Sentences with phrase «biggest backer in»

Lavern's Law's biggest backer in the Senate is Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse).

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Junior creditors led by Appaloosa Management remain the biggest hold - outs in the CEOC bankruptcy, and have said they have as much as $ 12 billion in claims against Caesars Entertainment and its private equity backers, Apollo Global Management LLC and TPG Capital LP.

In venture capital, a «zombie» is a start - up that raises money but fails to attract a buyer or grow big enough to go public, leaving backers without hope for a return on their investment.

Its other backers include the mutual fund giant Fidelity and the big private equity investor TPG, as well as prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has invested more money in Zenefits than in any other startup in its portfolio.

But crypto backers and investors should take comfort in knowing that big banks rarely lead in disruption these days.

Some of the biggest developers in New York are funded by capital from the wealthy Gulf states — United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia — but these backers, unlike those from countries such as Canada and Norway, prefer staying behind the curtain.

Constantly sync your own database with new backer data coming in from Kickstarter or Indiegogo — this is probably the biggest pain unless you are good with scripting

A major figure in the Addyi saga is William A. Ackman, the hedge fund manager and one of Valeant's biggest backers.

He settled a big lawsuit and just brought in Macau rival Galaxy as a backer, which could lead to fresh opportunities.

We saw in 2008 how weak links in the mega banking chain spilled out across Wall Street because of the invisible linkages to other banks and financial firms unknown to the public — like the fact that the big insurer, AIG, was the backer for tens of billions of dollars of credit default swaps while having no money to pay off the bets it had accepted from the biggest Wall Street firms.

It's the biggest event in Asia, one that HSBC backers wanted to make the continent's «major.»

Add former no. 1 prospect in the country to a huge position of need, an established Big Ten backer in Tre Watson, Marcus Lewis, and Ray Lewis» son along with one of the best defensive teachers in Chuck Heater.

Then, in December 1959, the state legislature, influenced by Democratic backers from the big cities, legalized betting at harness tracks.

Last night, Labour's biggest union backers, Unite, held a meeting in parliament urging the party to oppose the bill.

If we compare it to the average majority of all Labour MPs, we can see that Corbyn's backers in that contest do, just as John asserted, enjoy, on average, larger majorities, although whether the difference will automatically be big enough to save all of them is anyone's guess.

Lucy Waletzky, a Sleepy Hollow psychiatrist and big - bucks backer of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, says the bankers who administered the trust left by her grandfather John D. Rockefeller Jr. — son of the Standard Oil founder — sold off the family's oil stocks in order to win fees from corporations like Boeing.

In an effort to crack down on the «vaping» craze, the Legislature is set to follow in the Big Apple's footsteps and ban e-cigs in public places, backers of the bill said MondaIn an effort to crack down on the «vaping» craze, the Legislature is set to follow in the Big Apple's footsteps and ban e-cigs in public places, backers of the bill said Mondain the Big Apple's footsteps and ban e-cigs in public places, backers of the bill said Mondain public places, backers of the bill said Monday.

Romney backers in the Empire State worry Perry's operation, which is pretty much nonexistent here, would get a big boost if Giuliani decided to throw in his lot with the Texas governor.

Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello is a big Lazio backer — he was a very early supporter, coming out in January when Lazio was still battling the specter of Erie County Executive Chris Collins.

One of the biggest backers of the Committee is the Real Estate Board of New York (Larry Silverstein has said «Our membership list and the Forbes 400 wealthiest individuals in the United States have an enormous commonality»).

«Wine in Grocery Store» has been defeated year after year for many years because people recognize it is NOT GOOD for NYS grape growers, wineries or the public, no matter what big - box backers may claim.

We may not be able to do anything about the limits of individual donors but we can separately be building another infrastructure, a public financing infrastructure that at least enables candidates to get heard in their relevant district without have a lot of money and without having big money backers,» said Teachout.

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

Labour's biggest union backer says the Labour leader should govern as a minority government in the event that Labour does not win the 2015 general election outright but is the biggest party.

Those same forces, big financial backers of Cuomo, are also huge players in the fight for control of the Senate and they are spending enormous sums of money to maintain or even strengthen Republican control of the chamber.

A Labour constituency party has been placed in special measures after allegations that one of the party's biggest backers, the Unite trade union, tried to rig candidate selection for the seat.

Ed Miliband is refusing to back down in his fight with Labour's biggest union backer over its influence in the party.

Our reporting on the DUP's secret Brexit donation; on the finances of the Leave campaign's biggest backer Arron Banks; and on the many groups seeking to shape Brexit have prompted questions in parliament.

Public Advocate Letitia James - one of the biggest backers of Rep. Charlie Rangel's re-election - has endorsed Rangel's rival Adriano Espaillat in his own quest to hold on to his seat in the state Senate.

Labour MP Eric Joyce's conviction for assault left a vacancy from 2015 in his Falkirk constituency that the Unite trade union - Labour's biggest financial backer - was determined to fill with their own man or woman.

Wall Street is one of the biggest backers of charter schools these days, because they're investing in — they make — there's something called the new markets tax credit, where they get — and Juan González wrote about this — they're able to make a tremendous return on their investment in charters, because of write - offs on federal taxes by investing in charters.

The Gates Foundation spread money across the political spectrum, to entities including the big teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, and business organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — groups that have clashed in the past but became vocal backers of the standards....

Some charter backers see an opportunity in New York's waning national influence to focus on the problems at home, and to build a bigger, fairer, less divided sector, with sustainable political ground game that can help charters notch incremental wins rather than just the dramatic victories they've come to expect.

A Labour constituency party has been placed in special measures after allegations that one of the party's biggest backers, the Unite trade union, tried to rig candidate selection for the seat.

So far, the Big Two haven't succeeded in winning over civil rights groups, many of whom have been among the strongest backers of No Child since its passage 13 years ago.

First, the CTU and its backers are sure that the $ 665 million hole in the budget, that the school board intends to cover by draining its cash reserves, is easily plugged and in fact may be manufactured by CPS: «my biggest worry», said one commenter, «is that you use all of these reserve funds and you hit zero next year so that you use that rationale to say «we don't have any more money»».

«I always cite Florida as, really, the furthest along in terms of providing the widest range of choices and the greatest access to those choices of any state in the country, and from a political standpoint, having real bipartisan support for these choices,» she said in an interview last year with Ed Pozzuoli, a South Florida attorney who's a big backer of charter schools.

Treasurer Janet Cowell warned of potential conflicts of interest for the legislation's biggest backer, a builder who stood to profit in facility - starved Robeson County, and swelling debt burdens for taxpayers in poor counties.

We look at his fascinating albums / End of an Era: France's motor industry before WW2 — In the first of a two - part article, David Beare examines the offerings from French manufacturers at the 1938 Paris Salon, the last before the outbreak of war / Clipped Wings: the Aerocar — Douglas Blain samples a rare survivor of the marque established in Detroit by Henry Ford's first big backer / Back on the Road — Michael Ware describes the long - term restoration of an historic Grand Prix Bugatti, the ex-Count Czaikowski Type In the first of a two - part article, David Beare examines the offerings from French manufacturers at the 1938 Paris Salon, the last before the outbreak of war / Clipped Wings: the Aerocar — Douglas Blain samples a rare survivor of the marque established in Detroit by Henry Ford's first big backer / Back on the Road — Michael Ware describes the long - term restoration of an historic Grand Prix Bugatti, the ex-Count Czaikowski Type in Detroit by Henry Ford's first big backer / Back on the Road — Michael Ware describes the long - term restoration of an historic Grand Prix Bugatti, the ex-Count Czaikowski Type 51

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Bill Hill, one of the movers and shakers behind Microsoft's ClearType and a big backer of e-reading, was let go from Microsoft in 2009.

In addition, this format means that backers don't get to use features found on the big crowdfunding sites.

In February, Bertrams, the UK's second - biggest book wholesaler, was sold to private equity backer Aurelius for half the sum it originally bid for the business (which itself seemed like a knock - down price for a business with sales of more than # 200m); last week the UK's biggest high street book chain Waterstones was sold to activist investor Elliott Advisors for a sum thought to be considerably less than its Russian owner Alexander Mamut once wanted; and this week the UK's biggest printer of black and white books, Clays, with sales of # 77m, was sold to Italian printer Elcograf for # 23.8 m.

«Even though we received much more money from our Kickstarter than we, or anybody anticipated, that didn't stop me from getting excited and designing a game so big that it would need even more money,» Schafer told backers in the latest email update.

I still think that a 150 - 175 $ tiers could be a big success, and many 100 $ backers would upgrade to 150 $ if they could get these rewards: - Download of Broken Sword - the Serpent's Curse - DRM FREE - PC (Windows and Linux) & Mac - Regular Developer Diaries, ideas Exchange Forum and Video Updates - Access to exclusive digital content: Game Artwork (inc. poster and wallpaper); Director's Commentary on previous Broken Sword games & Archive Videos - Android Version - Hi - Res Digital Comic Books of Broken Sword - The Serpent's Curse, Broken Sword: Director's Cut, and Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror: Remastered - History of Broken Sword eBook - Broken Sword - the Serpent's Curse digital Concept Art - character sheets, layouts etc. - Broken Sword - the Serpent's Curse Digital Soundtrack - Copy of any one previous Revolution game on GOG.com (Broken Sword or otherwise - PC only - Exclusive digital Game Design Content: Scripts of Broken Sword: Director's Cut, Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror: Remastered, and Broken Sword - the Serpent's Curse; Game Design Document for Broken Sword - the Serpent's Curse; Archive of existing Game Design Documents for previous games - All Revolution game titles on GOG.com: Broken Sword 1 - 4, In Cold Blood, Lure of the Temptress and Beneath a Steel Sky (PC only)- Boxed Kickstarter special edition of the Game, includes: CD / DVD game with full packaging, Game Comic Book for Broken Sword — Director's Cut, Broken Sword 2 — Remastered, Broken Sword — the Serpent's Curse; game Poster; CD with full Soundtrack; Kickstarter Backer T - Shirt.

His first big break came in 1962, when dealer Richard Bellamy, with the support of his backer, collector Robert Scull, invited Poons to show his work at the nascent Green Gallery.

Like its big brother Slow Jo, the smaller Slow Mo will be available in a variety of colors of watch bands, cases, and dials, and backers of the Indiegogo campaign at the $ 225 level will be the first to own one.

And, since BP, Shell, Exxon and other big oil companies are major backers of research you and your colleagues engage in, you are also much less than sincere in your diversionary tactics than an ethical person would otherwise be.

No one in the alliance expected CarbonWA to succeed, with its threadbare budget and lack of big institutional backers.