Similarly, the box-office takings of "Our Beloved" have been poor.
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The caps only cost him $3, so his takings were high.
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Every few days, young thugs steal her paltry takings at knifepoint.
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But property titles unleashed something else in Latin America — more land takings.
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Aoul rents it to a driver who gives him half the takings.
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BNP Paribas helped sanctions-busters, for instance, while HSBC channelled Mexican drug takings.
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Holder), to expand the Takings Clause to stymie environmental protection legislation (Palazzolo v.
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Megerdichev said the patriotic factor was not the only thing driving box office takings.
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Things are worse in lambing season when criminals can double or triple their takings.
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In terms of box office takings, a trailer can make or break a movie.
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Last year its tills rang up takings of $482 billion, about twice Apple's revenue.
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With about 180 customers a day, that would equate to $15,000 takings per store.
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"That's what we have always said," she said, turning back to the day's takings.
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Restaurants, depending on their location, had seen takings collapse by between 20 and 50 percent.
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In America and Europe slot machines usually account for two-thirds of the house's takings.
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That "Takings Revolution" could restart with a justice with more of an appetite for revolution.
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More concerning is the court's ruling that NABA's takings claim is not ripe for adjudication.
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In that capacity, Schiff has argued in favor of a broad understanding of compensable Takings.
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"Today's decision thus overthrows the court's long-settled view of the takings clause," she wrote.
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Simply, our government could owe tens of trillions of dollars in compensation for the" takings".
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Even as those hopping exits tickle the audience into giggles, they resonate as leave-takings.
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Although the narrow ruling in Williamson only precludes federal courts from considering takings claims against local government before a state court has ruled, overruling Williamson would draw into question Leon's conclusion that NABA must bring its takings claim in the Court of Federal Claims.
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Software learns from box office data to see how casting changes could affect a movie's takings.
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Endash Bogge, general manager of the Executive Hotel Adama, said takings would be down by 40%.
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Hairdressers, for instance, will often rent a spot in a salon and keep their takings for themselves.
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BNP Paribas helped sanctions-busters, HSBC channelled Mexican drug takings and Deutsche Bank moved cash for Russian launderers.
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They include creating a bank trading only in euros, and depositing Iran's oil takings in Europe's central banks.
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Another e-commerce player, JD.com, said its orders surpassed last year's entire Singles' Day takings before 2 p.m.
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This proved to be influential when these unrepresentative takings were used against Bahmanzadeh as a motivation to commit crime.
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It's unclear if the looters manages to get anything in the robbery, but the glass definitely diminished their takings.
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It said 73% of all sea kidnappings and 92% of hostage-takings took place in the Gulf of Guinea.
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The takings for the gate at Rajadamnern Stadium in their last encounter were an enormous, by Thai standards, $80,000.
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Indeed, a large part of the Court of Federal Claim's docket consists of claims for "Takings" of private property.
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For example, the Court once seemed poised to strike down core federal statutes under the Takings Clause, particularly environmental statutes.
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With infrastructure to maintain in Luhansk but barely any takings on the gate, the club is in a tight financial situation.
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Combined with revenue from its other international markets, that means Warcraft's global box office takings now stand at some $378 million.
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Love is a thousand goodbyes, literal leave-takings (Jake and Juan navigated a long-distance romance for much of their relationship).
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Robo-taxis are essential to Uber's profitability: They'll allow vehicles to offer rides 245.3-247.6 without human drivers sharing the takings.
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The eminent domain takings alone that would be required to pull it off would give libertarian-leaners like me cold sweats.
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But takings remain much lower than in peers such as France, whose Louvre museum alone rakes in 100 million euros a year.
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To give banks an incentive to use Eurex, the German house is promising the ten most active a slice of its takings.
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Takings at the till in Germany and France rose by 0.3 percent and 0.5 percent, which was below average for the region.
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The Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause provides that the government can take private property for public use only if it pays for it.
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He had put notorious gangster Paul Massey's "Salford Lads" firm in charge of the doors and they'd allegedly started pocketing the takings.
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They can operate anywhere in the world, which makes it harder to track them down or put a solid figure on their takings.
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It has broken the record for best-ever opening weekend, thanks in no small part to its phenomenal box-office takings in China.
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It posted a £2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) net profit last year; equivalent to nearly half of all takings in the European airline market.
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Robo-cars are essential to Uber's profitability: They'll allow vehicles to offer rides 24-7 without human drivers, who currently share the takings.
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While a lot of leave-takings at Facebook of late have been linked to its troubles, the Marooney departure seems sanguine in comparison.
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Through trial and error, and without directly communicating, the algorithms ended up colluding with each other to reduce competition and boost their takings.
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After kickoff, she keeps one eye on the game as she totals up the day's takings; it is easier this way, she says.
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He's still deciding which organization will receive a portion of this week's takings but said it'll be a group that's politically in the middle.
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When it tried to raise money with a second "Give One Get One" sale, it made less than a tenth of its earlier takings.
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Each $1 earned by a leading actor's previous, non-sequel films in the past five years adds 2 cents to their current one's takings.
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"Many have also been involved in non-political abuses against the ordinary population, such as land takings, murder, torture, and arbitrary detention," it said.
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Steven Richardson of Wiley Rein, a former deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management, is lobbying on behalf of Homeowners Against Land Takings.
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Uber and Lyft want robocars to navigate city streets alone so they can offer rides 24-7 without having human drivers share their takings.
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For Disney, its three biggest 2019 releases in China — Captain Marvel, The Lion King and Aladdin — accounted for more than $320 million in takings.
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The majority held that a local government could seize private property for the purpose of private redevelopment under the "takings clause" clause of the Constitution.
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By contrast, his plainly dramatic roles—particularly in "Flaming Star" (1960) and "Wild in the Country" (1961)—were rewarded with comparatively poor box-office takings.
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Needless to say, it didn't bother to save when the takings were good, and so it now finds itself facing a kind of fiscal Armageddon.
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Since the early 2000s the top 100 firms, excluding finance and oil, have seen their share of economy-wide takings creep up, from 18.5% to 23%.
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Cranes motionless since Saddam Hussein's fall in 2003 are moving again as rich Iraqis have begun to invest at home instead of squirrelling their takings abroad.
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They pay $2600 for a ticket, 255% more than 23 years ago, which means, for now, higher total takings, but attendance is expected to decline further.
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The U.K. listed company saw an increase in third-quarter earnings overlooked as investors fretted over by a decline in takings from its major Maritime division.
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Moving to Asia opened a door to the wider world for Ms. Hazzard, but it was also the beginning of a string of wrenching leave-takings.
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Rob Wainwright, head of Europol, Europe's police agency, has estimated that 3-4% of the continent's annual criminal takings, or £3bn-4bn ($4.2bn-5.6bn), are crypto-laundered.
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Between 1996 and 173 an extra ten percentage points on the aggregate critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes was associated with just $4m in extra box-office takings.
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Some cinemas, for example, reported much higher box-office takings than you would expect given the number of people who searched Baidu's maps for the cinemas' location.
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A captain's cut of the takings ranged from five to twelve per cent; a first mate's, three to seven per cent; and so on, down the line.
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That decision reasoned that there was no violation of the takings clause until the state or local government fails to pay just compensation after state-court litigation.
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Earlier this year, romantic comedy "Hepta" demonstrated that audiences are returning to cinemas, breaking the box office record for the genre with takings in excess of $3 million.
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About 43 percent of William Hill's takings on the French election to date are on Le Pen, Sharpe said, adding that on Friday one punter was unusually bold.
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These tax increases would dramatically expand the size of the federal government, increasing the Internal Revenue Service takings from American taxpayers over the next decade by 63 percent.
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In two separate rulings, he signed on to his colleagues' flexible approach to stare decisis to overturn major precedents on state sovereign immunity and on the Takings Clause.
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Numbers from Maoyan, a Chinese online ticketing platform, matched the figures from Variety — a record for the highest box office takings by a single market in one quarter.
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While retailers and hoteliers tot up the takings from the month, it will take time to study the overall World Cup effect after it filters into official data.
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Banks' takings from debt capital markets (DCM) underwriting totaled $24.8 billion, up 6 percent compared to 2015, increasing DCM's contribution to overall fees to 29 percent from 26 percent.
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Estimates place the domestic box-office takings at around $60m; the biopic has smashed all box office records to become the highest-grossing movie in the history of Bollywood.
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The latter's 2015 film, "Terminator: Genisys", a flop in America with $90m in takings on a $155m production budget, was a blockbuster overseas, earning $351m, including $113m in China.
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Ms. Knick sued in federal court, saying the ordinance violated the Fifth Amendment's takings clause, which says private property may not be taken for public use without just compensation.
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The route from there to La Guardia would require minimal property takings if it followed the Grand Central Parkway, much as the J.F.K. AirTrain follows the Van Wyck Expressway.
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Top grossing movies in the U.S. and Canada last year include "Black Panther" (with box office takings of $700.1 million), "Avengers: Infinity War" ($678.8 million) and "Incredibles 2" ($608.6 million).
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On July 15th "Asura", the most expensive film ever made in China at $113m, was pulled from cinemas just three days after its launch owing to dismal box-office takings.
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Companies such as Delta have been left struggling because they have to spend U.S. dollars overseas, but their takings consist of Zollars or 'bond notes', which are worth far less.
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The gang set off crude bombs as it fled a branch of state-run Bangladesh Commerce Bank on the outskirts of Dhaka, the capital, with takings of 700,000 taka ($8,900).
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The only snag is that vendors have to drop by the office to convert their takings to cash — and in a virtually cashless country such as Sweden, that is unhelpful.
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They also say Puerto Rico is wrongfully using clawbacks to fund government services, and are diverting bondholders' collateral in violation of the Takings and Due Process clauses of the U.S. constitution.
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As a result, grocery retailers saw an average rise of 0.43 percent in takings at the till, which was the smallest increase since measurement began in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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China's box office takings surpassed the U.S. in the beginning of the year and that's setting the Chinese film industry up for a "Hollywood moment," HSBC said in a May report.
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In February, Mr. Khosla petitioned the Supreme Court to rule on his case, citing the First Amendment and also the Fifth (the takings clause) and 14th (his right to due process).
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In February, Mr. Khosla petitioned the Supreme Court to rule on his case, citing the First Amendment and also the Fifth (the takings clause) and Fourteenth (his right to due process).
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They also said Puerto Rico is wrongfully using clawbacks to fund government services, and is diverting bondholders' collateral in violation of the Takings and Due Process clauses of the U.S. constitution.
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Hindi fare of the sort Bollywood cranks out from Mumbai makes up less than a fifth of that, but accounts for 363% of national box-office takings, which are worth around $2bn.
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But even in this most traditional of presidential photo ops/credit takings, Trump found a way to reveal just how different he is than anyone who has held the office before him.
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The additional scrutiny of the sector comes amid growth in the industry, with China's box office takings surpassing that of the U.S. in the first quarter of the year, according to Variety.
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Any federal effort to regulate the fossil fuel industry out of business would be met with massive "taking claims" under the Constitution's Fifth Amendment, which mandates "just compensation," even for regulatory takings.
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An analysis from congressional legal advisers cautioned that the bill's provisions limiting drug prices could run afoul of the Fifth Amendment's takings clause as well as the Eighth Amendment's excessive fines clause.
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However, since the 1950s, the courts have allowed takings if they serve a "public purpose" — and they have given local governments a lot of discretion to decide what constitutes a public purpose.
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A spokesperson for Cambridge Enterprise said the institution pulled in £603 million ($21.8m) from equity realisations across all subjects in 2014/15, with the takings split between relevant university departments and future investments.
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"Thankfully, today's action brings a common sense approach by recognizing many circuit court findings that the scope of takings under the MBTA only prohibits intentional acts that directly kill migratory birds," he said.
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Arguing the rule "inherently smacks of agency abuse," they also argued bump stock owners would be denied Fifth Amendment rights under the Takings Clause, which says property cannot be seized without financial compensation.
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Those are fighting words to holders of the Cofina bonds, who say that they have a property interest in the sales taxes and that "invading" their lockbox would violate the Constitution's "takings" clause.
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And with the airline's announcement on July 29th that profits had fallen 21% year-on-year in the three months to the end of June, Mr Sorahan's panini takings are more crucial than ever.
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"Contrary to Williamson County, a property owner has a claim for a violation of the Takings Clause as soon as a government takes his property for public use without paying for it," Roberts wrote.
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The justices may face another impasse in Murr v Wisconsin, a case asking whether property owners whose land is diminished in value by a state regulation deserve compensation under the Fifth Amendment's "takings clause".
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Nick Meaney of Epagogix, a consultancy that evaluates screenplays algorithmically to predict box-office takings, says that sex scenes can indeed help films make money, but only when they fit organically into the story.
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With a "carpet-bombing" publicity strategy, the opening weekend of a blockbuster can account for as much as 60-70% of box-office takings, says Neeraj Goswamy of Viacom18 Motion Pictures, a big studio.
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Hotels in the sea-front city saw occupancy rates slip only fractionally in the period but a 7 percent cut in prices in July and a 19 percent reduction in August dragged down takings.
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U.K. takings at the till declined by 1.6 percent in the second quarter, which was the country's worst performance in two years and the third-lowest increase among the 21 countries tracked by Nielsen.
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Although only one winner is named, nominations and wins for Grammys and Oscars typically lead to a big bump in record sales and box office takings for the artists and movies that are celebrated.
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She sang about regretful leave-takings and the possibilities of tender reunions over undulating piano chords or unobtrusive guitar; there were echoes of Feist and Joni Mitchell, but she had her own melodic grace.
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This little-known non-Article III court hears claims by private actors against the federal government for monetary damages, with a large part of its docket dedicated to claims for "Takings" of private property.
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WB responded by saying it is already takings steps to address the epidemic of gun violence, but insisting "Joker" is not an endorsement of violence or meant to portray the character as a hero.
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His illicit takings from the business, as estimated when he was indicted for trafficking and embezzlement in federal court in Miami in 1988 and 19903, were at least $772m, with perhaps $200m-300m for himself.
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The complaint also says the rule denies bump stock owners their Fifth Amendment rights under the Takings Clause, which says property cannot be seized without financial compensation and that such bans cannot be applied retroactively.
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While the late summer months are typically the strongest for airlines, Turkish made an astonishing 2.4bn lira ($693m) in the third quarter, surpassing its annual takings in all but one of the past ten years.
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Global investment banking fees reached a 10-year high in the first quarter of 2017 with more than half of the $24 billion in total takings coming from North America, according to Thomson Reuters data.
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In July, the International Maritime Bureau described the Gulf of Guinea as the most dangerous area in the world for piracy with 73% of all sea kidnappings and 92% of hostage-takings taking place there.
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Takings would rise 11.6 percent to 55 billion yuan ($8.31 billion) this year, beating 2016 growth of 3.7 percent, said Zhang Hongsen, vice minister of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television.
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Total first-quarter box office takings in China is currently down 8 percent on year, despite strong performance from Chinese-made sci-fi movie "The Wandering Earth" and help from the recent Chinese New Year holiday.
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Number-crunchers at Epagogix, a company in London, use an algorithm to project box-office takings of films based on their story elements—including the use of special effects, a surprise ending or a cool location.
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While others at his college were joining left-wing student groups and painting placards, he was planning armed robberies on banks and building societies, with the intention of donating a portion of the takings to charity.
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Online debates ahead of the film's release about the Amazonian superhero's lack of armpit hair and the furor surrounding her selection last year as a U.N. honorary ambassador, have only served to boost box office takings.
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A Travis County District court ruled the Texas Railroad Commission, the state's oil and gas regulator, is not required to set standards for routing the pipelines or private land-takings, Judge Lora Livingston wrote on Tuesday.
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Mainland takings by "The Last Jedi" at its weekend debut, however, were considerably lower than the $87 million recorded by locally produced "The Ex-File: The Return of the Exes" in the same period of time.
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A speed camera in the U.K. has generated £1.5 million ($1.8 million) in fines from motorists in only six months -- twice the annual takings of an average-sized business, according to a report in London's Evening Standard.
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The effects of the Note 7 withdrawal have already hit Samsung's finances: the company today slashed its third-quarter profit forecast by a third after originally indicating it wouldn't have too big an impact on its takings.
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By our last year, each month was down some 30 percent from the already meager takings of the previous year, and it became increasingly clear that there was simply nothing we could do to stop the slide.
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A $230m purse split two ways is not bad compensation for 36 minutes of work, and the takings meant that the two fighters occupied the top spots on Forbes' list of the highest-paid athletes in 2015.
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" The Ministry of Culture, meanwhile, "which retained a sizable part of the takings, suddenly began looking at the once-detested artists with a self-interested kindness now that they had become a prime source of hard currency.
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In time, they realized funding their ambitions on turnstile takings alone wasn't going to be enough, so in 2014 the pair turned a shared passion for Africa into a way to make their conservation efforts financially sustainable.
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But much like Cruz is dogged by his opposition to ethanol mandates in the state of Iowa, Cruz is hoping that Trump could be hurt by his past support for government takings in a state worried about overreach.
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" On economic growth policies: "We must be careful, that the progress we have reached since the financial crisis of 2008 must not be wiped out because of...too much liquidity in the markets followed by increasing risk-takings.
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The new laws have ended multiple programs that allowed landlords to take apartments out of rent control, prompting landlord groups to file a lawsuit claiming the new laws are in violation of the US Constitution&aposs Takings Clause.
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But he distanced the administration from the bill, citing budget scoring concerns and the way its provisions limiting drug prices could run afoul of the Fifth Amendment's takings clause as well as the Eighth Amendment's excessive fines clause.
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With the imbalance of wealth in international football pronounced to say the least, such fixtures are crucial in redistributing some of that revenue to the smallest nations, through broadcasting, image rights, merchandising and even takings on the night.
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The UK government is also looking at changing employment law to reflect "modern" gig economy platform work — and will clearly be keen to protect its tax takings which have been dented by an algorithmically accelerated boom in 'self-employment'.
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A screenshot of Xiao Zhao's user profile on Yi Zhi Bo. But other reports have speculated that Xiao Zhao's takings were more in the range of 60,000 yuan ($8,712), based on him earning 600,000 virtual coins on the platform.
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Investment bank Macquarie Group slipped 1.8% after it revealed a slump in traditional banking takings and forecast a weaker annual result on Friday, although it posted a record first half profit, driven by higher fees from its managed funds.
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In fact, as I have argued elsewhere, the list of non-originalist results advocated by these two justices is quite long and cuts through large swaths of constitutional law including affirmative action, takings, campaign finance reform, standing, and sovereign immunity.
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That set off a global conquest of the family of Smurf characters as they fight off sorcerer Gargamel, who wants to turn them into gold - culminating in a Hollywood hit grossing half a billion dollars in box office takings in 2011.
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The total market size for the mobile gaming sector last year was estimated at around $22BN so there's plenty to play for, even though only a very small minority of games makers typically get to carve up most of the takings.
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Last year Synergy Blue's puzzle-slot hybrid called Safari Match generated 10% more revenue than one-arm bandits at Augustine Casino in Coachella, California (takings have subsequently reverted to the average for traditional machines, possibly because the novelty is wearing off).
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ZDF said the document, which was over 230 pages long and meant for internal use only, included instructions on how to deal with natural catastrophes and air accidents at the airport as well as terrorist attacks, bomb threats or hostage takings.
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The plan does not define which government services are and are not "essential," also in breach of PROMESA, and violates the U.S. Constitution's Takings Clause, which bars the government from seizing private property for public use, according to the lawsuit.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) does not violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it invalidates patents that predate the America Invents Act of 2011, a federal appeals court said on Tuesday.
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Last month, the president nominated Damien Schiff, who has been serving as a lawyer with the Pacific Legal Foundation, a self-described national conservative/libertarian public interest law firm that has argued in favor of a broad understanding of compensable Takings.
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Whether it's teaching kids about grief or divorce, takings a stand on issues like racism or just poking a little fun at himself, Mister Rogers always tried his best to make the world we live in a little less scary.
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Some of this is doubtless illicit: inspectors of Delhi's bus system have found that the bulk of daily takings now mysteriously appears in the form of the banned bills, which public-sector firms can still deposit, rather than the usual small change.
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With more than 5,000 sites and 30,000 employees in nine countries, it claims to be one of Britain's largest privately held companies by revenue, reporting takings last year of £20bn ($26bn), which would put it ahead of, for example, Virgin and Dyson.
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"The law also does not violate the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause because it does not require gun owners to surrender their magazines but instead allows them to retain modified magazines or register firearms that have magazines that cannot be modified," the opinion continued.
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Politico described Giuliani's involvement with the group as a man "gorging at the table of Islamo-Marxist terrorists who have murdered Americans"—a relationship from which Giuliani has apparently profited handsomely, although he's long declined to tot up the takings for public consumption.
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The group argued that the law violated both the First Amendment, by requiring speech in the form of purchasing works of art, and the "takings clause" of the Fifth Amendment, which limits a public entity's ability to take control of private property for public use.
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"We propose an alternative method to box office takings, which are affected by factors beyond the quality of the film such as advertising and distribution, and reviews, which are ultimately subjective, for analyzing the success of a film," said lead researcher Dr Livio Bioglio, according to Yahoo!
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The plaintiffs, which include Newark Cab Association and Newark Taxi Owner Association, allege that Newark is violating their rights under the Takings and Equal Protection Clauses of the U.S. Constitution by heavily regulating taxis and requiring them to buy $500,000 licenses while imposing few regulations on Uber.
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It was applied to Manucher Ghorbanifar, the mercurial intermediary; and to his boss, the so-called "moderate" Parliament speaker, Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, who told Ghorbanifar he wanted to make a deal with America all the while he helped organize hostage-takings and terrorist attacks against Americans.
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It is however stuck in Congress for the bizarre reason that its opponents have managed to cast it as an increase in spending based on the Tohono O'Odham's threat to sue the federal government for $1 billion if it becomes law as recompense for an unconstitutional takings.
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In February, the Federal District Court in San Francisco ruled in favor of the city, saying the Supreme Court has interpreted the "takings clause" to apply only when government officials require something from a developer regarding a specific property rather than a broad class of properties.
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Eight Mile contended in the lawsuit that retroactively wiping out the artist's ability to recover profits as well as damages and legal fees from Spotify for past violations is "an unconstitutional taking of Eight Mile's vested property right" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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The government said last November that takings from the nation's petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) had halved to A$800 million ($600 million) since 2013, while revenue from crude oil excise taxes had more than halved due to a slump in oil and gas prices and falling output.
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Treasurer Scott Morrison said on Wednesday that takings from the nation's petroleum resource rent tax had halved to A$800 million ($600 million) since 2013, while revenue from crude oil excise taxes had more than halved due to a collapse in oil and gas prices and falling output.
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While the Court of Federal Claims, and nominees to it, generally attract little attention, Trump's two nominees to the court thus far suggest an effort to increase the likely success of Takings claims against the government and thus to augment the protection of private property rights against government infringement.
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While he did not provide a precise breakdown, Le Maire said small retailers had seen a fall in revenue of between 20 and 40 percent, the hotel industry was seeing reservations down 15 to 25 percent and restaurants, depending on their location, had seen takings collapse by between 20 and 50 percent.
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Public distrust generated by the Kursk tragedy was then reinforced by multiple disasters involving the authorities' incompetent and brutal response to hostage takings by terrorists at a Moscow theater in 2002, during a performance of a musical called "Nord-Ost," and at a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan in 73.
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Less public has been a recent resurgence of hostage-takings and kidnap attempts; most of those cases aren't publicly reported by general agreement among the press, although sometimes the kidnappers themselves seek publicity — as with a video released recently showing two American University of Afghanistan professors who are being held hostage by insurgents.
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Though films about slavery have enjoyed critical success, Hollywood is waking up to the demand for challenging contemporary stories about race in light of the impressive box-office takings of "Black Panther" and "Get Out" (demographic data show that those films had a wide appeal, too, attracting black and white viewers in almost equal proportions).
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Not only did the prosecution tell the jury this was profit—an amount it would be hard to achieve running a nightclub legitimately—it has since been revealed that the police missed the word "sometimes" out of his statement when providing an abbreviated version, despite recording it during Bahmanzadeh's original interview, thus exaggerating the club's takings.
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China matters for Mickey Mouse's owner: its box office takings there have tripled over the last two years and Shanghai Disneyland has seen more than 10 million guests in its first year, setting it on track for faster profits than Disney reaped from parks in Paris and Hong Kong, both loss-making for most of the years they have been open.
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But much of the industry's recent success, at home and abroad, comes from the rise of the big special-effects event film: franchises like "Fast and Furious", "Avengers", "The Hunger Games", "Jurassic Park", James Bond and "Star Wars" led a group of 14 films with more than $500m each in worldwide box-office takings last year, up from just five such films in 2006.
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According to the Swiss Ramble, a football finances blog, international television revenue for German league football will be €162m ($180m) next season, barely an eighth of the £968m ($1.4 billion) that the English Premier League is expected to rake in from overseas viewing, and less than La Liga's projected takings from a new deal which will give it the second-highest overseas broadcast income of any franchise.
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He wants to increase a variety of visa fees and impound remittance payments to Mexico, so as to make "Mexico" pay for a border wall; fees currently can't be higher than the amount required to pay for processing of the form they're associated with, so that would require congressional action, and just stealing people's remittances is arguably a violation of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause.
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Upon taking office, President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE and Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE can signal a commitment to a more restrained executive branch by dropping the Obama administration's stubborn refusal to reveal what it knows about the takings of property in these cases.
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