Realtors — by shutting
the public out of the MLS system and by refusing to show FSBO listings unless the vendor agrees to pay their commissions — have created a virtual monopoly which EVERYONE who wants to sell a house is practically compelled to deal with at least once or twice in a lifetime.
The Law Society President, Andrew Caplen, put it more directly: «Court fee hikes introduced by the government from April spell disaster for access to justice, pricing
the public out of the courts and leaving small businesses saddled with debts they are due but unable to afford to recover.»
At the time, a story went up that he had been sued by John Cage's estate for this supposed infringement before they made a very
public out of court settlement.
«What would happen is people would basically take the most conservative route to communicating with
the public out of fear.»
Andrew Caplen, president of the Law Society, described the fee rise as «a flat tax on those seeking justice» which will «price
the public out of the courts and leave small businesses saddled with debts they are due but unable to afford to recover».
Two artists named Jana Cruder and Matthew LaPenta have created an art installation called «Natural Plasticity,» with which they hope to wake the general
public out of its apathetic state and start noticing the waste all around.
In 2009, for example, he advocated against the cap and trade systems that the Obama administration and its overseas partners were trying to install here and globally, calling it «a market - based approach that has been widely praised but does little to slow global warming or reduce our dependence on fossil fuels... [allowing] polluters and Wall Street traders to fleece
the public out of billions of dollars.»
Brown joined 10 U.S. Democrat mayors (and no Republicans) at a similar event in 2015, where he railed against climate change skeptics as well - financed «troglodytes» whom, he said, are determined to «bamboozle»
the public out of admitting that «human - induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity.»
In the piece, indigo children, conscious dancers, and time travelers will perform and then lead
the public out of the museum at the moment of its closure for expansion and transformation.
While it is impossible for the economy as a whole to «rotate» out of bonds and into stocks — since both must be held in exactly the amount that has been issued — global central banks have already forced a «rotation» by
the public out of Treasury bonds and into far more zero - interest money than they would ever voluntarily hold.
But one person has been working to block the approval of those terms on the grounds that the publishers will not try to stand up for themselves (the publishers maintain there was no effort to bilk
the public out of hundreds of millions of dollars, they quickly settled out of court to avoid what would end up costing them more in legal fees), meaning presumably someone must step in.
Arias gave an impassioned speech against Broad's «secret charter plan to take
public out of public schools.»
Outside the school, more than 100 Chicago police officers, Secret Service guards (including snipers posted on two roofs), and platoons of other city workers kept
the public out of the public school the president chose for the site of the event celebrating his public schools policy.
Instead, testing misuses must end because they cheat
the public out of accurate data about public school quality at the same time they cheat many students out of a high - quality education.»
She's devoted millions to elect her friends and punish her enemies, and, at every critical moment, she has tried to take
the public out of public education.
We already know that the early season has effectively taken
the public out of the loop.
When a story is split into two separate films for no higher purpose than to bilk the movie - going (and dvd - purchasing)
public out of their hard - earned cash, it becomes irrelevant how well written or produced it is.
But Peter Sandman, a risk - communications consultant in Princeton, New Jersey, advises against any attempt by the WHO to «educate»
the public out of its concerns.
But after a larger group began chanting and several protesters refused to leave, Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson (D - Bronx), chair of the public safety committee, ordered
the public out of the hearing.
«Shutting
the public out of a decision of this magnitude, denying residents an opportunity to have input or even offer comment in any sort of formal proceeding, is inexcusable and necessarily corrosive of local democracy.»
Her determination to serve
the public out of duty, however, overcame any despondency and urge to walk away.
By trying to caricature those on the left as believing that Murdoch is the only thing stopping the revolutionary vanguard from shaking
the public out of their political apathy, Knowles misses what a lot of these commentators are actually trying to say.
If your child starts sucking his or her fingers in
public out of habit, then have a special hand signal or private cue to alert him or her to stop.
And he shut
the public out of Park District affairs.
Maher made the remarks on his show Friday, saying that Santorum was sheltering his children and educating them in the home rather than in
public out of fear they «could be infected by the virus of reason.»
Religion is something «invented» by humanity to explain what hasn't been proven yet scientifically and to bilk the general
public out of money.
The soirée, which marked the first
public outing of the 599 GTO since Ferrari announced the car on April 8, occurred in the Ducal Palace, which rests within a military academy located in Ferrari's hometown of Modena, Italy.
Public outing of everyone who posts a picture to facebook or their websites that they didn't take themselves.
Notably, the Dutch Village will also mark one of the first
public outings of DONG following their rebranding to Ørsted.
Not exact matches
Worst
of all, the very bodies that should be looking
out for investors and market fairness — the big brokers and
public exchanges — are helping the middlemen along.
It's encouraging to hear BlackRock (blk) CEO Larry Fink — whose company's $ 4 trillion
of assets under management make it the 800 - pound gorilla in
public markets — decry the short - term focus
of many investors and call on companies to lay
out a «strategic framework for long - term value creation.»
Though many
of them have technically launched before, few have had much interaction with the
public or media, so the event functions as a kind
of coming -
out party.
Ex-employees
of tech companies and positions have been known to hack employers, and once this kind
of thing gets
out, it is a
public issue, especially if it happens in a
public institution.
The
public broadcaster went
out of its way on Monday to clarify that commentator Cokie Roberts has more leeway to make personal comments than the usual NPR staffer does because Roberts co-authored a newspaper column labeling Donald Trump as «one
of the least - qualified candidates ever to make a serious run for the presidency.»
Ali, moreover, points
out that planners, because they work so often with members
of the
public, need to be versed not just in the technical elements
of the job; they must also possess exemplary communications skills, and have to be able to respond to criticism or skepticism from residents.
Sure, there's the rare self - motivated individual who prefers fitness videos over all else and works
out every morning, but for the general
public, having someone to yell in your face when you don't want to do another set
of burpees is going to increase the likelihood
of success.
Some museums have pushed a mission to educate the
public about the evolution
of the penal system, but there has been criticism that, depending on the institution, the «history» is sanitized, leaving
out abuse
of prisoners and other unsavory aspects
of the criminal justice system.
The comedian and TV personality Conan O'Brien spoke about his very
public failure in 2010 when he was given NBC's Tonight Show hosting gig (that once belonged to Jay Leno) only to be forced
out of the role.
«He made it crystal - clear to me through his representative that he would carry
out his
public duty as a citizen and resident
of this community,» the Tribune reported Evans as saying.
Some
of it has been hidden from the
public - the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories
out of papers; her mother having to struggle past photographers in order to get to her front door; the attempts
of reporters and photographers to gain illegal entry to her home and the calls to police that followed; the substantial bribes offered by papers to her ex-boyfriend; the bombardment
of nearly every friend, co-worker, and loved one in her life.
It's worth pointing
out that Box's decision to go
public may be tied to one
of its biggest competitor's decisions to go
public — Dropbox.
Jersey Standard executives are properly proud
of their unique photographic venture as a
public service, but sometimes they are not quite sure what the company is getting
out of it, times when they wonder if «documentary» pictures
of such subjects as tombstones in New Orleans or cockfights in Venezuela are not merely irrelevant.
Nor can the company really go flat
out in
public and admit that it's trying to dump the stock and lock in enormous profits without triggering yet another spin or two
of the vortex that keeps sucking down Uber's stock price.
When it became
public that his name was in the records
of a Capitol Hill escort agency, Vitter put
out a written statement
of contrition, went into a week
of seclusion, emerged and, with his wife (who happens to be a prosecutor), made a brief
public apology, then refused to answer questions.
VCs have good reason to worry that the
public markets might never bear
out massive private valuations, and they're wary
of corrections that could cause them huge losses.
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles
of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion
of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke
of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow
of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack
of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number
of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations
of allegations by former members concerning the practices
of Scientology; corruption in the leadership
of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic
of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record
of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values
of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when
out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy
of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots
of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many
of America's
public schools; an early exploration
of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study
of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one
of the world's last substantial rain forests.
It will give
public investors more faith in their investments, and it could take some air
out of the tech bubble.
I was born to two parents in South Carolina who went into debt to send us to private school because South Carolina's
public school system is ranked 49
out of 50.
When a brand stands
out usually gets to win the approval
of the
public, and they will contribute to spread the campaign left and right through the word
of mouth online.
«So I took all the
public data I could find and wrote a program that automatically spit
out the kind
of companies that excited me.»