Sentences with phrase «of a windfall»

Water is essential for life, but increasingly, it is viewed as a source of windfall profits.
The good news is that Old Age Security (OAS) is not used as part of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) calculations — just CPP & QPP.
If you don't have an emergency fund and are living paycheck to paycheck, put a large portion of your windfall in low risk savings such as a high yield savings account.
One of the many reasons I was able to pay off my student loans in three years was because I applied most of my windfalls towards those loans.
This year, the DFG will receive a hefty portion of the windfall from the government's sale of frequency bands to launch an initiative that could make a big difference to a few universities: a fund to establish or expand large research centers and help pay for their buildings, equipment, and salaries.
The room quickly fills with residents of Windfall Island.
The over-billings pre-date Cuomo's tenure, and a one - shot repayment of the feds (if they will settle for as little as $ 850 million, that is) would not be an inappropriate use of the windfall money.
The state has recently been the beneficiary of a windfall from major lawsuit settlements with several banks and insurance companies.
Fred Pearce's review of Windfall by McKenzie Funk presents us with selfish businesses looking forward to climate change so long...
Defending the flagship announcement, she pointed out the former adviser to Tony Blair and ex-business secretary under Gordon Brown was the architect of a windfall tax on utility companies after 1997, costing the firms # 5bn.
In the meantime, geologists don't question the economic motivation of their windfall of short - term grants — they just work the field and hope it lasts.
While some major oil - producing nations wisely saved part of their windfall in sovereign wealth funds, the oil price needed to balance their budgets kept creeping up while their long - discussed economic diversification policies did not materialise.
Companies thus far seem to have taken much of the windfall and pushed it to stock repurchases and dividends, with the evidence so far unclear as to whether there will be an accompanying investment boom and wage increase.
With the corporate tax rate reduced to 21 %, we look at how major companies are taking advantage of this windfall.
«Any legislator stubborn enough to turn down that type of windfall for New York City students and teachers is forgetting about the families who elected them here in the first place.»
However, those kinds of windfalls rarely happen.
Joining FERS can allow you to reduce the impact of the windfall elimination provision or avoid it entirely.
This could discourage employees with hopes of a windfall or make them feel powerless if shares decline despite their efforts on the factory floor, says David Hofrichter, leader of the executive compensation practice at Aon Hewitt.
However, perhaps as a result of the windfall received from the sale of MLB Advanced Media, payroll has gone up significantly.
Set aside part of your windfall for anything and everything for which you'd otherwise have to pay with borrowed money.
The bulk of this windfall would go to a relative handful (fewer than 200) of the very wealthiest estates valued at over $ 10 million each.
Therefore, we tend to forget about it until it arrives and then regard it as a sort of windfall whose eventual disposal means nothing to the broader financial picture of our lives.
Ferri suggests readers consider the source of the windfall (a pension payout is treated differently from a lottery win) and the size of the lump sum relative to your existing portfolio.
However, they may reduce your own Social Security benefit because of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP).
Our next stop is over at Mrs. Marie's classroom, located at the top of Windfall Island, directly across of Salvatore's mini-game.
You can funnel a portion of each windfall like this into your savings account, and use the remainder to splurge a little on yourself.
We have lots of windfalls at the moment so am doing this when I can, in between everything else.
While you're probably not going to make a massive change in your finances, short of a windfall like winning the lottery, there are plenty of things you can do to ensure you're bringing in enough monthly income to live comfortably.
Lastly, the price paid by Northrop — $ 134.50 a share — is some 22 % above Orbital's closing price Friday, and Orbital had already risen over 20 % this year, thanks to expectations of a windfall from the Trump administration's pledge to overhaul the strategic arsenal.
In a standard economic model, the long - term consequence of that windfall is higher cash wages for employees, which offset the new taxes.
For example, and in my opinion, the specification of a bird's nest upon the ground does not invalidate the principle of «showing mercy during a time of windfall profits».
We had a couple of buckets of windfall Transparent apples, and after making a Caramel Apple cake and a batch of hard cider with about half of the haul, I decided to can some applesauce.
As for Wolves, the club must now hand boss Stale Solbakken a large chunk of this windfall to allow the new boss the best chance of rebuilding the squad and gaining bouncing back to the Premier League at the first time of asking.
The Brown pick is the one that has an element of windfall value.
So when that 186 % increase in NBA rights fees shows up in advertisers» pass - along costs and carriage fees on your cable bill, you can gripe about how avaricious players and greedy owners are unworthy of the windfall.
That is why we have said every penny of windfall from the sale of the government's stakes in the banks must be used to repay the national debt — not for a politically timed pre-election giveaway at the expense of taxpayers and the economy.
The prospect of a windfall to improve subway performance has transportation advocates like Charles Komanof excited.
Both Newmont and Anglogold have over the years resisted the imposition of windfall tax on them.
«We began as the party of the windfall tax on the privatised utilities and the minimum wage in 1997, we ended — despite doing great things — as the party that was defending bank bonuses and a party that was pushing forward ID cards.
While that would mean a tapering off of these windfalls, it could help securities industry profits, with lower litigation costs and the associated settlement payments.
Poore stands to make $ 31 million in the deal, although he is planning to reinvest millions of dollars of that windfall back into the business, which has its headquarters on the top floor of the ZEN building at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany.
The Tri-University Meson Facility in Vancouver plans to put $ 15 million of its windfall toward a fourfold boost in the energy of its nearly complete Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC).
Not only would corporate tax reform need to make it through today's Washington gridlock, but even if it did, other special interests will likely be angling for their cut of the windfall.
With that, they become believers in a bubble and partner up with Vennett in anticipation of a windfall.
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