Sentences with phrase «of public money on»

Along with a strengthened renewable energy target, energy - efficiency measures, and stopping the waste of public money on subsidies that encourage pollution, a cost - effective, market - based mechanism can deliver these targets.

Where billions have been spent of public money on; Dangerous warming as delineated in a Hockey schtick that used upside down data, where the rings from just one tree accounted for 25 % or 30 % of the claimed warming, where observed data was grafted onto tree ring and varve and other paleo data to give the impression of rapid warming but which grafting was carefully hidden behind other lines in the Hockey stick graph.

It's emerged that the failed Wakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) spent over # 1m of public money on sacking its staff before it announced it was due to close.

Big picture, we spend a ton of public money on education, and very little of it funds innovative work.

He would appear to have become especially vulnerable after the publication of Assembly Members» expense claims this week, which showed that he had spent more than # 5,000 of public money on his bathroom, as well as buying such items as a trouser press and an iPod on expenses.

John Bercow, the Commons speaker, has spent thousands of pounds of public money on wining and dining fellow MPs, including around # 2,000 on a leaving dinner for his former deputy.

We don't need to waste a billion pounds of public money on this dinosaur road.»

We can no longer spend the large amounts of public money on expensive weaponry.

Rather, it was the governor's $ 200 million outlay of public money on ads touting the program's, and his own, success.

By exaggerating the economic benefits of road capacity increase and underestimating its negative effects, omission of induced traffic can result in overallocation of public money on road construction and correspondingly less focus on other ways of dealing with congestion and environmental problems in urban areas.

I expect a lot of public money on Notre Dame as we near the weekend and the game could even close as low as +6 at some sportsbooks.

A little more than half the total betting tickets are on the over, but the amount of public money on the over is hovering at around 90 %.

As we mentioned earlier, oddsmakers are very skilled at anticipating bettors» behavior and shading their opening lines to account for the influx of public money on one side.

The books we spoke with said they were taking large amounts of Public money on Oakland — 3 — but sizeable Sharp money has come in on the Jets +3.

That said, it's not all sportsbooks that are unwilling to shade their line to adjust for this influx of public money on Florida State.

Sports Insights» College Basketball Betting Systems have not triggered any plays on this game, indicating the line movement was caused by an influx of public money on Baylor.

Oddsmakers understand this tendency, and will often shade their opening lines to anticipate the inevitable influx of public money on the favorite.

In addition to charging prohibitive juice, sportsbooks will often shade their lines to account for the inevitable influx of public money on large underdogs.

This influx of public money on New England has helped to quickly move the line to 4.5, but we will continue to monitor this line movement as the week progresses.

As the playoffs progress and the amount of public money on each game increases, the value derived from fading the public improves in kind.

There has clearly been an influx of public money on the Patriots, which has been responsible for the move from -7 to -10.

Casual fans love to bet favorites and overs, so oddsmakers will typically shade their opening line to account for the inevitable influx of public money on large favorites and popular square teams (a la the Cowboys, Packers, Patriots).

Oddsmakers understand this tendency and shade their lines to account for the inevitable influx of public money on the chalk.

The line opened at Seattle -7.5 and despite the flood of public money on Seattle the line has moved to Seattle -7.

It will be interesting to see whether oddsmakers adjust the spread when there's an official announcement made about Leonard's status, or whether this influx of public money on the over causes the total to rise again.

Sports Insights MLB Betting Systems have yet to trigger a move on either side of this game, indicating the line - movement is likely attributed to the influx of public money on St. Louis.

In this example, there's been an influx of public money on Utah, but large bets from well - respected clients have taken Colorado.

Not exact matches

Plus, they spend an additional $ 1.1 billion of their own money on emergency room visits and public health insurance programs that could be mitigated with paid leave policies.

Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

Reuters reported on Monday, citing a Treasury source, that Italian authorities will intervene with public money if necessary to ensure the continuity of the bank and to protect clients» savings.

Since then, Google has been shoveling increasing amounts of money into government lobbying, but has been notably quieter in the public domain on such issues.

Investors would get a (then) 35 % tax credit on money invested in a portfolio of startups managed by his firm, GrowthWorks Capital (now part of Matrix, a public holding company he created to bring together different divisions of his empire, including venture capital and mutual funds).

The @washingtonpost loses money (a deduction) and gives owner @JeffBezos power to screw public on low taxation of @Amazon!

The state's peak business body has called for reforms to the penalty rates system, which it says is out of date and causes many Western Australian businesses that open on Sundays and public holidays to lose money.

for Transport, the public must question every major transport project as spending 2.2 billion dollars on the Forrestfield - Airport rail link is a grotesque waste of money which can not be justified with our very low population density and simply needs an efficient bus system at a fraction of the cost similar to that servicing Melbourne's Tullarmarine Airport.

Rather than making a solely making a public statement about how much they value diversity and inclusion, and reiterating that discrimination will not be tolerated, the company is putting its money where its mouth is, to ensure everyone on the team knows what is expected of them and how to live into it.

This is why smart crowdfunders line up 25 percent or more of their financial support before they launch their campaign, then have that money donated on the first day before promoting to the general public.

Facebook announced the new feature in a blog post on Thursday that encouraged users to adopt the new feature in order to raise money through the social network for anything from medical procedures to relief in the wake of a public crisis or natural disaster.

Furse noted that money raised from initial public offerings on the LSE and its secondary market AIM, totaling 29 billion pounds ($ 57.4 billion), was the highest in the world and more than that of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq combined.

Governor Snyder has said that the bankruptcy filing will allow the city to spend more money on public services because less of its money will be hurdled toward paying interest on debt.

And then there's the question of how a not - for - profit foundation like Mozilla can even consider these kinds of commercial deals, given the higher public disclosure requirements for nonprofits, not to mention the restrictions on money - making activities that accompany the favorable tax status.

That there would be job cuts at a legacy IT provider is almost a forgone conclusion as these companies, many of which made the bulk of their money on pricey, proprietary hardware and software, must adapt to a world in which more companies send more of their computing jobs to a public cloud provider like Amazon @amzn (amzn) Web Services.

Here's another good story: When Facebook (fb) went public, it was already gushing money, posting a net profit of $ 1 billion on sales of $ 3.7 billion in 2011, the year before its IPO.

While Facebook went public with the intention of connecting the world to better connect consumers, its goal now is to make money, which has caused Facebook to not be as stringent in its policies as to how other companies advertise on the platform, Greenfield said.

The one element binding this diverse group of investors together is that they receive some type of equity or stock vehicle when they put money into a growth company; each group then has its own set of goals in regard to how much of an investment return its members hope to earn on that stock and how quickly they hope to earn it (usually when they cash out during an initial public offering or in a merger or acquisition deal).

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

I truly believe that it's time, after almost a decade of prosperity in the public markets and the global economy, that we put pressure on the entrepreneurial community as a whole to start focusing on making money versus raising money.

It is of great importance that the public is confident that the federal funds rate will be, on average over time, within the target range set forth by the FOMC, and that other money market rates will continue to move closely with changes in the federal funds rate.

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A landscape architect, Karen sits on the board of New York's High Line public park, which Ackman money helped build; and Human Rights Watch, which has received major gifts from the couple.