Given the scale of the crisis, it was a pittance.
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He sold San Toy to the Huangs for a pittance.
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So they licensed programs to Netflix for a relative pittance.
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And I'm sorry, but your announcement yesterday was a pittance.
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But in the world of 'Star Wars,' that's a pittance.
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C.E.O.s accepted pay packages that today look like a pittance.
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Or share her work with the world and earn a pittance?
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And Donnel could do no damage, like nothing, just a pittance.
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Poor players, if they're signed at all, receive a relative pittance.
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The FTC's fine is arguably a pittance of what Google owes.
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Most child-care workers get little training and are paid a pittance.
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To you, that may be a pittance, to me, that's pretty expensive.
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That's a pittance next to the philanthropists Regnery has compared himself to.
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Despite his braggadocio, Trump has a pittance of legislative accomplishments to tout.
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For wealthy museum board members, $25 may seem to be a pittance.
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By comparison, the money we've given NATO is a well-spent pittance.
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It's a pittance — and that was with almost complete compliance with recommendations.
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It's also a relative pittance in the overall world of bad philanthropy.
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And it will celebrate the feat by paying a pittance in federal taxes.
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Michael Grabner is earning a pittance while coming off a 27-goal season.
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Listed here, the salaries are a pittance at $250,000 to $350,000 per year.
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But the United States continues to spend a relative pittance on such programs.
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France, which spends a relative pittance of $22019,000 per capita, ranks number one.
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But it's a pittance for Exxon, whose profits were $2202 billion in 2628.
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But consider this: Certain small tweaks cost a pittance, yet can reap big returns.
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It's a pittance compared to even moderately successful crowdfunds on the site's mainstream namesake.
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Women who seek a legal remedy for mistreatment often win a pittance in compensation.
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In many cities people can park on the street for nothing, or a pittance.
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Our neighbors around the country give their data away for a pittance, or worse.
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It's a pittance, but for aspiring comics, that first paycheck holds incredible symbolic value.
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The gangsters have their own ways to move money and $100 is a pittance.
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The trunk had been passed over repeatedly, and Sexton bought it for a pittance.
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Time and again, the money extracted from the tech giants amounts to a pittance.
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Nearly identical-looking garments can be had for a pittance at any souvenir store.
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Putin won't need a pittance of Facebook ads this time around; he's got Schiff.
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And in the context of a billion-dollar contest, it is a mere pittance.
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Most of the workers are illiterate, paid a pittance, and held in debt bondage.
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Her Instagram account has just over 3,000 followers, a pittance in the influencer world.
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Compared with low-carbon sources like wind or solar or nuclear, that's a relative pittance.
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Fail to meet all the conditions, and you can expect to receive only a pittance.
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Given the audience scale we're operating with here, these all amount to an absolute pittance.
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It can pay its workers a pittance and let the government make up the difference.
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The pittance thrown into the repeal to pay for high-risk pools won't do much.
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And let's say this place also sold absolutely delicious, well-seasoned samosas for a pittance.
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That is a relative pittance compared to big agricultural states like Iowa, Texas, and California.
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Most of them, though, are struggling, offered only a pittance from the state for their service.
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There are fewer migrant labourers today who are willing to work for a pittance delivering parcels.
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But half a billion is a pittance for a country with $33bn in outstanding dollar bonds.
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Some of the longtime owners bought or inherited teams that were purchased for a relative pittance.
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You will only ever be niche, and your traffic will come from a pittance of sources.
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He ended up with the Heat in Miami, who have been terrible, for a mere pittance.
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Mexico hasn't paid for the wall — and Congress has only given Trump a pittance so far.
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"It's less than a pittance in the federal budget," said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut.
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And they were offering a pittance compared to what we were going to raise in revenue.
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The results: In many cases, the bonuses represent a mere pittance of the possible tax savings.
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They received on average 117 yuan ($17) a month, a pittance even in a poor region.
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At times, money ran so low that she was forced to sell her crop for a pittance.
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It's especially egregious, considering that these folks are being paid a laughable pittance to move: 25,226 yuan.
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The $200,000 a year he collected from the Reagan administration must have seemed a pittance by comparison.
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All the while, Bhattacharya has worked for a relative pittance; her salary last year was barely $44,000.
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But that was anomalous; most years he gave a pittance, and he stopped contributing altogether in 22019.
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The Falcon 9 rocket requires $60 million to make but a comparative pittance of $200,000 to fuel.
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He also can't make a film for $500,000, which used to be pittance in porn, without losing money.
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India is one of the world's largest importers of gold, but mines only a pittance on its own.
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Not knowing freedom would've cost him a mere pittance, Salem remained in his cell at Rikers, Hardy explains.
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That's a pittance compared with the billion-dollar amount needed to finance a full-fledged general election campaign.
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He arrived in America, heading a family of eight, with $18 to his name, a pittance even then.
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In comparison to the mortgage deduction, Obama's request to end family and youth homelessness would cost a pittance.
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But if he did, I am going to assume it was a pittance -- they don't pay that much.
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Tenants' advocates say that figure is a pittance considering the billion-dollar needs of the city's housing stock.
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He really does seem to think insurance premiums are a pittance, having said something very similar in May.
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Ms. Flack said that in the end she received "a pittance" in payment for many years of work.
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She had just quit her job plating metal for a pittance when she saw an ad for Summit.
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There are some major tech philanthropists who would make these donation rates seem like less of a pittance.
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The chic spot just west of Riverfront Park allows for a near-luxurious lunch experience for a pittance.
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The annual payment of about $340 is a pittance compared to the peace of mind it gives me.
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He went door to door trying to sell still lifes for a pittance, or barter them for necessities.
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Before that, Mr. Palmer had done menial labor on the nearby campus of Georgia Tech, earning a pittance.
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He had raised just $4.4 million by the end of September, a pittance for a modern national campaign.
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It hired the young and inexperienced for a pittance, then made its clients pay for their further education.
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Greg Abbott has refused to spend even a pittance from the state's nearly $12 billion rainy-day fund.
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Its domestic league is weak, ranking seventh in the region, with only a pittance spent on transfers each season.
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What might have cost a pittance a few years ago could be worth tens of millions of dollars today.
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That may be a pittance compared to the $4,075,000 annual salary of head coach Kirk Ferentz—guaranteed through 2020!
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Previously either not an option or prohibitively expensive, Amazon made it available for a pittance: just $79 a year!
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That's no small chunk of change, but if Maitan is as good as some think, it'll be a pittance.
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"There's a lot of ways in which gun violence impacts our society and we've invested a pittance," Webster said.
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But there are so many other tweaks that the new system will raise only an additional €235m, a pittance.
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Pouring tens of millions of dollars into universal pre-K leaves a pittance for more effective family-support programs.
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"This looks like selling diamonds from Russian crowns at a pittance," said an investment banker at a Western bank.
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That's a pittance compared to traditional sports, but Forbes projects that figure will rise to $23 billion by 2020.
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Apparently, Rodriguez found the work so agreeable he agreed to return — for what figures to be a relative pittance.
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Many formal jobs pay a pittance, meaning the actual figure of people without adequate work is probably far higher.
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Lack of bandwidth, hyper-velocity, a pittance of sleep — all of these are intensifying the sensitivity of VC returns.
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Outside groups spent only about $6900 million on the seat, a relative pittance compared to a battleground like Missouri.
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In a trademark de Maupassant twist, the necklace is ultimately revealed to be a fake, replaceable for a pittance.
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In fact, it's likely the burglars will receive a pittance of what the Green Vault's treasures are actually worth.
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Instead, class actions are attorney fee machines, designed to win million-dollar legal fees while consumers get a pittance.
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Barr tried to buy a group of Traylors in 1941 for such a pittance that his offer was spurned.
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All fine and good, but a pittance next to the real showstopper: The 218 has a built-in foot-warmer.
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All fine and good, but a pittance next to the real showstopper: The 360 has a built-in foot-warmer.
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After independence many squeezed farmers mercilessly, forcing them to sell their crops for a pittance through state-run marketing boards.
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This extraordinary liquidity earns only a pittance and is far beyond the level Charlie and I wish Berkshire to have.
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As more and more Jews fled or were murdered, their art collections were bought for a pittance, or simply plundered.
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As a result, for 20 years Madagascar's vanilla farmers earned just a pittance, and many ended up leaving the business.
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He had only managed half a sack—a pittance given that he took down the quarterback 16 times that season.
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The groups spent around $500,000 to halt Mr. Trump's momentum in Tuesday's five-state East Coast primaries — a relative pittance.
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Rather, they are attorney fee machines, designed to win millions of dollars in legal fees while consumers get a pittance.
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But that wasn't until 2008, and by then the settlement was a pittance compared with the company's multibillion-dollar valuation.
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" Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said Trump's plan "relies on magical thinking, massive private profits, and a pittance of public investment.
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Yahoo's own ad-driven revenues have fallen below 5 percent of the total; hardly a pittance, but not enough to compete.
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That is a pittance — a drop in the bucket of the $600 billion in annual military spending in the US alone.
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Anyone can make a deepfake sex video, or hire someone to do it, for a pittance, and then distribute it anonymously.
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I went from earning a lot of money as a DJ to earning a pittance but learning how to cook again.
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Ohtani was available now for a relative pittance because, not yet 25, he is subject to baseball's international bonus-pool system.
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But you can own some of this fabulosity for a pittance — maybe not the outfits, but the fabric they're made of.
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That's equivalent to about $1 million in today's money, a pittance by the standards of contemporary corporate bosses or sports stars.
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But to truly realign the parties, Republicans must attract much more than the pittance they get from black and Latino voters.
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The sum is a pittance compared to the $2628 trillion the Defense Department has been provided over the same time period.
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Many formal jobs pay a pittance, meaning the true figure of people without adequate work to support themselves is probably far higher.
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For her part, Middleton's new fashion pieces for the year cost an estimated $85,097, a pittance compared to her sister-in-law.
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National service is compulsory and indefinite—many Eritreans serve more than 20 years either bearing arms or digging ditches for a pittance.
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Most of us think we know about Dutch traders paying Native Americans a pittance for Manhattan when they first arrived in 214.
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The value of these photos is more than the pittance Eduardo got from the agencies or his number of 'Likes' on Facebook.
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"They have no health insurance or good jobs to afford what they need, so they're left with the pittance that is left."
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The bosses at state-owned banks currently earn under $50,000 a year, a pittance even by Indian executive standards—and it shows.
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If you've got the money, a $10 million bowl of strawberries is a mere pittance for the cost of wooing your Valentine.
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Venezuelan regulations require that staple products be sold for a pittance – a kilo of rice is set at the equivalent of $0.12.
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In post-civil-war Guatemala middlemen paid poor women a pittance to get pregnant repeatedly—or simply stole babies and sold them.
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The numbers show clearly that the vaunted $8 billion over five years is a mere pittance compared to what will be needed.
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These challenges exist in a system in which the federal government matches, dollar-for-dollar, the pittance a frugal state government spends.
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Under Mr. Duterte's predecessor, roughly one in four cases led to conviction — a pittance, but an improvement from the administration before that.
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New, auditable machines for everyone would cost between $130 million and $400 million, according to the report — a pittance considering the stakes.
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In total, the controversy cost the bank a $185 million fine that was a pittance for an institution with $1.7 trillion in assets.
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It will be paid by an estimated 5,500 people dying this year, raising about $20 billion — a pittance in the $3.88 trillion budget.
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While $324 million might seem like a hefty sum for a settlement, it's a relative pittance for the banks involved in the lawsuit.
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Grumpy Cat Limited initially asked for $600,000 for four alleged acts of infringement, frankly a pittance compared to the value of meme stardom.
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It even had its toe in the early dot-com froth, with online forerunner Prodigy, which it offloaded for a pittance in 1996.
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But compared with the reach of Intuit, this was a pittance: The company reported this year that it spent $800 million on advertising.
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No one should have to work for a pittance, or feel coerced into a high-pressure lifestyle when they aren't ready and willing.
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The first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, wanted to provide an example for hungry Americans, to demonstrate how a family could survive on a pittance.
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This funding amounts to a pittance relative to what is needed: substantial long-term funding for prevention, addiction treatment, social services and research.
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Yet some companies ignore drivers' actual mileage driven, he said, or give a "pittance" as a discount that has little impact on premiums.
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Baltimore's police and firefighters' retirement fund, for instance, pulled $33 million from the fund (a relative pittance for the $50 billion hedge fund).
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The bigger question is whether record companies remain viable economic enterprises in the age of streaming, which has reduced royalties to a pittance.
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Right now, Los Angeles limits the number of cabs to 2,364 vehicles — a pittance compared to the city's 100,000-plus Ubers and Lyfts.
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Workers might have been paid a pittance to extract, manufacture, and assemble those machines, too, with comparable industrial processes similarly impacting local environments.
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It would set a limit on wedding expenses of 500,000 rupees, or about $7,500, a pittance for even a typical middle-class wedding.
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Most are illiterate, keep no records, are paid a pittance and do not know how long it will take to pay off their debt.
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Adtalem could eventually earn up to $20 million over 1003 years — a relative pittance — as part of a delayed payment based on DeVry's performance.
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After the hoopla that surrounded its start, the linear audience per week has slid below 500,000 viewers, a pittance even by pay-TV standards.
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While that is more money than other states offer, it's still a pittance compared with the loss of years or decades of one's life.
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"My obvious tip is to go where your money is worth a fortune instead of where it's worth a pittance," he told Business Insider.
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Another 17,400 apartments are to be built or renovated — a relative pittance considering how many hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers need subsidized housing.
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This will require more money, but however much that will be is a pittance compared with what is being spent dealing with the coronavirus.
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While $250 to $400 a year is a pittance by US standards, it's as much as or more than the recipients ordinarily make annually.
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My time in the Windy City, which included a historical walking tour, free dance classes and delicious food and drink, cost me a pittance.
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Most of the programs cost under $500 million annually, a pittance for a government that is projected to spend about $4 trillion this year.
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Executives have been telling investors they will be able to push up charges for borrowers, pay a pittance to savers and pocket the difference.
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In total, these missions would cost about $250 million, which is a pittance when compared to the agency's overall budget request of $2000 billion.
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In the sewers of Fallout 3, pawing through another set of clothing that'd sell for a pittance, I stopped and looked around my apartment.
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But after years of toiling away her waking hours for a pittance, DeCrescenzo married another Scientologist and became pregnant at the age of 17.
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In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is now a 40-year-old invention and even the top pharmaceutical companies have spent a pittance on research and development.
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Notley's move affects C$70 million ($56.01 million) in annual sales by B.C. wineries, a pittance compared with the value of the country's oil sector.
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While that amount is a relative pittance and critics are saying the ads were poorly produced — where is Bill Maher when you really need him?
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Buy now and you'll only pay $10—practically a pittance considering the amount of valuable training you'll receive in such a short amount of time.
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That might seem like a lot, but in the context of the nearly $4 trillion a year federal budget it's a pittance, about 0.16 percent.
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Ten hydrofarms was a pittance compared to the streamer volume attracted by the war between his pride and his pain, his dignity and his duty.
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The university estimated it spent $3503,000 on security for Mr. Shapiro's visit, not a pittance for an institution that has struggled financially in recent years.
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But it's a pittance compared to the death and destruction we'll be paying for by ignoring the scientific evidence staring us plainly in the face.
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And the few million dollars the soda industry has spent so far this year is a pittance compared to what those earlier battles have cost.
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Many of the men in this part of the country have been killed; some have joined one or another rebel faction just to earn a pittance.
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A bipartisan Congress sent the president a pittance for border security, far less than the demand for which Trump shutdown the government for over a month.
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Notley's move affects C$70 million ($56 million) in annual sales by British Columbia wineries, a pittance compared with the value of the country's oil sector.
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It's still no small pittance, but the classic ranch-style home is a rare opportunity to lay claim to some of those signature modern farmhouse vibes.
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The rich people of the world who buy our labor for a pittance reap all the profits and use tax havens to avoid the tax man.
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The cost of preventing climate change would have been a pittance compared with the costs we now face to deal with the effects of climate change.
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On Monday, Verizon announced that it would buy Yahoo's core internet operations and land holdings for $4.8 billion, a relative pittance for companies in Silicon Valley.
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He hacked out a stream of brilliant articles, the pittance they yielded never quite keeping the wolf from the door or providing adequately for his offspring.
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The man who helped us see an extra $2.2 million as a pittance when it comes to paying a campus football coach has done it again.
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I was a cellar man, I worked in the kitchens, waiting on tables—all the slavery jobs your mum gives you and pays you pittance for.
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For example, at 30A, the answer to "A mere pittance" is CHUMP CHANGE and, at 40A, the answer to the clue "Unexpected hit" is SUCKER PUNCH.
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The "Hibernation" chapter in Part 2 is about a Polish village where the locals dress up like Tolkien characters to earn a pittance from visiting tourists.
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That's a pittance compared to U.S. retail sales that were running at nearly $5.4 trillion as of 2015, but every buck counts right now for retailers.
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The average Thanksgiving dinner still costs less than $50 for Americans, but for all the bounty of this annual feast, farmers are getting only a pittance.
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Khan, 23, was using the pittance he made to support his sister and brother's education and buy medicine for his father, a diabetic, his mother said.
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The bitcoin blockchain is currently capitalized at $12 billion; a pittance considering that the world's top ten global banks each are valued at over $100 billion.
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Although Rembrandt enjoyed worldwide fame in his lifetime, in the end he spent far beyond his means, filed for bankruptcy and was living on a pittance.
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Then, they pay them a pittance to scour precious metals from high-tech gadgets, which are constantly being tossed out by the richest societies on Earth.
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This is a pittance next to the $7 per person paid for the wall's construction (to say nothing of the big maintenance and personnel bills to come).
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In Zahra, practically every second home is spray painted with the words "house for sale"; offered up by families for a pittance for the funds to escape.
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International companies are exploiting a local resource, ravaging the already scarce water supply, and making gobs of money, with impoverished indigenous communities receiving a pittance, at best.
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In the mid-2000s, I could budget to pay a highly-qualified legislative assistant $60,000 – no pittance, but an amount stretched by Washington's high cost of living.
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Most of the workers are illiterate, keep no records, are paid a pittance and do not know how long it will take to pay off their debt.
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He worked ceaselessly, spending his days and nights writing stories with layered and complicated prose, and he was paid a pittance to rewrite the fiction of others.
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Foreign governments, including the United States, provide some aid to the local administration, but it is a pittance compared with what they spent on the military campaign.
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For a pittance of the money his wall will cost, American border patrol could buy and use thousands of drones that day and night monitor our borders.
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It takes 10 years and more than $1 billion to develop a vaccine — a small fortune for a medical advance but a pittance for a weapons system.
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Critics say the tipping system allows restaurants to pay some staff a pittance and puts the burden of labor costs largely on customers as opposed to employers.
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In 2013, before he set sights on Whole Foods, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million, such a pittance that he paid cash.
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While a pittance compared with the massive outflows in recent years, the move represents at least an acknowledgement that the climate has gotten better for stock selection.
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Musk, a billionaire, probably could have ended the matter with little financial damage to himself; Unsworth wants at least $75,000 in damages — a pittance for a billionaire.
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Qatar, which has just 25,22.2 citizens, employs an astounding 2.2 million foreign workers who build bridges, clean houses, and look after children — all for a literal pittance.
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Rey was introduced as a junkyard orphan on the planet Jakku, selling scraps of old Imperial war equipment in exchange for a pittance paid in self-raising bread.
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It's not a pittance, and unless you're someone who requires a secondary portable display for your Mac (and who happens to own an iPad), it's not for you.
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This being Britain, where tradition runs deep, the plan to scrap vellum has prompted the ire of traditionalists who argue that history is being forsaken for a pittance.
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That really does seem like a pittance that could be raised by following around a couple of Silicon Valley billionaires and catching what falls out of their pockets.
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And it has committed at least a billion dollars to the project, a pittance given the company's war chest, but enough to signify the seriousness of its intent.
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Is it to get as many people onto some kind of pittance of a welfare program, or is it to provide the truly poor with high quality aid?
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To some readers, that might be a breathtaking sum, but it really is something of a pittance for Murdoch, whose reported net worth today is roughly $17 billion.
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That's a pittance beside the $1.1 trillion it will take to bring (at least a little bit) of electricity to the 1.2 billion people who don't have it.
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"The amendment at hand focuses on high-risk pools, but the $2628 billion amount is a pittance," said Robert Graboyes, a healthcare expert at the conservative Mercatus Center.
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"The amendment at hand focuses on high-risk pools, but the $8 billion amount is a pittance," said Robert Graboyes, a healthcare expert at the conservative Mercatus Center.
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Being free to work for a pittance unless you work within narrow and shifting hours of peak demand doesn't sound quite so 'free' — and looks rather more precarious.
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But no, it turned out there are so few conductor openings, and the job is so rewarding, the applicants were willing to upend their lives for a pittance.
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Italy does not have a national minimum wage, and many industry observers believe that that has made it easier for many home workers to be paid a pittance.
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Ananya Upendran, editor at cricket news website Women's CricZone, said female players' pay had gone up, but they were still "paid a pittance in comparison to the men".
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The human champions, some of the most brilliant minds on the planet, no longer stood at the pinnacle of intelligence This is a pittance for the cash-rich giant.
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He added that "either Woolworths should be embarrassed at selling Dick Smith for an absolute pittance or investors are about to find they have purchased a dressed-up lemon".
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Thousands of children risk their lives working for a pittance in India's crumbling mica mines, extracting the sparkly mineral used in lipsticks and eye-shadow as well as electronics.
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Google's $170 million settlement with FTC regulators may look like a pittance but, critics say, it's a significant step forward in making the internet a safer place for kids.
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This is true even at big tech firms; software developers might be well paid relative to hotel workers, but they're paid a pittance compared to the founders and executives.
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That fee might be a pittance for a very wealthy person — regardless of what Trump's net worth actually is, $130,000 probably didn't make much of a dent in it.
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But many industry observers believe that the lack of a government-set national minimum wage has made it easier for many home workers to still be paid a pittance.
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While entering that fray won't be cheap, it's a relative pittance for a company whose 2018 revenue totaled $265 billion, with a market capitalization in excess of $900 billion.
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She also does "part-time pittance work" to bridge the gap between her $44,000 teaching salary, in an area with a median income of about $54,000, and her bills.
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Savings accounts earn a pittance at today's interest rates, and kids get to control the money after they turn 2250, which can be risky if they are not responsible.
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By the time the morning rush ended at 9:30, the toll was $20083 — a comparative pittance, but still almost enough for a one-way ticket from New York.
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Federal economists have calculated that the nation's losses in corn - its largest crop by harvest and export volume - amount to just a penny per bushel, a pittance farmers call absurd.
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My first two were being sold on a second-hand selling site for a pittance by a guy who'd thought that snakes would be a good 'manly' animal to have.
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Those writers, it should be noted, are paid a pittance to feed the content mill: the personal essay industry itself could be the site of collective struggle for labor rights.
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Eventually there was mass clemency for both sides, a pittance of money for guards as well as prisoners, and never, to this day, an admission of wrongdoing by the state.
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The transaction provides for a $500 million breakup fee payable to Time Warner if the takeover is blocked on antitrust grounds, a relative pittance for a merger of this size.
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For a relative pittance — less than $100,000 — corporations and others can use dark money to shape the outcome of a low-level race in which they have a direct stake.
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And while tens of billions of dollars of green bonds have been issued to finance environmental projects, these are a pittance compared to the sums required to make a difference.
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And – after living hand-to-mouth since the Great Recession, many workers simply cannot get by on the pittance they would receive from unemployment insurance, even with food aid (SNAP).
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Automattic, the company behind the longstanding blog platform WordPress, just bought Tumblr from Verizon for a pittance — leaving many of the quirky, beloved social network's users wondering what comes next.
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The crowdfunding effort still has a month to reach its goal of $9,000 — a mere pittance in the face of untold telecommunications wealth, of which Lamarr never receiving a penny.
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US workers feel those costs, too: In a system where unauthorized immigrants aren't encouraged to come forward, bad-apple employers can get away with paying all their employees pittance wages.
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Others argue that it was written by the Poughkeepsie poet Henry Livingston Jr. The author, whoever it was, is unlikely to have received more than a pittance for his effort.
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Sales of plant-based meat alone generated $684 million in 2018, a 23% jump over a year earlier — though a pittance of the $270 billion in annual U.S. meat industry sales.
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Though an improvement on previous years, that is a pittance next to the cost of university tuition or the large and growing wage differential between professional-level jobs and the rest.
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"It makes me shudder that Park Geun-hye and her cronies tried to tame artists by holding back a pittance of government support while they themselves pocket millions," Mr. Hong said.
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Last year America's energy department granted $28m in research awards for long-term storage—a pittance compared with, say, the $150m the country spent on a tax break for coal royalties.
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He'll make $6.73 million this year, a pittance for a hitter of his magnitude; his salary scale has been artificially depressed by years of wandering out of position for no good reason.
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Huge tax cuts for corporations and the rich and a relative pittance for everyone else are being financed on a credit card whose balance that future generations eventually will have to pay.
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As the economy worsened, the bonds' yields - which are as high as 220 percent - provided revenue to maintain bare-bones operations in efforts to avoid shuttering businesses or selling them for a pittance.
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Logging and mining continued unchecked; Indians remained dispossessed, with shortened, sickly, jobless lives, tolerated as wards of the state rather than full citizens, paid a pittance, with shrinking rights over their despoiled lands.
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Workers were housed in fetid "coolie" barracks, many of which had served as slave quarters, and were paid a pittance of 25 cents a day, from which the cost of rations was deducted.
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This is a pittance compared the the $50 billion that the government profits on the program every year and a small fraction of the nation's current student debt tab of about $1.5 trillion.
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In what might seem like a pittance to the media mogul, Oprah Winfrey just spent more than $28 million on a 23-acre horse farm in Montecito, California on Friday, according to E!
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In six of the Detroit Lions' eight games played this year, Matthew Stafford has been given the ball and a pittance of time on the clock to drive for a game-winning score.
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It cannot be consistently fuelled by selling off council houses, by selling British Gas shares for a pittance to ensure that those who take the shares experience a 100% return the next day.
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Leicester, ironically enough, weren't one of the more obvious participants here (although the £30m they spent last summer was no pittance) but they were still the runaway beneficiaries of the new-look economy.
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He sold it to his wife for a pittance at the end of 2009, just one day before he would have had to disclose it due to his position in the country's government.
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All the principal actors — Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson — have action-movie pedigrees but would work for Screen Actors Guild "scale" or for greatly reduced fees ("a pittance," Neeson called it, uncomplainingly).
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The Rams have assembled one of the best lines in the league for what amounts to a pittance, investing about $31.4 million this season, 16th among the league's 32 teams, according to Overthecap.com.
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Right now, our public lands are rented out to ranchers for a pittance ($1.69 for each cow-calf pair), while ranchers leasing private lands pay an average of $20 per cow-calf pair.
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When he describes how he came to start his company, Conte routinely contrasts his delight in his early days on YouTube with his growing fury at the pittance that site sent his way.
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Simpler meals can be had for a pittance at many of Gascony's bistros such as the Le Divan (10, boulevard du Général de Gaulle) in Éauze and the Café du Centre (restaurant-maubourguet.
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With an eager pool of investors looking to put cash to work, the cable telecoms giant paid a pittance in new issue concession for a junk-rated credit, just 12.5bp over its existing bonds.
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The Stolper-Samuelson theorem, however, found "an iota of possible truth" (as Samuelson put it later) in the hoary argument that workers in rich countries needed protection from "pauper labour" paid a pittance elsewhere.
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He would have begged CBS, NBC and ESPN to pay a pittance for the rights to show a few hours of his league in the middle of the night, or paid for airtime himself.
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Investors who in previous cycles gave a pittance publicly are now committing a few tens of thousands of dollars — not enough to move the needle in a race, but real movement from the past.
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The government has been selling off debt held by government entities, including accounts receivable, for a pittance of what it is worth, the officials said, pocketing the cash and leaving Venezuela's finances in shambles.
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Arguably, Italy should have sorted out its mess sooner, before Europe's stricter bail-out rules came into force; but it has spent a pittance compared with what other countries shelled out after the financial crisis.
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Lytro, which was developing light field capture cameras, was bought by Google for a pittance and Magic Leap was unable to fully crack the technology for its first augmented reality product even after raising billions.
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That's a pittance in the grand scheme of the federal budget, and what we really ought to do is just add $6 billion a year or so to the deficit and leave it at that.
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That's a pittance compared with Google, which has built a fiber-optic network in Uganda's capital and has struck deals in Sri Lanka and Indonesia to eventually beam the Internet down from high-altitude balloons.
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In other words, your pittance of a 401(k) might look a bit better today, but card-carrying members of the one percent could see their wealth rise on the order of millions of dollars.
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The settlement, which is a pittance, follows a complaint brought by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General, which accused the companies of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule.
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His administration has been selling off debt held by government entities, including accounts receivable, for a pittance of its worth, the United States officials said, and has pocketed the cash, leaving Venezuela's finances in shambles.
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In 1845, John Snare, a British bookseller, bought a picture of King Charles I for a pittance at auction and spent the rest of his life trying to prove that he had a genuine Velázquez.
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The sum is a pittance compared to the money being spent on key races by fundraising Political Action Committees (PACs), which represent corporations and political interest groups and contribute millions of dollars each election cycle.
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And if you get bored with your character's current appearance, voice, or outfit, plastic surgery and clothing from the varied boutiques of Steelport cost a pittance, so you can reinvent yourself as often as you please.
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As a petty trader earning a pittance from trading car engine oil at bustling Ajegunle market in Nigeria's economic capital, Lagos, Oluwaseyi does not earn enough to cover the annual 18,000 naira (around $50) school fees.
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"We can see that it has gone from a pittance — a mere thousands of dollars — to millions, but it's impossible for us to say at this point what the final figure is for July," said Krumholz.
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As of 2009 the iBOT was no longer available for sale, and support for existing units was dropped about three years ago, mainly because these things cost $25,000 each and Medicare only chipped in a pittance.
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As it turned out, that was a pittance compared to the $43 million in profit Mr. Walters reportedly reaped from Mr. Davis's tips — a sum Mr. Davis learned of only in the course of the investigation.
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In others, the city received a relative pittance for unused spaces in exchange for lifting the restrictions altogether: $22015,216.15 for a property on Kosciuszko Street in Brooklyn, $22013,22014 for another on East 453th Street in Harlem.
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Even then he was claiming that he could do infrastructure on the cheap, that a relative pittance of federal money could somehow generate vast investment (although the mystery multiplier has gotten even bigger this time around).
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In 2016 the union's super PAC spent $5 million backing Mr. Sanders in the primary contest against Hillary Clinton, a relative pittance in the world of super PACs (the one supporting Jeb Bush blew through $87 million).
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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which for the first time created a floor under wages and a roof over hours, ensuring that people weren't worked to death for a pittance, again excluded farmworkers and maids.
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The reality is that we must look to Congress for the answer—a Congress whose intelligence oversight budget is a pittance, and whose intelligence committees are so disjointed that the 28503/22019 Commission called for wholesale reform.
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The story of Hanukkah is that of suffering and hardship: The Maccabees had just survived a brutal conflict with the Greeks, when the ragged surviving Heebs made their last pittance of lamp oil stick for eight days.
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While their ensembles have most likely been borrowed from designers eager to dress Oscar-worthy stars — and to reap the publicity from doing so — those gowns cost a pittance compared with the jewelry on loan to them.
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That $136 million is the largest civil penalty laid down by the F.T.C. in a children's privacy case — the previous record was $5.7 million — but critics said it was a pittance for a tech giant like Google.
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"This is a pittance since there are more than 600 districts in the country, thus, in real terms this will mean 10 million rupees have been allocated per district," said Save the Children India in a statement.
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He named his family's racing stable Godolphin, after the small but striking Arabian who, as one story goes, was discovered by an Englishman pulling a cart through the streets of Paris and was purchased for a pittance.
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UCLA (31-5) managed just nine fast-break points, a pittance for a team that has destroyed opponents all season with NBA-bound Lonzo Ball leading the break, and also committed 13 turnovers that led to 14 points.
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They will sell the bananas for a pittance in Colombian pesos, then return home to convert the cash into a small fortune of Venezuelan currency — at least for a few days, when their money will be worthless again.
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All along the pipeline route, project authorities working with Myanmar's previous military government confiscated farmers' land, in whole or in part (even though laws forbid foreigners to own land in Myanmar), and paid a pittance for the property.
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After debate, they chose chocolate as the medium for their sculpture, because some residents grow cacao and sell it to companies for a pittance but mostly because of chocolate's deeply vexed symbolism in Africa's relationship with the West.
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin recently bought himself into an African country for a relative pittance, working through Yevgeny Prigozhin, his favorite contractor for such special projects, which have ranged from attempting to tip U.S. elections to saving Syria's dictator.
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In return for Apple being allowed to move its Scrooge McDuck-style pool of gold coins back here for a pittance, the company has promised to make a token investment and Trump gets to play up its sound bites.
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And he turned heads in the political world this summer when he unveiled a $10 million contribution — a pittance in tech, but a huge amount of cash in politics — to a super PAC that supports veterans running for office.
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Companies tend to give their information away or meekly agree to "partnerships" like Facebook's, where the fabulously rich and influential company paid a pittance of money and attention so it could claim to be taking a stand against disinformation.
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Google's self-driving cars have racked up about 1.4 million self-driven miles on actual roads in the last six years, but as impressive as that sounds, it's a pittance compared to what the simulators have been doing behind the scenes.
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Despite massive increases in federal tax revenues to record highs, Lew has made an annoying habit of wailing about corporate tax inversions that cost the Treasury a pittance compared to those record trillions the Treasury has been taking in lately.
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The agency's leaders have done well: an investigation by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper, claimed that a small coterie of FSO men have acquired oodles of prime real estate for a pittance.
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The 60,000 or so regular Canadian force is a pittance compared to the 2970,220,230 or so in the United States, and that's not even bringing in the reserve (21,224 for Canada, 24,20033 for America) or technology and weapons into it.
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Its base package will run you $54.99 per month — no pittance compared to Sling's $103 starter selection — but if you want to dip your toes in the water without throwing down any cash, there's a free trial available for new customers.
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When WWE bought WCW for a pittance in 2001, the greatest angle in history was staring Vince McMahon in the face: an invasion of WWE by outside forces, which weren't actually outside, since everyone would be under a WWE contract.
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The $1,000 per employee being doled out is a pittance compared to the billions Comcast stands to net courtesy of a lower overall tax rate, the elimination of consumer broadband privacy protections, and the elimination of hugely-popular net neutrality rules.
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I left heartened that precious wood that carries the lives and stories of two centuries and more wasn't discarded for a pittance and instead continues to engage with visitors to the gardens, thus continuing to imbibe new lives and new stories.
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The wealth of California is thereby passing into the hands of young, active, enterprising men, who in an older country and with these same old capitalists as competitors might have worked to the end of their days, and realized but a mere pittance.
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New York is in a bad way in 1977 — but nowhere in the city is that more apparent than the South Bronx, where buildings are being burned left and right for the pittance insurance money and lawlessness seems to rule the land.
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The institution and its displays offer a voyage through time, back to an era where fun seekers could pay a mere pittance to be entertained by now antiquated machines—and learn that coin operated (coin-op) devices have a long and rich history.
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Both companies have: Outspoken founder-CEOs A popular niche within their field Financial struggles Activist investors ramping up pressure Athenahealth could fetch a sale price of around $6 billion — a pittance for the big tech companies that are sitting on mountains of cash.
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And while fighters are now more vocal than ever about issues of pay and sponsorships and the push for a fighters' association or union is as loud as it's ever been, most of the UFC's underclass stays silent and fights for a pittance.
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The 20103 cabinet task force found that the lead danger to children then could be substantially eliminated for what, in federal terms, was a pittance: $2.1 billion, over 10 years, to eliminate lead hazards in old homes that posed the greatest threat.
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Yahoo, the company I never think about except to say "ha, ha, Yahoo," finally agreed to sell itself to Verizon for about $5 billion, a relative pittance compared to Yahoo's market cap in its heyday as one of the internet's premier companies.
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But Ms. Greenwood argued that Mr. Carson's team was not experienced enough to make it work, and it soon became apparent that there was little appetite in the White House for more than a pittance in funding — $2 million over the next year.
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" Mr. Weissmann noticed that when Mr. Graham and Mr. Cassidy unveiled their health care bill last week, there was a provision that actually "encouraged states to spend what pittance they received from the feds on insurance for some of their lowest-income residents.
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Wrist-slap fines tend to be a pittance in comparison to the money AT&T made off of each of these scams, and AT&T's immense lobbying power has ensured that regulatory oversight has been gleefully stripped away, as the net neutrality repeal made clear.
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If a good year for a coffee farmer means a healthy crop that sells for a pittance, and a bad year means a substantial portion of their harvest being wiped out by climate change-induced droughts and plant diseases, what chance do small farmers have?
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"No leader worthy of the name can look the other way while men, women and children are held against their will, forced to work for a pittance or no pay at all, routinely beaten, raped and tortured," May will tell leaders, the statement said.
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I sold my furniture and moved in with my parents (saving me $1,600 each month), froze my credit cards, took a part-time job for minimum wage to supplement my freelancer's pittance, created a budget, and educated myself on how to regain my financial health.
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I was proud of my Dad, who was working for the university as a PhD student for a pittance, and terrified of my mom, who would regularly fly into fits of rage from stress, working long hours at her dishwashing and hotel cleaning jobs.
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Sanders, unlike his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton or many of the Republican candidates, has received a relative pittance in campaign contributions from people in the securities and investment industry: just more than $55,000 in all of 2015, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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Regardless, there are two ways to look at this new offer: It's a great way for Tesla to allow P90D owners to get the most out of their car for a relative pittance — compared to the cost of, say, a $132,000 Model X Signature.
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To her, what matters after 50 years of hostility between the countries is not political gamesmanship but the chance to help her relatives and the everyday Cuban who hustles to put food on the table and find a job that pays more than a pittance.
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But Ohtani, because he is not yet 25, cost a relative pittance under the collective bargaining agreement — a $20 million fee that went to the Fighters, a $2.3 million signing bonus and a minor league contract that ties him to the Angels for six years.
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Thus it makes perfect sense that one election would be hard fought over five months with at least $28503 million spent on he campaigns once all sources are reported, while the other would race through seven weeks at the relative pittance of about $22019 million.
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Unfortunately, it didn't quite land, bringing in a pittance at the box office, only $6 million domestically in the US. But that's likely less because it was too ahead of its time, and more because of the way it was handled by its producers.
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The study promises to be much, much cheaper than the rich country experiments, as each person getting a basic income will receive only $250 to $400 a year— a pittance by US standards, but as much as or more than the recipients ordinarily make annually.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: YouTubeWith a budget of just $600—a mere pittance compared to what robots like ATLAS cost to develop—students from the University of California's Davis' College of Engineering created a machine that's capable of tying a shoe all by itself.
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But that looks a pittance now that America has rediscovered the cult of the DJ. The country that invented house music in the 1970s, through pioneers such as Frankie Knuckles, was something of a bystander as the phenomenon took hold in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s.
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So you actually can do quite a bit more than you might expect, but the big problem is if you think you're going to use this thing and use it offline all the time, don't forget that most of these Chromebooks come with a pittance of storage.
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Dear YouTube, Your attempt at "Setting the Record Straight" through a post on your "creator blog" last month did exactly the opposite: It was obfuscation to divert artists' attention from the fact that YouTube hides behind the DMCA's "safe harbor" provision and pays artists a pittance.
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In political terms, Mr. Molinaro is once again living near the poverty line: His latest campaign filing showed him with some $311,000 left to spend, a pittance in a state where the bulk of the votes are in New York City, where advertisements are expensive to buy.
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And before he handed the reins over to GE's current CEO, John Flannery, Immelt made some bad deals, selling NBCUniversal to Comcast "for a pittance" in the midst of the recession and making acquisitions in the oil space near the peak in oil prices, Cramer said.
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"Women are enslaved by the patriarchal system, they are enslaved by the caste system, and they are enslaved by the minimum wage, which is such a pittance that they are forced to live in abject conditions," said Manjit Singh, a retired professor of sociology at Panjab University.
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Indeed, this week, his team tried to make the point that what he was seeking is a pittance for Musk, who was told to estimate his own net worth during the trial and guessed it to be roughly $20 billion, based on his Tesla and SpaceX holdings.
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The first thing that happened was that the cap limited the amount of money teams could spend on Ohtani—a few million dollars is a pittance for a player of his caliber, which means that he was looking at other factors to decide on his future MLB home.
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The total combined revenues for the Mid-Eastern and Southwestern Athletic Conferences that year, according to a USA Today database, were roughly $289 million—a competitive amount when compared to other small-time Division I football conferences, but a pittance compared to the big-time bowl-eligible ones.
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While the issue can be fought in state legislatures by organizing massive blocks of renters into a coalition that shifts landlord-friendly states into renter-friendly ones, any advances seem like a pittance as long as the current system of viewing housing as a commodity remains in place.
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While the $50 million approved by the House is a pittance in the gargantuan federal budget, the program should be just the start of a reform to provide more opportunity for voucher families and keep them from being trapped in desperately poor areas that threaten children and their futures.
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His hero F. Scott Fitzgerald, however, had the knack in spades, learning early that it hardly made sense to knock himself out on a novella-length masterpiece like "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" when he'd have to sell it for a pittance to the highbrow Smart Set.
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"Medicare disadvantages geriatricians at every turn, paying whatever is asked for medications and procedures, but a pittance for tough care-planning," said Dr. Joanne Lynn, a geriatrician and the director of the Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness at Altarum Institute, a nonprofit health systems research organization based in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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For now, Restocks is charging a membership fee of between $25-$36 a year, which is a pittance for most avid streetwear buyers — many of whom purchase expensive and shady script-based "bots" that try to auto fill sizes and shopping carts instantly, putting them ahead in checkout lines on the web.
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The way the media business works now is that Facebook and Google and Apple News reap the bulk of the profits produced by the labor of journalists—either by leapfrogging the ownership structure entirely or enlisting short-sighted owners, who mostly compete with one another, to give away their content for a pittance.
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Instead of Japan, with Sony at the helm, becoming the world's leader in consumer electronics for over 50 years, it would today be a U.S. factory site, akin to Saipan, where American fashion houses manufacture clothing with the "Made in the USA" label but where Saipan residents work for a mere pittance.
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Consumer Reports has attempted to draw some additional attention to the problem via its "What the Fee?!" campaign, highlighting misleading charges like "regulatory recovery" fees (designed to trick users into believing government is to blame for higher rates), to soaring charges for antiquated cable boxes and DVRs that cost companies a pittance to provide.
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Su's hacking effort provided a staggering return on investment for the Chinese government: According to court documents, the operation cost China around $1 million—an absolute pittance compared to the decades of engineering knowledge, military technology, and construction details that Su and his team were able to steal from Boeing and the US Air Force.
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Here is where I should point out that a satirical image of a "reporter" eating a much criticized world leader's poop chute after he interviewed said leader in a interview so soft it looked like Jimmy Fallon gave it, is not the same thing as scantily clad women being paid pittance to serve as window dressing.
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He opted into the country's posting system as a gesture of loyalty to the team that plucked him out of career purgatory, and while the ultimate $500,000 fee that the Rangers paid the Swallows for Barnette was a pittance compared to the ransoms Yu Darvish and Masahiro Tanaka demanded, the symbolism mattered more than the money.
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Even with big-box retailers and a Fortune 500 company, Emerson Electric, within its city limits, because of misguided tax incentive schemes and a Missouri law designed to keep local taxes low, Ferguson received only a pittance in property taxes from large companies like Emerson, which was only contributing an estimated $68,000 annually as of 20183.
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At a time when the two biggest Republican priorities on a jam-packed congressional agenda are spending more money on military equipment and letting corporations hang on to more of their record profits, American citizens—mostly children—are going to suffer and endure pain and even die because no politician can find a relative pittance to fund successful programs that assist them.
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McFarland talked about this donation to Rolling Stone as part of his post-Fyre Festival interview, throwing it in at the end in an attempt to make us feel like he's really trying to right his wrongs when really it's a completely transparent gesture and a pittance compared to the disruption that this festival would actually cause to the locals who live on this island.
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While the company doesn't like to advertise the option, users have the ability to buy their own modem or router, provided it's on the company's list of acceptable devices known to play nice with the Comcast network (the same is true for Charter Spectrum.) Many of these devices can be bought for a pittance via online retailers, and even less if acquired second hand.
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The "pro-stay" elites that include the leadership of both major British political parties, most corporate leaders, and even the most famous British celebrities, are cynically selling the EU as some kind of ATM that just might stop spitting out whatever pittance it gives to the great British unwashed if they don't shut up and comply with this massive, powerful body in Brussels that none of them elected.
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Given that any government could conceivably engage in this project for only about $10 billion a year (a pittance for a number of large or rich countries affected by climate change, like India, China, or the whole developed world), it will become very tempting for a country looking to avoid displacing citizens due to sea level rise, or trying to prevent catastrophic weather events, to spray aerosols into the atmosphere unilaterally.
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As the largest private employer in the city, with more than 45,000 local workers, Amazon would have had to pay initially about $12 million a year — a relative pittance for a company with revenue last year of $178 billion and whose chief executive, Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, said recently that the only thing he could think of to spend his fortune on was space travel.
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That was as true in the wake of the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe — before which only half of French children, plagued by hunger and disease, lived to see the age of 20 — as it is now in Ethiopia, where the producers of Ivanka Trump's shoes recently relocated from Dongguan, China, chasing a more desperate work force content to work for a pittance (roughly $30 a month) rather than paying the rising wages of their predecessors in China ($560).
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A century after Judith Defour was executed, Dickens, who was attuned more keenly to London than anyone has ever been, saw that not much had changed since Fielding's day, and that what comes out of a bottle is of less importance than what drives us to pick it up: Gin-drinking is a great vice in England, but wretchedness and dirt are a greater; and until you improve the homes of the poor, or persuade a half-famished wretch not to seek relief in the temporary oblivion of his own misery, with the pittance which, divided among his family, would furnish a morsel of bread for each, gin-shops will increase in number and splendour.
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