Sentences with phrase «house meetings for»

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When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

Designed to look like a doll's house, the multicolored meeting rooms at architecture firm MVRDV each serve a different purpose — a dark blue room is used for more serious board room meetings, while a bright green room houses table tennis.

Licensed insolvency trustees regularly see people who manage to meet their mortgage payments for months, even years, while the rest of their fiscal house falls down around them.

«While he expressed his disappointment, given Canada's position on this issue, we both agreed that our close friendship on a whole range of issues — including energy and climate change — should provide the basis for an even closer co-ordination between our countries going forward,» Obama said at the White House after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry.

«If reports are accurate that Attorney General Sessions — a prominent surrogate for Donald Trump — met with Ambassador Kislyak during the campaign, and failed to disclose this fact during his confirmation, it is essential that he recuse himself from any role in the investigation of Trump campaign ties to the Russians,» said Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

President Donald Trump praised Saudi Arabia's defense acquisitions before as he met with the nation's wealthy young crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, at the White House — and pushed for even more.

But striking a more conciliatory tone, PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski moved to organise a meeting between the speaker of the upper house of parliament and the media late on Saturday night to discuss the new plan for journalists» access.

In the 1970s, the GAO reported that the only way the harried SBA staff could meet White House targets for 8 (a) contracts was to steer work to proven firms.

The Kremlin and the White House have provided conflicting explanations for why Kushner met with Gorkov.

Oregon Representative Peter DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who was in Trump's meeting with a dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers, said the president also told them he would be willing to increase the amount of federal spending beyond the $ 200 billion he is seeking for the infrastructure program.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider about what was discussed at the meeting.

I had a lunch appointment and normally would have worked in the house before heading across town just in time for the meeting.

Two aid groups said they have had to turn people away, one has had to intensify its fundraising, two have had to extend their operating hours to meet demand, while six who help to house new arrivals are struggling to find accommodation for them.

«Drivers come to open houses, they bring cars... it's great for our distributors because their customers — and their staff — are thrilled to meet and engage with the drivers.

During a White House meeting with Republican Congressional leaders on June 6, President Trump discussed plans for his proposed US - Mexico border wall.

It's very important for the country,» he said during a meeting at the White House.

But Google Ventures, the in - house VC firm of the search giant, has found perhaps the world's least sophisticated fix for the eternal office productivity issue of meeting creep — a big, plastic alarm clock.

Many Democrats, including Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence panel, called for Nunes to recuse himself from the investigation after he met last week with an unidentified source at the White House complex, accusing him of colluding with the White House.

Meanwhile, House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R., Mo.) lambasted the Obama Administration for its failure to meet the small - business contracting threshold.

Trump hosted a series of meetings with advocates for the corn and oil industries at the White House since late last year aimed at reforming biofuels regulations in a way that cuts costs for refiners without reducing overall biofuels demand.

He meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House this week and is expected to press for immunity from prosecution as a condition for allowing even a relatively small contingent of U.S. troops to stay behind in Afghanistan after the 2014 drawdown.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae - In next month in South Korea, where a White House statement says he will call for «maximizing pressure on North Korea.»

CNBC's Eamon Javers reports on comments from White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about the president's conditions for meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

President Donald Trump will not meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un unless Pyongyang takes «concrete actions,» the White House said on Friday as it faced criticism for agreeing to talks that would boost Kim's standing.

Nostalgia for the 1980s and the 1990s has peaked in recent years, as evidenced elsewhere in the fashion world with a denim comeback not to mention listicle upon listicle on BuzzFeed, reboots of countless nineties sitcoms from Boy Meets World to Full House (or original takes on dated themes like Netflix's Stranger Things), or even the release of the Nintendo NES Classic Edition that immediately became The Gift of the 2016 holiday season.

«We think this deal more than meets investors» expectations for fiscal year 2018 but the details will matter as appropriators get to conferencing respective House - Senate positions on major programs.»

Republicans in the House of Representatives were told at a Monday night meeting that the stop - gap measure would extend funding through March 23, along with a year of defense funding and two years of funding for community health centers, lawmakers said.

«We've reduced our discretionary spending over the last seven or eight years an incredible amount,» said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R - N.J. «Maybe some people don't like those agencies, but it's been pretty difficult for them to meet their mandate.»

But she has met resistance from the Republican Party, which, as part of the House's tax overhaul plan unveiled on Thursday morning, proposed a much more modest expansion of the credit than that Ivanka has been pushing for.

I was reminded of this point at a recent meeting of the Emergency Food and Shelter Board - an organization I have served on for several years now with a primary goal of providing transitional housing to at risk homeless.

In his meeting Thursday with House Democrats, Obama was also to insist that House Republicans not use a funding bill for the Homeland Security Department to try to quash the executive actions he took late last year on immigration and deportations.

Higher - tier (and higher priced) options add screen - sharing, integration with the customer's in - house directory, and support for meetings of up to 200 people.

Speaking shortly after Priebus on «Meet the Press,» Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, the former Democratic vice-presidential nominee, slammed the White House for the statement.

«Repeated failures by your White House colleague, Jared Kushner, and former employer, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to properly disclose their meetings and contacts with Russian officials have only increased the need for vigorous oversight into ethics and security disclosures by other senior officials in this Administration,» they said.

Kushner met with Apollo founder Joshua Harris in the White House multiple times last year and even discussed the possibility of a White House job for Harris, sources told the newspaper.

The White House also said it looks forward to continuing discussions with South Korea in preparation for the planned meeting of Trump and Kim in the coming weeks.

Republican lawmakers from high - tax states such as New York exited meetings this week with Kevin Brady, chairman of the tax - writing committee of the House of Representatives, saying there would be some sort of compromise on repealing the deduction for state and local tax payments.

At the time, Gou told Reuters when he emerged from meetings at the White House for a second day that Foxconn was planning «capital - intensive» investments in America and that details could be announced in a few weeks.

House will become non-executive chairman, while Caira will stand for election as a director at the annual meeting of shareholders.

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.

Unlike food stamps — where if you meet the income limits, you receive the benefit — subsidies for child care, heating, and housing are different: The pot of money for it can run dry.

The House and Senate budget committees are responsible for calculating whether the targets are being met.

In the lead - up to his dinner at the White House planned for Thursday night, Chinese premier Xi Jinping met with the people who really run things: Leaders of the world's biggest tech companies.

Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees trade policy, met Trump at the White House twice last week to make the case against the tariffs and suggest alternative proposals for how to revive American steel.

Client meetings go a bit smoother as the in - house team better understands exactly what we are doing for them and what it takes to complete.

President Trump told reporters on Monday that he had pitched the idea of holding the proposed summit with North Korea at the Peace House on the border between North and South Korea, as preparations for the meeting advance.

At my request, the agenda for yesterday's White House meeting went from not mentioning the travel ban to having it be first and foremost

Cupertino's commitment to meeting its RHNA and to creating more opportunities for affordable housing is reflected in various policies adopted and championed by the City Council.

Later, speaking during a meeting with law enforcement officials at the Broward County sheriff's office, the president thanked first responders for what he called an «incredible job,» according to a White House press pool report.

Before his meeting with Senate Republicans, Trump visited with the House GOP conference in what leaders billed as a chance for rank - and - file members to get to know the party's presumptive presidential nominee.