Sentences with phrase «in a bad neighborhood at»

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Including investments in consumer companies he holds through Maveron, a venture capital firm he co-founded — and the tens of millions of dollars of equity he owns in Groupon (GRPN) as a director — his net worth is in the neighborhood of at least $ 2 billion, which isn't bad for a kid who grew up in the projects of Brooklyn, on the seventh floor at 1560 East 102nd St. Obama himself, according to Schultz, said he was «very aware of my personal story.»

Not a bad idea: Illinois State Senate Minority Leader Emil Jones Jr. has sent a letter to the Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners requesting that Ada Park in the Morgan Park neighborhood be renamed after Olympic gold medalist Ira Murchinson, who died last month at the age of 61.

Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark oversees the prosecution of crime in a dozen police precincts and scores of neighborhoods, but said at a town hall meeting that Rikers Island is the «worst neighborhood» in her jurisdiction.

That also results in lawmakers seeing at least parts of those cities week in and week out, exposing them to the good and the bad of neighborhoods they visit.

At a campaign stop in a crime - ridden Brooklyn neighborhood, the Republican candidate said the city is «one bad mayor away from unsafe streets.»

The study describes conditions in the worst neighborhoods that make the two treatment options seem like improbable remedies, at first.

«If you live in a poor Chicago neighborhood, bad things are more likely to happen to you,» said sociologist Katherine King, a visiting assistant professor of community and family medicine at Duke.

In End of Watch (2012), he offered an intense and emotional look at two police partners stationed in a bad neighborhooIn End of Watch (2012), he offered an intense and emotional look at two police partners stationed in a bad neighborhooin a bad neighborhood.

Their second, at a black bar in a bad neighborhood, leads them to the more promising ex-con Dean Jones (Jamie Foxx), whose preferred first name is one of the few vulgarities that can't be uttered even once in a PG - 13 film.

In the bad old days, before statewide standards, affluent communities tended to ask their kids to shoot for the moon (or at least 3s, 4s, and 5s on a battery of Advanced Placement exams), while too many schools in low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracIn the bad old days, before statewide standards, affluent communities tended to ask their kids to shoot for the moon (or at least 3s, 4s, and 5s on a battery of Advanced Placement exams), while too many schools in low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracin low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracy.

Then there are the African American parents we supported at School 93 in a low - income neighborhood of Indianapolis, who, after learning their school was one of the worst - performing in the state of Indiana, advocated to bring a proven local school - improvement model called Project Restore to their school.

This is political posturing at its worst... If you ask most parents in America, they will tell you that their first «choice» is for their neighborhood school to be a great school.

When students in our poorest neighborhoods receive a substandard education, it's not because hordes of «bad teachers» are being protected at their expense.

Because of this particular issue, which has gotten worse since I published my first novel in 2012, in the form of getting two plug - in keyboards for my computers and a typing speed somewhere in the neighborhood of the amount of novels you have published, I consider myself lucky if I can churn out 250 - 300 words per sitting at my computer.

At this point you will have to make an evaluation as to whether or not this family will follow instructions, or will you have an unhappy puppy returned to you in a month or two because no one wants to assume the responsibility or, much worse, will you hear that the puppy was allowed to roam the neighborhood and has been hit by a car?

I'd say it'd be more apocalyptic (as per Dr. Venkman's «dogs and cats, living together» dictum) if the animals were migrating to environments * more * likely to result in their extinction;) Having said that, I acknowledge that a common view is that humanity is doing exactly that — not a physical migration, but an enforced anthropogenic man - handling of the entire biosphere towards a bad neighborhood in Earth's «state space», where we risk being stabbed by shadowy tipping points, mugged by run - away processes and distressed at the sight of an anoxic ocean vomiting over the local fauna.

None of these three is identical to your «throw up your hands and call it a draw» conclusion, nor are they anything remotely like the specious reasoning that claims, «well if it were real, it would be obvious on 10 years,» that frequently hangs out in the same bad neighborhood at the crossroads of Error and Illogic.

You don't want to start off with a bad attitude in the new neighborhood, but you also don't want to be the one sitting up at 3 a.m. with the music upstairs forcing you out of a sound sleep.

Maybe you were in a bad neighborhood and your car was hit to get robbed or at least you perceived it that way.

This past weekend I focused on looking at vacant properties on the code violation list, using the old worst house in a great neighborhood.

In our first units in worse neighborhoods, I always brought my dog (showings, repairs, etc. — if my dog didn't like them, I ruled them out as tenants), and never stayed late at nighIn our first units in worse neighborhoods, I always brought my dog (showings, repairs, etc. — if my dog didn't like them, I ruled them out as tenants), and never stayed late at nighin worse neighborhoods, I always brought my dog (showings, repairs, etc. — if my dog didn't like them, I ruled them out as tenants), and never stayed late at night.

Comps can be tricky at times as sometimes there can be very bad pockets in otherwise good neighborhoods but I feel like it is the same with any California city.