Sentences with phrase «of housing the world»

The city was on top of the housing world two years ago, experiencing 52 percent price appreciation.

Not exact matches

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.

She's still building name recognition outside the world of tech and, with one House run behind her (she lost), the 40 - year - old has time to continue building her political career.

Vancouver is the world's third-most unaffordable city, after Hong Kong and Sydney, respectively; and Toronto is now the 13th most unaffordable, behind a group of usual suspects such as Auckland (fourth), San Francisco (ninth), and London (12th), according to the latest Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey.

Considered one of the most beautiful islands in the world, many of the cliffside houses are built into the caves themselves, and are connected by steep, winding staircases.

It's also a natural deep water port and houses the largest naval fleet in the world, as well as the only major submarine and ship building yards in the U.S.. On top of that, it's becoming a center for the biotech industry and has a growing startup scene.

In addition to the release date, we also learned that stars such as Bryce Dallace Howard (from «Jurassic World»), Mackenzie Davis («Halt and Catch Fire»), Jerome Flynn («Game of Thrones»), and Michael Kelly («House of Cards») will be among the third season's cast.

Add to that a world - class food scene, theatre on par with its east - coast cousins, a rich historical and cultural background and affordable housing, and you can see how it's quickly become a hub of millennials and aspiring entrepreneurs.

Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the ihouse of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the iHouse of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.

This isn't the first time that economists are warning of housing bubbles forming around the world.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

While addressing tech executives at a White House - sponsored summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University, Obama said it is «hard» to navigate competing imperatives in the digital world's «sort of Wild Wild West.»

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

There was at least some evidence that China, the world's second largest economy, had stabilized, if only because of a burst of government spending and a red - hot housing market.

From 2008 to 2010, Milne threw himself into the world of payments, becoming an expert on the Automated Clearing House, the 40 - year - old electronic network between financial institutions that's a notoriously convoluted and complicated system.

You might be surprised to learn that the world's largest design team is housed at IBM, which is in full embrace of design thinking as it tries to steer itself into a new era.

This week, the House of Mouse reported favorable attendance numbers at its only theme park on mainland China amid questions about the fallout from a trade war between the world's two largest economies.

This September, thousands of hopeful horse racing enthusiasts will descend on Keeneland, Ky., home of the world's largest thoroughbred auction house.

With widespread warnings that we're approaching the peak of the housing boom, with Canadians more indebted than ever, largely due to their outsize home investments, and with cities like Toronto boasting some of the lowest rents among major world centres, why aren't more of us re-examining the math?

Recently, The Economist released a survey of housing costs around the world that suggested Canadian properties are overvalued by 35 % when compared with income.

Now Canada houses outposts for most of the world's major game developers, including Activision, Disney Interactive, Warner Bros. and more.

A report from CIBC World Markets recently predicted the stock market might fall 10 % — 15 % this summer due to a confluence of factors, including a weak U.S. housing market, increasing fiscal strain, expensive oil prices, sluggish corporate earnings growth and disruptions in global supply chains stemming from the Japanese crisis.

«Super Mario World» is the quintessential «Super Mario» game, perfecting the character's movement and defining many new standards in the series (from the addition of Yoshi to the concept of a Ghost House, and its many exits).

Stock markets around the world continue to celebrate the imminent passage of the tax bill, which is likely to be approved in the House today and in the Senate by mid-week.

Home to one of the largest livestock markets in the world, Oklahoma City falls fourth on the list of best places to flip houses.

While most of the world would simply buy a larger house, a nicer car and better wardrobe, I've been sinking this cash into several other more productive avenues, including more real estate investments, paying off debt and going on some relaxing vacations.

When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

Today, however, it houses the Yalta European Strategy (YES) conference, sponsored by Ukrainian businessman Viktor Pinchuk, which has brought politicians and diplomats from all corners of the world to discuss the situation in Ukraine — and that is simply impossible to do without discussing Russia.

More than 1,200 veterans representing every branch of the military sent a letter to House and Senate leaders on February 12, saying that «strategic investments in the State Department and USAID will be essential if we are to solidify our hard - fought gains and prevent other bad actors from filling the void» around the world.

History: The USS Carl Vinson is named after the congressman from Georgia who served in the House during the Second World War, and later oversaw the transition of the Departments of War and the Navy into a singular Department of Defense.

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.

Goldberg uses an analogy from the world of retail to illustrate the point: «Going into Home Depot doesn't let you build a house all by yourself if you haven't done it before.»

So hybrid solutions are emerging — halfway houses of the working world with names like «virtual offices» and «co-working» spaces.

-- Ron Ben - Zeev, founder and CEO of World Housing Solution, creator of composite structures for the U.S. military

The auction house broke a world record this spring with the sale of an 18 - karat gold, diamond - encrusted Himalaya Birkin for nearly $ 380,000.

Over the past two weeks, Australian and Canadian police along with the U.S. authorities carried out 25 searches of houses and offices of Phantom Secure in various locations across the world.

When asked what would happen to deployed transgender military personnel around the world, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was «something that the Department of Defense and the White House will have to work together on as implementation takes place.»

And by robust, Zuckerberg doesn't mean the entire world will be streaming House of Cards on Netflix, but people in developing countries may be willing to pay for add - on services like weather and food pricing data.

The share prices of the world's two biggest wind turbine manufacturers have fallen after the U.S. House of Representatives proposed whipping away tax credits for renewable energy in order to pay for tax cuts elsewhere.

The Conservatives could get away with this as long as the Canadian economy fared better than the rest of the world, with relatively low unemployment, relatively high wages and no sign of the housing market crash that doomsayers» predicted.

Business Identity Theft: Immediately following the World Trade Center disaster, hundreds of thousands of confidential papers were strewn about the streets of Manhattan, many from brokerage firms and other places of business that house sensitive information.

He'd live for free in style, right in the middle of one of the most inflated housing markets in the world.

Millennials may echo their parents» behavior in stimulating the economy through spending, but instead of buying new cars and houses, their hallmark behaviors could become ride - sharing and a desire to travel the world.

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 seworld 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 seWorld 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.

But whether your idea of the good life is a big house and a fast car, making the world a better place, or producing work of lasting value in your discipline, are there any common habits that will help get you there?

Paul Van Oorschot, professor of computer science at Carleton University, says it's OK: «What is the risk of someone being inside my house and getting access to my password, compared to choosing one that could be solved in three guesses by someone on the other side of the world?»

That's according to U.S. News & World Report, which on Monday released its 2018 ranking of the best places to retire, based on data related to happiness, housing affordability, healthcare, taxes, job markets, and desirability of a locale.

When the movie came out in 1999, almost two decades ago, the world was still trying to figure out how to address the Y2K bug, and people didn't have most of the technology in their houses that we use today.

It's an infinite runner - style game where players fly through a world of color and shape, collecting coins, avoiding barriers... all while listening to house and EDM tracks from the Dim Mak label.

«Trump said it was good news for not only the two Koreas but the whole world that they affirmed the goal of realizing a nuclear - free Korean peninsula through a complete denuclearization,» South Korea's presidential Blue House said.