Sentences with phrase «run by a minority»

Chris Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital, explains why there's a lot of money to be made by companies run by minority and women founders.

Cuomo has threatened to veto the bill, citing concerns the law could slow the process of bid awards and harm small businesses run by minority contractors.

On the Daily Politics, Jo Coburn asked her what voters would think about the running of Brighton and Hove Council, which has been run by a minority Green administration.

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When I was preparing to speak to a group of Black corporate directors several years ago, I was asked a straightforward question: How much money does the foundation I run invest with firms owned by women or minorities?

First, Dean Baker points to this great Bloomberg article by former Fed regional bank pres Narayana Kocherlakota (NK) on how, since black unemployment typical runs 2x the overall rate, Fed policy is especially consequential for them (and other minorities).

In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower - wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly — little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).

Run by a US - educated Kurdish financier, Baghdad - based Rabee Securities ran the only significant deal on the Iraq Stock Exchange last year when it listed Asiacell Telecommunications to allow majority shareholder Qatar Telecom to acquire minority interests for $ 1.3 billion.

As it did on the Peet's deal, BDT Capital Partners, the merchant bank run by a former Goldman Sachs rain maker, Byron D. Trott, advised Benckiser and will make a minority investment as well.

Some clergy are quite earnest and good at what they do but often get run off and run down by the controlling minority; other times they are the overbearing, dogmatic type who bully people into submission.

A club run by joe Lewis lol when was the last fuking time Spurs won a trophy give it a fuking rest Wenger has won more trophies then spuds in their whole fuking history Sick of plastic fans constantly knocking the manager and players like you are fuking genius experts in knowing all about football We have the worst fan base in football a bunch of ingrates Why would any top player come and join Arsenal when they see how fans treat their own players like ozil Lol at people talking about Spurs and pool fukers don't win any trophies but their fans stay loyal ours turn nasty every game werther we win or lose It won't change even if we get a new manager they will turn on him at first defeat What we need is for the vocal minority of plastic key board fans to fuk off and stop bringing the club down Coyg

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer didn't want to bite when asked about his thoughts of a potential White House run by two of his fellow New York Democrats: Gov. Andrew Cuomo and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Fidler has been drawn into Senate Minority Leader John Sampson's district by the GOP, but has vowed to run for re-election if he wins today.

Moya, a former aide to Rep. Nydia Velazquez and Gov. David Paterson (back when he was Senate minority leader), has been preparing to run for some time now — actually, he started before Monserrate was officially expelled from his seat — and is favored by the Queens County Democratic Party to succeed Peralta.

Amazingly, for running such a DYSFUNCTIONAL CHAOTIC office, the disorganized Michael Jones - Bey was picked by Paterson to mismanage the Division of Minority & Women Owned Business Development (MWBE) at Empire State Development Corporation.

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

The broad strategy is now obvious: Democrats will attempt to portray Bernardo as the face of the legislature majority, forcing her running mates to defend her record (as defined by the minority), the one Donaldson recently «warned» them about.

He is a supporter of a constitutional convention, as long as it is one run by the people — similar to what Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb has advocated for statewide.

With the current Welsh Government being a minority government run by Welsh Labour, the main opposition party from May — mid October was Plaid Cymru but after one of Plaid's Assembly Members resigned from the party, it had equally the same seats as the Welsh Conservatives.

As we enter the run - up to the 2018 midterm elections, Trumpism is weakening under its own self - inflicted wounds, the ambivalent legitimacy of Trump's election by a popular minority due to the eccentricities of the Electoral College, and a spreading realization that behind the economic populism of his campaign rhetoric is the most reactionary Republican economic and social policy agenda since the late nineteenth - century era of Social Darwinism and Jim Crow.

It's not only the churches but other minority religious groups which are seeking to run schools and to be funded by the public purse to do so.

Amazingly, for running such a DYSFUNCTIONAL CHAOTIC office, the disorganized Michael Jones - Bey was hand picked by David Paterson to mismanage the Division of Minority & Women Owned Business Development (MWBE) at Empire State Development Corporation.

The Buffalo businessman said yesterday he'll be joined on the new line by his LG running mate, former NYC Council Minority Leader Tom Ognibene, along with Malpass and another GOP US Senate candidate, Gary Bernsten, who is running in a GOP primary against Jay Townsend to take on Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer in the general election.

Also at 11 a.m., Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and his colleagues will be joined by education advocates and professionals at a press conference to call for equitable education funding and the release of school aid runs, back of Assembly chamber, state Capitol, Albany.

Asked about the traditionally poor turnout of voters in the heavily - minority Fillmore District, Mascia says voters are turned off by nothing being done and says he will run a get - out - the vote campaign for his issues on race, class and economic inequities.

He said he proved he could do this in Westchester, overcoming an enrollment deficit by running better than other Republicans in urban areas with concentrated minority populations (he got 25 percent of the vote in Mt. Vernon) and reaching out to Hispanics (he traveled to Puerto Rico for the annual «Somos El Futuro» conference).

We'll be looking at minority candidates running for offi ces and non-minority candidates running where there are significant minority populations, to make sure that people's needs are fairly represented, that the agendas espoused by the would - be elected official is what we need in our communities.

Tom Ognibene, the former City Council Minority Leader who held his Queens seat until term limits forced him out, was tapped by Buffalo developer Carl Paladino to be his running mate, a move that was revealed yesterday.

In a report published last year, the Black Institute — run by Bertha Lewis, a former ally of Mayor Bill de Blasio who has since become a sharp critic — noted that unlike the city, the state has not released any data beyond the split between women - owned businesses and minority - owned businesses.

Alarmingly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, those elected by the majority to run local police forces are frequently unconcerned with the interests of minority groups.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Republicans are bound to run into political trouble by trying to sell their tax legislation as a boon to the middle class when most of its direct benefits will in fact flow to corporations and wealthy individuals.

The mayor was pummeled by the apps, particularly Uber, which ran ads highlighting the service's popularity with lower - income, minority New Yorkers who were trying to earn some extra money as drivers or were just happy to finally get a cab in a part of town where yellow taxis wouldn't venture.

For Immediate Release — In recent years, the Reform Party has worked to representing minorities by running minority candidates.

Heck was initially hesitant to run for the seat being vacated by retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, but his view began to shift in the spring.

The New York State Republican Committee and the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee, the latter run by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R - Canandaigua, had spent $ 193,000 on behalf of Miller, of Clay, who upset Stirpe in 2010.

The state's Associated General Contractors says it supports the policy of encouraging businesses operated by minorities and women, or MWBEs, on public projects, but it still questions whether the program is run fairly.

The Conservatives, led by Donna Jones, have run the authority as a minority administration since 2014.

The mayor will be under pressure to appoint a minority candidate, but former NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks — who left the force after a power struggle with Bratton — has taken himself out of the running by working for a medical marijuana - distribution business, Compassionate Care Center of New York.

One statistic de Blasio did not focus on is the relativey flat rate of minorities being stopped by police, which he ridiculed when he ran for mayor last year.

Mr. Sambevski's name came up last year in an operation run by Frank Sparaco and Superintendent Ballard to collect absentee ballots for the minority party lines to place Ballard's name on those lines in the 2013 election for Highway Superintendent between him and Democrat Dennis Malone.

Amid speculation that David Cameron could try to galvanise the Tory rank - and - file by making the same promise in the run - up to the poll, McCluskey told Newsnight that he hopes Labour win the next election outright, but if not, and «they are the biggest party then my view is Ed should have the courage of his convictions and govern on a minority government.»

In November, for example, the U.S. Justice Department threatened to sue Southern Illinois University for running three such programs, one a «bridges» effort for underrepresented minorities pursuing science degrees, funded by the National Science Foundation (Science, 25 November 2005, p. 1263).

[font = Century Gothic] «Lackawanna Blues» is based on the autobiographical play by Ruben Santiago - Hudson about his experiences growing up an unorthodox childhood in a rooming house owned and ran by Rachel «Nanny» Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson) in the fifties and sixties in a largely minority neighborhood in Lackawanna, New York.

Extras include a six - minute behind - the - scenes featurette whose highlight is star Wilson suiting up for a pre-production supersonic flight; seven deleted or extended scenes — among them odd alternate opening and closing title sequences — with optional commentary from director Moore and editor Paul Martin Smith — these trims carry a viewer discretion warning, for they would've threatened the film's PG - 13 rating; a fantastic, largely CGI pre-visualization (with, again, optional Moore / Smith commentary) of the virtuoso ejection set piece that at times gives Final Fantasy a run for its money; the teaser trailer for Spielberg's upcoming Minority Report; and two engrossing full - length commentaries, one by Moore and Smith, the other producer John Davis and executive producer Wyck Godfrey.

Minority Report does so many things so well from the terrific concepts of Dick, the superb screenplay by Scott Frank (Get Shorty, Out of Sight), the always impressive directing of Spielberg, the convincing acting of Cruise, and outstanding special effects, that it comes as a bit of a surprise that a home run isn't hit here.

The premise of futuristic Minority Report is Washington, D.C. s experimental «pre-cog» program, run by lead police officer Tom Cruise.

In particular, the results are most useful for understanding the effects of charter schools run by education - management organizations on student populations that comprise largely low - income and racial / ethnic minorities.

Charter advocates wanted to advance a social justice message by emphasizing the impressive results being achieved by the independently run, but publicly funded, schools, which they say are providing a lifeline for thousands of poor and minority students otherwise stuck in low - performing district schools.

Integrated schools make it more difficult for demagogues to run for office by scapegoating minorities.

Private schools that resist such regulation will be in the minority, and will gradually be driven out of business by their subsidized counterparts (much as America's once - dominant private schools were marginalized by the spread of «free» state - run schools).

In addition, the Company expects the judge hearing the Company's long running litigation with the former minority owners of the Company's Haru segment to issue a decision in the case shortly which will require the Company to make a payment of at least $ 3.7 million (the amount offered by the Company) and as much as $ 10 million (the amount sought by the former minority owners).