Sentences with phrase «public buildings all year»

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Since the EPAct wasn't renewed in 2014, designers of public buildings will only be able to claim the 179D for the next few years.

It took its logos off the building and shut off the marquee lights — though after years of public outcry, AMC began turning on the lights in the evenings.

I think with the last accord, with the escalator [automatic year - over-year increase in transfer dollars] built in it really sort of dampened down the usual federal - provincial tensions, and for whatever reason it also then fell off the media and public horizon.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

Three consortia have been shortlisted to come up with detailed proposals for Western Australia's first public private partnership for schools, with the winner to design, build, finance and maintain eight new public schools over 25 years.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

IBM's decision to build out public and private clouds for infrastructure and application development won plaudits, but the researchers found that SoftLayer, which IBM (IBM) bought for $ 2 billion two years ago, has little to distinguish itself from competitors other than its mix of virtualized and non-virtualized bare - metal capabilities and broad geographic coverage.

We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways, and waterways all across our land,» Trump said, calling for public and private infrastructure investments of at least $ 1.5 trillion over 10 years.

After the two designed their breakthrough invention — a router that connects computer networks — and spent six years building the company, Lerner was fired by its board of directors in 1990, the same year Cisco went public.

A Forbes profile of the billionaire says that years later, after dropping out of the City College of New York, Adelson «built a fortune running vending machines, selling newspaper ads, helping small businesses go public, developing condos, and hosting trade shows.»

The ceremonial game — the second time AlphaGo has gone head - to - head with a master Go player in a public showdown — represents a major bridge - building exercise for Google in China, following a charm offensive in recent years.

Schultz, who built Starbucks into a global public company, stepped down from his role as CEO in April this year but will remain as executive chairman of the company.

«After we acquire enough companies and build up three years of audited financial statements from them,» Busch explains, «the public shell will sell stock, and we'll use the proceeds to pay off the original owners.»

Within five years, I'd built a booming business and published my own book, all because I used the resources of the public library to learn something new.

Like most actresses, Markle spent many years building up her public profile.

The gallery recently underwent a nine - year redevelopment process that updated the center's original buildings and doubled its public exhibition space.

Alibaba, China's biggest e-commerce company, is building a presence in the U.S. as it prepares to go public with a listing on the New York Stock Exchange this year, in what could be the biggest IPO in U.S. history.

Ottawa will hand out $ 5 billion in gas tax revenue over five years to municipalities across the country, primarily to build public transit.

Five years ago, Google — one of the most public proselytizers of how studying workers can transform productivity — became focused on building the perfect team.

Non-residential building approvals have increased to be above the levels of recent years and there is a large pipeline of public infrastructure investment to be completed (Graph 4).

But when you can make 7 % via P2P Lending, 9 % — 12 % via real estate crowdsourcing, 8 % — 18 % via venture debt, 6 % — 12 % in SF real estate unlevered, and 20 % + a year building an online business, suddenly, shooting for a ~ 5 % annual return in public equities (my estimate for a realistic return) doesn't feel that great anymore.

This is where I've screamed at the conferences for years that link building and public relations at the highest levels must be thought of both in tandem and as one.

These firms build their profiles over a period of years, gathering data from government and public records, consumer contests, warranties and surveys, and private commercial sources — like loyalty card purchase histories or magazine subscription lists.

I was pleased to see the PCs move away from that short - sighted approach during their final years in government and that the NDP has continued to invest in building the type of public infrastructure — schools, hospitals, roads and public transit — that Alberta's growing population will need.

While saddled with a $ 200 million mortgage on its privately built, 20 - year - old arena in downtown DC, Monumental is close to breaking even financially, according to people familiar with Monumental, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it is not a public company.

No federal projects were ever built with the new standards, because it took years to go through the required public comment process before the rules were finalized.

She imposed a five - year freeze on the carbon tax, refuses to use carbon tax revenue to fund climate solutions, exempted the LNG industry from calculating greenhouse gas emissions on 70 per cent of its operations, cancelled a home retrofit program, and derailed public transit expansion plans with a built - to - fail referendum.

Public protests over the last two years have highlighted the risks of spills along the route from Alberta to BC's coastal waters, and the climate impacts of building new pipelines to enable massive increases in bitumen production and exports.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

For years, Mr. Brownlee and his small team had been building a case that the maker of the painkiller OxyContin had misled the public when it claimed the drug was less prone to abuse than competing narcotics.

If 100 years ago America had built an amusement park on public grounds and paid for its operation with tax dollars called «Bible Land» that featured all the bible stories and exemplified Christs teachings we could say that amusement park was founded on Christian principles, It is a Christian amusement park.

Students would function as teams under the guidance of faculty members, and the intention and expectation would be to build on the work done in previous years and produce papers that would be of use to the public.

Katherine Bedard is being promoted to Director, International Public Policy, building on 15 years of international trade and development experience.

She has been a public company director for more than 12 years in the financial services, building materials, resources, property and biotech sectors including chairing remuneration, nominations, audit and risk and health and safety committees.

Everton's plans to relocate to Kirkby have been delayed by a year and remain in the balance, with a public inquiry into them due to start later this month, while Tom Hicks and George Gillett, Liverpool's owners, simply can not afford to build the stadium their club's financial growth is pinned upon.

As the Park District historian, Bachrach has dedicated the past 20 years to preserving and memorializing the countless buildings, landscapes and public artworks that form Chicago's parks system.

The village owns the Fender Avenue property and plans to build an off - season public works storage facility there within the next five years, Village Manager Carl Doerr said.

Then late last year, Trust for Public Land, a national non-profit conservation organization, bought a vacant building west of the park and held it for the Park District.

The park, to be built across from the Poplar Creek Public Library District on South Park Boulevard, would include two play areas: one for preschool to 5 - year - olds and the other for children through age 12.

JOLIET — A consultant has urged the Joliet Park District to build an $ 8.8 million outdoor swimming complex to meet the demand for public swimming in coming years.

Beginning on a kitchen table, he spent four years building the business into what is now the most successful public sector e-procurement exchange in Europe.

Although a reduction in public funds for the sport post-London 2012 will present inevitable challenges, I'm confident that the momentum England Netball has built up over the last two years will carry the game forward.

Building on these achievements by articulating a purposeful vision for the years ahead is one of the easier ways the party can regain the public's confidence.

For this reason, he would establish an Office of Special Prosecutor to deal with «the toxic issue of corruption» within the first six months of his administration if he wins this year's election, adding a successful Ghana, can only be built on the basis of good governance, underpinned by efficient and honest public services.

Cuomo wasted no time in starting to drum up public support for this proposal, sending out an email touting this «first - in - the - nation» plan and how it is an effort to build on his administration's efforts over the past six years to «ease the burden on middle class families throughout New York.»

«I want to preserve and build on the advances in public safety and neighborhood quality of life of the Giuliani and Bloomberg years,» Saffran said.

Last year's extensive public programming drew thousands of New Yorkers and visitors to Union Square, and this year, the Union Square Partnership is building on the momentum of the events» successes.

Federal prosecutors say the 48 - year - old helped developers of a Hudson Valley power plant and a Syracuse company that has built numerous public facilities.

Stirpe, D - Cicero, said Monday that he believes a study by consultants made public last month should have put the issue to rest: He said the cost (up to $ 4.5 billion) and time (10 years) needed to build a tunnel are too steep.

Most «egregiously» — at least, according to Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chairman of the Committee on Public Housing — the city assesses NYCHA a payment in lieu of property taxes on its buildings that exceeds $ 30 million each year.