Sentences with phrase «from big corporations»

Office, industrial and retail tenants — from big corporations to small businesses — rely on Avison Young to help them achieve these goals through our breadth of services, deep experience and extensive market knowledge.

Instead of an even playing field, they want to reserve express lanes for their own content and services — or those from big corporations that can afford the steep tolls — and a leave the rest of us on a winding dirt road.

Many sources do not agree that the Obama campaign was funded by small donations, and have criticised the lack of transparency which masked the hugely important role of the massive donations from big corporations (eg the financial sector gave more to Obama than to his opponents).

In the calendar year, Brown raised a whopping $ 9.87 million in monetary contributions, with the overwhelming majority of those funds coming from big corporations, labor unions, oil companies and high - worth individuals that routinely lobby state government.

They are rich, they get lots of money from big corporations, and at the end of the day, they vote for nothing that may make a poor person's life better.

Not exact matches

He explains how his company helps big corporations to surface the best ideas from their workforce:

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You hear it like a broken record from banks and private investors and maybe from your boss at the big corporation that employs you.

But as more corporations become involved, the emphasis on how to build the next generation of businesses could shift away from high valuations and quick exits to creating a nurturing environment for bigger and better ideas.

Perhaps they started their careers in their twenties with a big corporation, and four decades or so later, they retired from the same company.

The tax bill lowers the corporate tax rate from 35 % to 21 %, eliminates the penalty under the Affordable Care Act for failing to have health insurance, a narrower estate tax, and cuts the top effective marginal tax rate for S corporations to a top rate of 29.6 percent, among other measures that gives the biggest breaks to the wealthiest individuals and companies.

If you're an individual contemplating jumping to a start - up from academia or a big corporation, the takeaway is probably simpler but scarier — you need to think really carefully about whether you can handle the kind of environment where there is no pre-scripted path to success.

From an office in Miami, he lists a few big wins for the firm, which handles travel arrangements for corporations.

King believes it may be hard for any big corporation to have serious collaboration cred because the decision makers are so far removed from consumers.

Real estate services company and two - time Inc. 5000 honoree GRS Group knew from its inception in 2009 that it wanted to keep big corporation benefits for its small company employees.

We spoke to supply managers at seven big - name corporations — who buy packaging, marketing expertise, IT services, and more — and asked them what life looks like from their side of the desk.

He's gotten agreement from two big creditors, the federal pension regulator Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (owed $ 15 million), and Silverpoint (owed $ 22 million), the company's main lender on the structure of this pre-packaged, bankruptcy filing.

As it did with the federal government, Kinder Morgan has worked the province from all the angles available to big corporations with endless lobbying budgets.

Others in the task force include Koch Companies Public Sector, and Dezenhall Communications Management Group, a public relations company that specializes in media campaigns to defend corporations from progressive groups, and four of the the biggest oil and gas companies in the world — BP, Chevron, Exxon, and Shell.

But hiring at a big corporation is much different from what startups really need because of the constant change and unknown variables.

Not only have the B.C. Liberals copied the «big ticket» items from the B.C. NDP platform, but they've refused to adopt the revenue measures designed to pay for them: modest tax hikes on profitable corporations and the richest two per cent.

Meanwhile, on the earnings front, after we heard from some big financial names last week, the next four days will bring even more reports, with the focus on the large - cap sector and some key corporations, such as Verizon (VZ - Free Verizon Stock Report).

The biggest player in the segment is BigBasket, which said in March it raised $ 150 million (Rs 1,000 crore) from investors including the UAE - based private equity investor Abraaj Group and International Finance Corporation.

That coyote's after you... And that «BIG BANG» was from the «Acme Corporation» (Ref.

In an interview from 1969 — which wasn't unearthed until 2008 — Lennon explained to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that his infamous comment about the Beatles being bigger than Jesus had been misunderstood, and he actually wanted to spread Christ's message:

The big mining corporations benefit from environmental destruction while the people remain hungry and poor.»

«From taxing the wealthy to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs to ending unnecessary subsidies to big corporations and investing in our CUNY system, Bill will be an ally for working families in City Hall.

Because big corporations are from the West, and they like to do businesses.

The public accounts committee (PAC) substantiated claims from UK Uncut, the group against large corporations, suggesting there are # 25 billion of outstanding tax issues with big companies.

As Gerald Benjamin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at SUNY New Paltz, points out in aJournal News op - ed; Forty - nine out of 63 New York State Senators received most of their campaign contributions from corporations or big money donors.Millions are wasted and misdirected each year because of sweetheart deals for the special interests.

Once we think about maximizing profit from resources, big corporations can forget about bargain deals.

The PSC's press release (not sent out by the Schneiderman campaign) quotes from the Times» endorsement senator and also highlighted his effort to combat the «corrupting influence of big corporations» and support of tax increases on the wealthy to help close the state's chronic budget gap.

Left - wing is big government and right - wing is small government, because in our society the government is more or less the only institution under some democratic control, so if power is transferred from a democratically controlled government to uncontrolled corporations, power becomes more top - down; if power resides with a democratically controlled government, power becomes more egalitarian.

The CEBR report found that if the Government raised the rate of corporation tax from 21 per cent to 26 per cent - the result of equalising the tax rate between big and small business - would cost around 100,000 jobs from the small business sector and reduce economic output by # 4.3 bn, while reducing the public sector deficit by only # 1.6 bn over 10 years.

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.

There's no big bombshell in the report, which highlights — for example — the number of entities associated with the committee that received federal bailout cash from TARP (13), and the amount of campaign cash contributed from individuals and corporations involved in CSNY to Cuomo during the campaign ($ 1.8 million).

In a motion filed this week, lawyers for Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation, one of the biggest operators in Pennsylvania, asked the Susquehanna County court to find longtime activist Vera Scroggins in contempt of an injunction barring her from areas near its well sites.

Similar to Gov. Jerry Brown's ballot - measure committee, Gray has used the second campaign account to accept larger campaign checks from special - interest groups and big corporations that lobby the Legislature, including $ 35,000 from the California Independent Petroleum Association, $ 25,000 from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and $ 15,000 from tobacco giant Philip Morris.

WASHINGTON — Serving in the Democratic minority hasn't kept Queens Rep. Joe Crowley from hauling in campaign cash from some of the biggest corporations in America.

Green Party leaders congratulated voters in Kent, Ohio, for passing Issue 43, which called for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood and abolish the legal definition of money as free speech, as well as establishment of an annual «Democracy Day» public hearing for residents to testify on the effect of big contributions from corporations and the wealthy on elections.

«We'll have developers, money people and big corporations that will benefit [from the convention] but the small person that is just trying to get ahead won't,» Barron said.

In the case of vaccines, that emotional response probably stems from many things, Mnookin says, including frustration with our lack of personalized health care, a general distrust of large corporations and of big pharma specifically, distrust that isn't necessarily misplaced.

I think my idea was really to make it happen in the «real world,» so to try to work in the right direction within bigger corporations, in order to change «from the inside» the established organisations.»

The result is that our big, open - to - talent corporations are wondrous machines for scooping up the top talent from around the country, indeed from around the world, and then ensuring that they never again contribute anything fundamentally new.

Gist: Co-written by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, this centers on a private contracting firm tasked with protecting big corporations from radical environmentalists and anti-business extremists, who tasks its best and brightest agent, Sarah Moss (Marling), to infiltrate a mysterious terrorist organization known only as «The East».

The president's big announcement at the start of the film is that he's made a deal with the Iranian president and is proceeding to withdraw all troops from the Middle East, a move that comes with a boatload of stunningly puerile speeches, and sparks the ire of right - wingers and big corporations invested in the business of war.

Baby Face — Barbara Stanwyck is incendiary in this pre-Code melodrama about a low - born woman viciously sleeping her way from the mailroom to the top of a big corporation.

The cast and creative team's beliefs in time travel runs the gamut: Trevorrow says, «On the science side, the great inventions don't always come from someone working at a big corporation — they could come from that crazy lunatic building things in the garage.

Okja, the latest experimental offering from lauded director Bong Joon Ho, started off with a controversial bang, but ended up winning over critics thanks to its big - hearted plot about a little girl whose giant pet pig is kidnapped by a meat corporation.

But in a movie that decries corporate interference — in which the primary villains are big bad suits from a big bad corporation looking to seize control of the OASIS — it's a reminder that, in its own way, «Ready Player One,» a production of Warner Bros..