Sentences with phrase «not in a bad neighborhood»

I'd like to add that you can still have unstable people, felons, etc. come to view the place even if it's not in a bad neighborhood, so don't let your guard down.

Not exact matches

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.»

Topics covered include: - How Booker's parents used a sting operation to desegregate a neighborhood, and why they did it - Why Ezra doesn't eat breakfast - Booker's disagreements with Ta - Nehisi Coates - How a 10 - day fast led to a (temporary) peace with Booker's worst political enemy - How spirituality informs Booker's approach to politics - The lessons Booker took from his early losses in with elections and city council fights - What it's like to be the only vegan in Congress - Why Booker hates penguins - Whether it's cynical or simply realistic to doubt America's political institutions - Which books have influenced Booker mostAnd much, much more.

In five «Dirty Harry» films, he chased, beat and shot up seemingly dozens if not hundreds of the worst criminal perps in San Francisco, but in Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by AsianIn five «Dirty Harry» films, he chased, beat and shot up seemingly dozens if not hundreds of the worst criminal perps in San Francisco, but in Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by Asianin San Francisco, but in Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by Asianin Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by Asians.

It isn't bad, but I went to another market in a nearby neighborhood and found someone who always seems to have fresher, better eggplant.

That's nearly an exact quote, and he's talking about our American cities and schools in the 1990s, not about the worst neighborhoods in 2012 Brussels.

One caveat, however — Not everyone who is alone, hurting and in the gutters of life lives in the worst neighborhoods.

Of course youcould do far worse things in north Vallejo in the 1990s, especially in theSabathias» neighborhood, known as the Crest, where you could cruise up GatewayDrive to get drugs, and bleary - eyed men banged on the windows of passing cars.But Mare Island hadn't yet been shut down, and the Crest felt more hardworkingthan crime - ridden because the men hadn't gone away.

This would have brought tons of new revenue to a state badly in need of an economic shot in the arm, not just for Monmouth Park but for area restaurants, hotels and neighborhood establishments.

«I wasn't doing anything,» he says, «which is something bad to be doing in this neighborhood.»

Also, the cruise ship is a safe and family friendly environment and you won't have to worry about staying in a hotel in a bad neighborhood.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

Tranter said she hopes the district places higher priority on replacing playgrounds in neighborhoods where the community can not raise matching funds and where playgrounds are in bad shape and heavily used.

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.

I will continue to work to clean up Cardiff's streets so the millions of people who visit our city every year don't leave with a bad impression, and our residents can live in tidy neighborhoods again.»

«It's not fair because when these schools were bad, Eva Moskowitz came in and picked up the neighborhood.»

She wants to give a free pass to even the worst purveyors of disorder — and never mind the message that sends to the vast majority of New Yorkers, even in the roughest neighborhoods, who manage not to jump turnstiles, pee in public, and so on.

And if the gut is in a state of dysbiosis, meaning you've got bad guys that have moved into the neighborhood, all the good guys are being crowded out, you can't manufacture neurotransmitters like you're supposed to.

I have officially made the transition to full - time Floridian and I guess it isn't so bad after all My apartment is in a historic neighborhood which has the most gorgeous houses that I drool over on my nightly walks with Jax and also scope out the best ones for my blog photos like this!

I've seen some people who've logged times in the neighborhood of 500 - 700 hours, and while I'm sure a lot of that is attributed to noodling around in the game's upper - level G - Rank difficulties, I'm still going to say that 239 wasn't bad for a first time through.

So, remaking a classic anime with a Caucasian lead who actually turns out to be a resurrected Japanese young woman planted into Scarlett Johansson «s body with a grief - stricken mother living alone in a middle class Neo Tokyo neighborhood turns out to be a bad, not to mention unbelievably racist, idea?

Of course he hasn't — but he makes believe he has because he needs the $ 30,000 James is paying him so he can move his wife and daughter out of the bad neighborhood they live in.

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.

If enough avail themselves of those alternative opportunities, especially if the neighborhood school is bad (in any of a dozen ways, including safety, physical plant, etc.), there won't be enough kids left to justify keeping it open.

I just hope that the they don't let the quality of the school inhibit their own efforts to be good teachers, because an incredible teacher can change lives even in a bad neighborhood or a poor school system.

There isn't a requirement to have 100 engineers in each of the worst inner - city neighborhoods, or 50 lawyers in each small Appalachian town.

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

«For too long, too many kids have been forced to attend very bad schools, or schools that aren't a good fit for them, just because those happened to be the only schools in their neighborhoods,» said Kyle Olson, executive officer of National School Choice Week.

If you live in a bad neighborhood, you probably don't want to own a car that can be opened in just a few seconds using a switchblade.

Worse, since tenants lose the voucher if not used in 60 - 90 days, they are pressured by market forces to move into familiar low - income neighborhoods.

Having actual stores in the neighborhood is not a bad thing.

You don't have to choose between the most fashionable neighborhood in the city and the worst slum.

If you have a bad house in a bad neighborhood, it's not like you can sell off a couple of rooms.

Whether that's because of the type of neighborhood in which you live, or because of your lifestyle, or just because of bad luck doesn't matter.

If it were poor corporate earnings causing poor stock returns, we would not see a bad return in one year of a 30 - year time - period always being matched with a good return in another year of the same 30 - year time - period, so that the 30 - year returns all in the same general neighborhood.

There was certainly a bad spike of urban dogfighting in the»90s, but now it's this idea that any urban neighborhood, or any neighborhood that's populated by a majority of people of color, is somehow some hotbed of dogfighting, and that's just not true.

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?

History once again is repeating itself in the Presidio neighborhood and El Paseo courtyard, bringing back boutique shops and tasting rooms that encourage the community to come together, and this is one time when a repeat is not such a bad thing.

Kotick remarked in an issue of Game Informer that the friendly neighborhood hero hasn't been given its dues in the past gaming installments by pointing out that «they were poorly rated because they were bad games.»

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.

Whether that's because of the type of neighborhood in which you live, or because of your lifestyle, or just because of bad luck doesn't matter.

According to insurance giant Allstate, Floridians are far more likely to opt for an insurance package in the neighborhood of $ 100,000 / $ 300,000 for bodily liability, $ 50,000 in property damage insurance, $ 5,000 in extra medical payments coverage, and uninsured motorist coverage of $ 10,000 / $ 20,000 (not a bad idea, since Florida's uninsured motorist rate is estimated to be around 19 % by the Insurance Research Council).

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.

Last year, Amazon was getting some seriously bad PR because it was not making same - day deliveries in lower - income and minority neighborhoods.

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.

When you are in a low income neighborhood, you have just as much chance of getting a bad tenent whether they have a SEC 8 voucher or not.

Certainly under 6 %, maybe with some exceptions in neighborhoods I don't know about, but worse than that....

This is very bad for home owners too as rent control leads to run down housing and not being able to control bad people in good neighborhoods.

I want it to cash flow positively which means it's going to need to meet the One Percent Rule or close to it and I want it to not be in a really bad neighborhood.

Did a few rehabs which I lost over $ 10k on them each, bought in a bad neighborhood and had to sell quickly as to not incur more costs, so sold it to an investor who wholesaled it.