Sentences with phrase «year after taking office»

Nearly one year after taking office, Mayor Bill de Blasio is preparing to abolish horse - drawn carriages by producing a City Council bill that is expected to be introduced in December, according to two sources who have seen a copy of the draft legislation.
The highest elected official to ever win an election on a Reform Party ticket, Ventura left the Reform Party a year after taking office amid internal fights for control over the party.
But a year after taking office, the 1994 deal remains intact.
A year after he took office following a heated election contest with former president Susan Kent, PEF President Wayne Spence is holding a fundraiser.

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President Trump had asked two of his economic advisers to explore rejoining the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement he withdrew from shortly after taking office last year.
That would normally be an end of the matter, but not everyone is inclined to take Deutsche's compliance department at its word after a string of governance scandals in recent years that culminated in a $ 630 million settlement for failing to police money - laundering by its Moscow office last month.
But the Ohio native, who took the top job at Google Canada last May after several years overseeing Google's local and government sales at its Chicago office, brings his own extra method to the company's madness.
Five years after staring into a political and personal abyss, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is out to prove that the man who threw in the towel after barely a year in office has what it takes to survive as a long - term leader.
Claudia Rendon, a 41 - year - old Philadelphia mother, says she was fired from her job in a school admissions office after she took time off to donate a kidney to her son.
All this sets up The Force Awakens — the seventh chapter in the Star Wars franchise that takes place 30 years after The Return of the Jedi — to break the record for the highest grossing opening weekend at the box office.
Few could have imagined before he took office that the birthplace of the United Auto Workers union would become a right - to - work state, but that is exactly what happened last year after Snyder pushed the legislation through in 2012.
«In fact, going back more than 100 years, the Dow has been down 0.3 % on average during the first six months after a new Fed chair takes office,» Lynch and Detrick wrote in a note this week.
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
It's one thing to say that the economy sprung to life after Trump took office, even if statistics say that there's not much change since the late Barack Obama years; one can certainly make a case for it, even if it requires a little cherry - picking of the right indicators.
With the larger economic problems the nation faces in funding the Depression - era program, Astrue has made little headway, particularly since he took office after the collapse of President Bush's efforts to reform the system, and especially now that his six - year appointment has carried him, a Republican legacy, into a Democratic administration.
However, his stay in office was relatively short, for he died not many years after taking up his duties in Caesarea.
After spending two years in management serving several locations in Southern California he moved into a beverage support role at the home office in 2007 officially taking over the beverage program as Director in September of 2014.
Last year, for a few months, I used to take the metro to office after parking my vehicle at the first station close to my house.
After eight years of work to «fix school food», I am convinced that while on paper it may be possible to draw up a budget to operate a school meal program, including all of the expenses — food, labor, overhead, kitchen facilities, equipment, staff training, office expenses, everything it takes to run a meal program — with nutritious scratch cooked lunches for $ 2.72 apiece, no district of any size is, in fact, doing it, despite the best efforts of many capable people like Ann Cooper.
Just six months after Labour's defeat is the worst possible time to take a measured view of the party's 13 years in office.
Nearly 10 years after Cuomo, a staunch opponent of the death penalty, had left office, Smith authored the 2004 decision that ended the practice in New York, taking issue with the state's sentencing guidelines.
Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson's office refused to comment on whether he'll seek re-election next year after he announced he must take time off due to a cancer diagnosis.
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The complaint was filed by a reporter of Progress New York after the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio (D - New York City) indicated that it would take one year for the City to process a FOIL Request seeking records about the Brooklyn - Queens Connector, or BQX, and about two of his Town Hall meetings.
Albans) will be term - limited out of office at the end of the year after representing St. Albans, Hollis, Cambria Heights and Jamaica for the last 12 years, and a bevy of candidates have lined up to take his place.
The last time majority lawmakers and the county executive were from different parties was in 2000 and 2001, after Democrats took control of the legislature during Republican County Executive Thomas Gulotta's final two years in office.
Mr. de Blasio and Ms. Olatoye officially cancelled the Bloomberg administration's infill proposals shortly after taking office, only to again begin selling off small parcels of NYCHA property this year, according to the Daily News.
As she takes the oath of office on New Year's Day, in front of the Nassau County office building named after Theodore Roosevelt, Curran should embrace the bully pulpit on behalf of a purposeful governing agenda for Nassau County.
ALBANY — Seven years after Gov. Cuomo took office, New York's business climate remains one of the worst in the nation, according to a report released Tuesday.
Ultimately that year Cuomo wound up taking the party's endorsement after it backed his platform, which included a property - tax cap and after the U.S. attorney's office cleared the WFP of wrongdoing.
After nearly 30 years in public office, State Sen. John DeFrancisco says he's exploring the idea of running for the Republican nomination to take on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2018.
When Kakto takes office, it will mean the 24th Congressional District seat has changed parties every election since former Rep. Jim Walsh retired before the 2008 election after 20 years in office.
And it will be doubly important this year, given the likelihood that Republican President - elect Donald Trump will appoint a conservative tie - breaking ninth member to the U.S. Supreme Court soon after taking office, with the potential for a handful of similar picks in the years to come.
Records show the county began awarding title work to Suburban Abstract in 2005, a year after Levy took office.
«Today, on the first day of 2018, we celebrate how far Rockland County has come in just four short years and, as importantly, how much more we will achieve going forward,» Day said after taking the oath of office, administered by Clarkstown Justice Craig E. Johns.
«After our historic victories across the country last year, we're confident Democrats can flip this district and oust John Faso once and for all, the same way we've flipped 34 state legislative seats from red to blue since Trump took office
This year's contract negotiations between the union and the state stand in stark contrast to Cuomo's initial battle with public employees unions after taking office in 2011.
What's more, after nearly seven years of regulatory review that began with an executive directive before Cuomo took office, the state officially banned high - volume hydraulic fracking in 2015, denying opportunities for the state's smaller producers, which long ago saw demand outpace the supplies pulled from conventional reservoirs.
The battle comes after the Cuomo administration has been pressured to help counties more on costs mandated by Albany, an area where the governor's office insists it's already done the hard work, taking on the costs for the growth in the program while also pushing through a new, less generous pension tier five years ago.
Bharara made a name for himself after he took office in 2009, targeting big names such as former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, J.P. Morgan Chase and the Big Money Bosses, when he charged 120 gang members with various offenses, ending a nine - year run in the Bronx.
Taking the title of VP, head of global comms and policy, she will advise the firm on how to lobby the government, although Rogers is banned from becoming personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of Deliveroo for two years after leaving office.
The news comes a year and a half after Total Politics took a tour of Corbyn's rather busy parliamentary office...
For the first time since taking office in 2014, de Blasio took part in this year's St. Patrick's Day parade up Fifth Avenue after the parade's organizers dropped their longstanding ban on LGBT groups.
President Trump is barreling into a confrontation with the courts barely two weeks after taking office, foreshadowing years of legal battles as an administration determined to disrupt the existing order presses the boundaries of executive power.
«Albany is continuing its session as we speak,» he told reporters after an education press conference in East Harlem... Since taking office last year, de Blasio has struggled to figure out the best strategy for dealing with Albany and, in particular, the governor.
Who steadfastly opposed proposals in the state Legislature last year to reform state procurement policies and restore some of the oversight powers of the state comptroller that the governor successfully wrestled away after he took office.
After Cuomo picked a white man to be his running mate even with zero blacks running on the Democratic slate this year for any statewide office, Barron felt that the Democrats were taking the black vote for granted and created his own «Freedom Party.»
But while every new president can expect his party to lose congressional seats in the first midterm election after he takes office, Dawidziak said he doesn't expect a tsunami for Democrats, or for King or Zeldin to face «top - notch» opponents next year.
For the first time since taking office in 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio took part in this year's St. Patrick's Day parade up Fifth Avenue after the parade's organizers dropped their longstanding ban on LGBT groups.
The problem for the six - pack was that most of them declared almost a year ago during that period of shock and awe after Trump took office.
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