Sentences with phrase «u.s. money center»

Geoffrey regularly represents local community banks, regional and U.S. money center banks, and foreign banking organizations, as well as trust companies, broker - dealers, investment advisory firms, and money - services businesses in a wide range of regulatory, compliance, and corporate governance matters, including:

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For the first time in history, a majority of members of the U.S. Congress are millionaires, according to an analysis of data conducted by the Center for Responsive Politics, a research group that tracks money's influence in U.S. politics.

Many popular and famous speakers got a quick - start on their careers by teaching at adult learning centers throughout the U.S. People like Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad), Barbara Sher (Do What You Love and The Money Will Follow), Wayne Dyer (Your Erroneous Zones), and Cheryl Richardson (Take Time for Your Life) built their businesses this way.

Since the 1960s the U.S. Government itself has encouraged American banks to set up branches in Caribbean hot - money centers and more distant islands as a means of attracting foreign money into the dollar.

Earlier this week, a Washington - based research group, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, and two U.S. representatives called on Illinois to choose competitive bidding to save money.

In January, it reported that it was running out of money and needed a cash infusion to keep going; in December, Biopure said that FDA refused to allow a trial at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center to go forward, in part because of safety concerns.

But Irwin Shapiro, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who chaired the 2010 Committee to Review Near - Earth - Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies for the U.S. National Research Council, says that ground - based observatories such as the planned Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on Cerro Pachón in Chile are better value for money than space telescopes, because they last longer and are less expensive.

Last week, the U.S. government plunked down about $ 60 million in new money to have three labs — one academic center and two private companies — race ahead on the rat genome.

«The department makes sure that money goes through those programs to get through to the places that need it, and without the department there's no way to actually administer the hundreds of programs that are funded through the department,» said Scott Sargrad, director of standards and accountability for education policy at the Center for American Progress and former deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education.

Mom and John, both of whom had met with Nancy many times in Pakistan and Afghanistan, were working together to form a U.S. foundation to help Nancy raise money for a national cultural center and library - something Afghanistan didn't have - to be built at Kabul University, and for mobile libraries for villages all over the country, bringing books in Dari and Pashto to people who'd rarely or never seen a book in their own language if they'd seen a book at all.

Washington Free Beacon — 27 January 2015 Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State - Owned Russian Oil Company Executives at a Bermudan firm funneling money to U.S. environmentalists run investment funds with Russian tycoons A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle...... The Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Center for American Progress were among the recipients of Sea Change's $ 100 million in grants in 2010 and 2011....

The newly established U.S. - China Clean Energy Research Center will see real money to the tune of $ 150 million over the next five years committed equally by both sides.

But it's just a small slice of the money the industry has amassed; amidst the punishing economy of 2008, the top five U.S. coal mining companies saw their profits more than double to $ 1.9 billion last year, the Center reports.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, House Energy and Commerce Chair Rep. Fred Upton, who blasted Jackson all during Wednesday's hearing, was among the top 20 recipients of oil and gas money in the U.S. House in 2010, taking close to $ 250,000 from the industry during his career.

Consider using the time and money you will save to visit the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Decatur or The Alabama Theater in Birmingham.

More talk than action Despite the allure of the U.S. and its retail product, however, these days there is more talk of foreign buying of U.S. shopping centers than there is action, according to CB Richard Ellis managing director Todd Goodman, Newport Beach, Calif. «The flow of foreign money into the country for purchasing shopping centers is inconsistent,» Goodman reports.

The program allows foreign investors to obtain a visa to live in the U.S. by investing a certain amount of money through regional development centers approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS).

«We are really focused now on gaining further momentum here in the U.S. in the key business center markets, as well as in the key money center markets around the world because that's where our clients are going.»