Sentences with phrase «places of the world on»

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As 1 World Trade Center starts to claim a place on the Lower Manhattan skyline, the area's retail scene is beginning to revive, with landlords raising rents in anticipation of thousands of new office workers, tourists and residents, commercial real estate experts said.

The growth council reckons Canada would be better placed to play such a role, given its nearly completed free - trade agreement with the EU; ports on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; a multi-ethnic entrepreneurial class; and preferential access to the world's largest economy (Trump willing, of course).

That means people around the world are using the Foursquare app on their smartphones to check in to places like restaurants, pubs, gyms, hotels, campuses, stadiums, retail stores, and just about any other type of physical and even nonphysical locations.

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Lion Sands is located in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve, adjacent to Kruger National Park and one of the world's best places for heading out on safari in a jeep.

In the business world, we place a lot of emphasis on outgoing, confident people who thrive in the spotlight and possess an innate ability to communicate and lead.

It was one of the few places in the world that had mastered a technique called the gothic arch cut, which sharpens the steel on both sides into a parabolic edge, giving the blade both remarkable sharpness and strength.

NAIROBI, May 1 (Reuters)- A battle for access to seaports is underway in one of the world's unlikeliest places: Somalia, now caught up in a regional struggle between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on one side, with Qatar backed by Turkey on the other.

Robertson's economic vision places special emphasis on the clean - tech sector, part of his drive to make Vancouver the world's greenest city by 2020.

NAIROBI, May 1 - A battle for access to seaports is underway in one of the world's unlikeliest places: Somalia, now caught up in a regional struggle between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on one side, with Qatar backed by Turkey on the other.

Only one country in the world, Chile, places no restriction on ownership of its air carriers.

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

When his first daughter Max was born in 2015, he posted a lengthy letter on Facebook that he and his wife penned, which boiled down to wanting to make the world a better place and announcing the creation of his and his wife's foundation, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

It's leading to the «game - ification» of the business world, where everything has become a gambit with a focus on superficial metrics as opposed to building a business that will make the world a better place.

Venture capitalism has a place in the business world, but remember that only 2.5 percent of angel - funded companies move on to VC investments.

Failing to address your internal world, which is more commonly called our beliefs will place you on a guaranteed trajectory of falling short of your goals.

The popularity of augmented - reality Pokemon Go around the world has generated crowds of people in parks and other public places as users search for monsters to train, but with temperatures well below freezing, there was no sudden, noticeable buzz on the streets of Seoul.

Ben & Jerry's recently launched an app to make use of those cast - aside characters to raise awareness for World Fair Trade Day, which took place on May 14.

Having worked at Disney World for over 20 years, he's seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of the happiest place on Earth.

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.»

TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has built one of the larger followings on Foursquare and when you like her, you can see what her favorite places are around the world.

This is one of the few places in the world where you can walk for miles on an uncrowded beach within the city limits.

Companies can operate in different worlds depending on their industry, size, geographic location, and much more, but the companies most prepared for the future of work have plans in place and know how to tailor things no matter what color world they end up in and how things shift.

She said, «If the world puts you on a road you do not like, if you look ahead and do not want that destination which is being offered and you look behind and you do not want to return to you place of departure, step off the road.

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.

Sure, you won't know the specific compounds in your water — that's the kind of rigorous coffee science Hendon and Colonna - Dashwood relied on to place fifth overall in the World Barista Championship.

Now Ottawa - based Dymon Storage, making its first move on the Toronto market, is placing its own massive bet, developing what it says will be the largest storage facility in the world, in the west Toronto district of Etobicoke, across the street from an Ikea.

Lyne: A suburban life was very comfortable, lots of great clubs around, lots of good schools for kids, but for somebody who grew up thinking, «I want to do something, I want to have an impact on the world,» it was not necessarily the place you could do that.

Today a real - life game of Risk is unfolding on the world stage, with major players moving their pieces into place.

The robbery — one of the largest in the world's biggest gambling hub — took place at about 7 am on Tuesday.

«If we were smart, not only would we be focusing on encouraging the best technologists in school to go down this path — with programs designed and incentivized — we would be fighting to become the place where the brainpower of the world wants to come to live.

Buffett, who runs investing conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (BRK - A), will stump with Clinton in Omaha — his longtime place of residence — on Dec. 16, according to the Omaha World - Herald.

Facebook isn't just a social networking site, it is a way of staying on touch with people around the world, a place to bring people together and build communities, and a tool for sharing information.

Because of the values businesses place on extroverted personality traits, introverts have had to adopt behaviors that mimic those traits in order to survive in a corporate world.

The University of Toronto has maintained its place on the Times Higher Education world reputation rankings for universities, claiming a spot it previously shared

And with such an impressive portfolio, it amazed me how lopsided the content out there was, heavily leaning toward his accomplishments in the world of business with little focus on the creative interests, pursuits, and habits that may have gotten him there in the first place.

Here's how it describes itself on its «Who we are,» aka About Us page (a great place to define your tone of voice): «We're an odd bunch of international misfits, huddling together for warmth in a cold, indifferent world that thinks it's weird to actually love things like content marketing and technology markets and B2B companies and storytelling and stuff like that.

History has enabled me to understand the path of lots of different places as I focused on world history, and Arabic is such a complex and fascinating language and also a really unusual one and I think that's what drew me to it.

The deal in question is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement reached between Iran and six world powers in 2015 that placed limits on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

Chinese companies now have a level of self - assurance and success on the world stage that is allowing them to experiment with their own ways of working, and they are well placed to bring together the best of the American model with the best of their own unique cultural heritage.

That's hardly the most exciting business in finance, and you won't see the firm on lists of the top 10 places MBAs want to work — it lacks the clout or prestige of the Goldman Sachses of the world.

While many entrepreneurs still come out of an ayahuasca experience with old habits and patterns intact, the entheogen is providing spiritual guidance to a group of capable individuals seeking to make the world a better place rather than focusing solely on profits.

Israel has been the flashpoint of much of the world's conflict for the past few decades and it's not inconceivable that it'll be the last place on Earth where fighting continues.

Novartis (nvs) chief Joe Jiminez has been touting a pricing model that incorporates drugs» real - world outcomes for years, stressing the importance of placing patients before profits; Regeneron (regn) head honcho Len Schliefer had some tough words for fellow panelists from Eli Lilly (lly) and Pfizer (pfe)(who argued that media reports about their own continued reliance on price increases to drive revenues is misleading) during Forbes» event.

Perry's generous with the Disney love too — she took the entire cast of her «Witness» tour on a trip to Disney World for the holidays, and told cameras that «this is one of my favorite places to be, ever... it's the most magical place.»

When you attend a meeting in VR, you are able to share the same sense of place with multiple others, interact naturally with 3D objects and speak one - on - one with others as you would in the real world.»

The main focus of the conversation, which took place in Qatar, was on a philanthropic initiative he helped debut that aims to provide aid to the world's poorest Muslim countries.

On March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Georgia, she organized the very first Girl Scout troop, and every year since, we've honored her vision and legacy, building girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.

CES is the world's gathering place for all those who thrive on the business of consumer technologies.

As the overall sentiment of the cryptocurrency ecosystem is centered on inclusion and decentralization, the humanitarian efforts of those who act as leaders and participants reflect a desire within the ecosystem to make the world a better place.