Sentences with phrase «on less than a dollar»

I guess that in a world where 1.3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day, nothing threatens Christian values more than a man who wants to take our tax breaks back.

Since 1.1 billion of the world's citizens live on less than a dollar a day, four college kids embark on a journey to Guatemala where they attempt to do the same.

For less than a penny on the dollar, we provide the critical safety net for people around the globe who live on less than a dollar a day.

We have got to show as much passion about Darfur and the millions of people living on less than a dollar a day in sub-Saharan African who are getting poorer while we are getting richer.»

And yet almost 70 per cent of Nigeria's population live on less than a dollar a day, and 15 per cent of Nigerian children die before their fifth birthday.

«For someone living on less than a dollar a day, $ 800 is almost an unthinkably large sum of money.

70 % of Nigerians live on less than a dollar a day in Nigeria.

Each goal will be met by reaching a set of quantifiable targets beneath the goal such as halving the number of people living on less than a dollar a day, improving the lives of slum - dwellers, or reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The money most likely came from state oil revenues in a country where the vast majority survive on less than a dollar a day.

In 1978 Maoism had left the country horribly poor: more than half the people of China tried to live on less than a dollar a day.

Not exact matches

Daniel Miessler, advisory services director at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire of products we constantly purchase and deploy for millions of dollars a year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple of people to maintain a catalog.

We are being paid less than men; women are still getting paid $.80 cents on the dollar.

Torrone thinks you could spend thousands of dollars on parts and build a device less powerful than Kinect, and suggests that Microsoft almost certainly subsidizes the $ 149 cost of the unit, hoping to profit via game sales.

And when the disease gets out of control because most of the population live on less than one dollar a day?

Arx Pax's system is potentially much less expensive than existing maglev systems, which rely on complex electromagnetic systems in both vehicle and tracks and can cost tens of millions of dollars per mile.

Meanwhile, in Detroit, the city initially classified its general obligation bonds as unsecured debt before settling with creditors for less than 100 cents on the dollar.

«The equity dollar buys less than it did five years ago,» says Ross, who now works on twice as many recapitalizations as he did back then.

The Tampa Bay Times, for instance, reported that Kids Wish Network was spending less than 3 cents of every donated dollar on the children it promises to provide for.

Auctioned off to an unknown buyer on the phone after a protracted, 19 minute bidding war, the masterpiece's road to fetching nearly half a billion dollars actually began in 1958 — when it originally sold for less than $ 200, an art dealer who once owned the piece told CNBC.

The promotion is just one of several companies are making on Equal Pay Day, as firms like Adidas (addyy), Reebok and Procter & Gamble (pg) push awareness campaigns about women earning 20 % less on the dollar than their male counterparts.

We've already invested the lion's share of our funds» original equity commitments to acquire about $ 1.8 billion of assets, based on unpaid principal balance, for less than $ 0.40 on the dollar.

The 2015 Canadian mergers and acquisitions market will be remembered as a year when domestic organizations went on an international buying spree, despite a dollar that was less than robust.

Oil futures rebounded in Asian trade on Wednesday, buoyed by a less than expected build in crude oil stockpiles last week and a weakening dollar, but concern that a two - month Continue Reading

Coca - Cola (KO)- As long as KO trades at less than $ 40 a share, I plan on continuing to dollar cost average using my commission free Loyal3 account.

Stock rose and the dollar fell on Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, after a key report showed the U.S. economy added slightly fewer jobs than expected in August, making it potentially less likely that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates already this month.

Microsoft has lost billions of dollars on Bing and has only mustered less than 3 % of the global search market.

For less than a dollar, you can dine on a bowl of noodles at some of the best street - food stalls in Asia....

And while an apartment or townhouse in Manhattan or central London is likely to cost more in dollars or pounds, taking into account the lower incomes Torontonians make, housing is actually less affordable here than in New York and on par with central London.

The move reflected dollar weakness caused by a less hawkish than expected Fed statement following its widely anticipated decision to leave policy on hold.

If you write a billion - dollar 5 - year total return swap on Microsoft stock, that counts as $ 80 million of «total leverage exposure,» because that's 92 percent less worrisome than the CDS.

The «machine learning would auto - remove those underperforming ads,» he continued, «and that's what would drive the ability for us, for the first time in history, to generate more than $ 1 dollar in donations for less than a $ 1 spend on the ad.

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The YC documents are probably fine in situations where the investor (i) wishes to purchase equity rather than convertible debt, (ii) is otherwise somewhat indifferent on terms other than percentage ownership of the company, liquidation preference and right of first offer in future financings, (iii) is investing at a fairly low valuation (i.e. a couple of million dollars), and (iv) is only investing a small amount (i.e. a couple hundred thousand dollars or less).

After the remarks, the pound lost ground versus the dollar and euro, and short - term interest rate futures are now pricing in the less - than - 50 % probability of a rate hike on 10 May, down from 80 % earlier in the week.

Still, with less than $ 100 million in debt due before 2020, Barrick executives said the company is shifting to a growth strategy, focusing on Nevada and the Dominican Republic, and will no longer sell assets in order to reduce its billions of dollars in debt.

No less a value conscious investor than Warren Buffett commented on this shift at the most recent Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, where he pointed to the fact that the largest companies in the S&P 500; Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google generate far more cash per dollar of earnings than companies of the past.

Since 2002 there have been only two fire seasons that have cost less than $ 60 million dollars, yet for the past nine years the B.C. Liberals have only budgeted from $ 51 to $ 61 million dollars per year on firefighting.

We CAN NOT continue to run trillions of dollars of red ink and expect that eventually we will have nothing less than a depression on our hands in which over 25 % of the population will be on welfare without jobs.

But in addition to terrorism and military conflict, Americans still need to confront the growing reality — and awareness — that the global economy remains highly unequal, including over 2.8 billion people who survive on less than two U.S. dollars per day.

Over a billion persons live on less than one dollar a day, and many get far less than that.

There are presently three billion people in the world who live on less than two dollars a day.

It's not right that nearly 3 billion people live on less than two dollars a day.

In its millennial report on poverty, the World Bank reveals that 24 percent of the population in developing nations live — or struggle to live — in absolute poverty, on less than one dollar a day.

Worldwide, «extreme poverty,» defined as people living on less than one dollar a day, has decreased by hundreds of millions of persons over the generation.

When paying the bill, we realize why they have that famous frugal duck on the wall — although everything is prepared fresh, using the finest ingredients, the total is less than 20 Euro (1 Euro currently equals about 1 U.S. Dollar).

Learn how a single mum raising her two kids on less than $ 30,000 a year turned her daughter's fussy eating into a million dollar business.

All known factors & risks when the city approved the project and funding plan, and all much less painful than asking taxpayers to fund a billion dollar arena on top of all of these costs.

in my opinion he should be seen as a poor man toni kross (and that's a poor man who can only afford 2 meals per day and live on less than 2 dollars per day).

With 76 % of dollars landing on the side that's getting less than 50 % of bets, you can safely assume that the bigger, sharper wagers are coming in on Jacksonville, especially when you factor in the 1.5 point line move towards the Jags.

For instance, at Pinnacle Sports you can bet online for as little as a dollar up to $ 30,000 on a football game and pay 60 % less vigorish on NFL sides than at other bookmakers.