Sentences with phrase «parting of my few dollars»

Now I can buy one box, just for the sole purpose of helping support a great organization, which for me, makes the parting of my few dollars all that much sweeter.

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In dollar terms, though, a few of Buffett's picks with more modest returns were actually the most lucrative for the investor's portfolio this past year, in large part because Berkshire Hathaway owns massive quantities of their shares.

It also creates opportunity for people to be part of the mobile economy, people who are students who need to make a few extra dollars.

``... I think that any time you have a situation where something happens again and again and again, and it happens on the part of people who should know better, and it happens on the part of people who should be able to engage in a decent and reasonable calculus about whether or not it's worth going to jail and being separated from your liberty for a few thousand dollars, that something is broken in the system,» he continued a bit later.

Tom DiNapoli: «Now that the economy has certainly been in a recovery mode, it's certainly not as strong as we'd like it to be in many parts of the state, I think now is a good time for us to look not only at this program, but at the various economic development dollars that we've spent over the past few years to see what kind of return we've been getting on those taxpayer dollar investments.

Genome sequencing will cost only a few hundred dollars, so that will become a part of the medical record of each individual.

The best part is that I used a lot of stuff I already had and made the rest for just a few dollars.

If you are looking for a few hundred dollars of allowance every month, as extra pocket money, you most likely a part - time sugar baby.

Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

The union always claims that the Vergara Lawsuit, the film «Waiting for Superman», Students First, Michelle Rhee, Students Matter, are all part of a proposal / plot by billionaires to do the following: A. Privatize all public education to funnel billions of dollars in profits to the top 1 % and mostly to a few billionaires.

You can purchase a coolant freezing / boiling point tester from most auto parts stores and even in the auto department of places such as WalMart for a few dollars.

If you take a pass at the dealership and decide instead to have a paint stripe, compass or tissue holder added to your car through the local body shop, parts store or mass merchandiser, you could save a few dollars and add to the overall comfort and appearance of your machine.If you choose, however, to bypass the factory and the dealership in order to buy a set of anti-lock brakes, you may end up spending more money and could put the comfort and appearance of you and your vehicle in jeopardy.

Sadly, like many other commodities, I think we may end up with a tiered market, where the higher end businesses sell better product at higher prices, but fewer products, and then we'll have the dollar store version of books, where you get what you pay for, which for the most part is junk, but you know, people buy it anyway.

Razer will also offer the tablet and docking station as part of a bundle, and a Core i7 version with larger SSD will also be offered for a few hundred dollars more.

Note that the withdrawals may move you up through several tax brackets if a large part of your retirement earnings come from your RRSP, so the average benefit may be there even if the last few marginal dollars are in the same brackets.

«As we've looked back at how the Association got its start with just a few key players in such a small industry at the time, it's amazing to see the progress we've made that has led us to where we are today, part of a 69 billion dollar industry,» said Bob Vetere, president and CEO of APPA.

For the most part these tours are very safe, but you should be aware that the equipment required to put together this kind of course only costs a few hundred dollars and small ones have sprouted up everywhere.

Perhaps the best part is that several games use the free - to - play model as a sort of «trial version»; you can experience the whole game for free if you're willing to put up with advertisements, or you can chuck the developers a few dollars to have a completely ad - free experience.

In spite of publishing this statement and reducing funding to a number of prominent climate denial organizations over the past few years, ExxonMobil continues to support dozens of organizations who are part of the climate denial movement with millions of dollars in annual funding.

Towing coverage is a relatively inexpensive part of an auto insurance policy in the US, it's just a few dollars a month and in an emergency it can make all the difference in the world.

For just a few dollars a month, you can protect your family and your future from both legitimate and frivolous claims, with defense against those claims included as part of the policy.

All of this protection is just part of the policy, and costs just a few dollars a month.

Now the good news is that there will be a few options that we can consider, the bad part is that most (if not all) of these options will be limited to about $ 25,000 dollars in coverage, and will contain what is called a Graded Death Benefit.

No one wants to spend a few hundred dollars on a pair and wind up losing one (or both), and so carrying cases are going to be an important part of the equation.

He specializes in repositioning multi-family residential properties and has used millions of dollars of private money to finance hundreds of multi-family units, single - family homes, about a dozen storefronts, a few mobile home parks, a storage facility and part of an airport.

The best part is that I used a lot of stuff I already had and made the rest for just a few dollars.