Sentences with phrase «people about a dollar»

You're disinclined to take it if it's really expensive, whereas if the price comes down even by a dollar... we asked people about a dollar and they said that would make a difference.

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U.S. welfare systems, Tanner says, tend to pull a person's benefits all at once as soon as they get a job — so much so that a person on welfare who gets a job will only see an increase of about five cents for every new dollar they earn from that job.

«People tend to think about nominal units, not real dollars.»

There's a lot of room for expression of everybody's ideas, but sometimes people forget about the almighty dollar.

We're not talking earnings in the billions of dollars from multinational, multi-industry conglomerates anymore - we're talking about the ability for people to work together in harmony, understanding and mutual respect, along with cooperation.

After bringing these people on, you still aren't going to have additional dollars in your startup's pocket, but you'll be well - on - your - way to a solid team that's dedicated to gaining your product traction, which is about 80 percent of what most early - stage investors look for in the first place.

Ethereum has risen over 3,000 % against the dollar in 2017 and its success is one of the reasons people are feeling good about crypto right now.

When you strip down the complicated investment vehicles — now being peddled for pennies on the dollar — there are people like Jack Hamersma, a boat salesman Packer wrote about who lost his job, was diagnosed with cancer and then had his house foreclosed upon.

McDerment is tight - lipped about precise revenue numbers, revealing only that, «we help people like you collect billions of dollars.»

Faber is one of the most gloomy people you'll meet in the investment world, constantly issuing warnings about where you should live if the war comes (rural farmland), and what will happpen to the dollar (it will be worth less than toilet paper).

The AT&T - Time Warner deal announcement touts «a combination unlike any other,» «a perfect match of two companies with complementary strengths,» and a billion dollars a year worth of «synergies,» which is how business people talk about cost - cutting.

People will spend about $ 50.84 billion dollars on their pets in 2011 alone, estimates the association, up from $ 48.3 billion in 2010.

«We see so many situations where people get into retirement, and any time they need one dollar from their IRA or 401 (k) accounts, they need to worry about tax consequences,» Plessl and Houser tell Business Insider.

The Chinese currency now has slipped about 3 % this week, and would have fallen more if the People's Bank of China hadn't resumed selling dollars to buy yuan.

On Tuesday, «CBS This Morning» co-host Gayle King asked Musk about the hundreds of thousands of people who put down thousand - dollar deposits and still have not received their cars.

Using an extensive set of data on loan performance that we have developed with Equifax, we find that multiple first mortgage lien holders — that is, people owning more than one home — account for about 40 percent of the dollar volume of seriously delinquent mortgage balances, up from about 5 percent in 2004 (Chart 10).

CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA, SOCIAL CAPITAL FOUNDER & CEO: When you think about how sticky something is, the most important thing to look at is this concept called churn which is how fast are people leaving the service, and specifically, you can look at companies leaving the service or the amount of dollars that you «re losing.

Mostly, I enjoy working with people who are conscious, heart - centered and concerned about making a difference on the planet... not just making a dollar.»

«If you take this over the course of a 30 - year career and compound it,» one researcher told Malcolm Gladwell for his book Blink, «we're talking about a tall person enjoying literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnings advantage.»

Worried about the brain drain, Ms. Mayer has been approving hefty retention packages — in some cases, millions of dollars — to persuade people to reject job offers from other companies.

Now, talking about what is specifically happening with the US dollar, it might be interesting for people to look at the data provided by the World Bank, in which the World Bank provides the ratio between purchasing power parities and nominal exchange rates of countries, comparing it with the US dollar.

Enter Basis, a year - old, 10 - person, Hoboken, N.J. - based cryptocurrency startup at work on a «stable coin» whose elastic supply will ostensibly expand and contract to keep its value at about a dollar instead of all over the map.

So when we talk about how big that market cap could be there's people thrown around trillions of dollars as figures that are in the realm of possible here.

Instead of hearing about billion dollar gun - registries or carbon taxes, we all get to spend four weeks talking about potholes and roads, garbage pickup, traffic congestion, and other issues that affect people literally where they live.

Haven t heard about it much lately... maybe they re doing it and not talking about it (buying dollars)... just awfully strange that with our wages stagnating and unemployment at 14 % when you count people who drop out of the workforce and pparttimers who can t get fulltime work — that the dollar is surging as it is.

Of course, the big brands are spending millions of dollars to get their short lived moments of fame with the hope of making a lasting impression, earning loyal brand evangelists and inspiring people to talk about them, share their message and become a viral hit sensation.

This is when people poured thousands of dollars to start their companies, such as Laundromats, store fronts etc; But if you really look at this scenario, maybe about the 5 % who did make it past the first five years, 3 of them were struggling just to pay rent and stay alive, 1 was doing a little bit better than the others, and the other 1 was doing exceptional.

Anticipation runs so high that Jet's founder and chief executive, Marc Lore, is in talks with investors about raising hundreds of millions of dollars in additional capital by year end, according to people briefed on the discussions.

Okay, it hasn't raised a lot of money (a couple hundred thousand dollars if their website can be believed) and maybe it is just coincidence that there's a movie out right now about P.T. Barnum, but the fact that it has raised even one nickel is enough to convince me that people have completely lost their frigging minds.

In a constant dollar / pound scenario (which is what people are talking about when referring to the 4 % rule) it doesn't matter what value your portfolio is.

Being passionate about life and work and finding inspiration from other people are key ingredients that make for winners, according to several speakers at on the Tuesday morning platform of Million Dollar Round Table...

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

I shudder to think at what Jesus would have to say about our multi-million dollar church buildings while poor people are living in cardboard boxes all over our cities and selling their bodies to get food.

Although I dislilke proselytizing, I learned an interesting «take it to the bank» fact about Catholic charities: it is this: because good and decent people who are priests and nuns take vows of poverty and are given only small allowances, Catholic charities in general deliver a far greater percentage of your donated dollar to the work you wanted done with it.

What's more, by writing persuasive articles about people's moral obligation to give away money, Singer has caused tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars to be donated to famine relief organizations.

Why, just out in my home state of California... the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints (Mormons) and... the Catholics, decided to get together and pour millions of dollars into California to defeat, proposition 8, which is... about 2 people of the same gender being able to marry and have the same civil rights under the law as hetero - married couples.

Powerful lobbies such as the Pro Israel lobby, American Atheists and many others pay top dollar to have shills come to these forums, spread their agenda and copy whatever info they can get about the people who disagree with their point of view.

Camping and Family Radio are con - men, this isnt about religion, its about milking foolish people out of tens of millions of dollars.

As author Penny Lernoux has noted: «When the Alliance for Progress was finally buried at the end of the 1960s, about the only thing that the Latin American countries had to show for it was an enormous foreign debt: 19.3 billion dollars compared to 8.8 billion in 1961 when the program was launched» (Cry of the People [Doubleday], p. 211).

How about donating over $ 300 dollars to kiva.org to blooming independent business people with the express instructions to not have any return?

People are not excited about sending their dollars off to faceless mission agencies; they want to become personally involved.

The bill, and especially the sentence about forgoing dollar valuation, closely mirror a major issue in the social sciences about how people exchange different forms of goods and services and to what extent one form is commensurable with another.

While many people have expressed reservations about the direction of the Clinton economic program, the good economic news is that retail condom sales broke the $ 300 million dollar mark for 1993.

@ jay — the next time i see a homeless old person i'll make sure to give up my one dollar that i was going to spend on soda because if the christians don't care about them then we are pretty much doomed, i mean the homeless old people because nobody else out there cares.

About one percent of the twelve billion dollars spent annually on research in our country is spent studying people and their problems.

Most of us were expecting to hear challenging words about our responsibility to end a brutal war, financed with our tax dollars, that was imposing suffering on the Nicaraguan people.

If Beck is truly concerned about the public and hard times that people face, why doesn't he make his GBTV free for awhile instead of raking in millions of dollars?

I was struck by a remark Paul Haggis made, that other religions give you all their most basic beliefs in the first few minutes, while with Scientology you can be years into it and hundreds of thousands of dollars down before they get around to telling you about Xenu and the volcano people and so on.

I have yet to have a single religious person, who rants and raves about Leviticus as the basis for anti-gay sentiment / banning gay marriage, say one thing about (or complain about, or try to change) the back of the dollar bill.

What people are mad about, is that Chick Fil A, owned by * 1 * family... donates MILLIONS of dollars a year to groups like the FRC..