Sentences with phrase «wring money»

«There are many anecdotes of developers watching where artists go and using that to track what neighborhoods they can wring money out of,» says Brooklyn - based artist Jennifer Dalton, who recently helped lead a month - long art project titled «Month2Month,» which touched on issues of art, housing and inequity.

The day Square Enix stop trying to wring money out of their old properties we'll have all been long in the deep, cold ground.

The production budget is estimated to be about $ 60 million through Constantin Films, which is no doubt pleased with Anderson's proven ability to wring money from a tired, effects - heavy franchise.

, it's horrible, a way to wring money annually from libraries.

Also, there would surely be a large contingent of people who sign up fully intending to wring their money's worth out of the subscription fee, but ultimately end up «checking out» a book only every second or third month.

Several years ago lots of frauds used dating sites to wring money out of naïve users but today such problem is not so urgent due to spreading of Skype and video chats.

Someday, students of Machiavellian political maneuvering will read about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's push to legalize casino gambling in New York and the way he used the issue to wring money and concessions out of the state's tribal gaming operators.

We used to make money buying them and wringing money out, but it is painful, especially when you're rich.

We used to make money betting on reinventing lousy businesses and kind of wringing money out of them, but that is a really painful, difficult way to make money, especially if you're already rich.

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The upsell is important for airlines because they are trying to at once compete with low - cost carriers such as Spirit and wring more money from passengers.

In other words, it shows how good the company is at wringing more money out of its existing, highly caffeinated customer base.

That's because pay TV providers will likely continue to wring more money out of each subscriber.

In a June 3 AdAge piece titled «How much more money can Activision wring from Call of Duty?

It's easier to collect money from a satisfied customer than to wring cash from someone with whom you've severed ties.

And all along, investors bought the argument: Even if the number of pay TV subscribers had stalled, the big media companies seemed as though they were going to wring more money out of the customers they did have — and could sell more stuff to Web TV entrants like Netflix and Amazon.

That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.

My hope is that you stop praying all together!!!! I want you to take God out of everything... My hope is that you will kill each other... Loose your way... Put greed, corruption, sinfulness and above all, self above all else... That you will worship all that is evil and wring every last drop of God out of your hearts... I want you to put money, forget family, think and do immoral thoughts, and stop helping your fellow man,, exploit them, spit on them use them until every last one of you is wretched and crawling in the dirt cursing God... Pleas help me... your friend Satan...

Hockey fans never seem to suspect that the play - off games could possibly be a gimmick to wring more money from their pockets; they practically fight to get tickets.

Mr. Schneiderman has blamed large lenders for creating the 2008 financial crisis, and wrung some $ 60 billion in settlement money from them — and used the cash to fund a slew of counseling and relief programs.

The Honolulu City Council's budget committee restored money for the Office of Climate Change after much hand - wringing last week.

Mark Brooks: Match is wringing more money from each customer, targeting the users that are more likely to be paying customers, and expanding abroad.

Unfortunately, the script drags considerably for the first hour, failing to wring any real dramatic tension from their decision to keep the money and unfairly tipping the balance in their favour by having them be in need of expensive IVF treatment, as well as facing eviction.

And then there's the most recent «plenty of money» comment from Governor Scott's office when asked about the money allocated for increased school safety and security, which clearly has most school district officials hand - wringing over yet another underfunded mandate from our state's capitol.

As a 1.3 trillion dollar pool of money that is publicly funded the privateers wring their greedy paws at the thought of turning that public money into their playpen.

I could picture my mother tutting and hand - wringing, while my stepdad, Keith, stood awkwardly behind her, trying to give me money.

It turns out that Limits to Growth was right on the money and 30 years of spectacularly ineffective hand - wringing and brow - beating by clueless environmentalists such as these has not changed our trajectory one iota.

What is the importance of things like climate and race to the «future of mankind» that causes so much hand - wringing, such that billionaires donate huge sums of money to research institutions like the Smith School and Martin School at Oxford, The Grantham Institute, amongst a number of others, including the Tyndall Centre, to answer such questions?

It's all about the money that they can wring out of those new recruits before they wander off in disgust about not getting rich in real estate.

Sears Holdings Corp. formed a joint venture with shopping - mall owner Macerich Co., the latest step in the department - store chain's efforts to wring more money from its real estate.