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Placements in hotels or B&B accommodation account for around 750 applications.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2023

Placements in rapid rehousing — about a third of all of those reported as housed — also included an unknown percentage of people whose housing status could be unstable or may already have changed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2019

“It brings to Barrick a good operator and free thinker in Bristow,” said John Ing, president of Maison Placements Canada and a Barrick shareholder.

From Reuters • Sep. 24, 2018

The smaller banks that Mr. Ghamsari said Total used—Germany’s Europäisch-Iranische Handelsbank AG, Switzerland’s Banque de Commerce et de Placements and Turkey’s Halk Bankası—don’t do much business in the U.S.—if any.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2016

“Slowly, Barrick has been ticking off the boxes as it tries to turn this big supertanker around,” said a Barrick shareholder, John R. Ing, president of Maison Placements Canada.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2013