollar lawsuit against five top oil companies, citing their «contributions to global warming,» as it said it would divest fossil fuel investments from its $ 189 billion public pension funds over the next five years.

Lawmakers have to close a multibillion dollar deficit by the end of March, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, said his colleagues want to even look to new areas to cut taxes.

Former LG Richard Ravitch thinks the next mayor of NYC isn't going to have enough cash in 2014 to maintain the level of spending and services New Yorkers are used to and will face multibillion dollar deficits.

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.

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

«Money from megadonors from multibillion dollar fossil fuel industry should be rejected by all Long Island elected officials,» said Diane Goins of Hempstead, chairwoman of the Long Island Chapter of New York Communities for Change, a nonprofit coalition of working families in low and moderate income communities.

Traffic jams could afflict New York City's heavily traveled West Side Highway for three years as a multibillion - dollar train tunnel is built under the Hudson River, draft proposals obtained by...

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.

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 years.

Ghana's new status as a producer and exporter of petroleum, he said, offers the perfect opportunity to create a petrochemical industry, including monetising the country's gas to create a multibillion dollar gas feedstock industry.

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.

Bill Samuels, the founder of the New Roosevelt Initiative, credits Cuomo with accomplishments like enacting same sex marriage and closing a multibillion dollar budget gap after years of profound dysfunction in Albany.

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.

The New York Times reported in 2011 that Cuomo, as New York's attorney general in 2009, used his office to threaten legal action against Chevron when Hinton was being paid $ 10,000 a month as a lobbyist for a group suing the oil giant in a multibillion - dollar court action alleging massive environmental damage in the Amazon.

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.

National Farmer's Day celebrates the industry, noting that one - quarter of New York's total land area is utilized as farmland, and that farming is a multibillion - dollar industry that supports thousands of jobs.

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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.

Decent treatment of them won't imperil agriculture — a critical, multibillion - dollar a year industry in New York.

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.

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.

Previously, Flanagan has targeted some of Cuomo's multibillion - dollar economic development programs, including $ 420 million in tax breaks to film and TV productions in exchange for often short - term jobs created in New York.

And, because the project requires no new railways or private land acquisition, it comes with a relatively modest price tag compared to multibillion - dollar undertakings such as the Second Avenue subway or the LIRR extension to Grand Central Station, the officials add.