Sentences with phrase «groups say the city»

Josh Gold of the Hotel Trades Council industry group said the city has not made sure that there would be well - paying jobs in new hotels under the plan.

But environmental groups say the city's efforts so far are barely tapping the potential water savings.

Not exact matches

At a bitcoin breakfast event in Manhattan in April, a group of them traded complaints («They ended up with a pound of soup where they threw in all the different bank rules and AML [anti-money laundering] rules... they ended up with something very salty,» said Tim Byun of BitPay) and hyperbolic predictions (if BitLicense is too stringent, New York City will «lose the next Wall Street» to Silicon Valley, Estonia, or North Carolina, said Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures).

Johnson said the group's mission will be three-fold: To unite companies facing similar issues, to educate the public about the sharing and peer - to - peer economy, and, most importantly, to work with city regulators when it comes to legal matters.

A group of Perth's young professionals felt so strongly about proposals made in a review of the State's Liquor Licensing Act, they decided to have their say by making a submission signed by 87 endorsees from around the city.

The group and a city councilman said at a press conference that they had uncovered evidence that Kushner Companies, the developer headed by Kushner until early last year, had falsified more than 80 work permits involving 34 buildings in New York.

«If you are thoughtful about how you handle the process, you're going to get a lot more money for your business,» says John Bird, president and co-founder of Albion Financial Group, a Salt Lake City - based investment and planning firm.

Katz has hit on a growing — if still small — market, says Darren Seifer, a food and beverage industry analyst for the New York City - based research firm NPD Group.

He outrageously said he would sign a ban on sanctuary cities, leading one left - wing group to denounce his campaign as «racist.»

As this 2016 report from Israel's Channel Two points out, «In the most conflicted and blood - soaked city, with the uttermost fear and distrust between nations, Jews and Arabs sit together in a mixed group and it doesn't seem unusual to any of them,» says reporter Tzion Nanous.

QINGDAO, China, April 28 (Reuters)- Wang Jianlin, the billionaire boss of China's Dalian Wanda Group, said on Saturday he will turn the northern port city of Qingdao into a global film production hub as he launched a sprawling studio complex in a ceremony attended by hundreds.

«While some of the requirements are a simple matter of checking the box and can be fulfilled through a well - drafted internship agreement, the majority are subjective,» says Peter Minton, founder and president of Minton Law Group in New York City.

«We don't want to be the next Silicon Valley,» said J.B. Pritzker, founder of the investment firm Pritzker Group, at the inaugural Inc. and CNBC iCONIC conference in the Windy City on Tuesday.

And the CEO of Gen Con, a 50,000 - person gamers» gathering that's reportedly Indianapolis's largest convention in attendance and economic impact, said the law could prompt the group to move the event after 2020, when its contract with the city expires.

«The Marines Corps allowed us to make sure we could understand the worst - and best - case scenarios, take care of everyone else first, and accomplish the mission with minimum casualties,» says James Warren, founder of the Warren Financial Group, an investment - advisory firm in Kansas City, Mo. «Those are the same principles we consider when doing investment planning: How can we accomplish what we want to do with minimum risk in relationship to the return?»

«People will be attracted by doing interesting things and by working with people they want to work with,» says management consultant David Nadler, chairman of the New York City - based Delta Consulting Group.

«We only want warm referrals, and if you don't have one, get one,» says attorney Ed Zimmerman, chair of the tech group at Lowenstein Sandler in New York City and founder of the accelerator FirstGrowthVC, which doesn't take equity or provide co-working space.

Asked in late June about the effect sanctuary - city policies have on efforts to combat transnational organized crime, Flordia Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said he didn't believe getting rid of them would solve the problem such groups posed.

Matt McIlwain, the managing director at Seattle - based investment firm Madrona Venture Group, says the city's relative strength in the grocery and retail sectors make it an attractive location, especially as the company continues to experiment with its Amazon Fresh delivery service.

That wasn't enough reassurance for organizations such as the Disciples of Christ, a Protestant group that brings in millions of dollars to Indianapolis through its conferences, which said it plans to boycott the city this year.

«Show me a company with more than 10 percent of its business with one customer or more than half of its business in one industry and I'll show you a company at risk of being impacted by one company or one industry,» says Paul Weber, CEO of Entrepreneur Advertising Group in Kansas City, Missouri.

«If we get a hot CPI print it will insert additional uncertainty, but if we get a quiet, below - consensus print, you may see yields down and equities rally,» said Jason Ware, Chief Investment Officer & Chief Economist at Albion Financial Group in Salt Lake City, Utah.

China had said the live - fire drills would happen on Wednesday off the city of Quanzhou, in between two groups of islands close to China's coast but which Taiwan has controlled since 1949, when defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island at the end of the Chinese civil war.

Lalonde said the group of companies selected him as a go - between with Montreal city officials, and he pointed at firms of varying sizes as participants in the system including: SNC - Lavalin, Dessau, CIMA, Genivar (TSX: GNV), Tecsult, SM, BPR and Roche.

Though it mentioned the issue only in passing in its request for proposals last fall, Amazon says it will take such costs into account, and has met with affordable - housing groups in several of the finalist cities.

Of course, that doesn't make the most expensive cities the «best» cities to live in, at least not for everyone, says Jennie Allison of the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, a nonprofit research and policy group.

Donald Trump advisor and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's television interview blitz over the past 18 hours suggests the US president may have violated laws about campaign finance or financial disclosures, watchdog groups say.

A New York City advocacy group for low - income and minority residents filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank last fall for what it says are illegal and exploitative tactics that have cost the two named plaintiffs thousands of dollars in penalty fees it contends they shouldn't have had to pay.

«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.&rgroup are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.&rGroup at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»

That could mean that Tops wants to close between 18 and 24 stores among its stable of 169 supermarkets, said Burt Flickinger, the Buffalo native who is the managing director at New York City retail consultant Strategic Resource Group.

Chen Weiguang, head of the Guangzhou city federation of trade unions, said Thursday the agency will meet company executives or send working groups to push hard for collective salary negotiation if any Fortune 500 company failed to comply before the deadline.

«The Innovation District in downtown Las Vegas was designed to be a proving ground for new technologies, and this latest interest by NTT Group and Dell Technologies will continue our efforts to become a smart and connected community,» said Michael Lee Sherwood, Director of Information Technologies, City of Las Vegas.

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Their interest is driven by a number of factors, including the steep price of property in China's major cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, says the Imperio Group, which serves Chinese clients in...

Jennifer Bevan - Dangel, the executive director of watchdog group Common Cause Maryland, said the city's position «raises significant red flags.»

Being in those cities «makes it easier because they already have a core group of workers that wouldn't have to relocate,» said Gad Levanon, chief economist for The Conference Board.

«There's still a big delta in rents, and although landlords have gotten much more receptive, they don't want to make those adjustments for 10 or 15 or 20 years,» said Firestein, who represented Starbucks» Italian - bakery offshoot Princi in the retailer's first deal in the city, for 2,600 square feet at Paramount Group's 1633 Broadway.

** Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City Development Joint Stock Bank, better known as HDBank, said its shareholders approved on Saturday a plan to merge with the unlisted Petrolimex Group Commercial Joint Stock Bank as it seeks to expand operations in the country.

«The long - term capital draw from a properly allocated portfolio is 4 percent to 6 percent,» said David Edwards, president of New York City - based Heron Financial Group.

«Tinder is a huge global platform which, just like football, is bringing millions of people together every day all around the world,» said Tom Glick, City Football Group's chief commercial officer.

The company says that any user who downloaded an app or used the sign - on feature had to agree to a permissions screen that said, «This app will receive the following info: your public profile, friend list, birthday, groups, current city, photos, and personal description and your friends's birthdays, photos, and likes.»

A large group of young adults from the City Church of San Diego said they were in town on a mission trip.

«The City Council's action today is not the final word,» said Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville and chairman of a group called Stand4MarriageDC.

When no billboard company in the city would lease the group space for such a sign, American Atheists President David Silverman said the organization decided to focus solely on the Democrats in Charlotte.

The nation's biggest evangelical group said Monday that religious freedom is threatened by American mayors who say Chick - fil - A is not welcome in their cities because of the restaurant leader's opposition to gay marriage.

So said Canon Andrew White last week addressing a small group of local Christians in New York City.

A well - respected businessman in the city in which we live, upon hearing someone in a group of about a dozen people say something that indicated we are Christians, immediately blurted out «You can't be Christians.

A spokeswoman said the Red Cross relocated the 14 staff members in Aden, which could negatively affect the area in a big way: The group's Aden operations include supporting a surgical hospital and providing clean drinking water to the city.

«May the risen Christ grant hope to the Middle East and enable all the ethnic, cultural and religious groups in that region to work together to advance the common good and respect for human rights,» the pope said in his «Urbi et Orbi» («To the City and to the World») message in St. Peter's Square.

A New York Cardinal says the city's annual St. Patrick's Day parade continues to have his support after organisers admitted a gay rights group for the first time.