Sentences with phrase «parents sell them for»

Usually, parents sell them for $ 1 - 2 a piece.

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The books I was selling were for parents to help children with subjects in school.

McDonald's Pizza was a fiasco for the Canadian chain in the»90s; just last December the U.S. parent corporation announced that it couldn't sell 10 million pounds of chicken wings because customers found them both too spicy and too expensive.

With $ 10,000 her parents had allocated for her tuition, Fried bought a bulk quantity of parts and began assembling and selling her kits, making about $ 10 on each unit.

Power Financial sold its shares of Montreal Trust to Bell Canada parent BCE Inc. for $ 547 million in 1989 because of reservations about the ability of a mid-sized company to compete with Canada's large chartered banks.

As a 12 - year - old growing up in the South African city of Pretoria with divorced parents, Musk created a video game, Blaster, and sold it to a computer magazine for the ungodly sum of $ 500.

Distributorships, such as withToyota, which licenses the right for a third party to sell the parent company product.

For example, if you sell children's toys, consider sharing follower and influencer posts and pins that are of value to parents of young children, like toymaker Melissa and Doug often does on its Facebook page.

Lore was the co-founder and CEO of Diapers.com parent company Quidsi, which he sold to Amazon for more than $ 500 million.

I learned that United Franchise Group, the parent company for Signarama, appreciates the fact that eventually owners will eventually want to sell their stake in their franchise and so has a process for when that time comes.

The finances of the British parent continue to free fall while the Canadian unit was sold last year for a measly $ 3.2 million to a restructuring firm.

In Philip Preville's feature today on the Spyder — a three - wheeled motorcycle BRP is hoping to sell to the growing legions of boomers hankering for the open road — he briefly recounts the decision to spin Bombardier Recreational Products off from its corporate parent:

-- In 2011, parent company Hudson's Bay Co. (TSX: HBC) sold its leasing rights for its nearly 200 Zellers locations to U.S. retailer Target for $ 1.83 billion

A Thursday New York Times story revealed that investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has a stake in Instagram, just led a $ 5 million funding round for the parent company of competitor Picplz — which in turn caused a blogger at Business Insider to wonder whether the apparent conflict of interest indicates that Instagram has been sold.

A lot of that has to do with the trust both groups have in Jet's CEO Marc Lore, who previously sold Diapers.com parent company Quidsi to Amazon for about $ 550 million.

John Sargent, CEO of Holt's parent company MacMillan, has said that e-books sales for «Fire and Fury» exceed 250,000 copies and more than 100,000 have been sold in audio.

Parent company Bear Stearns scrambled to provide cash for the hedge fund, selling $ 3.6 billion in its assets.

(TechCrunch's own parent company Verizon / Oath recently sold Moviefone for a stake in MoviePass.)

MoviePass» parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics sold additional stock last week in what seemed like a move to raise money for the service.

I wasn't buying what Christians (my parents) was selling when I was a kid, and nothing has changed for me.

Proctor's book is really three smaller pieces clumsily soldered together: a moving depiction of her relationship with her father after her parents» divorce; a grimly factual trudge through the Episcopal «discernment» bureaucracy; and, in the book's final section, an interesting call to change our understanding of how someone should prove his fitness for the priesthood.

Now there may not be a large supply of newborn infants which are what most adoptive parents want and they may have to wait 2 years for the child of their dreams, but if any parents out there have a safe caring home to share with some orphaned children you do not have to wait 2 years, so don't sell your lies here.

I'd also throw in items such as stoning non-virgins on their wedding night in front of their parents, killing your disobedient children, can sell your daughter into 7 years of slavery for cash, rules on how badly you can beat your slaves.

Boys who were considered comely, if they had been made prisoners of war, or had been abducted or sold by their parents, were mutilated for the purpose of feeding the trafficking of eunuchs.

Unfortunately, in some cases there is no option for repayment, as the slave is owned outright, having been sold by her parents in the direst circumstances.

CCA sold a 29.4 per cent stake in the Indonesian business to parent company The Coca - Cola Co for $ US500 million ($ 681,000, originally $ 570 million) last year to fund accelerated capital expenditure and market development.

Genworth's parent sold 220 million shares and retained ownership of 430 million shares which are subject to a voluntary escrow until the Australian subsidiary's financial accounts for the year to December 2014 are lodged with the ASX.

Our coconut oil is not sold in the Philippine market, for the simple reason that we never saw the value of marketing a traditional product that almost anyone living in the Philippines could produce in their own kitchen with fresh coconuts using the same methods their parents» and grandparents» generation used.

My parents remortgaged our family home and risked it all for the Banaban brand and the dream of selling coconut products worldwide and today they are doing exactly that.

Tracy sold her home for startup capital and started The Perfect Purée out of her parents» home in Southern California.

They need more strength and depth and the players they signed, their parent clubs were willing to sell for large sums of cash.

But that we will show off your crotch is not a selling point that American kids, or their parents, are particularly ready for.

Tanner had to sell his parents on his dropping out to pursue freeriding competitions; his father, Gerry, was bitterly opposed, and the two didn't talk for six months.

This transfer is far from being easy or uncomplicated though and we still do not even know for sure that his parent club Real Madrid will actually sell him on after bringing him back from Juventus.

When are we going to getting mad at the companies that set out to sabotage our efforts, by buying our personal information from maternity and baby stores and sending us free formula and coupons, that buy ad space from every baby, pregnancy and parenting website, that sell cans of their formula for $ 20 + and contain less than 25 cents worth of ingredients and for selling formula contaminated with bug parts.

If a parent wanted to purchase a full - fare first class return ticket for their infant, to use with an approved - for - flight car seat, I have a hard time believing that Malaysia Airlines would refuse to sell that ticket.

We came out of this family centered program with a toolbox of strategies for dealing with a variety of situations in which anxiety could or has been an issue... a tool box with tools which the kids and the parents knew how to use and were sold on.

If you went to the hospital for an appendectomy to save your life, and while she was operating on you the doctor cut off your foreskin and sold it to a cosmetics company or a company that made artificial skin out of it to treat burn victims and you woke up foreskinless and your parents said, «Fine with us!

Her follow - up best - selling book, Teach Your Children Well, focuses on expanding our current narrow and shortsighted view of success and providing concrete strategies for parents.

It's all so perfect — fresh, healthful food for the same cost as processed junk — that it makes a public school parent like me want to cry out, «OK, Jamie, I'm sold!

Students, teachers, and parents work together to create goods to sell to raise funds for their school.

Like an adult selling someone out at work, many preschoolers tattle for attention, to exert power or to gain favor from an authority figure, whether it's a teacher or parent.

... or instead of buying all of these new items, use items you already have around the house — old purses (for girls), tupperware, visit second - hand stores for cloth napkins... it's hard to get excited about «be a green parent» articles, blog entries, and websites that just tell us to go buy something b / c it is green... even the Waste Free Lunch website tries to sell us on how much less it costs to pack a lunch, saying that cloth napkins, lunch bag, reusable containers and thermoses don't cost anything while tabulating the cost of paper / disposable versions... but there is an initial layout, so that argument doesn't hold my attention.

And so in order to be compliant for those 10 % or less, which we sell at a deeply discounted rate to the school, the 90 % + of parents are looking at us and saying, «What in the hell are you doing?

Even if this is one of the best sold lever handle door locks, we can't neglect the fact that there are also a lot of parent reviews telling that their kids figured out for the short time how the mechanism works.

And her blog of the same name is bringing you daily doses of her wild, crazy and fulfilling home life with craft ideas, recipes, advice on parenting, marriage tips, ways to save money to make the dollar stretch for your family and even a shop that sells some of her favorite parenting and lifestyle e-books.

The local multiples group parents help with advise, common questions and also had tag sales several times a year for people who wanted to sell or trade baby equipment (twin strollers, etc).

A new effort this year from the I Am Who I Am Foundation, a portion of the sale of the products goes to teens and young adults with special needs who are selling the products and a portion goes to buy super soft blankets for babies born with special needs at area hospitals to help parents celebrate the birth.

A doll that purportedly helps babies sleep sold out instantly and started selling for more than $ 300 on eBay, because parents are desperate.

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