Sentences with phrase «of dollars spent creating»

If the billions of dollars we spent creating Engage NY had been put into those failing schools, they might be much better by now.

Such wildlife corridors linking up larger but isolated protected areas are the most widely adopted strategy for halting biodiversity decline, with tens of millions of dollars spent creating and protecting them every year.

Not exact matches

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

Because you need to spend those marketing dollars to create and nurture customers in a world where getting a slice of their attention is becoming harder day by day.

The first: That Intel (intc), after all these years and billions of dollars spent, still hasn't created market - leading mobile chips.

Shane Snow, co-founder of Contently, recounts how he spent every last dollar of his savings in order to create a platform to connect freelancers with brands.

Millions of potential leads are lost by not spending a few thousand dollars to create a foundation online.

And while requiring people to spend months working for free does put a substantial barrier in the way of someone who can't get financial assistance from his parents, requiring someone to spend a year or two paying many thousands of dollars to a school creates a much larger barrier.

«When we first started Fairy Tales Hair Care for Children, a salon - only line of organic products created to deep clean and condition as well as prevent head lice, we spent thousands of dollars on a direct - mail piece bundled with other salon - only products,» says Barash, 43, who started her NYC - based company in 1999.

Yet, its the auto industry that creates the demand by spending billions of dollars on sexy advertising to push SUVs on consumers.

If you create a budget and follow it, you can confidently spend each dollar that you have budgeted without worry of debt at the end of the day.

For example, at Buffer, when we wanted to boost our podcast downloads, we created an audience of people we knew would be interested in our ads before spending a dollar.

With billions of dollars of construction spend spread across a few years, along with the promise of strong jobs creation in the tune of thousands of jobs being created, the state hosting a Gigafactory - scale facility is primed for an economic boom.

A certified financial planner (or consultant) went to college and then completed additional training to become professionally certified in creating financial strategies to help their clients get the most out of every dollar they earn, spend, or invest.

Icahn had spent the 2000s making hundreds of millions of dollars the new - fashioned way: Creating a hedge fund structure, so that he could invest his own money alongside people willing to give him 2.5 % of their investment, plus 25 % of their profits, for the privilege.

Those who run the Fed are despondent that despite implementing for eight YEARS an interest rate policy specifically designed to enable Obama to create a totally false illusion of economic «recovery» by massively increasing government spending with trillions of phony, deficit, zero - interest - rate «dollars,» the people saw through the economic lie and defeated the Fed's next intended puppet, Clinton.

«Here in Greater Vancouver alone, the project is expected to generate more than a billion dollars in construction spending, create thousands of high - paying jobs, and help attract new investment to our region,» said Black.

The infrasturcture bill that would have created jobs and spent some of our tax dollars on repairing our failing transportation system was shot down by republicans because they «feel» it's too socialist and would give Obama a «win» which they can not accept, regardless of the need for both the repairs and the jobs.

«When Utah consumers purchase locally produced or grown products it builds our Utah economy since a dollar spent on a Utah product creates the effect of adding $ 4 to $ 6 to our Utah economy.

Coca - Cola, Nike, and even McDonald's spend millions of dollars sponsoring athletes and creating ad campaigns to do so.

We wouldn't be caught dead participating in one of your pathetic 5 - man protests, fighting in the stands like utter imbeciles, spending thousands of dollars trying to sabotage team morale before a game with plane - flown banners or any of the other embarrassing spectacles you create which the sports tabloids thrive on.

In a world in which mass media is sponsored by multi-billion dollar corporations millions of those dollars are spent on creating commercials which portray lives in which everyone is able to afford to buy their products.

By increasing spending with no way to pay for it, Democrats have created an unbalanced budget that includes no relief for property taxpayers and continues to cut the STAR property tax relief program by millions of dollars.

This means that US Dollars are spent to acquire a resource, where instead American workers could have produced it, thereby creating jobs and increasing the wealth of the country.

«We are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in economic development subsidies, tax payer monies that are being used to subsidize private corporations that were supposed to create jobs,» he said.

«When public dollars are spent, the jobs that are created should be stable, pay decently, and have benefits — they should have the things people need to live,» said Kirk Laubenstein, executive director of the Coalition for Economic Justice, a local labor group.

The union wasn't responsible for any major upheavals like in 2014, when it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in the primary to create a scenario in which three Republicans were on the November ballot in a Buffalo Senate seat, enabling the Democrat to win with just 32 percent of the vote.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature economic development program, Start - Up NY, created just 408 new jobs in its first two years - including nine in Central New York - despite millions of dollars spent advertising the program.

Common sense reforms to ensure a competitive bidding process, allow the Comptroller to review contracts, and create a database of deals will ensure that the public's tax dollars are being spent appropriately.

But Start - Up New York created just 408 jobs in its first two years of operation, despite the state spending more than $ 53 million dollars to advertise it.

The LLC loophole was created by the Board of Elections in 1996, and has allowed special interests to spend tens of millions of dollars since.

During a boat ride along Buffalo's waterfront, during which Governor Andrew Cuomo and other political leaders celebrated economic development, the head of Empire State Development announced that Moog Incorporated will soon spend million of dollars and create new jobs at two of its local sites.

The County Executive has put forward a costly agenda in his second term, requesting dozens of new jobs, millions of dollars in additional spending, and utilizing surplus funds to create long - term costs.

More residents than ever are engaged with their government and the spending of their tax dollars, and with more knowledge comes more power to achieve our shared goal, creating a safe place for young people to learn and grow.»

The proposal, for the final budget of Mr. de Blasio's first term, provided a blueprint of sorts for a potential second term with big - ticket investments — including an additional $ 1.9 billion in capital spending to create more apartments for some of the poorest New Yorkers — and long - term plans, like tens of millions of dollars to start a preschool program for 3 - year - olds in city public schools, and new spending on homeless shelters.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on job creation programs that have created only a handful of jobs.

It's part of several programmatic changes at the foundation, an independent entity created by the government in 1997 to improve Canada's research infrastructure, as it prepares to spend the last billion dollars of a $ 3.1 billion endowment.

Millions of dollars probably will be spent trying to create the first virtual plant, an Internet tool that scientists might use to study the role of every gene and protein in the life of a plant.

Americans spend billions of dollars every year on supplements, and it's very important to understand that not all supplements are created equal....»

Everything I used to create this fun metallic look can be purchased at Belk, and best of all, you can earn $ 20 in Belk Reward Dollars when you spend $ 100 on cosmetics.

Unfortunately, not everyone has the necessary resources to spend thousands of dollars creating new designs.

Singles dating sites across America are offering their members incentives to retain and create new business such as the chance to win holidays, thirty day free trial memberships, buy a six month subscription get six months free, and a «find a match guarantee» Several of the largest American online dating sites use pure clout to attract new business by annually spending millions of dollars on television commercials.

The idea that cash is unlimited and no expenditure too frivolous or wasteful extends to the studio and its animators, who've spent many millions of dollars here creating the digital illusion of a farting penguin.

In a time when most movies are little more than filmed deals that can spend millions of dollars on elaborate special effects sequences that fade from the mind almost as soon as they play out, he has created some of the most bizarre, hilarious, haunting and memorable imagery that I have ever seen in a film — who could forget the sight of beer baroness Isabella Rossellini standing upon artificial legs filled with her own product in «The Saddest Music in the World,» or the horses stuck in the middle of a frozen river in «My Winnipeg»?

Companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to create better training.

With costs of creating a mediocre talking head course still ranging from $ 150,000 to $ 1 million each, organizations are essentially spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a Hyundai (sorry Hyundai, no offense).

These high and low projections, based on 2006 — 07 dollar spending, are the result of calculating historical rates of least and greatest growth and applying those rates to create low and high projections until 2020.

Companies, organizations and governments spend millions of dollars creating customized eLearning courses, eLearning games and applications within their enclosed sphere.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

Over the last six years schools and districts have spent millions of dollars equipping their students and faculty with iPads and Chromebooks, often in an attempt to create one - to - one classrooms.