Sentences with phrase «city working for»

Living in a big city working for myself means even when I'm outside, I have all the public transportation I need to get me around.

Sure, I'm all about the life - saving, driving lights and sirens, adrenaline junkie stuff too but the city I work for has no shortage of spectacular food choices.

The City worked for more than a year to make this metric a reality.

Tom Vander Ark is author of Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World and Smart Cities That Work for Everyone: 7 Keys to Education & Employment.

The city I worked for provided animal control out of the service department.

How Africa as a continent makes cities work for all while realising a low carbon and climate resilient economy, will determine the success of the Paris Agreement, says Sadiq Okoh.

Not exact matches

She has reported on global financial markets for a decade, previously working for News Corporation in London and the Fox Business Network in New York City.

Ours is showing you good people for you to meet regardless of whether they're down the block or across the city, and because of the accountability and transparency that's in Hinge — we show first name, last name, where you work, where you went to school, all these different aspects — it's much more geared towards quality interactions.

Writing for Quartz, Jansen noted that, «The average monthly living and working costs for digital nomads in Ubud [Bali] amount to $ 1,066, a stark contrast to San Francisco, where this currently stands at $ 4,854, or New York City, with average costs of $ 5,332 per month.»

For $ 50, you can get a round trip from the city, but most of the vans make only one trip a day, which means you need to stay for the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulFor $ 50, you can get a round trip from the city, but most of the vans make only one trip a day, which means you need to stay for the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulfor the full eight - hour visit — impossible for many people's work schedulfor many people's work schedules.

Jennifer Fix, an associate at private consultancy Dialog, was working on a large infill project for the City of Regina when she met the principals of a boutique firm known as H.B. Lanarc.

Nonprofit City Year Chicago has recent college grads lining up for a $ 12,000 annual salary to work in economically challenged schools.

Celebrated architect Moshe Safdie spoke about the inspiration behind his famous works, including Habitat 67 and Marina Bay Sands, and the infinite possibilities ahead for Asian cities in a candid interview with Christine Tan on stage in 2014.

Some people might share a workspace if they live in the same city — but for the most part, everyone works from different places.

Prior to joining CNBC, Steve worked for the UK Press Association on the City desk and at Dow Jones on the European Markets desk.

«For cities like St. Louis, or expansive regions like the Midwest, it is crucial that everyone work together.

Voucher website VoucherCloud has looked into the average cost for one person to stay in an Airbnb vs. a three - star hotel across every capital city in Europe to work out in which cities an Airbnb is a savvy decision, and in which locations «splashing out» on a hotel might actually save you some pennies.

«There's a full section that talks about pay equity, and what is the larger impact that the gender pay gap has on our society, our economy, our families,» says Deepti Gudipati, vice president of member leadership programs for the AAUW, who is working with the city to roll out the program.

The expansion plans for Perth's major shopping centres are gaining momentum, with Scentre Group's Westfield Carousel, Westfield Innaloo and Westfield Whitford City likely to be the first to start work, near the end of 2016.

As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent study about the New York tech industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.

We know that every industry, every community, and every city grapples with safety issues and no one has an absolutely perfect record, but that's what we strive for and we'll keep working as hard as we know how to make our community safer for everyone.»

Of course, I said that we had a startup at 1871 (mRelief.com) that was already working with the city of Chicago and state of Illinois on «an app for that,» one that allows just about anyone to quickly and easily figure out exactly which government and / or community - based programs exist that might have benefits immediately available to them - especially in the current environment.

Since then, cities both big and small have been working on responding to the company's request for proposals in hopes of jump starting their local economies.

Feldstein scoured Facebook looking for local Fort McMurray cleaning crews — mainly South Asians and Filipinos long based in the city — and hired them with the promise of plentiful work and daily payment.

Though land is plentiful, urban farmers must secure land suitable for farming and work around city zoning and licensing.

In the press release for the Oxford study, one of its researchers, Allison Stewart, makes an interesting point: «Unlike other major programmes such as bridges, airports, IT or engineering works, the Games are always a unique undertaking to that city.

Big Bertha, the largest production facility, where most of Winnebago's 2,500 Forest City employees (average tenure: 12 years overall, 17 years for management) work, looms especially large.

While she was working as a receptionist for the Giffuni Brothers» real estate company in New York City, Corcoran's boyfriend at the time, Ray, fronted her some money and gave her a nudge to explore real estate sales.

WeWork, the New York City - based company that provides shared work spaces for entrepreneurs, freelancers and small start - ups, is now attracting Fortune 500 companies.

There are no statistics to show whether texting played a role in any of the fatalities, but «when you keep records for 40 years and see two consecutive years with the back - to - back largest, that tells me there was a game changer,» said Richard Retting, a former traffic safety commissioner for the New York City Department of Transportation who worked on the report.

Philips, for its part, is working with a number of European cities on an urban lighting system that uses sensors to determine optimum lighting levels for the amount of street activity, saving energy while still providing a safe civic environment.

He and a staff of half a dozen people who work for his latest company, the Downtown Project, have been corralling local business owners, drafting development plans, and giving tours to entrepreneurs to try to persuade them to relocate to Sin City.

Centro has been ranked as the city's Best Place to Work for four or five years running in the Crain's Chicago survey.

In fact, Musk has been working with Hawthorne city officials for over a year about building the tunnel, which was originally conceived as a way to get SpaceX employees across from the parking lot to the building safely.

Under the proposal, companies pulling in more than $ 20 million a year in the city would have to pay 26 cents for each hour worked by a local employee.

Brands, Gibbs worked for Salomon Brothers in New York City.

When it opened this year in Chicago, for example, it worked with a partner to turn a Chicago Transit Authority bus into a mobile market selling organic foods in the city's south and west sides.

The city seemed almost suspiciously clean, and my driver told me the government had been working for a month to spruce it up.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

Even as millions of Chinese citizens leave the farm and flock to cities looking for work, there are fewer manufacturing jobs in China than there were 20 years ago.

A graduate from City University, London, Stefano is an Italian journalist and previously worked for The Times and Channel 4 before covering energy and the UK market for BI.

Livingston, Chmielarz and McArthur, a resident of Ellicott City, Md., also worked together to steal databases containing the personal information of millions of Americans for use in spam campaigns, prosecutors said.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

But, he adds that the city has been working hard to become Canada's «premier start - up hub,» through strategic student recruitment from schools like the University of British Columbia, and encouraging mentorship for entrepreneurs.

Kevyn Orr, a partner in the Washington law firm Jones Day and best known for his work on the restructuring of Chrysler after it filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, will assume financial control of Detroit, the nation's poorest major city.

In 2009, General Motors killed its Pontiac line of vehicles, which was named for the city, and then announced the closure of two local plants, putting more than 2,000 people out of work and costing the city a huge chunk of tax revenue.

Taking a page from laws creating sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants, a group of lawmakers have submitted a bill that bans California law enforcement from working with federal authorities if they attempt to take action against marijuana grow facilities or dispensaries that operate legally under state law.

To be sure, both cities are popular places to live and work, suffer from an acute shortage of land for new housing and currently enjoy relatively strong local economies.

According to the investigation, Lanham demanded that Verizon use a firm called Custom Computer Specialists, or CCS, for part of the New York City work or he would reduce the carrier's role in the project.