Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, $47 million--a disproportionate amount--of the state's five-year capital-improvement program was set aside for Texas County for highway work to accommodate Seaboard truck convoys, which in time would haul 10,000 hogs a day into Guymon from all directions...
...home of the New York Stock Exchange. Now in cramped quarters on Wall Street, the exchange has hinted that cheaper New Jersey real estate looks awfully good to it. In a knee-jerk spasm, New York City and State offered $600 million in incentives--more than twice the amount ever offered to keep a company in New York--to keep the exchange in Manhattan...
...market bets are for losers. You have to be right twice: getting out near the top and back in near the bottom. And even if you get it right, the payoff isn't that great. Between 1988 and 1997, if you had invested a set amount each year on the day the market peaked, you still would have made 18.2% a year. If you had picked the market's low point each year, you'd have made 20.2%. Being in the market--time, not timing--is what matters most...
...take into account the extra benefits created when the money is spent by the employees of the companies that have benefited from tax breaks. Each dollar pumped into the local economies via grocery, gas, real estate and other purchases is also taxed in a variety of ways. Therefore, the amount of time it takes to "earn back" the original tax incentives given to a company will be considerably less than you indicated. The creation and saving of jobs through corporate welfare, no matter the cost, may seem unbalanced and unfair, but think of the severe economic consequences when jobs...
Craig D. Peskin '00-'01 didn't expect his annual patronage rebate from the Harvard Coop to amount to much, so he was impressed when he found out $20.98 was waiting...