Sentences with phrase «pick up the tab more»

Picking up the tab more often when going out with friends, donating more to charity, voting with my dollars in every decision, are all things I'd like to do one of these days.

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«His $ 1.5 trillion plan expects state, local and private partners to pick up more than 85 percent of the tab.

Non-Prime users spend a little more than half that ($ 700), but they may be picking up the tab elsewhere, like in the cost of gas to shop in - store, the higher price of items from big - box retailers, and shipping from other stores.

It may be that companies are more picky about workers than they used to be, and that they are more willing for students to pick up the tab for their education and training.

The restaurant operator, also known as B - Dubs, says it's paying 30 % more for chicken wings these days, and it's time for customers to pick up the tab.

There's been on more than one occasion that my family's tab has been picked up at a restaurant by complete strangers.

The three previous resodding jobs have cost more than $ 250,000, a tab picked up mainly by promoters of the events that have torn up the turf.

But last year, the renewal of NY / NY became the casualty of yet another squabble between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio — with Mr. de Blasio asking Mr. Cuomo to increase the number of units to be built in the city, and with Mr. Cuomo demanding that Mr. de Blasio pick up more of the tab — calling for a 50/50 split of the cost instead of the state paying 80 percent, as it has done in the past.

While the counties are calling for the state to pick up more of the TC3 tab, the college is looking to expand programs and services in order to remain competitive among local students.

One more tip, if you aren't picking up the tab, let your date set the tone for price range.

More than half (56 %) of single men are prepared to pick up the tab.

More trying was the fact that DeGrasse's ruling said nothing about how much of the record - setting tab should be picked up by the state and how much by the city.

With an estimated $ 1.1 billion more in bond revenue needed to finish facilities improvements, can we rightfully ask taxpayers to pick up the tab on the teacher raise as well?

Under the law, districts couldn't charge more than 25 percent of the retail cost for each textbook, with the state picking up the tab for students on free and reduced lunch.

The Senate's would force local property taxpayers to pick up more of the tab.

Still, the expense can be made much more palatable if Uncle Sam is picking up part of the tab, in the form of our nation's tax laws.

Most put in $ 15 for a copy of the game, but many of the more extravagant pledges were already disappearing, including lunch with Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert at the princely sum of $ 10,000 (I wonder who's picking up the tab).

One is, they have no incentive to build plants that are more expensive without someone picking up the tab for the difference; another, there are trade barriers and tariffs that need to be adjusted (Bush folks say they are talking with Chinese about this); another is the lack of intellectual property rights law in China (and other developing countries).

In the United States, while more and more people are moving to vulnerable coastal areas, insurance companies are retreating, unwilling to pick up the hefty tab of future weather devastation.

Under his budget, cash - strapped states and local governments would have to pick up the more than $ 400 million tab for clean up and restoration of these iconic water bodies, stalling years of environmental progress.

We're sure dad will get a kick out of showing off his not - so - ordinary gift and will just maybe pick up the next tab a little more eagerly.

In addition, multi-generational vacations are becoming more common — this is where grandparents are traveling with their children and grandchildren, often with the older generation picking up more of the tab due to the tight economy.

They cover big ticket items such hospitalization and surgeries but will also pick up the tab on physician office visits, ambulance services, prescription medications and more.

We believe so strongly in training and accountability that the company picks up the tab, and as a result our agents pick up more cheques.