Sentence examples for astronomical returns from inspiring English sources

PAGE A19 2 INDICTED IN REAL ESTATE FRAUD Two men who promised investors astronomical returns in real estate investments were accused in an indictment of taking $1.3 million of investors' money and spending it at nightclubs, restaurants, hotels and spas, among many other places, rather than on real estate ventures.

Offered "prime bank instruments" with astronomical returns.

It is certainly fair enough to hoot at chumps who fall for tales of supersafe investments yielding astronomical returns, who never heard that risk and return are positively correlated, who somehow haven't noticed that the Treasury has no problem at all selling highly sophisticated investors bills yielding 5% or so.

If you are offered investment products that promise astronomical returns, be wary.

Yet while the film's massive gravitational pull guarantees astronomical box-office returns, fans of Nolan's finest works (Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins, Inception) will long for more narrative rigour as raw science, rich sentimentality and rank silliness battle for the heart and soul of this very personal project.

For consumers, the BlackBerry's main benefit integration with a corporate e-mail system does not apply.RIM touts astronomical figures for return-on-investment.

Tempted by astronomical rates of return, many investors, ranging from poor farmers to wealthy senators, had sold their homes or taken out loans in the hope of watching their money double in just a few months.

And yet Timothy C. Davidson, Brandon E. Lacoff and Gregory H. Skidmore didn't look happy about their astronomical rate of return when, as mandated by Connecticut law, they appeared at a news conference holding a giant check made out to Jackpot Winner.

The returns are astronomical: in the past financial year, for example, Elsevier's operating profit margin was 36% (£724m on revenues of £2bn).

PARIS The Parisian is eminently skeptical and adverse to taking anything tragically, least of all an astronomical phenomenon like the return of Halley's comet.

Witness the mass killings at Fort Hood, astronomical suicide rates for returning veterans, widespread rape and assault on women in the military by their fellow soldiers, attempted assassinations of politicians, and the galloping arms race among ordinary citizens and residents who are increasingly arming up and carrying concealed weapons to work and play.