Sentences with phrase «of windfalls at»

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Reaction to this news from the media world has tended to fall somewhere between shock and ridicule — unless the person in question is an investor in or former employee of Business Insider, of course, in which case they seem ecstatic at the possibility of a massive windfall.

«At a time when Disney expects a yearly windfall of $ 1.6 billion, Disney is discriminating against 38,000 of some of its lowest paid Cast Members,» said Angie McKinnon, a leader of one of the unions lodging the complaint.

It's like setting aside a dollar every day in savings — you probably won't miss the dollar, but at the end of the year you'd have a $ 365 windfall.

But the first thing I recommend you do when you receive a windfall is to take a «money break» and not increase your standard of living for at least a year.

And if you're planning on saving that windfall, you'll be faced with a tough decision: sock it all away at once or invest a little of it every month?

That will be a windfall for property managers like RioCan — which owns a number of Zellers leases — as they will be able to re-rent the spaces immediately, in most cases at a significantly higher price.

And if you do get a windfall, such as a bonus or a tax refund, save at least some of that money to help create a safety net.

In the meantime, low commodity prices are a windfall for many companies in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Metals and other raw materials are at their lowest in years, which is the equivalent of a massive tax break for the construction and manufacturing sectors.

A significant portion of these claims appear to be of a speculative nature and, while providing windfall revenues to businesses and consultants when their claims are successful, they are, at most, of questionable value as incentives for the claimed SR&ED.

Berkshire recorded a hefty windfall from the tax bill that Congress passed at the end of last year.

LOS ANGELES The windfall gains from the tax cuts passed by the U.S. Congress in December have brought back «animal spirits» that encourage risk - taking throughout corporate America, according to some of the participants at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in California on Monday.

With the corporate tax rate reduced to 21 %, we look at how major companies are taking advantage of this windfall.

Bear Stearns is trading at $ 6 instead of $ 2 because unelected bureaucrats went beyond their legal mandates, delivered a windfall to a single private company at public expense, entered agreements that violate the the public trust, and created a situation where even if the bureaucratic malfeasance stands, the shareholders of Bear Stearns will either reject the deal or be deprived of their right to determine the fate of the company they own.

Most student loans do not have prepayment penalties; therefore, if you receive a windfall of money at some point in the year (for instance, a work bonus, a birthday present or a tax refund), you can pay more than the minimum monthly payment.

«An individual should sit down with a financial professional to look at their whole picture if the windfall is of any size,» said Alexis Hongamen, a money manager at Federal Retirement Investment Advisers in Orlando, Fla. «For small windfalls, it may be best just to pay off credit card debt and promise themselves never to fall into that trap again.»

That's what people at my church discovered when the first 10 percent of the surprise $ 1.6 million windfall was distributed to each of them.

The fact is, the fervent atmosphere and SRO crowds at the Garden along with the TV exposure and gobs upon gobs of dollars (league officials predict a cool $ 1.4 million windfall for the schools and the conference from last week's event) all melded to create a spectacular climax to the conference's four - year pursuit of that beacon of intercollegiate marketing, the ACC.

He said at last year's TOUR Championship that the $ 10 million FedExCup prize, the biggest windfall in the game, was an «amount of money doesn't sort of mean much to me anymore.»

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.

Two players lurking just behind Kirk at the start of the final round are Billy Horschel and Bill Haas, who have already bagged that $ 10 million bonus windfall for winning a FedExCup.

German Bundesliga side Mainz 05 are on the verge of missing out on a cash windfall for their Nigerian defender Leon Balogun, whose contract with the club will expire at the end of the current German Bundesliga season.

Please continue the advice as it such a windfall to have such sages deign to demonstrate their willingness to pass on their experiences of finance at the highest level.

Tottenham Hotspurs, after spending the windfall from the sale of the player who carried them all the way through the previous season and about # 20 million more, were definitely going to overtake their tight - fisted rivals at long last.

A punter at Sky Bet landed a huge windfall on the weekend through their football betting and it was all off the back of a losing bet as well.

Historically any trip to Manchester and Liverpool has been undertaken with hope rather expectation but, of those four confrontations, the one against City, prior to their windfall at least, would have offered the greatest promise.

In our family, we've been more aware lately of how much added sugar and food additives our kids are consuming at school and at other outside activities, so we're trying to stay away from the typical windfall of candy that tends to happen around the Continue Reading

Yet again, Bob Marley assured us on «So Much Things to Say» that a likely windfall from social justice, equality and fairness, patriotism, truth, and exertion of spiritual fortitude against «spiritual wickedness in high and low places» accrues to society or community at large.

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.

This is essentially the kind of challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo faces in the wake of a deal between prosecutors and the French bank BNP Paribas, which will yield a windfall of at least $ 2.23 $ 3.3 billion to the state's general fund.

Our utility companies will have their corporate income taxes slashed from 35 percent to 21 percent generating a major windfall at the expense of customers.

In the decade prior to the APF's creation, the initial $ 900 million windfall from oil exploration licences — equivalent to more than five times the entire Alaskan budget at the time — had flowed into and out of state coffers.

In a statement, Cuomo called the fee «an earnest attempt at a real solution» to the problem of bag waste, but said that allowing the stores to keep the money amounted «to a $ 100 million - per - year windfall to merchants.»

In a gaggle with reporters at the Capitol, Astorino said he agreed with the Senate GOP's one - house budget resolution when it came to distributing billions of dollars the state gained through windfall financial settlements.

Don't Labour [and Polly Toynbee] understand the irony of bleating for another windfall tax, at the same time that it was announced that the New Deal has cost # 3.6 bn, and yet youth unemployment has actually risen since 1997.

This will bring to $ 1.3 billion the amount of non-recurring windfall money that Cuomo has used to at least temporarily offset recurring operating expenses over the past four fiscal years, according to a table included in the financial plan update.

Both sides argued over the financial prudence of ECMC handing the county a cash windfall in exchange for its cooperation in allowing the hospital to borrow money at the lowest possible rate.

That followed two other crackdowns, including one in September that revoked benefits at 35 buildings that collectively received a windfall of $ 4.5 million.

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.

Those fortunate enough to have access to high finance, made windfall profits merely by virtue of being in the so - called right place at the right time.

Obviously, the Occupy Wall Street Movement has Governor Cuomo and his corporate allies worried and with good reason: Pressure is mounting because corporations evade paying their fair share of taxes through loopholes and political favoritism, while the super wealthy look forward to an indefensible $ 5 billion windfall at year's end.

The liberal Democrat said he expects Trump's tax plan «to be met with a huge backlash,» asserting many of its provisions would reap a windfall for high earners at the expense of domestic programs, and would involve an «immense amount of deficit spending» — supposedly anathema to conservative Republicans.

But lawmakers are taking a «wait and see» attitude because the state saw a windfall of revenue at the end of last year.

«Each of these proposals would result in a massive windfall for the wealthiest Americans and provide almost no relief to middle - class taxpayers who need it most,» Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., said at the Capitol.

The Lower East Side lost a protected health center after city officials lifted protections at the site at the urging of a labor union close to the mayor — a move that produced a windfall for the buyer, who flipped the property to a luxury housing developer.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Anticipating a «feeding frenzy» over New York state's $ 5 billion windfall, a dozen public officials, union leaders and contractors gathered this morning at Syracuse City Hall to advocate spending all of the money to repair roads, bridges, water pipes and other infrastructure.

Meanwhile, the Health Department is also taking advantage of the funding windfall to improve staffing at its Medical Examiner's Office, which employs far fewer staffers than either Monroe or Onondaga counties, according to health officials.

The U.S. Department of Defense, which received a congressional windfall of $ 80 million to research regenerative medicine in 2008, is funding a team of scientists based at the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine to oversee an 80 - patient study of ECM at five institutions.

«This data that Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini and IBEX provide to the scientific community is a windfall for studying the far reaches of the solar wind,» said Arik Posner, Voyager and IBEX program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., who was not involved with this study.

«It's not a windfall by any means, but on the other hand, certainly we understand it's a pretty constrained budget environment so being able to see any increase at all is a positive thing,» says Thom Mason, director of DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Unfortunately, due to a case of mistaken identity at the designated motel, a flummoxed house detective (Timothy Oliphant) becomes the windfall beneficiary of the luscious lady's libidinous largesse.