Today, we would describe that figure as a lowball estimate.
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And that's when using the likely lowball estimate on the US side.
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"If you lowball something like this, you'll pay for it later," Sen.
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Its lowball offer meant that BPE shareholders and bondholders were wiped out.
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In my home, they've offered me a lowball buyout, which I haven't taken.
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Though, as I've learned, the company has stature and tends to lowball people.
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"These lowball offers aren't due to a lack of cash," says the report.
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I've found these websites provide lowball salary estimates for my industry and location.
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This lowball estimate would explain the twofold increase in risk the researchers found.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James called the proposed settlement a "lowball" offer.
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Lowball prices tell clients that your talents are worth less than others out there.
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These are estimates that likely lowball the hours and costs spent on official time.
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Viacom rejected CBS' lowball bid, sources say, and is now planning a counter offer.
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They're just the opening, lowball offer in his negotiations with (fill in the blank).
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Bumble said it turned down the offer, considering it to be a lowball bid.
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There are more than 40 types of stemware, including six highball and lowball designs.
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Don't let your boss lowball you because they think you haven't done your research!
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Unless, of course, you're Paris Jackson — in which case, 50 is actually a lowball estimate.
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Sets of dishes, wine glasses, lowball glasses, and reusable hot cups also lined the walls ...
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But in the final rule, they were left out, enabling the EPA to lowball HRI.
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So it was probably a lowball estimate, because some of the ticks had already detached.
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The best mugs (and wine tumblers): 4-pack of YETI Rambler Lowball Mugs ($80) Alternatively, these shatter-proof stainless steel lowball mugs by Yeti will keep your tea or coffee hot and your beer or wine ice cold with their vacuum-sealing BPA-free lids.
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Technology Companies generally expect you to negotiate, which means they'll lowball you on the initial offer.
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These lowball estimates were mostly introduced into the marketplace around April or May, after harvest began.
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"It could well lead to gaming by taxpayers who use lowball numbers for valuation," said Rosenthal.
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There could, perhaps, be more costs to squeeze out – it's common for acquirers to lowball them.
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Should you lowball your work with the hope that more people will give it a shot?
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It would cause any number of countries to lowball their target out of fear of getting stuck.
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The easy way to engineer a short-term stock rise is to lowball your official earnings guidance.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Purdue Pharma of trying to "lowball" with its settlement offer.
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Companies will sometimes lowball their range, though we won't find out for a little bit where everything lands.
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And all purchases in that period were below where the stock spiked after the lowball offer was announced.
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Some really rough—and lowball—estimates guess that there are 97 million songs out there in the world.
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People generally overstate how much they exercise, just as they overstate their height and lowball their weight, Jakicic said.
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They lowball competitors and drive them out of business, then hike prices, he said, and lie about competing companies.
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But now I'm worried that this year, the company may offer me a lowball raise, or nothing at all.
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They may offer you a great price on your new car but lowball you on the trade-in, for example.
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These ads often lowball you with baseline costs, and venues only share detailed pricing information after you pay a visit.
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The money got her out of a financial hole and helped her avoid having to accept a lowball settlement offer.
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The United States had feared that without the ability to adjust targets, countries would lowball their commitments, Mr. Stern said.
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Prosecutors can bump up the estimated cost of a hack with loosely related expenses, or lowball it if a defendant cooperates.
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As Rampell points out, employers may still lowball women and people of color even without a salary history to go on.
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Sinclair Broadcasting, in conjunction with CVC Capital Partners, has reportedly made the only serious — but lowball — bid for all 22 networks.
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"Baby, what do you want to eat?" he begins, while entering a room holding a lowball tumbler, wearing a swanky robe.
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"Our first reaction is it's a lowball offer," Mark Niznik, co-manager of the Artemis UK Smaller Companies Fund, told Reuters.
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Twitter's lowball number, as provided in their Senate testimony on 31 October 2017, also ignored camouflaged, deleted, and suspended bot activity.
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According to the White House, this translates to roughly two million people, though immigration experts say that is a lowball number.
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Appointing a separate chairman in 2014, jettisoning Alere's deal-hungry founder, turning down his lowball bid and focusing the business all helped.
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Start with the ongoing Steven Stamkos saga, which continues to drag on with little evidence of progress beyond the occasional lowball offer.
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You don't want to lowball yourself, but you also don't want to aim too high and seem like you're out of touch.
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Local bigwigs had every incentive to lowball the figures to avoid the wrath of NIMBYs, says Neal Hudson of Residential Analysts, a consultancy.
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My agent at the time told me one couple was looking to lowball me at $275 million and I told them don't bother.
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Sixty-eight percent of respondents were actively looking for a new job, and 30% said they were, in fact, worried about lowball offers.
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The agencies have said that their content arms are separately run entities, and that they can't lowball writers because they risk losing clients.
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On a recent Tuesday, one patron was about to call an Uber when the coconut tapioca pudding arrived, unassuming in a lowball glass.
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Not only did they lowball him, they tried to put in a big option pool and at the last minute he pulled out.
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In both the high and the lowball moments, the Coens indulge their goofball tendencies, and parts of the movie play like live-action cartoons.
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These are hard for rivals to break without offering lowball prices, buying back a competitor's planes or giving away expensive perks like retraining pilots.
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IMBD lists 65 uses of "Respect" in TV and film, but frankly, that sounds like a lowball to us — surely there must be hundreds.
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Most of the offers I got were super lowball, and for some reason I'm still getting offers nine months after I left the state.
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But they did lowball support for Mr Obama by over three percentage points in 2000, and for Al Gore by the same margin in 2000.
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An investor group is buying two thirds of the company for up to 353 billion yen ($714 million), a lowball price for the former national champion.
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Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, faced with decidedly unholy lowball returns on tangible equity, face a similar dilemma as they struggle to meet their cost of capital.
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Mr. Armstrong, who has since revealed a new go-it-alone strategy for Williams, might have had good cause to ignore an opportunistic, possibly lowball, bid.
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He's sticking to his lowball price tag: TRUMP: …It's also getting built for much less money — I hope you get this — than these people are estimating.
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With no official data on sales, prices can fluctuate widely in Costa Rica, with sellers seeking unrealistically high prices and buyers submitting lowball offers, agents said.
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Lumia 635A lowball price point puts the 635 in direct competition with Motorola's also wonderful Moto E, but I actually prefer the 635 here for pure aesthetics.
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Wright's rep Kimirhochelle Porter tells TMZ the singer felt totally disrespected by the lowball offer, since he usually gets around $600k for samples of his '70s hit.
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Shareholder conflict is not unknown at mainland tech firms listed abroad: last year, Baidu's chief executive was forced to drop the lowball buyout of a video unit.
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The difficulty Deutsche Bank will face in hitting even its lowball 4 percent return on tangible equity by the end of next year is a reality check.
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"Not just lowball but also not a well constructed proposal," said Sean Burgess, portfolio manager and lead trader for Puerto Rico strategy at Sarasota, Florida-based Cumberland Advisors.
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Broniatowski notes some of the accounts they flagged had hundreds of thousands of followers, and as a lowball estimate, he says these tweets collectively had millions of impressions.
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Wholesale lenders would take a dim view of Deutsche once again failing to meet its lowball target of a 4% return on tangible equity, pushing up its borrowing costs.
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As a result, some employers may feel comfortable making lowball offers to women, because they assume applicants will speak up if they make significantly more than the employer's offer.
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They could lowball you on the sale and overcharge you for an apartment that isn't exactly what you want, all because you're stuck in the framework of a trade.
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Although halts affected some E.T.F.s that tracked stock indexes, any E.T.F. that continued to trade or had resumed trading used lowball price estimates for any index components that were halted.
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And that's actually a lowball figure: In expensive and housing-starved cities like San Francisco, the price tag for a single unit of affordable housing is heading toward $1 million.
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By the way, in terms of the revenue hunt going on in Congress, I wish somebody would look at the lowball estimates compiled by the JCT with respect to repatriation.
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And they were lowball, "throw-some-spaghetti- at-the-wall-and-hope-it-sticks kind of offers," said Mr. Gardner, who will keep the unit off the market until March.
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The publisher greeted his guest, fixed him a drink — "like a sidecar; one of those old, fancy, mid-century lowball glasses," Ryan recently recalled — and sat with him on a couch.
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Salesforce is deliberating whether it is worth making a lowball offer for Twitter in the coming days based on Twitter's stock performance and any news of other bidders, the people said.
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AT&T has offered a stonking price, half of it in cash, far more than the lowball bid that Fox, Mr Murdoch's firm, offered in 2014 and which Mr Bewkes sensibly rejected.
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New York City's pricey real estate has become a "buyers market," new data suggests, characterized by lowball offers and a rise in the number of properties staying on the market for longer.
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All of this is to say that in an industry as quirky and illogical as book publishing — a business run by English majors — the incentive to lowball a print run is strong.
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The ethic of zhan pianyi dictated that Yan must be trying to lowball him and that he'd be crazy to sell without having discovered what made an uninhabitable mud hut so desirable.
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" The longtime comedian and actor made headlines when she aired issues she had with the Netflix's "lowball offer that was only a fraction of what Netflix paid other (non-black female) comedians.
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Oswaldo Martín said that the services "lowball" translators—they offered him forty-five cents a minute for highly skilled work—but pay that is low in Oakland is high in Todos Santos.
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The most dedicated sellers meet up at annual PoshFest conferences hosted by the company and go on Reddit and YouTube to share tips and rant about buyers who lowball them with ridiculous offers.
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The soldiers all have dollar signs in their eyes, hoping to make $100,000 each off the deal, so when Oglesby says he wants to be involved, they're insulted by the billionaire's lowball offer.
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And I said yeah, I'm interested, but you know how negotiations go, they give you a price, they lowball you, you put a higher price, and then we meet somewhere in the middle.
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For example, did the president and his siblings claim the properties they inherited had a different — and much higher — value for income tax purposes than the lowball valuations claimed for the estate tax?
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In the photos released as part of the announcement he is seen with a highball glass that features ice and lemon, in addition to a lowball glass with an red-ish, pink-hued cocktail.
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Bargaining with a prospective employer can be daunting for someone in their first full-time position, yet getting the right salary from the start can help ensure that future employers don't lowball their compensation.
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A few years ago, Ms. Campbell approached the prosecutor in one of her cases with a lowball plea offer, though she and her client had talked about their willingness to accept a longer sentence.
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While her itch to flip will no doubt take hold again soon, for now, the icon can be found in "that damn kitchen" drinking wine in her preferred preparation: in a lowball glass, over ice.
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Carmack was fired from id in 2005, and sued his former employer soon after that, claiming he was forced out after refusing to accept a lowball offer to sell back his stake in the company.
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If data a team has collected on a player's performance via wearables suggests he's not as good as traditional statistics might indicate, they might be motivated to use that to justify a lowball contract offer.
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Actress and comedian Mo'Nique has filed a lawsuit claiming a "lowball offer" Netflix Inc made to her for a comedy special is indicative of the streaming service's lack of diversity and bias against black women.
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Loren Thompson, a defense consultant with close ties to Boeing, said Boeing officials expected the bomber program to face tough scrutiny by Congress given reports that Northrop had submitted a lowball bid for the work.
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Corey Hubbard, vice-president of Tampa Bay Passenger Vessel Association, said illegal operators have bruised the image of licensed commercial charter boaters—and eaten into their business—by offering customers snazzier vessels at lowball prices.
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And stylish young women have taken to monogramming and customizing with stickers their Yeti Rambler Lowball tumblers, which cost around $20 for the 10-ounce cup and come in a variety of colors including seafoam.
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"While the Sacklers continue to lowball victims and skirt a responsible settlement, we refuse to allow the family to misuse the courts in an effort to shield their financial misconduct," James said in a statement.
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"No matter what the economic circumstances are, no matter what the backdrop is, there's this dynamic that companies like to lowball and analysts like to give them headroom," said Ed Keon, chief investment strategist at QMA.
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At the same time, it has a 16 percent poverty rate, and that's probably a lowball estimate of the level of economic deprivation: Housing costs are so high in Manhattan precisely because it's rich on average.
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The suit alleges that IAC and Match Group manipulated financial data in order to create "a fake lowball valuation" (to quote the plaintiffs' press release), then stripped Rad, Mateen, Badeen and others of their stock options.
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"While the Sacklers continue to lowball victims and skirt a responsible settlement, we refuse to allow the family to misuse the courts in an effort to shield their financial misconduct," Ms. James said in a statement.
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"While the Sacklers continue to lowball victims and skirt a responsible settlement, we refuse to allow the family to misuse the courts in an effort to shield their financial misconduct," James said in a written statement.
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We already knew that initial number was a lowball, but we didn't know how low—an IRS audit recently uncovered that over 700,000 people had their accounts breached, and 575,000 others were targeted but not successfully accessed.
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Then last year Mr. Mo and others in his village near the city of Leizhou received what they considered a lowball offer to sell their land to make way for a $1.5 billion coal-fired power plant.
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"While the Sacklers continue to lowball victims and skirt a responsible settlement, we refuse to allow the family to misuse the courts in an effort to shield their financial misconduct," James told the Times in a statement.
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But shareholders also claim that toward the end of the sale process, when it was clear that Apollo would be the only bidder, Cravath worked with Fresh Market's GC to justify a lowball bid from the PE fund.
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The lawsuit claims Match Group offered to buy Bumble for $450 million last June, what Bumble referred to as a "lowball" offer, then failed to make a serious offer even after looking under the hood at Bumble's business.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Crop scouts in Kansas were handed a unique narrative heading into this week's hard red winter wheat tour on the heels of an epic snowstorm, and it might seem that this could produce some lowball yield measurements.
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Founders aren't going to take lower valuations or less money just to make the lives of their early employees a bit more rosy, and certainly venture capitalists aren't going to lowball their offers in a hyper-competitive investment environment.
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"The home insurance sales system is calibrated to lowball replacement cost values, so it's up to you to make sure you have the right protection," said Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, a nonprofit consumer insurance advocacy group.
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"While the Sacklers continue to lowball victims and skirt a responsible settlement, we refuse to allow the family to misuse the courts in an effort to shield their financial misconduct," James said in a statement reported with the filing.
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On the other end of the spectrum, Pierre Far, a former Google exec who launched a startup called Blockmetry aimed at measuring content blocking beyond just ads, said studies like these tend to lowball the potential threat to publishers.
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Think of a bluff and a lowball offer as tools that are often used in tandem — any time someone makes an extreme offer but is either explicitly or implicitly lying about what will happen if it is not accepted.
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Under the 1957 Price-Anderson Act, the nuclear industry would only be liable for $13.6 billion in damages following a pool fire—significantly less than the NRC's lowball estimate of damages ($125 billion) and mere change compared to Lyman and co.
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When they model future climate scenarios and predict the rise in global temperature, they have to pick a lowball temperature, one reached in ninety-plus per cent of all cases, rather than the temperature that's reached in the average scenario.
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Dossou-Aworet, who also founded Geneva-headquartered Petrolin, raised his stake in Africa-focused oil producer Tullow for the second time this month, with the Times reporting that there would be a "lowball bid" for the company, citing one investor.
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More than three quarters of published journal articles—114 million on the World Wide Web alone, by one (lowball) estimate—are only available if you are affiliated with an institution that can afford pricey subscriptions or you can swing $40-per-article fees.
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A federal judge in Bismarck, North Dakota, on Tuesday tossed a $4 million lawsuit against the Dakota Access natural gas pipeline project and its agents by 22 landowners who claimed the companies misled them into taking lowball offers for easements across their property.
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"Analysts notoriously underestimate how well these companies will do, and part of it is that companies intentionally lowball the analysts so that they can beat their estimates," said Randy Frederick, vice president of trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab in Austin, Texas.
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"It was shocking to me, given all the work that I had done in the past to get us to be paid fairly," Anderson told the Daily Beast about the lowball offer she received when she signed up for a six-episode reboot.
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Chief Judge Loretta A. Preska of Federal District Court in Manhattan said Patricia Cohen failed to show that her former husband fraudulently hid $5.5 million from a soured 1986 real estate transaction in New York City, enabling him to lowball his net worth.
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A lowball offer can provoke a negative reaction as much as a high opening bid from the Justice Department, and each side knows that it will have to give up some ground to avoid being pushed into litigation, which brings greater risks.
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The complaint also alleges that Cravath and Fresh Market's then general counsel orchestrated after-the-fact justifications for the board's decision to accept a lowball offer from Apollo; and that Cravath drafted a proxy statement that materially misled shareholders about the transaction.
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Although their offer of $75 a share was about $1123 above the market value at the time, it was shown to be a lowball figure when Kohlberg Kravis Roberts joined the fray four days later with an offer of $90 a share.
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Chief Judge Loretta Preska of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan said Patricia Cohen failed to show that her former husband fraudulently hid $093 million from a soured 1986 New York City real estate transaction, enabling him to lowball his net worth.
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So whether or not this signals another lowball for the company remains to be seen, but in sum, it's a big whiff for investors looking for some indication that the company is coming from a point of strength when it comes to the wearable market.
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Letitia James, New York's attorney-general, who together with her opposite numbers in 25 other states declined to join the Ohio settlement, has called the deal with Purdue "an insult, plain and simple", which allows the Sacklers to "lowball victims and skirt a responsible settlement".
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In fact, if just one percent of the natural gas produced in the state is escaping — and experts say that's a lowball — then Pennsylvania companies could be emitting close to 220006,2202 metric tons of methane a year, and throwing away saleable product worth over $2628 million.
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We can debate for weeks whether tariffs are an effective solution for helping to dissuade outsourcing—and ponder whether market disruptions like the one that destabilized Gateway would be prevented if more stringent tariffs had been in place in the early 2000s to discourage lowball competitors.
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To some it looks like a lowball bid, but Portugal has welcomed the offer because it considers the Chinese firm's pledge to keep EDP-Energias de Portugal intact more important than the price and it wants closer ties with a country that has plowed billions into its economy.
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"Despite Mo'Nique's extensive résumé and documented history of comedic success, when Netflix presented her with an offer of employment for an exclusive stand-up comedy special, Netflix made a lowball offer that was only a fraction of what Netflix paid other (non-Black female) comedians," the lawsuit says.
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The suit alleges a scheme in which IAC and Match manufactured a "lowball" valuation of Tinder and then "extinguished Tinder stock options entitling the employees to valuations in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021," which let the defendants pocket the money that otherwise would have been owed to the plaintiffs.
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The federal government's Medicaid help may be buoying Puerto Rico's bonds by making "participants hopeful there will be potentially some assistance down the road that mitigates the lowball first salvo in the negotiations," said Shaun Burgess, portfolio manager and lead trader for Puerto Rico strategy at Sarasota, Florida-based Cumberland Advisors.
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The JAMA report proposed a number of fixes for wasteful healthcare spending for each of the categories listed above, but even those would only tackle an estimated 25 percent of that $760 billion lowball, meaning that only 5 percent of the total healthcare spending in the U.S. would be affected.
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In February, Judge Joseph H. Gale ruled instead that the expert had most likely placed a "lowball" estimate on that painting and a second work so as to "curry favor" with the owner, an estate facing a potentially large tax bill, and thus win the business of selling the works at auction.
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Arguments can be made that UFC signings of Gilbert Melendez, Hector Lombard and Alistair Overeem haven't exactly gone to plan, but lowball offers from the UFC, in addition to Khalidov, has cost them talents such as Shinya Aoki and Bibiano Fernandes in the past—imagine those two competing in what is undeniably the premier MMA promotion.
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But Noah will be banged up and 31 when he hits the market, and the mid-build Bulls will be only too happy to lowball him and watch him walk to a larger role and a bigger payday—hopefully amicably—as opposed to recommitting to a culture they began phasing out when they fired head coach Tom Thibodeau last offseason.
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Using many of the government's own cost estimates, which are notoriously low, as bureaucrats tend to lowball the costs and overstate the benefits of their rules, an analysis by the Competitive Enterprise Institute found that federal regulation alone costs consumers and businesses at least $28503 trillion -- more than 22019 percent of current GDP -- every year in compliance costs and lost economic productivity.
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C.C. has no answer to the goombahs who make him a lowball offer for his golden goose, so he salves his ego by bragging about his business acumen to the other pimps and exorcises his powerlessness by treating Lori to one last desultory sex session — one in which he treats her like a cheap prostitute, rather than the queen worthy of an extremely well-done porterhouse steak.
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Ron KindRonald (Ron) James KindProtect American patients and innovation from a harmful MedTech Tax increase We should repeal the medical device tax on veterans House panel approves bills on tax extenders, expanding tax credits MORE (Wis.) said "that $1.5 trillion is really a lowball," because some popular provisions in the bill are set to expire after five years and Congress would likely end up extending them.
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"Despite Mo'Nique's extensive résumé and documented history of comedic success, when Netflix presented her with an offer of employment for an exclusive stand-up comedy special, Netflix made a lowball offer that was only a fraction of what Netflix paid other (non-Black female) comedians," according to the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages and was filed on her behalf by attorneys at the deRubertis Law Firm, APC and Schimmel & Parks, APLC.
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The lowball number, from the AP: "[H]olding onto scores of real estate investments — part of a portfolio of at least $240 million in assets — while they serve in White House jobs ... Jared Kushner, Trump's senior adviser, resigned from more than 260 entities and sold off 58 businesses or investments..." Ivanka kept her share in the Trump Hotel in DC, "earning between $1 million and $5 million from January 2016 to March 2017."
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