Elmer
Americannoun
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Like other reformers, including Catherine Bauer and Edith Elmer Wood, Simkhovitch saw slums through the narrow prism of their deplorable physical conditions, such as overcrowding.
The company also said in the filing that McDermott; Gina Mastantuono, president and chief financial officer; Nicholas Tzitzon, vice chairman; Jacqueline Canney, chief people and AI enablement officer; and Russell Elmer, special counsel, had “terminated their respective trading plans designed to comply with Rule 10b5-1, canceling all future planned sales of ServiceNow common stock by these individuals.”
From Barron's
In addition to Ugarte, the candidates are Estuardo Mazariegos, co-director of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment; Jo Uraizee, a social worker; Adriana Cabrera, president of the Central Alameda Neighborhood Council; Jorge Nuño, a social entrepreneur; Martha Sánchez, a professor at Los Angeles Mission College and a therapist; Elmer Roldan, executive director of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles; Michelle Washington, a social worker; Jorge Hernandez Rosas, an educator and therapist; Chris Martin, a civil rights attorney; Enrique Hernandez-Garcia, a college student; and Nathan Juarez, a cashier.
From Los Angeles Times
Also running is Elmer Roldan, a nonprofit leader who works to keep students from dropping out of schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
From Los Angeles Times
But they don’t tell you that the time will come when you stare into the cupboard where the “Elmer the Elephant” plate used to be kept and feel a small but insistent stab of loss.
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