Sentences with phrase «wealthy group of»

The Time article, which features a gavel about to smash an apple on the cover, is headlined, «Rotten Apples: It's nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher; some tech millionaires may have found a way to change that,» and is a look at the history of the case and the wealthy group of tech executives who have helped support it.

In many cases, mature people even run successful businesses and they do more than fine, being situated in the wealthy group of people.

The bulk of his money comes from a wealthy group of financiers in Rochester, plus more than $ 10,000 from scrap metal mogul Adam Weitsman.

«If you're a wealthy group of individual business owners, your strength is money... Steve Roth and Steve Ross are not canvassing.»

A wealthy group of young people relax by a pool in California, 1940.

The small unit or apartment in a well - to - do area is superior than the most grand home in a lower class neighborhood, when it comes to rubbing shoulders with a wealthier group of people or rich male singles.

Large networks, including Success, tend to have the wealthiest group of donors.

Not exact matches

That massive sample was made up of its subscribers and members of groups and organizations that tended to skew wealthier than the average American.

-- John Hanna, author of «Way of the Wealthy» and CEO of Fairchild Group

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

It could endanger its place in the G - 7 group of wealthy industrialized nations and its seat on the United Nations Security Council, although Salmond says Scotland would support Britain in efforts to keep the security council seat.

Not every senior is wealthy, of course, but as a group they now face the lowest risk of poverty across all demographics.

As of last August, Forbes had ranked Ma, the Executive Chairman of the Alibaba Group, as the wealthiest man in all of Asia, with a net worth of $ 37.4 billion.

Current securities law dictates that an entrepreneur can only equity crowdfund, or raise money from a group of people by selling portions of his or her company to individuals who meet a handful of specifications deeming them sufficiently wealthy.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said last week that the administration expected to make a decision on whether to remain a party to the deal by the time leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations meet in late May.

The group of wealthy donors see giving more funds to the presidential candidate as politically fruitless as Romney continues to trail President Obama in polls, and might prefer to allocate their resources to House and Senate candidates.

Alternatives like hedge, private equity and venture capital funds were relatively secretive, niche vehicles for a privileged group of wealthy individuals and big institutions.

We grouped the list of Canada's wealthiest individuals and families by where they live, and tallied each province's fortunes.

Kumar Birla, chairman of the Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla Group and, according to Forbes, the country's eighth - wealthiest person, told Trudeau he finds both the federal and provincial governments in Canada to be very friendly for business.

During a fundraiser in early 2012, Romney told a group of wealthy donors behind closed doors that 47 percent of the nation is willingly dependent on the government.

Vogt is part of what several people jokingly refer to as the Vegan Mafia, a group of wealthy investors whose main motivation is to remove animals from the food system.

For five years I studied the daily activities of 233 wealthy people and 128 people living in poverty and I discovered there is an immense difference between the two groups, but one significant similarity.

Mr. Tice and Ms. Hadeka had come close to appearing on the ABC reality show «Shark Tank,» where entrepreneurs pitch their companies to a group of wealthy investors, including Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

The building had already been rescued by a number of prominent firms, including the private equity giant Carlyle Group, and Zara, the Spanish fashion retailer founded and owned by Amancio Ortega, one of the world's wealthiest men.

While I generally consider this advice to be wise, especially for inexperienced investors who should probably opt for something like an index fund, working with a qualified advisor or, if they are wealthy enough, an asset management group, the problem comes from the fact that if you find a truly outstanding business — one that you have conviction will continue to compound for decades at rates many times that of the general market, even a high price can be a bargain.

Whoever didn't see the government giving virtual currency a nod was valuable to a group of really wealthy (and speculative) buyers seems to be ignoring the obvious.

Most of the platform fees go to the pockets of a small group of wealthy owners instead of flowing back into the local communities.

This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and as an economic force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.

It has proven very difficult to bring the savings rate down because this can only happen by diverting resources away from wealthy and powerful groups and families in favor of ordinary households.

Sometimes they are ex Tech execs who have made a bit of cash and sometimes they are groups of wealthy doctors, lawyers, real estate professionals — whatever.

Bulk REO's — Often times, banks will group together large packages of REOs and sell them in a package to large investment firms or wealthy investors.

This group displayed an exceptional amount of drive and motivation during the week of class and we look forward to watching them all reach their goals of being wealthy and successful.

With the number of wealthy Chinese projected to reach 300 million in just 5 - 10 years, these investors are hoping to target this rapidly increasing group.

Thus, if the State is to reduce the indebtedness of certain groups in the population (while maintaining its own fiscal solvency), it can do so only by redistributing wealth from the wealthy and powerful.

There are already plenty of examples of wealthy individuals attempting to advance their political agendas by supporting unaccountable lobby groups, as was the case with Calgary's infamous Sprawl Cabal «s plans to throw more than $ 1 million behind Preston Manning «s «Municipal Governance Initiative,» and the anonymous donors behind the shady «St. Albert Think Tank.»

In recent years, Mr. Blankfein had brought in a series of executives from other areas of the company to manage the unit, which includes Goldman's mutual fund group and its money management business for wealthy families.

Merrill Lynch announced internally that it was streamlining its private banking, international and institutional groups with the goal of better serving its wealthiest clients.

Wealthy, powerful, influential people who may or may not personally operate within the confines of the doctrinal statement yet somehow tend to be invited to be not only part of the group, but often part of the decision makers.

«We would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few,» the group wrote in a letter to the lawmaker.

The underrepresentation of people of color in this wealthy group has implications for racial income inequality and wealth disparity.

There is the unjust distribution of goods and services whereby a relative minority of wealthy groups and ruling classes use their power and influence to perpetuate macroeconomic and political structures which exploit the labor and lives of the vast majority of the planet's populations.

If there is one area in which the children as a group do seem to differ somewhat, in emotional reactions, from the children that I meet in wealthier communities — and even here I would be very cautious not to overstate this — it is in their sensitivity to other children's moments of anxiety and their acute awareness of emotional fragility and of the tipping point between exhilaration and depression.

They support the Christian Right political groups in this country who are actually the Republican super wealthy you use the money to buy elections, create wars in the name of God.

But a small group of wealthy folks were convinced he was screwing up.

Year after year, the AA taps into a select group of wealthy grads and comes up smiling.

• Gary R. Roberts, Tulane law professor, in USA Today: «Player - owner disputes are simply quarrels about how a huge pot of money extracted from fans and communities will be divided by two extremely wealthy groups.»

Soccer Academy Reaches Across Border to Nurture Young Players - The New York Times On a stormy Saturday, a group of young boys wearing red soccer uniforms and cleats in a dizzying array of colors clip - clopped out of the rain and into an old warehouse, where wealthy residents of this historic community along Raritan Bay once stored their antique cars.

In any event, this brings me neatly to a subject that has long confused me, which is the continued presence in this country of a large group of people who pay very little tax despite being, in many cases, staggeringly wealthy.

The group has been funded in part by Dan Loeb, a wealthy supporter of charter schools who last year apologized after making a racially charged remark at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Field organizing has been a top priority this year of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and other wealthy donors.