Sentences with phrase «school in»

Target could single - handedly save hundreds of malls and plazas that would otherwise slowly die (as the Zellers plaza near my high school in Burlington did — it was eventually razed and replaced by condos).

The sporting - goods chain sold a gun to Nikolas Cruz, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, though a different gun was used in the shooting.

Adopt a school in your area who wants to attend the March For Our Lives in Washington and pay for them to do it.

Long before Brian O'Kelley started his own business, he was a basketball player at South Eugene High School in Oregon.

«They're really kicking ass with video,» says Katie Hawkins - Gaar, a digital innovation faculty member at the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism training and educational school in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Wal - Mart said the decision was unrelated to high - profile incidents involving the rifles, including the killing of 26 students and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012.

«When something like this happens — when you hear the word «Columbine» — people freak out,» says the entrepreneur, referring to the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, in which 12 students and a teacher were murdered.

It began when Parsons was a ne'er - do - well fifth grader at a Catholic school in his native Baltimore.

At her high school in Pennsylvania, Susan had known Andy Hertzfeld, who would become one of the early Mac team members.

«Every time I think about those kids, it gets me mad,» Obama said, referring to the 2013 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

What sets the Basic School apart from other training institutions — and in particular, from an M.B.A. program, to which the Basic School in some ways roughly corresponds — is that it unabashedly favors breeding generic, high - speed, chaos - proof leadership over imparting specific skills.

He graduated from Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., Dalhousie Law School in Halifax and Harvard Law School.

And developer Ameer Baksh is a sophomore at the Academy for Software Engineering, a high school in Manhattan.

He graduated from Spain's Venture Lab program, which is supported by the IE Business School in Madrid.

To earn some spending money while attending Thomas Jefferson High School in his Brooklyn neighborhood, Blankfein worked as a lifeguard and got himself into better shape, after years of struggling with his weight.

Gates was almost instantly obsessed with a computer when he first encountered one in eighth grade in 1968 at Lakeside School in Seattle, where he met Paul Allen, who would eventually become his business partner.

The entrepreneur, who was still attending high school in Gothenburg, moved on to fish, Christmas - tree decorations, seeds and pencils, which he sold from his bicycle.

Elli Davis, a sales representative with Royal LePage in Toronto, says many foreigners buy condos for their children to live in while they attend school in Canada.

While other kids played baseball, Len Ferragine and his six siblings spent every day after school in their backyard greenhouse in Bradford, Ont.

Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve chair, will speak Tuesday evening at New York University's Stern School in one of the last appearances of her tenure at the central bank.

Before college, Minassian attended Thornlea Secondary School in Richmond Hill, graduating in 2011.

Every parent whose children have entered elementary school in recent years knows the routine: teachers and school administrators repeatedly send home notices sternly instructing caregivers to provide nut - free lunches.

Summary: «The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls» school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.»

When he was in high school in Pretoria, Rive started a business distributing homeopathic medicines.

Several major U.S. companies have dropped their associations with the National Rifle Association in the last few days, less than two weeks after a 19 year old with a semi-automatic rifle killed 17 people in a high school in Florida.

I graduated in 1986, from a small state school in northern California, Humboldt State, known more for its partying than its studies.

By the time Mokhtarzada entered law school in 2002, Webs» customer base had already surpassed 1 million, giving him the win - win option to either cash out or expand further.

Organizers said they expected more than 700,000 people to attend the March for Our Lives rally at the foot of Capitol Hill, a gathering led by survivors of the Feb. 14 attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

So far, they've challenged each other to a bandy hockey penalty shootout (spoiler alert: Prince William won), met the Swedish royal family for lunch and a walkabout, and sat in on a mental health activity session at a school in Stockholm.

At the fabulous lab school in Manhattan, they're making huge progress at undoing this problem.

Lauren graduated high school in the Bronx, New York, but later dropped out of college to join the Army.

At the University of Wisconsin's Business School in Madison, the average debt burden for graduating MBAs was $ 15,481, $ 106,889 less than Wharton's average, while the first - year median comp package was $ 114,694, just $ 31,609 below the median pay for a Wharton grad.

Graham, who became a Southern Baptist, went on to study at Wheaton College, a prominent Christian liberal arts school in Illinois, where he met fellow student Ruth Bell, who had been raised in China where her father had been a Presbyterian medical missionary.

She is cofounder and CEO of a nonprofit private school in East Palo Alto called The Primary School, and, along with her husband, she is a major philanthropist whose causes include healthcare and education.

After teaching grade school in public schools for several years, Robin Wes used his physical education, psychology and motor development degrees to open The Little Gym in 1976.

Congress seemed poised to act after the 2012 massacre of 20 six - and seven - year - olds and six staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, but the effort failed.

In my case, I dropped out of school in 2008 and enlisted, then in 2012 left the Marines and returned to college, except this time I had a new identifier permanently affixed to myself.

What is apparent is that there are still a number of community members who oppose the board's decision to rename the school in the first place — the school's current name «Robert E. Lee Elementary,» has 34 nominations.

Shares of gun manufacturers briefly rose Thursday following the tragic shooting at a high school in Florida.

The company also faced intense, unwanted attention in the aftermath of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. where 26 people, including children, were killed by a gunman armed with, among other weapons, a Remington Bushmaster assault rifle.

Shortly after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, 89 % of the U.S. population, including 84 % of gun owners and 74 % of NRA members, supported universal background checks.

Banerjee says he gets mostly As and Bs as a student at the Champion School in San Jose, California.

Indeed, it was the highest rank ever achieved by the school in any of the top five most influential rankings of business schools.

Women are heading to business school in larger numbers than ever before, and at younger ages to boot.

She launched her first business, a copy center and translation service, to put herself through business school in her native Colombia.

And it all started when co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen were in middle school in the mid-1960s, teaching themselves how to code.

«Stanford is the best school in the country for entrepreneurship so I don't think it's that crazy,» he says.

After Jain stepped down as Kellogg's dean in August 2009, he didn't realize that he would be back at the helm of another leading business school in just over a year.

From Rice University in Texas to IMD Business School in Switzerland and seemingly everywhere in between, there was big time money to be had.

London Business School, meantime, came in first among 50 of the best B - schools outside the U.S. France's INSEAD was second, followed by IESE and IE Business School in Spain, and HEC in Paris (the full list of all 50 ranked schools).