Sentences with phrase «poured $»

Foreign investors poured $ 163 billion into U.S. commercial real estate in the first half of 2007, a 37 % increase over the first half of 2006, according to real estate services provider Jones Lang LaSalle.

German - based real estate company KanAm, which has invested in several Mills projects, has poured $ 250 million into Meadowlands Xanadu.

These types of interfaces, in their current iterations, are mostly used to treat Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has poured $ 65 million into this research.

The Nest acquisition also comes on the heels of Google's acquisition of robot - maker Boston Dynamics, and after Google Ventures poured $ 258 million into ride - sharing service Uber last year.

Mercer, 69, co-chief executive of the wildly successful New York hedge fund company Renaissance Technologies, burst into the public eye this year when he poured $ 11 million into a super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

In addition, private investors poured another $ 48 billion into renewable energy last year, a report from the Pew Charitable Trusts found last week.

He poured $ 73 million into seven 2014 Senate and governors» races to elect candidates in favor of action on global warming, but four of the seven candidates he fought against won.

NATURAL GAS VEHICLE CONVERSIONS SHOULD BE A NON-STARTER: When T. Boone Pickens poured $ 50 million into promoting the NatGas Act http://www.ngvc.org/ that Congress may still enact, he included converting millions of vehicles, spending tens of thousands per vehicle.

This is the same guy who has poured $ 80 million into organizations that have misrepresented climate change science to the public and advocated against any viable solutions to the problem.

«Gas Firm Funded Sierra Club Campaign --» From 2007 to 2010, Chesapeake Energy poured $ 26 million into the anti-coal campaign by the Sierra Club, a tax - exempt environmental group.»»

According to a press release posted today, private investors have poured $ 3.7 million in funding into the sci - fi sandbox MMORPG.

Hoffman describes the Herculean task involved, from bringing those shelters and groups on board — using various incentives and other means — to lining up further underwriting; over the years, Maddie's Fund has poured some $ 30 million in grants.

The two biggest high - yield bond ETFs landed among the top 10 ETF creations on Tuesday, May 15, as investors poured $ 2.5 billion into U.S. - listed ETFs.

In some sense, it's quite understandable: no one likes admitting the «winning move» they poured $ 10,000 into was actually a huge bust.

I read an article right after the stock market crashed about this * hot * fund manager who basically lost like 60 % of his value because he poured $ into Fannie Mae and other real estate funds.

That even includes the factory in Indiana, into which Subaru recently poured $ 1.3 billion.

Over the past three years, the nation's second - largest teachers» union poured $ 650,000 into the Clinton Global Initiative, the non-explicitly political wing of the Clinton family's political efforts, and $ 500,000 into the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

The Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance determined a pro-charter group that poured $ 15 million into the campaign, Families for Excellent Schools - Advocacy, illegally hid its donors.

This past legislative session, the Devos poured $ 1.45 million into successfully defeating a bill that would have brought some oversight to Detroit charters.

In Idaho, the company poured $ 44,000 into the 2010 campaign chest of the state's superintendent of public schools, who has since backed policies that favor the for - profit education industry.

At the beginning of the 2016 - 2017 school year, Austin schools reportedly poured $ 850,000 into a marketing campaign aimed at attracting erstwhile families back to the district.

The Detroit Free Press reported the DeVoses poured $ 1.45 million into state Republicans» coffers during a seven - week period — right after lawmakers removed the Detroit commission part of the bill that DeVos vocally opposed.

The Walton Foundation is one of the biggest players in the education philanthropy world, having poured some $ 1.3 billion in K - 12 education over the last two decades largely to support charter schools and fuel the «school choice» movement.

Over the last 10 years, pro-voucher interests have poured $ 97 million into Wisconsin elections.

And it poured $ 240,000 into GOP choice proponent Howard Marklein's successful bid for an open Senate seat.

Meanwhile the NEA directly poured $ 43,000 into the Save Our Schools rally held this past July; this doesn't include dollars poured in by state and local affiliates.»

This was in response to the fact that New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg poured $ 1 million into the LA school board races which essentially pitted reform candidates against those supported by the teachers union.

HARVARD STUDY FINDS GAINS IN NEWARK: Seven years ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other philanthropic organizations poured $ 200 million into Newark, N.J., with the goal of turning around the city's failing schools.

The foundation has poured $ 40 million in grants into the 19 Library Power districts.

A wannabe - Sturm und Drang relationship drama between characters barely recognisable as human, The Room became a cult phenomenon for obvious reasons, because there's no possible doubt in the matter: it's obliviously terrible in ways just about anyone could see, save for its notorious creator, who poured $ 6 million of his own mysteriously - gotten savings into the project.

In August, a group of investors led by Fidelity Investments and a fund backed by Bill Gates poured $ 120 million into Editas Medicine, the Cambridge - based biotech start - up that is using CRISPR techniques to develop cures for more than 5,000 different genetic diseases.

«Since 2006, the federal government has poured $ 4.6 billion into the Excellence Initiative.

The report estimates that the U.S. government poured some $ 430 million into the field between 2005 and 2010, mainly through the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The government poured $ 9 billion and decades of effort into the planned permanent repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, with little to show for it.

Catsimatidis, who lost his bid to run on the Republican line for mayor, poured $ 14,738.28 into mass mailings that accused Ulrich of saying one thing in the community and voting the opposite way in City Hall.

Everytown for Gun Safety, a group bankrolled by the former New York mayor, poured $ 2 million into TV ads last fall in a failed bid to help McAuliffe's party take back the state Senate.

In addition, proponents of charter schools have poured $ 3.6 million into an ad campaign slamming de Blasio, and his poll numbers have dropped since the spots went on air.

PaidContent's Joseph Tartakoff reports that once and future Mayor Bloomberg poured some $ 2.1 million into online advertising though late October.

Billionaire Robert Mercer has poured $ 1 million into a new group backing GOP Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino.

Coffey has poured $ 3million of his own cash into his campaign, but he has been dogged by allegations of pay - to - play campaign contributions when he was in private practice.

It was a relatively slow, off - cycle election year, but the group New York Jobs Now poured $ 4 million into a well - funded, multi-media campaign to persuade voters in passing the amendment to expand casino gambling in New York.

But the RGA, eyeing a pickup in Connecticut, has poured $ 4.31 million into the race through the Grow Connecticut Super PAC.

According to Serino's latest campaign finance filing, the New York State Republican Senate Campaign Committee has poured $ 25,000 into her campaign for the 41st Senate district, which includes most of Dutchess County.

Those forces — bankrolled by unions — poured $ 4 million into a dishonest TV ad campaign to defeat the convention, and got their money's worth.

During the latest election cycle, a political action committee called New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, which was formed by pro-charter group StudentsFirstNY, poured $ 4.2 million into television ads that elevated their preferred G.O.P. candidates, while directly attacking de Blasio.

Washington wants Cousins at the right price, but the team already poured $ 44 million into him over the last couple years and it's really not going to get any cheaper to find a franchise quarterback.

About 2,000 wealthy investors poured $ 130 million into a scheme to drill oil wells.

Obama refused to listen to experts and poured $ 535 Million of taxpayers money down the John.

Just three months later, the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba poured $ 200 million into the messaging start - up.

Canada poured $ 12.1 - billion into the U.S. commercial real estate market in 2014, the most since 2006, data from real estate research firm Real Capital Analytics shows.