As many parts of once seedy New York City have been transformed into family and shopping friendly environments, 8th Avenue near the Port Authority bus station is one of the last
hold-outs to old gritty Manhattan.
In a two-block area that used to house the Xavier Society for the Blind, New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Russell Sage Foundation, the Church Missions House at 281 Park Avenue South is one of the last
hold-outs of the non-profits in the neighborhood, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The storage site will be built if the government can lease or buy enough land-whatever concerns the last
hold-outs may have.
A guilty verdict for 22 of 23 counts came after two jury trials; the first ending in a "media mistrial." The 22-year-old foreperson confided he "wangled" the not-guilty
hold-outs; once agreed on guilty for one count, all the others "fell like dominos."
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia on Thursday, AirAsia chair Tony Fernandes called on
hold-outs like the Philippines to sign the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) multilateral open skies deal.
SEVERAL ISSUES BACK I wrote about my revelation concerning the use of e-collars for training, admitting I was one of the last
hold-outs. I explained that my change in thinking was triggered by my Irish setter's obsession with chasing deer, a problem that had to be eliminated, and fast.
However, he said he won't chase the
hold-outs forever.
"Previous UN resolutions have had
hold-outs; and one of the successes of Rio+20 has been that Canada and the UK have for the first time recognised the universal right to water and sanitation respectively -- so where the Brazilians have lost this agreement is a mystery," he added.
Hold-outs; the Los Angeles poetry renaissance, 1948-1992.
While some states were initially reluctant, the Dutch are now the only
hold-outs still opposed to the move.
Those
hold-outs not yet willing to bother should consider the benefits to their household and society at large.
Although some causes mirror those evident in the residential property market, including foreclosures and property-owner
hold-outs, other properties are experiencing problems that run much deeper.
(It tells us, specifically, that "Holocaust literature" is, at least according to the editors of intellectual magazines, as deserving and sensible a critical specialization as American, British, French, or Russian literature, if not even more so.) Franklin's first book, A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction (Oxford, November), reexamines canonical texts in this traditionWiesel, Levi, Borowski, Rawicz, Sebaldarguing that readers should be less uptight about factuality in representations of the Holocaust (a point the box office and critical acclaim for Inglourious Basterds suggests is not such a hard sell, except to a handful of curmudgeonly
hold-outs).
Municipalities are among the last
hold-outs for wide-scale acceptance of HDD, though that mindset is fast eroding.
