Sentences with phrase «pay about a fifth»
The top.1 % pay about a fifth of the overall taxes.
https://politics.stackexchange.com/ Not exact matches
These moves have paid off; China now accounts for about a fifth of Apple's revenue, up from about 15 percent two years ago, and sales there are growing fast.»
Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.
A report by Bristol University and the International Longevity Centre (ILC - UK) found that about two - fifths (40 %) of people aged 75 and over and who still have a mortgage to pay off have an interest only mortgage with no linked investment with which to pay their loan back.
Last November the baseball commissioner's office paid a reported $ 7.5 million for about a fifth of Halper's stash of 100,000 items and donated those pieces to the Hall of Fame.
Now in the fifth year of a nine - year, $ 23 million contract with Napoli, Maradona has enough off - field endorsements and business income to earn about $ 8 million a year, which makes him the highest - paid soccer player in the world.
The Jaguars picked up the fifth - year option for Bortles, which will pay the quarterback about $ 19 million in 2018.
if at all he transfers to big clubs like Real or Barcelona they will pay about three fifths of what he cost from Juve.Disappointing.
Consider that Trump and the National Enquirer collectively paid less than one - fifth of that amount to keep both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal quiet about affairs with a major - party presidential candidate.
Even in the finance, insurance and real estate industries, which are generally considered to pay well, about one - fifth of the workers make less than $ 15 an hour, he said.
And so, with a fifth child on the way and Italian interior decorators to pay, the writer decides to dash off and self - publish a novella about Christmas — after, of course, being rejected by his publisher, whose dismissive comments about the holiday partly inspire the old cheapskate Scrooge.
in the 2014 fiscal year, the school paid the companies associated with Mr. Lager nearly $ 23 million, or about one - fifth of the nearly $ 115 million in government funds it took in.»
That's not good news for parents involved in paying for their child's education — about a quarter of parents are dealing with paying for a fifth, sixth or even seventh year of college, according to a recent student loan lender survey, Reuters said.
With this year's calendar changes, many parents are concerned about finding or paying for child care on the fifth day, or about athletics suffering because of one day less for practice.
Miles» report, which analyzed both state and national public school spending trends, pointed to numerous shortfalls in the state's school finance structure, including that North Carolina has the fifth lowest average teacher salary in the nation when adjusted for cost - of - living, and that the state's teachers earn only about 67 percent of the pay given to «similarly - educated, non-teachers.»
The Audi A6 is now in its fifth generation and like its executive car rivals from BMW and Mercedes - Benz, the latest version continues to offer a taste of life in the luxury car leagues, with levels of refinement, driver assistance systems and technology to make you think twice about paying extra for larger saloons from the class above.
Those tenders pay about one - fifth of a home's rental value and essentially have no tenants» rights.
717 Fifth Avenue in New York, Anbang's U.S. headquarters — Office portion 100 % owned — Paid about $ 415 million — Acquired around May 2015
In 2015, Ceruzzi teamed up with China's SMI USA to purchase the plot at 520 Fifth Ave. for about $ 275 million, almost double the price paid for the property in 2011.
Keith Nelson, CRB, designated broker at Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Executive in Bellevue, Wash., is now paying about one - fifth the rent he used to pay on a 4,000 - square - foot freestanding office.