Sentences with phrase «pittance on»

Okay, Jon Stewart made precisely zero reference to TreeHugger, but it is true you can subscribe to TreeHugger on Kindle for a pittance on ye olde paperless Kindle original flavor, or on the bright shiny K2.

Then what's reported to the credit bureau is just the pittance on the actual billing statement.

Be content earning a pittance on your savings account.

The other major facet was that Target hasn't been making any money on digital content and making only a pittance on the hardware sale.

The country has a festering problem with crack cocaine addiction, because the Colombian couriers distribute the drug as salary to their Belizean assistants, who sell it for a relative pittance on the streets of Belize City.

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For instance, legislators like Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon recently warned that Cures amounts to a big pharma giveaway which will weaken regulatory standards on drugs, provide a mere pittance to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and do nothing to confront the rising tide of high drug prices.

To hear tell from the «right now» industry mavens, no old - line business today is safe from aggressive and disruptive innovators planning to mobilize the masses to do the biddings of others on demand and — albeit over time — they'll be working for a relative pittance.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

Banner ad space on Yahoo can be bought for a relative pittance.

You lose out on the competition — you're just getting your own institution's current rate (we're with a credit union and they beat the market)-- but you don't need to re-appraise and I had only to pay a pittance fee for the trouble; our payback was 1.5 months.

This means in the novitiate living on a pittance, working with the poor and having nothing to call your own.

Cherry season makes me want to do a happy dance and this year was no exception, especially because I scored both Bing and Rainer cherries on sale for a pittance!

Arsenal will have to release players on a free or sell for a pittance other wise no one one will take players off our hands because of their high wage demands.

I think the argument that you're trying to make applies perfectly to a bigger club that do not rely on UCL money because for them, it's a pittance.

is this the same striker that lots of us on here were calling for wenger to sign last summer for a pittance.

That was not enough to save his career as an Arsenal player though, so Wenger sold him on to the German Bundesliga side Werder Bremen for an undisclosed fee that was probably a pittance in the modern game.

Looks like Gervinho is on his way but how annoying that he and Djourou won't attract a fee and we will probably subsidise their wages - and we get a pittance for the greatest striker of all time.

A bizarre move considering funds aren't in short supply, according to the owners anyway, yet they opt for a man with absolutely no managerial experience at this level and whom will cost them pittance to keep on.

On Saturday, they'll face Cruz Azul, a wounded giant going through their own pittance this season under new coach Pedro Caixinha, a man whose arrival prompted great expectation but has now resulted in severe disappointment for many fans who thought this was the end of the squad's extended title drought.

hes now spying on what pittance i have to live or if i get any money as i sold something, he tries to control that too, and looks round the bedroom spying on me for god nos what looking for something.

They charge hundreds for tickets, but pay pittance to their cleaners: how a new trade union took on one of the most famous institutions in Britain.

But the first year of implementation, this coming fiscal year, would only have cost the state $ 15 million, a relative pittance of the $ 20 billion the state is expected to spend on Medicaid, advocates say.

If that Welfare cap doesn't come down pretty quick then some hardworking family earners slogging their guts out for a pittance, with 2 jobs on zero hour contracts, of # 20 000 a year or less, is going to be feeling pretty miffed that some couch potato is on # 21K and s / he is only on 20k, or less.

In a written statement via text message, Liu said, «$ 26,000 fine imposed now, four years after - the - fact is a laughable pittance compared to the $ 3.5 million penalty unjustly imposed with political motivations on my campaign just weeks before the election in 2013.»

What ASUU is demanding in terms of allowance is a mere pittance when compared with what the illiterate «legislathieves» are appropriating to themselves on an hourly basis.

Offering to pay more than the cheap items were worth earned the trust of the seller, and the strategists also made the most profit overall: they sacrificed comparatively little on cheap deals and paid a pittance for expensive objects.

The final project would cost a total of $ 300 million, a pittance compared with the nearly $ 5 billion NASA spends annually on its shuttle program.

Barbara Buchner, head of the Climate Policy Institute Europe, who has written some of the leading policy papers on climate finance, noted that the $ 364 billion that went to clean energy activity globally last year is a pittance compared to the $ 1 trillion that the International Energy Institute says is needed annually.

«The federal dollars spent on brownfields redevelopment are just a pittance of what is required to clean up and redevelop these sites.

For too long a nation has benefited from the dedication and enthusiasm of our scientists, engineers, and technologists in higher education, training the next generation of teachers, scientists, and technologists on a pittance.

if you're tired of living life on a pittance and not being able to make ends meet, isn't it time you found someone to be your benefactor?

Particularly with the custom of those betters hiring caddies for a pittance to compete against one another on the course, like so many race horses on a track, and winning large sums on the side bets they make with one another.

Hell, that's barely put a pittance of what I'd spend on other things like blackjack and hookers.

Nevertheless, this true tale of overcoming - the - odds proves oh so touching because it simultaneously sheds light on the plight on of an invisible sector of society, namely, the masses of mostly Mexican immigrants who harvest our produce in obscurity for a mere pittance.

He lives in a 10 - by - 12 foot wooden shack, and appears genuinely startled when Maud shows up on his doorstep, negotiates a tiny pittance of a salary and starts cleaning and cooking for him.

In place of Begin Again's insufferably starry - eyed music - industry idealism (where the big innovation that gets record producer Mark Ruffalo jazzed up is selling an album for a pittance and spending nothing on promotion), Sing Street features characters who don't really know what they're doing, to results both hilarious — check out their music video costuming — and poignant, as with Jack Reynor's older - brother subplot.

Peterson, director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard and Executive Editor of Education Next (of which I am a contributing editor), uses the Mac the Knife reference to suggest that loyalties can be bought «for a pittance.»

Screw you, you're not worth my goodwill or making my books available on your platform because you dared to go against the stream of uber popularity and get a Nook (or a Sony or Kobo or any other reader out there) and I'm way more interested in trying to take my share of the pittance I'm likely to actually earn out of the $ 500,000 Amazon has designated for the month of December.

When an author gets paid only one - third the normal rate on that reduced price, the word «pittance» seems appropriate.

That may not seem like a lot, but considering the wait times (up to six months +) at literary mags and the pittance they usually pay (contributor's copies won't buy me a burger on the dollar menu), I'm ahead of the game.

The premise of the book is how Nintendo employed heavy handed tactics, roping in developers into exclusive agreements to publish on their platform and paid a pittance of royalties.

You can grab courses that normally sell for hundreds of dollars for a pittance, on just about any subject.

Because traditional publishers are often foolish in how they handle ebooks — insisting on seeing them as contenders for paper sales rather than a different market entirely and generally overpricing them, in addition to generally giving the authors a pittance of a royalty on them.

A headphone jack and speech chip on the Paperwhite would have cost a pittance, even if a speaker wouldn't fit — or Amazon could have offered a speech - capable model as an option.

The extraordinarily low interest rate that you are paying to yourself with your loan payment is likely to be a pittance in terms of return on investment when compared to the market appreciation that you are missing.

If you only require a pittance to obtain you on the short - term financial push on the street, you ought to side - step the actual APR and have a close take a look at what the actual financial mortgage will really price.

130k is a pittance compared to some of the losses I've seen recently on short sales.

After being with a pet insurance company that had lengthy, complicated claim forms that it always seemed to find mistakes on which only added onto the eternity it took to process the claim, receive the refund and onto the angst of finally receiving that pittance of a claim check, with Healthypaws, I'm in Heaven!

Not to mention, it's gone on sale for a pittance quite a few times, including the Humble Monthly Bundle.

For little more than a pittance I bought a second controller a nav and the official charging stand, so I can move it, move it on both of my PS3's.