Sentences with phrase «than a dollar back»

For every dollar given to us, our goal is to give more than a dollar back in return.

Not exact matches

A minor celebrity in both Davos and Big Data circles, Goldman sold his first company for $ 225 million, back when less than a billion dollars was actually worth something.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

More than that, you could experience one major medical event, such as a burst appendix, which if uncovered by insurance, could set you back thousands of dollars.

«The equity dollar buys less than it did five years ago,» says Ross, who now works on twice as many recapitalizations as he did back then.

If you had invested $ 1,000 dollars in Bitcoin back in 2008, you'd have more than $ 40,000,000 today.

To get to the next low point on the chart you have to go back to 2001 and the dot - com crash, when you could have picked up a barrel for a little more than US$ 26 in today's dollars.

The energy sector fell 1.1 percent on the back of a more than 1 percent drop in crude oil prices as the dollar remained near a four - month high.

Even though I went over my monthly goal slightly, it was still far cheaper than the few hundred dollars I dropped each month on a car back in L.A., including gas, parking, insurance and registration fees.

If I give you five dollars today, I better get back more than 5 dollars in a year.

Despite recent hype around a handful of venture - backed companies raising money at multi-billion dollar valuations, achieving a more than $ 1b exit for a startup is highly unlikely.

After surging more than 10 % to a multiyear high, the dollar has retraced nearly half of the move and is back to mid-November levels.

Homeowners might not get back every dollar they put into a home, but they're getting back a lot more than the American who rents.

Unlike in the past, when you could exchange your dollars or any other currency for physical gold, fiat currency is not backed up by anything else than a number printed on a piece of paper.

But states such as North Dakota, South Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia and Indiana get more than two dollars back in federal spending for every dollar in taxes.

From mid March, as intervention was wound back, the yen rose for a time but it could not sustain the upward momentum in April in the face of the broad - based rise of the US dollar following the stronger - than - expected US economic data.

«This financing enables us to use flow - through dollars rather than the hard dollars allocated for continued development activities at Back River,» said Sabina President and CEO Bruce McLeod.

Between President Johnson's Vietnam War, his Great Society programs, and the rampant inflation they caused, the US was forced to print more dollars than could be backed by gold.

Brosens estimates these program trading strategies have in aggregate a total stock market exposure north of $ 1 trillion dollars — a somewhat larger share than portfolio insurance back in 1987.

AT&T and Time Warner have said there won't be any incentive for a combined company to threaten to withhold content or increase prices, because by doing so, it would risk distributors walking away, leaving the company out tens of millions of dollars in ad revenue and subscription fees — far greater than any revenue AT&T might pick up from customers who would switch to its own pay - TV services in order to get Time Warner content back.

Foreign transaction fees: Your favorite rewards card may charge up to 3 % for transactions conducted in a currency other than the U.S. dollar, eating into your cash back or other rewards.

Rather than valuations or the dollar, the best case for EM equities ties back to global growth.

The Argentinian peso tumbled more than 15 % against the dollar in early trading as the South American nation's central bank stepped back from its efforts to protect the currency, forcing the bank to reverse course to stem the slide.

Even in modern history, the gold backing up a single US dollar from 1971 is worth vastly more than the paper currency that was printed 44 years ago.

Dell lost billions of dollars over the next few years on the puts — they had to shell out over $ 1.2 billion in one year alone to buy back millions of shares of stock that had lost half their value in the previous year — this was more than they made selling computers that year.

The platforms that control access to Chinese consumers online wield such enormous power that even multibillion - dollar foreign brands can have trouble fighting back, the AP found in interviews with more than 30 industry players.

The demand for dollars is greater today than when the idea was first suggested back in the 1970's.

I guess that in a world where 1.3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day, nothing threatens Christian values more than a man who wants to take our tax breaks back.

Law enforcement officials say Hobby Lobby president Steve Green personally visited the United Arab Emirates back in 2010 with a consultant to take a look at more than 5,000 artifacts like cuneiform tablets and balls of clay with ancient seals, worth millions of dollars.

Just dropping in to share the kind of recipe you, too, might make if you found yourself on a Thursday with a reasonably well stocked pantry, a lot of kale (or other greens you picked up at the farmers» market back on Saturday), and two sweet Italian sausages that you bought from the very same farmers» market for way too many dollars and which are threatening to go bad if you don't find a way to integrate them into this week's meal plan, a meal plan that has already incorporated more meat than you really like to eat.

In turn, a team getting fewer dollars than bets is usually a bad sign because it indicates they are backed by mostly «Average Joe» bettors (which we always want to fade).

The public and a majority of the bets are on the Rockets but more than 50 % of the spread dollars are backing San Antonio to cover.

As of Monday afternoon, more than 60 % of spread bets and 90 % of spread dollars are backing the Saints as road favorites.

Both will get the job done effectively, but a gas model will set you back a hundred or so dollars more initially than a comparable electric dryer.

Heastie backs a tax increase, meanwhile, on filers making more than $ 5 million, generating billions of dollars in new revenue he would want to see committed toward education.

Before Benedict Donald's tax reform NY State sent $ 48B dollars to the Fed more than we received back in direct Federal benefits.

While New York sends more in tax dollars to Washington than we get back, over one - third, or $ 57 billion, of New York State's FY 2019 All Funds Budget is comprised of federal funds.

Astorino backs an alternative method, known as the Dream Fund, which uses private funds rather than public dollars — a proposal that Hispanic lawmakers backing the Dream Act say is insufficient.

«Even as far back as my arrest in 2008, there was organized opposition to her,» he said of Quinn critics who eventually came together under the slogan Anybody But Quinn and spent more than a million dollars in independent expenditure advertising against her.

«This is about fundamental fairness,» said Cuomo, who said the state gives more money in tax dollars to Washington than it gets back in services.

What was bizarre about the HCRA tax was that all this money, billions and billions of dollars flowing into the state and flowing back out again for more than 20 different public health programs by the early 2000s, almost none of it was on the books.

He added that Ms. Carpenter would soon be releasing a plan for job creation, that «is going to empower residents and business owners rather than empower government and use tax dollars to get Long Island's economy back and up running.»

At a time when two Democratic lawmakers stand accused of bribery and public corruption, California's most powerful labor unions have kicked back more than a million dollars to the California Democratic Party.

More than 90 cents on every dollar of funding we receive goes directly back to local CACs to help and protect kids, while the rest bolsters the national movement to provide evidence - based support for children and families experiencing abuse.

When employment figures begin going up, and real affordable universal health care is soon to be available, and wasteful Bush fantasies like Star Wars are back to being experimental programs on the fringes of public awareness and costing only hundreds of millions of dollars a year, when all of our long term allies are back to being on speaking terms with us, those 25 % ers will get their 25 % s and Congress will be even more democratic Party than now.

And while this story burned longer and hotter than most, it's now also not that hard to imagine Weiner — who has million of dollars in a New York City political account, finding his way back into public office.

Since New York taxpayers already send over $ 40 billion more in tax dollars to Washington than we receive back in federal benefits and services, we are not being subsidized by any state.»

Speaking at a press conference with Puerto Rico's Gov. Ricardo Rossello, Cuomo pledged New York's support and said a «silver lining» to the storm would be the flood of federal recovery dollars and the chance to build back the infrastructure better than it was before.

«It was certainly more art than science because we didn't know the level of interest would be and the level of damage would be, so we talked about that if the dollars were sufficient, coming back and doing another appropriation,» Heastie said.

By the typical benchmarks, Jeffries appears to be the strong favorite, sewing up the majority of union backing and filling his campaign coffers with more than half a million dollars from scores of affluent donors.