Sentences with phrase «american cities using»

She also explores the cultural diversity and ambition of American cities using charcoal and pastels.

The largest American city using the two - rate tax is Pittsburgh.

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Livingston, Chmielarz and McArthur, a resident of Ellicott City, Md., also worked together to steal databases containing the personal information of millions of Americans for use in spam campaigns, prosecutors said.

The city is weighed down with debt, billions in unfunded pension obligations, declining credit ratings, a police department often accused of using excessive force against African - Americans, a rising tide of murders, and a host of other troubles.

That's what the folks at FindTheBest, an online - research engine, found when they used recent census data to rank the 34 American cities with populations of 500,000 or more based on their percentages of wealthy households (defined as those with an annual income of $ 150,000 or above).

Tony Xu, DoorDash's exuberant CEO, says the four - year - old company will use the cash to expand from 600 North American cities to 1,600 by year - end.

While US officials say it's integral to national security, citing its use in disrupting a terrorist plot to blow up the New York City subway system in 2009, privacy rights advocates worry the law oversteps its bounds and infringes on Americans» Fourth amendment rights.

But now Amazon is asking the North American cities among the finalists to use a tactic more often associated with Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos: Secrecy.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

Story and Photos by Dave DeWitt When the first Spanish explorers ventured north from Mexico City in the sixteenth century and wandered into what is now the Southwest, they discovered that the indigenous Native Americans made excellent use of nearly every edible animal and plant substance imaginable.

Bacon — yes, American - style bacon in Rome; not exactly the pork product I associate with the city, but who am I to question these things — was grilled to a perfect, lightly charred crisp then topped with peppery wild arugula and drizzled so - very - lightly with an aged balsamic vinegar, the kind that is thick, dark and almost syrupy, as sweet as it is punchy, the kind that probably costs too much but that I still encourage everyone to buy, just once, because used judiciously (which is to say, not in a steak marinade, please, use the cheap stuff for that) it will last forever.

While it's true that some cities now require composting, more restaurants are banning unnecessary plastics like straws, and more people are trying to reduce waste in their own homes by using food that would usually be discarded (like broccoli stems), Americans still have a huge problem with waste.

The grant, in partnership with the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthier America (ABFHA), will be used to support the city's «Healthy City, Healthy Life» progcity's «Healthy City, Healthy Life» progCity, Healthy Life» program.

According to Sol Lipkin, sales manager of the American Shuffleboard Company of Union City, N.J., which has 99 % of the market, there are perhaps half a million boards now in use.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

We used data from Virginia, Colorado, Arkansas, Texas, and New York City to create our compilation of popular names for African American babies.

Most health care providers are not very concerned about sterilizing bottles, unless you use well water or your city is known to have a contaminated water supply, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Although park officials might consider accepting use of the city's youth center, they noted that the center does not meet some requirements of the federal Americans With Disabilities Act.

Based on America's reluctance to use nuclear weapons, and America's desire not to risk American cities, Kim may believe he can attack a neighbor, perhaps even with a nuclear weapon, without fear of a nuclear response from America so long as he maintains the ability to threaten America directly but doesn't actually attack America.

The Congresswoman praised Chin, calling «her one of the finest members of the City Council,» someone who is «using her intellect to empower Chinese Americans.»

Simanowitz said the legislation was sparked by a lawsuit filed earlier this month by the city's only mortuary school, The American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, seeking to have the city resume its 50 - year practice of turning over cadavers for its students to use.

Supporters such as Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, City Councilmember Charles Barron and Roger Toussaint, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, castigated the Daily News for questioning Liu's official biography and used the allegations to trumpet Liu's background and the American dream.

The members of the two organizations that plotted that Town Hall stunt are aggressively uninterested in other things, too: the MTA payroll tax on New York City - commuter counties, «illegals» using area emergency rooms, questions about the moral rightness of Peter King's American - Muslim - radicalization hearings in Congress, and generally footing the bill for other people's stuff.

Longtime Capital Region environmentalist Aaron Mair, who cut his teeth on issues from a trash - burning incinerator to toxic lead paint in inner - city homes, will use his voice as the first African - American president of the national board of directors of the Sierra Club.

In a statement from her office, Miner pledged to continue «Syracuse's commitment to our New American residents» by «not allowing the city's resources, including the police department, to be used to to enforce federal anti-immigrant policies.»

Maybe the Governor should focus on solutions that could actually have an impact, like banning the high - capacity magazines used to inflict horrific violence upon countless American cities, from Aurora to Newton.»

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

Astronomer Michael Shara of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and colleagues used digitized photographic plates dating from as early as 1923 to trace a modern star back to the nova.

Using a global climate model, a team led by Princeton University researchers measured how severely heat waves interact with urban heat islands, now and in the future, in 50 American cities across three climate zones.

The findings, published Sept. 16 in the American Journal of Sociology, show that two fatal shootings of police officers by black suspects in New York City increased the use of police force against blacks substantially in the days after the shootings, while the use of force against whites and Hispanics remained unchanged.

Researchers from Binghamton University, Cornell University, the International City / County Management Association (ICMA), and two divisions of the American Planning Association measured local government action on energy, water, waste, land use and transportation, as well as social equity and economic development across 1,900 local governments.

The feds have also committed $ 2.4 billion for research and development into improving EV batteries, and another $ 115 million for the installation of EV charging infrastructure in 16 different metro areas around the country — not to mention some $ 300 million in clean cities grants to dozens of American communities working to reduce petroleum use, and the $ 25 billion being doled out to help U.S. automakers retool.

To find out whether the bodies themselves could shed some light on the debate, a team led by archaeologist Douglas Kennett of Pennsylvania State University in State College analyzed their remains, found in room 33 of the Pueblo Bonito complex and now stored at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, using DNA sequencing.

If New York and other American cities such as Portland, Ore., prove to be on the vanguard domestically, the changes there could portend a shift in the way urbanites in the U.S. use their streets in the years and decades to come.

While they still depend on the forest for traditional hunting and gathering, most Amerindians, as American indigenous people are called, grow crops (like bananas, manioc, and rice), use western goods (like metal pots, pans, and utensils), and make regular trips to towns and cities to bring foods and wares to market.

Research conducted by City of Hope led to the development of synthetic human insulin, which is still used today by many of the estimated 1.5 million Americans with T1D and 27 million with type 2 diabetes (T2D).

That same newspaper reported, «Cities across the country are manipulating the results of tests used to detect lead in water, violating federal law, and putting millions of Americans at risk.»

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Established in 1921 by local Atlantic City businessmen as a way to extend the summer season, The Miss America Organization has since grown to become one of 11 % of American adults have used an online dating site or a mobile dating app.

Dating in Scotland Scotland is home to a population of more than 5 million people and also boasts some of the UK's largest cities in Glasgow, Edinburgh 15 % of American Adults Have Used Online Dating Sites or Mobile Dating Apps.

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While there, the brave Americans must use their American brain power / body power to save the entire city of London from (what else?)

Taking place in 2016 in the fictional North American city of Riverport (possibly set in the same fictional world as Alan Wake), players assume the roles of Jack Joyce (Shawn Ashmore) and Paul Serene (Aidan Gillen) who gain vastly different time manipulation powers referred to as «chronon abilities» when an accident occurs while using Serene's time machine experiment at the local university.

Karina purposely films the young men in nature settings and not in the typical city settings most often used in films about African American teens.

At a meeting here, officials from American College Testing, the Iowa City - based firm that administers the widely used college - admissions test, outlined the procedure it used to set standards on the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Local Black History Help students learn about African American history in their city or town using library sources, online sources, and oral narratives.

Through the «Chicago: The City in Art, 1995 - 2000» curriculum developed by the Art Institute of Chicago in partnership with CPS, students used the murals as jumping - off points for American and Chicago history, art history, and music history.

In 1990, fewer than 10 percent of American 17 - year olds «could use detailed scientific data to draw conclusions or infer relationships,» and more than half of all high school seniors had not mastered 7th - grade math skills, according to the report by the New York City - based Committee for Economic Development.

This test consists of 20 items (with an associated answer key for the teacher) that assess the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural concepts listed below: Vocabulary Themes: History; Countries and cities; Communities Grammar Themes: Prepositions: Preterite tense in regular - ar, - er, and - ir verbs; Direct object pronouns Culture Themes: The Mayas and The Incas; Independence Age; Latin American and US Writing in Spanish: Punctuation and accents An alternate version of the test is also provided to the teacher, in case a student needs to re-take the assessment or for use in large classrooms.