Many longtime employee benefits were eliminated.
Oramenta F. Newsome, who has worked in community development in Washington since the '90s, told me that while longtime residents benefited from new jobs and businesses, many eventually left.
Edwards understands the criticism, and is sympathetic to those forced out of their communities, but she believes that promoting local gardens and markets benefits longtime residents as well as newcomers.
"We were able to push off the burdens and distractions of being a public company until it made sense strategically, while still gaining the liquidity benefit for longtime employees and remaining independent so we could double down and really focus," Jeremy Stoppelman, chief executive of Yelp, said about the Elevation Partners investment.
The authors, Dr. Kenneth D. Mandl and Dr. Isaac S. Kohane, are longtime proponents of the benefits of electronic patient records to improve care and help individuals make smarter health decisions.
Union officials said the university also declined to consider their proposals for higher pay and better health benefits for longtime adjuncts.
Along with husband Barney, she is a longtime advocate of programs benefiting Florida's children.
The good news: Smokers, even longtime ones, obtain health benefits almost immediately after cessation.
The longtime resident credit would even benefit people who are trading down to a smaller home, as an older couple might be.
Unlike Citi Field, Yankee Stadium, the Prudential Center and the Barclays Center, the Garden is being renovated without state or city subsidies, although the arena continues to benefit from its longtime property tax exemption.
But they benefit from the longtime friendship between Mr. Rivers and John J. DiIulio Jr., whom President Bush named this week to head the first federal office to promote the integration of religious groups into federally financed social services.
