Sentences with phrase «american cybercultures»

The American Society of Civil Engineers has given our nation's infrastructure a near failing grade of «D» overall.

The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

It is significant, however, that any industrial enterprise provides the opportunity of recording as much of the American scene as these photographers have done.

Choice long - haul international flights to Europe, Asia and South America are typically the most prized flights in the American Airlines route system.

Executives from all three companies agreed that innovative Canadian startups can still find money, but unlike their American cousins — which often have such funds thrown at them — they have to work at building a proper business first.

In 2006, as the American government started to crack down on online gaming, his competitors began to drop out.

He graduated from American University with a BA in film and media arts and a minor in cinema studies.

We also need to move beyond the story of the American dream which puts the individual front and center stage.

«Just as our industry suggests tech literacy should be part of every American's skillset, so too should civic literacy be part of ours,» Walker wrote in a blog post.

At issue is the taxation of the roughly 95 percent of American businesses that are not public corporations.

The company has announced partnerships with U.S. money transfer giants MoneyGram and Western Union as well as American Express and Santander.

The average American woman, standing at just over 5 feet 3 inches tall, is around five and a half inches shorter than the average American man.

The American deposits, meanwhile, will likely be flown in three - to five - ton shipments — the largest quantity an insurance company will cover.

Together, they and their organizations bear the lion's share of responsibility for protecting American investors and ensuring efficient markets.

For the crowd that attends the annual tech - centric festival, that reality involves robots — and the potential for automation to render millions of American jobs unnecessary.

In 1997, Robinson's uniform number, 42, was retired across all of MLB, a symbolic gesture unmatched in the history of American team sports.

Waymo's self - driving Chrysler Pacifica minivan at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan on Jan. 8, 2017.

«America's leaders must honor our fundamental values,» said Frazier in announcing his resignation, «by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal.»

I wasn't interested in that, but I asked them if they had ever done any Native American programming.

We reached out to the Minneapolis, Minn. - based American arm of the corporation to find out if it plans on following its Canadian cousin in temporarily benching Buzz, and to ask where both divisions source their honey and other Honey Nut Cheerios ingredients from.

More than half a century ago, U.S. President John F. Kennedy called the race to space «a great new American enterprise.»

Companies lay off workers, consumers stop spending, and the average American experiences a financial pinch.

NEXT gets startups on the fast track, the Glimpse conference shows them the future, Feast makes them think, Martha Stewart's American Made teaches them to cook.

However, she has also starred in many English and American movies prior to «Rogue Nation.»

There's greater satisfaction in respecting our differences, but not letting them prevent agreements that don't require abandonment of core principles, agreements made in good faith that help improve lives and protect the American people.»

Bastian's estimate on passengers» opting for the more expensive main cabin fare echoed what American Airlines revealed last month.

The news was particularly surprising, considering Klein herself was a chair of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA) that last year supported an anti-fraud intitiative backed by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), «the oldest international organization devoted to investor protection.»

As the Trump administration nears a key deadline in its renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a council of private sector executives is urging principals to use portions of the Trans - Pacific Partnership deal scrapped during President Donald Trump's first days in office.

The Bahamian - American physician and special adviser to the Carter Center is one of the key individuals responsible for the eradication of smallpox — a truly terrifying disease that in the 20th century alone killed as many as 300 million people.

His specific pledge to create 50,000 American jobs came in December, but plans for the investment preceded Trump's involvement, even though he claimed full credit.

Trade tensions between the two countries recently escalated as they announced plans for tariffs on key products they buy from each other, ranging from Chinese aluminum and steel to American orange juice and soybeans.

Today, we're interested in one of the most overlooked parts of American economy: the small - to - medium sized business, or SMB.

The «Best in Business» awards, announced Thursday by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, recognized us for the following work:

American Association of University Women CEO Kim Churches says when such behavior happens in the workplace it's an issue everyone should speak out against.

The American Airlines AAdvantage program lets you earn one mile per mile flown.

«Since my election, Ford, Fiat - Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, Softbank, Lockheed, Intel, Walmart, and many others, have announced that they will invest billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American jobs,» Trump said during his first address to a joint session of Congress in February.

«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group.

Merck, American Express, and Microsoft have joined in the past three years.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

«I would not like us to go to the American system, which strikes me as absolutely crazy,» he explained in his interview today, «that you can go and buy automatic repeating rifles down at the local gun shop that looks more like a supermarket.»

The Bonneville Power Administration, which controls electrical transmission in the American side of the Columbia River basin (and supplies a chunk of B.C.'s power under the Columbia River Treaty), has over the past month ordered wind power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm fish.

Pompeo also said that the relocation of the American embassy to Jerusalem, a move set to take place on May 14, was «recognising (the) reality» of «Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the seat of its government.»

Most bizarrely, provincial officials in Quebec intervened this summer to oppose an attempt by Lowe's, the American home - improvement retailer, to purchase Rona, that province's celebrated vendor of hammers, reciprocating saws and drywall.

Square spends this money paying the interchange or «swipe» fees charged by banks and credit card networks like Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.

SBA Administrator Karen Mills said the program led average weekly loan approvals to leap by 87 percent compared to the weekly average before the passage of last year's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Operating profit, which rose 1 % in 2016, was down 16 % from January to September, reflecting losses from storms such as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, and the accounting for a transaction with American International Group (aig).

The problem is it's exceedingly hard to do and there is no way to draw clear lines that won't be manipulated,» said Seth Hanlon with the Center for American Progress, a liberal group.

We can trade on the Internet, with some degree of impunity, on the American and other international stock markets.

Trump had previously celebrated the support of the Merck CEO, one of the few African - American chief executives of a Fortune 500 company, in his manufacturing initiative.

According to a study by the Trade Partnership, the tariffs could ultimately cost more American jobs than they would create.