Sentences with phrase «mcdonald says»

«The house is on a golf course with manicured lawns, so I liked repeating the grays and ivories of the interior against all the greenery,» designer McDonald says of the limestone - tile veranda in a Los Angeles house, which has Restoration Hardware furniture.

With a nod to the passive house's strict building standard, McDonald says, «You're not living in a Prius.

A decision by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to withdraw its draft final rule for reforming settlement procedures marks a new day for efforts to improve the federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® President Walt McDonald says.

Still, the industry isn't without challenges, the biggest being how to ensure that REALTORS ® remain the first point of contact for consumers in a real estate transaction, McDonald says.

I take the pieces of business the big guys leave behind, and that works out just fine for me,» McDonald says with a grin.

Payment of these referral fees reduces the bottom line of real estate practitioners in a way that may threaten their ability to remain profitable, McDonald says.

These companies want to capture a portion of the real estate transaction revenue stream without actually getting into the business or adding any value,» McDonald says.

A soft - spoken man with kind eyes and an easy smile, McDonald says he didn't seek the top post at the nation's largest professional organization.

McDonald says sometime candidates can extend to two pages, but «three pages and your recruiter will be lost.»

During her internship, McDonald says she built strong relationships with people in the newsroom who became her mentors.

McDonald says he switched sections for his ethics class next semester in order to stick with Woolley and continue with the more high - tech approach.

Of the two, McDonald says the people in Woolley's class are finding the information easier to absorb.

Whatever you do, make acquiring a puppy or dog a fun event for the whole family, McDonald says, and go in with an open mind.

If you choose a puppy, McDonald says, you should make sure you «puppy proof» your home to eliminate possible dangers (don't leave things out that might get chewed or broken, lock up poisons, watch electrical cords).

McDonald says she has always liked pigs and had wanted one for a while.

«We had been really worried about how people would perceive having a pig in the clinic, but it's become funny to everyone,» McDonald says.

«It's her biggest thing of the day; that's her challenge,» McDonald says.

She goes over to say hi to them and greets them,» McDonald says.

«Her favorite treat is apples,» McDonald says.

It was so funny,» McDonald says.

«She'll listen, and if she happens to hear it not click and not lock, you'll see her; she'll sneak around the corner,» McDonald says.

«She's become a little bit of a celebrity,» McDonald says.

McDonald says 2.6 per cent of Canada's growing population of residents 55 years of age and older are financially abused, making it the second most common form of elder abuse.

«A pessimist could say «well, it's going to be different this time because the market's going to be inflated by all the stimulus from the Fed,»» Northern Trust's McDonald says.

Conde Nast Senior VP Scott McDonald says that «consumer behavior with digital editions of magazines is very much like their behavior with print editions of magazines, and very much unlike their behavior with websites» — Ad Age suggests that readers tend to swipe through tablet editions from front to back instead of jumping between articles like web readers.

The service costs approximately $ 100,000 per year but has easily «paid for itself,» since the district receives increased funding due to increased attendance, McDonald says.

The idea, Superintendent McDonald says, is to share information and resources, so «we can reach out to our partners and say, «Look, we have X number of families with this particular issue.

Grassroots has become a reliable resource of facts about various school funding topics, McDonald says, giving the group lasting power in the community.

As well as filling subject specialist roles, McDonald says having the highly motivated recruits on board is already having an impact on colleagues — something she describes as a «win - win situation».

Before water donations arrived in Flint, McDonald says, she spent an estimated $ 100 out of her $ 300 weekly grocery bill buying safe water for her family.

McDonald says like, «Billions and billions served.»

But none of the sloths alive today, nor any of the others known from 35 million years of sloth history, could do what McDonald says this sloth did: it swam in the ocean.

Perhaps what's different about them, McDonald says, is that the cooling of gas flowing into the center is slowed down by the heating effect of a black hole spewing out material from the center of the cluster.

CER professionals work mainly at academic institutions, but increasingly they are employed by the pharmaceutical industry, clinical research organizations, and insurers, McDonald says.

Whereas clinical research is structured to meet federal regulatory requirements, CER is focused mainly on what happens after regulatory approval, McDonald says.

«Part of the reason for that,» McDonald says, «is that cancer is not a single disease — there's a lot of variability.

«We're running pancreatic and lung cancer samples now,» McDonald says.

McDonald says the DOT plans to use federal funds to build new tracks upstate and an environmental impact statement on what investment is needed to bring that corridor to 90 to 110 miles per hour is close to completion.

McDonald says he believes in keeping the Senate in Republican hands.

Senator Roy McDonald says he won't campaign on the Independence Party line in the general election and will instead back his former primary opponent.

McDonald says he believes in keeping the state senate in Republican hands.

McDonald says he is quitting for the unity of the part, and will now back Saratoga City Clerk Kathy Marchione as the GOP's candidate.

McDonald says he wants a regional solution to the taxi issue, such as having them hailed through an app and licensed under one multi-county authority.

The Assemblymen sponsor of the statute of limitations extension, John McDonald says he'd like to hold hearings,

McDonald says, and prison officials confirm, that he visits Harris weekly, but he says he feels the sting of their separation during the week.

«We have years where we have opened more plants and years where we have opened less, but we certainly have an appetite for growth,» McDonald says.

«China is a real focus of ours for all the reasons we read about every day,» McDonald says.

McDonald says the company's heritage, thanks to the long - lived efforts of the Kinder family and the historical importance of barbecue to California's culture, is among its greatest strength.

As consumers become more demanding and sophisticated in their food choices — natural and organic, premium versus affordable, healthy but tasty — McDonald says the partnering process to give the consumers exactly what they want has become even more necessary.

McDonald says he started out suspicious of the strategy, but came to see McKinsey as offering genuine value in return for relationship - building.