Sentences with phrase «spend big $»

If some advocate was whining re sea level rise and how we had to spend big $ now and oh my the panic and... yeah I might pick up a prop myself to get across the idea that if the advocate wants SCARY, then one of stories everyone in the western world knows has plenty of that.

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In 2015, the company spent $ 57.5 million to buy Mobil Capital Holdings, which owned and operated Saskatchewan's Big Sky Rail and Last Mountain Railway.

The five biggest insurance companies in the U.S. spent around $ 3 billion on advertising last year, which of course got passed on to customers.

Sure, it's an online giant grabbing for a big slice of the $ 2.7 billion a day — that's $ 1.9 million per minute — that travelers spend on trips to and within America alone, according to the U.S. Travel Association.

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.

I spent $ 150,000 on the first restaurant, then more and more to make each one bigger and better.

But the biggest «breakthrough» came for Gates, he says, when he read Rosling's proposal for four levels of wealth around the world, with level one being extreme poverty — those surviving on $ 2 a day or less — and level four being those spending more than $ 32 a day.

For bigger businesses, this means if one thousand of your employees spend just one hour per day «cyberloafing,» it could cost you $ 35 million each year.

Athletic apparel contracts are also getting bigger and bigger in the professional realm, as Nike can attest, having recently agreed to spend a reported $ 1 billion on a deal to outfit the NBA and WNBA, supplanting Adidas from that role starting in 2017.

Last spring, Salesforce (crm), which sells customer management and sales software to big companies, committed to spending $ 400 million over four years to host new software on AWS rather than in its own data centers.

According to Industry Canada, Big Pharma spends more than $ 1.3 billion a year on R&D — and many global drug makers are increasingly looking at Canada for top talent and a cost - competitive advantage over the United States.

The plan's contribution is that it both curbs future spending by a big number ---- $ 3.7 trillion over the next two decades ---- and lowers future taxes by eliminating $ 1.6 trillion in ObamaCare levies.

For every $ 100 we spend at a big box or chain, only about $ 14 stays in the neighborhood, but when you shop at a local store, $ 45 stays in the community.

It's much better to learn the lesson of money poorly spent on a $ 15 toy than a bigger - ticket purchase as an adult, she said.

In the meantime, the company has had to spend more than $ 60,000 raising and rebuilding the bulkheads, installing reinforced pilings that can withstand big storm surges, raising electrical sockets up to waist level, and rebuilding its repairs warehouse with waterproof materials, like impermeable sheetrock and rigid foam insulation.

But the big number is the $ 1.2 trillion reduction in spending.

The latest figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau show that the third quarter last year was the biggest ever, with a total of $ 17.6 billion spent on digital ads.

It lowers projected Medicaid spending by $ 880 billion or 25 % over the 10 - year window, the biggest source of savings in the AHCA.

Decmil Group founder and director Denis Criddle has spent another $ 500,000 buying shares in the contracting company, adding to a string of big trades by company directors includng his son Scott Criddle, Chris Ellison, John Rothwell and Enzo Gullotti over the past month, according to BNiQ data.

The single biggest element is $ 17.6 billion over five years in spending restraint, including anticipated lowered operating costs of $ 6.8 billion over the same time period.

What's more, those three big streaming services are also facing a growing list of competitors, including some with very deep pockets, as Apple and Facebook have reportedly committed to spending $ 1 billion apiece on original series in the next year to build up their own streaming video businesses.

Research firm IDC estimates that big data and analytics spending will top $ 200 billion globally by 2020.

Novo Nordisk also spent $ 3.2 million lobbying Congress and federal agencies in 2017, its biggest - ever investment in directly influencing U.S. policymakers, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

During the oilsands boom, Canada's biggest energy company spent money as if oil prices would always be north of $ 100.

To put into perspective how big online learning is, consider that in 2011, about $ 35.6 billion was spent on self - paced e-learning worldwide.

While this is just a sliver of the $ 1.1 trillion that was spent on insurance premiums in 2013, its an area primed for big growth, Hartwig said.

As an exec at Shire (shpg), which with $ 6 billion in revenue is one of the smaller Big Pharmas, he spent months persuading leaders and commercial and supply - chain people to launch a clinical trial for the ADHD drug Vyvanse to treat binge eating.

While wondering why Verizon would want to spend a billion or two to get into a market where it might see only $ 4 billion to $ 5 billion in annual wireless revenue, at best, they have seemingly ignored the bigger picture: Canada's overall $ 59 billion communications market.

The deal, which is still making its way through Congress after an eleventh hour push from party bigs, has three main components: It immediately raises the debt ceiling, includes around $ 2.1 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, and creates a special Congressional committee to come up with long term deficit - reduction suggestions by this Thanksgiving.

The big spenders were nonetheless defeated by a citizens» group that spent only $ 15,000 to support the bond measure, which passed with 57 % of the vote on Nov. 7, approving up to $ 150 million in financing for a city - run broadband utility.

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

Almost two decades ago, AT&T bet big on cable TV with a $ 100 billion spending spree.

That is four times the $ 3 billion research firm comScore says Americans spent in total last year on Cyber Monday, the country's biggest online shopping day.

The Capital One Spark Cash for Business Card gives you $ 500 cash - back when you spend $ 4,500 in the first three months, that's the biggest cash - back bonus available from any credit card, whether business or personal, according to Wallethub.

Congress passed a $ 1.3 trillion spending bill in March that provides big increases to the military and to domestic programs lifts strict limits on military and domestic spending this year.

In October 2014, Rometty told investors it would not achieve its years - long promise to hit $ 20 earnings per share by 2015, and early this year revealed her roadmap: a plan to spend $ 4 billion to grow $ 40 billion in revenue in strategic areas like cloud computing, mobile, and big data, by 2018.

Castilla notes that the $ 253 million bank has had to increase its compliance spending from 3 % of the bank's budget in 2008 to nearly 15 % today, with the new mortgage rules being the biggest driver.

As you can see, although Alberta was the worst offender in terms of the discrepancy between how big the government predicted the deficit was going to be in fiscal 2013 ($ 882 million) and how big it expects it to be now ($ 3.9 billion), it is still the only province without net debt (that is the accumulated total of annual deficits, which, in turn, result from the government spending more than it generates in revenues every year).

Now valued at $ 45 billion, the private company is flush with cash and is spending big in an effort to expand into other devices.

We now have companies spending $ 100's of millions in big data to predict their ideal customers, where they hang out, and how to further improve...

Mom's special day is the third biggest «holiday» of the year, generating $ 21.5 billion in 2018, and has seen large increases in consumer spending year - over-year.

We now have companies spending $ 100's of millions in big data to predict their ideal customers, where they hang out, and how to further improve their companies.

Cigna announced it will spend about $ 52 billion to acquire the nation's biggest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts.

Amazon spent about $ 1.2 billion to buy online shoe retailer Zappos.com in 2009, its biggest acquisition.

Kevin Page, the parliamentary budget officer, recently estimated that an aging population — which means a smaller tax haul and bigger health and other outlays — will leave Ottawa and the provinces with a $ 46 - billion - a-year fiscal gap to fix by cutting spending or hiking taxes.

In yesterdayâ $ ™ s Financial Post, Jack Mintz repeated the notions that the Budget featured «no broad tax relief» and big spending.

Until the Federal government can pass a budget (they haven't in almost four years), remove the 7 - year long ZIRP which penalizes savers and rewards debtors, and find a way to eventually remove the excess QEs and > $ 1 trillion annual spending deficits, I will stay on the porch while the «big dogs» run.

Congress gave final approval to a giant $ 1.3 trillion spending bill that ends the budget battles for now, but only after late scuffles and conservatives objected to big outlays on Democratic priorities at a time when Republicans control the House, Senate and White House.

Add in the big sign - up bonus, and this card can easily pay for itself and then some, even with an annual fee of Earn 50K bonus points after you spend $ 4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.

My biggest regret wasn't actually spending $ 25,000 on goodies after the financial windfall.