Sentences with phrase «making money for directors»

Until now, business — or capitalism, really — has been a means of making money for directors and shareholders, and rarely about doing good.

Not exact matches

«Almost every failed entrepreneur... overestimates their ability to generate revenue, or underestimates what it'll take» to start making money, says Stewart Thornhill, executive director at the Pierre L. Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Richard Ivey School of Business.

For example, in the aforementioned article, reference is made to a gentlemen named Martin Woods, who served as director of Wachovia's anti-money laundering unit in London for three years before leaving his position «in disgust» after his repeated requests to executives to put a stop to ongoing drug money laundering operations, which were allegedly occurring in Wachovia's branch network, were ignoreFor example, in the aforementioned article, reference is made to a gentlemen named Martin Woods, who served as director of Wachovia's anti-money laundering unit in London for three years before leaving his position «in disgust» after his repeated requests to executives to put a stop to ongoing drug money laundering operations, which were allegedly occurring in Wachovia's branch network, were ignorefor three years before leaving his position «in disgust» after his repeated requests to executives to put a stop to ongoing drug money laundering operations, which were allegedly occurring in Wachovia's branch network, were ignored).

Caution: The Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002 makes it a criminal offense for a public company to lend money to its executives or directors.

My favorite director has been making good money at the box office with his new movie: the trailer made me insanely curious, the plot seems really interesting and the cast is full of good actors — if I were an actress I'd work for Scorsese for free.

Murray Goulburn managing director Gary Helou is forecasting more consolidation in the sector, saying there «isn't enough money to be made» for all players.

Until the CEO and board of directors over haul their ideas for the club it will only be a local club and a money making machine yes machine.

Surely, because the club is making a healthy profit for all those directors and overpaid employees who many years ago would have done the same job for no money, just because they loved the club as the fans do.

It was reported that Gazidis and other members were adamant on bringing in the technical director but Kronke overruled them simply because he wanted Wenger to remain in the position and hence ensure Arsenal continued to make money for him.

Arsenal will not progress until a forward thinking board, owner and managers are in place, clearly this club is just a money making venture for the greedy Stan who cares only for his pocket, wenger sadly is his puppet and gazidis is the silent partner, turmoil and lack of profit in business is a sure thing to sell and move on, this is needed so we / us supporters have a voice and direction in our club, the previous board are to blame for selling to Kroenke & co we are now reaping the benefits of ill thought, blinded, pathetic former directors who were only interested in profits not the club, we are a laughing stock, i will be happy if we finish mid table with this lot... when you are on the bottom there is only one way to go..

He's famous in the industry for his triple payout, making money as the owner of the ad agency who produced all the spots, the voice of Jack in all radio and tv commercials, AND the director who shot everything.

«I love to walk into (Athletic Director Mike Papadopoulos») office and tell «Pop» that we're going to make him spend some money,» Vacaville co-coach Adam Wight said of the program's consistent need for transportation and numerous hotel rooms to house the school's state qualifiers in Bakersfield.

And while the Red Bull - backed club have little need to cash in, sporting director Ralf Rangnick has previously made clear to the club's crop of young players that they will evaluate transfer offers from elite clubs, which they deem offer value for money and progression for the player's career.

Those principles have never wavered and have always been to build a movie studio led by a board of directors made up of a majority of independent women, save about 150 jobs, protect the small businesses who are owed money and create a victims» compensation fund that would supplement existing insurance coverage for those who have been harmed.

Some school districts, like SFUSD, allow their nutrition departments to run a deficit and cover it with money from the general fund, but other districts don't, and their nutrition directors have to find a way to make the school breakfast and lunch programs pay for themselves.

«I think that the people that are trying to make those small amounts of money stretch and feed all of these children have one of the hardest jobs,» says Marlene Schwartz, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.

Governor Cuomo should put his money where his mouth is and make sure there is funding in the state budget to implement it,» said Jonah Minkoff - Zern, Director of the Public Citizen's Democracy Is For People campaign.

«It makes sense to us that the legislative leaders with their enormous power would step back from making money on the side and we think it's an indication — at least for now — that it's going to be the practice in Albany,» said NYPIRG Legislative Director Blair Horner.

Having two different minimum wages in Upstate will make it difficult for some industries to recruit or keep good workers who could make more money at McDonald's, said Greg Biryla, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, a business group that opposed the wage hike.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Kevin Green has recognized youth volunteers from The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, John Bosco House, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café and Dodge Pratt Northam Art Community all performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway for Utica children, making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's, Out of the Darkness Walk to Prevent Suicide, Making Strides to end Breast Cancer Walk, cleaning senior citizen's yards, preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries, youth mentoring and tutoring and other community activmaking Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's, Out of the Darkness Walk to Prevent Suicide, Making Strides to end Breast Cancer Walk, cleaning senior citizen's yards, preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries, youth mentoring and tutoring and other community activMaking Strides to end Breast Cancer Walk, cleaning senior citizen's yards, preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries, youth mentoring and tutoring and other community activities.

While no senators have done so, communications director Adam SmithDavid (Adam) Adam SmithOvernight Defense: Over 500 amendments proposed for defense bill Measures address transgender troops, Yemen war Trump taps acting VA chief as permanent secretary Congress, Trump eye new agency to invest in projects overseas Overnight Defense: House panel passes 6B defense bill What's in the bill and what didn't make the cut Pentagon details «failures» in Niger operation Trump, Kim meeting set MORE said the group's effort helped highlight the role DeVos's money has played in politics.

«It just seems like there is continually a lot of people making a lot of money,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Bob Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Upstate Cerebral Palsy, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway for Utica children, making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's and Rome's Relay for Life, cleaning senior citizen's yards, preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries, folding and stuffing envelopes at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and other community activities.

Levy told the New York Post's Fred Dicker that RGA Executive Director «Nick Ayers, one of the high - up persons for (RGA chairman) Haley Barbour,» made the money pledge in a meeting that included state GOP chairman Ed Cox.

«If there was any doubt that enough money can make a political unknown into a front - runner, the Democratic Senate primary and the Republican primary for governor should lay them to rest,» says Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

But, in a letter to the Spanish Secretary of State for Science made public today, a hundred CSIC directors warned that the money provided is «not sufficient to get us to the end of the year, not even prioritizing the expenses as indicated.»

«While a great deal of money has been invested in developing schizophrenia drugs, a similar investment hasn't been made to develop biomarkers that could improve the reliability and consistency of test results,» said Daniel Javitt, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and Director of the Division of Experimental Therapeutics at CUMC, Director of schizophrenia research at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, and Co-Principal Investigator of the study.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

The low - budget flick made big money, but somehow — in what's surely a behind - the - scenes Hollywood story crueler than anything Strangers writer - director Bryan Bertino could get onscreen — it's taken ten years for a sequel to make it to theaters.

And, for a while at least, Writer / Director Mike Flanagan makes that money well - spent.

Director D.J. Caruso, who has helmed forgettable fare such as Taking Lives and Two for the Money, strikes all the right keys as the picture makes its transition from comedy to romance to thriller.

For my money it's a comedy, but of the blacker - than - black variety, which is exactly what you expect from writer - director McDonagh, who has already brought us the wickedly funny In Bruges, about two hitmen languishing in Belgium after killing an innocent bystander, and the astonishing play The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, a blood - soaked tale of mad Irish terrorists that I'm ashamed to say made me laugh until I cried.

Writer - director Josh Locy stages their interaction through wooden remarks that emphasize exposition over insight — a problem that recurs throughout the film, especially once Ashley crosses paths with Jeremy (George Sample III), a scrawny twentysomething who makes money as a «lab rat» for a medical science company.

I watch a ton of movies over the course of that month but very few from the past year: My Christmas gifts to myself are rewatches, blind spots, and the chance to marathon enough director filmographies on FilmStruck for me to feel like I'm making up for all the money I've spent on my oft - dormant subscription.

For the past year, as Get Out has made a ton of money and nabbed multiple major award nominations, director Jordan Peele has spent a lot of time talking about what he wants to do next.

Director: John Woo Cast: Jean - Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vosloo Plot: Dangerous criminal (Henriksen) makes his money by allowing wealthy businessmen to unwind by hunting and murdering homeless people for sport.

The end result of all this work and anticipation was «Star Trek - The Motion Picture» (1979), a bloated behemoth of a film that satisfied few (though when director Robert Wise was afforded the chance to recut it years later for home video, that version did play somewhat better) but made enough money to warrant a sequel that would be produced on a much smaller scale.

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For film directors, the best way to continue working for the major studios is to create films that make monFor film directors, the best way to continue working for the major studios is to create films that make monfor the major studios is to create films that make money.

While Disney roles on with their money making live - action remakes of their classic animated features, they are courting talents of all different types for their projects with Skyfall director Sam Mendes in early talks to direct their Pinocchio adaptation.

Art house director, Wong Kar - wai, never really made movies for money, but «The Grandmaster» has now become his most commercially successful film in the box office.

Considering that it was shot in just over a fortnight with a novice writer / director at the helm makes Whiplash all the more amazing an achievement, proving yet again that throwing all the money in the world at a project counts for little or nothing if the writing and performances aren't up to scratch and this film oozes quality from the off.

Language: English Genre: Comedy / Musical MPAA rating: PG Director: George Stevens Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick Plot: A gambler travels to New York to try and win the big money to make it possible to pay for his Fiance's expensive wedding - he begins to fall for another woman.

And to get in before the «but their movies just weren't as goooood» argument, we'll make sure that each film has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 86 % or higher, which is what Steven Spielberg's the Post currently has, and which is the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score for a Best Director nominee's movie (Ridley Scott's All The Money In The World doesn't have one yet).

In Colorado, as in many other states, the state education department held a consultant fair, where it was apparent «there were vendors coming out of the woodwork» without experience in school turnaround but who knew «there was a lot of money to be made,» said Patrick Chapman, director of federal programs for the state education department.

As a former director of a rural multi academy trust that receives pupil funding at the lower end of the spectrum, this amount of money being spent to make up for naivity and incompetence is shameful.

Sam Freedman, Teach First's director of research, evolution and impact, said: «It is great to see that schools rate our programme as having the highest benefit relative to costs, making Teach First the best value for money route for high priority subjects, such as science and maths.»

«The department makes sure that money goes through those programs to get through to the places that need it, and without the department there's no way to actually administer the hundreds of programs that are funded through the department,» said Scott Sargrad, director of standards and accountability for education policy at the Center for American Progress and former deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education.

Brian Jud is the Executive Director of the Association of Publishers for Special Sales (APSS — www.bookapss.org — formerly SPAN) and author of How to Make Real Money Selling Books.

«It's meant to be a light at the end of the tunnel for public service jobs, when people know they could make much more money going private,» says Betsy Mayotte, director of consumer outreach and compliance at the nonprofit American Student Assistance.