Sentences with phrase «of boarding houses»

The lives of these boarding house men have been well described by Richard Stott in his 1990 book Workers in the Metropolis, which, while appreciating the many uncomfortable features of this existence, does describe the friendships that emerged among the boarders and specifically notes an absence of homosexuality.

He had two affairs with women who remained married to their spouses; he eventually suffered serious mental illness and spent his last days in the kind of boarding house which Ragged Dick and the other successful heroes of his novels had forever left behind.

She dines with other Irish immigrant women in a similar position and the head of the boarding house Mrs. Kehoe (a very funny Julie Walters), who scolds and warns the girls that she'll have the parish priest give a sermon on gossip if they keep going with it.

Amongst them is Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), the lone woman, owner of a boarding house where the men planned their attack, and mother of the only conspirator to escape the manhunt, who is to stand before a military tribunal, at which Aiken has agreed to defend her.

Instead, one of the boarding house guests, Presbyterian minister Baek Isak, comes to the rescue — he sympathizes with Sunja's predicament and offers to take her to Osaka as his wife.

Turner Contemporary, built on site of boarding house artist visited when painting there, announced as exhibition venue

These include growing waiting lists for public and community housing; a decrease in the availability of boarding housing accommodation; discrimination faced in the private rental market as well as the difficulties of ex-prisoners obtaining employment.

Not exact matches

Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

The sanctioned officials are Willian Antonio Contreras, the vice minister of internal commerce; Nelson Reinaldo Lepaje Salazar, who is acting as head of the office of the national treasury, according to the U.S.; Americo Alex Mata Garcia, an alternate director on the board of the National Bank of Housing and Habitat; and Carlos Alberto Rotondaro Cova, the former president of the board of directors of the Venezuela Institute of Social Security.

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner joined a board of advisors for cannabis company Acreage Holdings earlier this month after changing his own views on cannabis.

That happened before a score of business leaders fled two White House - backed corporate advisory boards, citing Trump's controversial comments about a neo-Nazi demonstration in Charlottesville, Va..

At the White House's first United States of Women Summit in 2016, Buffett confessed that he only thought to put a woman on the Berkshire Hathaway board in 2003 — nearly 40 years after taking over the company — by the suggestion of his wife Susie.

Masciovecchio, who was born in the nearby village of Paganica, says he has lost all hope of ever returning to his former home and speaks bitterly as he walks around the boarded up houses and debris in the narrow streets where he used to live.

The New York Times reports that the witnesses told members of the House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular, and Alaska Native Affairs that Congress should appoint a federal control board — that is, take over management of the island.

The Trumps and Macrons helped plant a tree on the White House grounds together before boarding Trump's Marine One helicopter for a scenic tour of monuments built in the capital city designed by French - born Pierre L'Enfant as they flew south to Mount Vernon, the first U.S. president's home along the Potomac River.

Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 27, 2018.

Former House Speaker John Boehner — Nixon's ideological opposite in many ways — announced on Wednesday that he is joining the board of a marijuana company.

«The good news, which is the mantra of my office and community board No. 4, is there will be, yes, by law, 35 years of income - restricted affordable housing,» Gale Brewer, the former City Councilwoman for the area and current Borough President of Manhattan, said at the time.

In a letter to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, tech moguls including Salesforce's Marc Benioff and Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman described the Brisbane Baylands project as a «once - in - a-generation opportunity» to make progress on the area's housing imbalance.

Benoit Coeure, executive board member of the European Central Bank, speaks with CNBC's Steve Sedgwick at the Europe House Ambrosetti Forum.

Scaramucci, who is widely known for his explosive 10 - day tenure as President Donald Trump's White House communications director, also happened to be a member of the board of advisors of the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Now, roughly 80 % of the city's population — nearly six million people — lives in these buildings, which are known as HDBs, from the name of the Housing and Development Board.

«These freelancers come on board as subcontractors and save the small business owner the burden of paying overhead associated with payroll taxes and expenses such as health insurance and worker's compensation, as well as the space constrictions that growing a company in - house can present.»

To get from his home to the factory that he owns on the other side of town, Zak Pashak, the owner and president of Detroit Bikes, takes Joy Road, a notorious Detroit artery whose name belies the mirthless array of derelict houses, boarded - up storefronts and vast, empty tracts of overgrown land that line it.

A family friend who works as a concert photographer saw the photo and put her in touch with board members of the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, an organization that provides food, housing, and social services for those experiencing poverty and homelessness.

The absence of a nominee from the White House tipped the hand of the board in favor of Williams over a candidate that was either diverse, or one who had expertise in financial regulation.

This led The Wall Street Journal editorial board, referencing investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller and the House and Senate intelligence committees, to ask the Trump administration to pursue a policy of «radical transparency.»

This summer, there were rumors that the entire Clinton family would leave the board of the foundation if Hillary took the White House.

Since board members can essentially work for free (or sometimes, in a sense, pay for the privilege) you're looking for an entirely different type of person than when you hire for an in - house position.

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.

The government housing board is a big buyer of elevators, so the bank owns a minority interest in a new Japanese venture to fabricate them locally.

«In line with the 2013 norm,» June price growth was driven by single - detached and semi-detached houses, particularly in the city of Toronto, the board said in a report Thursday.

An investor sits in front of an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Beijing.

Among those listed on its board includes Esther Dyson, the NewSpace investor and venture capitalist, Jeff Ashby, a former NASA space Shuttle commander, and Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Speaker of the House.

«When a white person buys a house, we don't notice,» he said at the event, hosted by the Vancouver Board of Trade.

He currently serves as a member of the International Board of Covenant House and is on the Board of the New Jersey Reentry Corporation.

In a quiet acknowledgment of these facts, the governor of the Bank of Canada, Mark Carney, was appointed as the new chief of the Financial Stability Board, a group of top fiscal experts trying to keep the global house of cards from collapsing.

Through a system of interlocking memberships on the boards of companies he had reorganized or influenced, Morgan and his banking house achieved a top - heavy concentration of control over some of the nation's leading corporations and financial institutions.

Strangely enough, we had a politician on our board of directors — former U.S. Congressman and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp.

In the past, Schmidt sat on the Board of Governors for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, has also served as Director of INHOUSE Attainable Housing Society of Calgary, and Director for Elkhorn Resources Inc..

Appointed to the Board of Directors by former Speaker of the House Will Weatherford to represent military spouses and families, both active, transitioned, and retired, Jamee Graff brings a wealth of experience to the Veterans Florida Board.As a military spouse and mother, Jamee has been a champion for military spouses and families for more than twenty years.

«That 82 percent that handles its IT in - house — it's not that they want to do that,» says Frank Picarello, CMIT Solutions» COO and a member of CompTIA's executive board.

The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee this week will consider legislation that will provide bankruptcy powers to Puerto Rico while subjecting it to the authority of a federal oversight board.

The Board has determined that Mr. House and Ms. Reisman are independent under the NYSE listed company rules and applicable law and that Mr. Sloan is not independent under these rules because of his interest in a limited partnership from which the Company leases space for operation of three of our retail stores.

But room and board can't exceed the amount included in the school's cost of attendance or, if larger, the amount charged to live in campus housing.

«A lack of affordable housing hurts our economy because local businesses are unable to attract and retain talented workers,» says Iain Black, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

The report was released this morning as part of the Board of Trade's 2017 Housing Forum.

In the Victorian era the town was a major vacation destination, but none of those hotels and boarding houses remain today.

The firm was led by Alexander Nix while Steve Bannon, a former White House chief of staff under Trump, once served on the company's board.

Greg is on the boards of directors for CarGurus, Inc., a publicly traded online automotive marketplace, the Woodland Park Zoo and Seeking Alpha and is a Policy Advisory Board Member for Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies.