Sentences with phrase «american public at large»

Compared to the American public at large, members of the affluent group are 16 percentage points more likely to report having voted.

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Although this large North American industrial distributor might be «down from prior guidance of 300 basis points, the company stated that the reduced guidance implies fiscal year 2016 revenue growth of between 3 percent and 6 percent,» said Nicholas Wesley Yee, a certified public accountant and director of research at Gradient Analytics.

The trucking industry has a story to tell, says Kevin Burch, outgoing chairman of the American Trucking Associations, but, he says, the industry hasn't in the past done its duty to make that story known to lawmakers, regulators and the public at large.

Although 88 percent of Americans don't have an idea who or what Alibaba Group Holding is, this didn't prevent the company from pricing its initial public offering at $ 68 per share, raking in $ 21.8 billion to become one of the largest IPOs in the country.

My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?

Though no longer the authoritative text for the cultural at large, the Bible is still the most important single book in American public life.

First, what happened at CUA in 1967 — 68 was part of something much larger and more important than change in American Catholic Education, namely, worldwide, public theological dissent beginning around the time of Vatican II and quickly gaining control of most of the world's Catholic graduate programs and journals.

Chovanec is an observer of Asian affairs as managing director of a large asset management fun, former biz prof at Tsinghua University in Beijing, adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and as one of the few Americans who has visited North Korea.

The family's role in the civil rights struggle provides the Kennedy name with a special status among older African - Americans who, like the public at large, tend to cast ballots at a greater rate than younger voters.

People diagnosed with cancer gained 3.34 million years of life thanks to cancer clinical trials run by SWOG and supported with public funds, according to new study results to be presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the world's largest clinical cancer research meeting.

«Two years after the tragedy in Newtown, our study of public support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Hpublic support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HPublic Health.

A large majority of Americans — including gun owners — continue to support stronger policies to prevent gun violence than are present in current federal and most state law, according to a new national public opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public Hpublic opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public HPublic Health.

The study, a large collaboration between researchers at Columbia University, Fordham University, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was published by the American Journal of Public Health.

(For survey methodology, see sidebar) Here we report the opinions of both the public at large and three ethnic subgroups (whites, African Americans, and Hispanics).

As the leader of the largest group of teachers in the nation, Weingarten is well - positioned to effect change in the education space, and she consistently ensures that key issues remain at the forefront of American public discourse.

But parochial schools are one of the largest (if not the largest) alternatives to the American public - education system, and their steady decline inordinately affects urban low - income minorities who would otherwise be left at the mercy of public schools that have proven incapable of educating them.

So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second - largest teachers» union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.

The head of the American Federation of Teachers, meanwhile, said she was «disturbed» that teachers might now be held accountable by the public at large.

At the helm as chairperson of the American Federation for Children (AFC), the largest school privatization organization in the country, she led a successful push at the state level, including Wisconsin, to direct public funds to unaccountable, private schoolAt the helm as chairperson of the American Federation for Children (AFC), the largest school privatization organization in the country, she led a successful push at the state level, including Wisconsin, to direct public funds to unaccountable, private schoolat the state level, including Wisconsin, to direct public funds to unaccountable, private schools.

In particular, Cameron uses quasi-experimental methods of analysis to examine how American governments at the local, state, and federal levels invest in inputs to K - 12 public education, the largest public expenditure at the state and local levels.

Ford has only confirmed the Competition Series for the American market at this stage, with its first public outing scheduled for this weekend's Daytona 500 where it will headline a large Ford display.

The fallout from such politically craven decisions is now being felt not only by the thousands of families whose lives have been upended by this callous calculation but also by Americans at large whose sense of insecurity and vulnerability has been exacerbated by the widely reported instances of mentally ill individuals committing acts of violence in schools, workplaces, and public spaces.

This exhibition includes two new groups of paintings: a selection of self - portraits and a series depicting the Million Man March on Washington, D.C. Displayed as counterpoints in two separate galleries, the self - portraits offer discrete views of the artist as a private individual with a public persona, while the Million Man March artworks — large, unstretched canvases screenprinted with mass - media images — portray arrays of anonymous individuals brought together at an epochal moment for the African American community.

It's a diverse lot that includes the Alturas Foundation, which funded «Makin» Hay,» the public art installation of monumental sculpture by Tim Otterness at Hardberger Park; the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, known for one of the best collections of African American art in the country; and Claudia Huntington and Marshall Miller, who loaned SAMA large scale figurative sculpture for the show, including the piece by Chia and Polish artist Igor Mitoraj's «Sonno Screpolato (Cracked Sleep),» a bronze of a fragmented face.

He has created large scale installations at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and a Brooklyn public school (commissioned by Percent for Art).

The first large - scale exhibition in Ireland by the renowned American artist Terry Winters opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Friday 12 June 2009.

A large - scale exhibition of the work of Alex Katz, one of the most influential American artists of the past 50 years, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 28 February 2007.

11 May 2009 Terry Winters Signal to Noise at IMMA The first large - scale exhibition in Ireland by the renowned American artist Terry Winters opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Friday 12 June 2009.

2000 Leigh and Mary Block Art Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, USA Des Moines Cultural Center, Des Moines, USA Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, USA Watershed, Selby Gallery, Ringling School, Sarasota, USA Chase Bank Installation, MA College of Art, Boston, USA Waterfall Paintings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA The Norton Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA United States Chancery, Moscow, Russia (Permanent installation of fivempanels in the Grand Entrance) Embassy Suites Hotel, Battery Park City, New York, USA (Permanent installation of two large scale wall drawings for the Public Art Fund) University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA

26 Jan 2005 Laurie Anderson at the Irish Museum of Modern Art The first large - scale exhibition in Ireland by the celebrated American performance artist, musician, visual artist, poet and writer Laurie Anderson opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 17 February.

15 Jan 2007 Alex Katz at the Irish Museum of Modern Art A large - scale exhibition of the work of Alex Katz, one of the most influential American artists of the past 50 years, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 28 February 2007.

Tony Tasset was selected as an artist for the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York where he presented Artists Monument, a large scale public homage to artists.

The first large - scale exhibition in Ireland by the celebrated American performance artist, musician, visual artist, poet and writer Laurie Anderson opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 17 February.

Beginning in 1908, Matisse developed a large following among American artists as a result of their exposure to his work in public exhibitions and private collections and as a consequence of his teaching at his Académie Matisse in Paris (1908 — 11).

However, self - selected polls (the American Association for Public Opinion Research calls these «SLOP») only apply to the people who respond to the poll and can not be used to draw any conclusions about the population at large.

Mackinac's director of labor policy is Vincent Vernuccio, who chairs a committee of the labor task force of the Bradley - supported American Legislative Exchange Council and previously has worked at the Bradley - supported Capital Research Center and Bradley - supported Competitive Enterprise Institute... MCLF spent much of last year helping to defend the new right - to - work law, in policy and legal arguments, as well as in the larger public discourse in the state and nationally... MCLF is working with the Bradley - supported National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on this and several other legal matters surrounding implementation of right to work in Michigan... On education, among other things, Mackinac is analyzing mroe [sic] than 200 collective - bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the state, covering some 75 % of the state's public - school students, to see if and if so, how, they are adhering to the teacher - tenure and - evaluation policy changes.

In December 2011 Kentucky Power, owned by American Electric Power (AEP), one of the country's largest electric holding companies, requested approval for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) and associated cost recovery to invest approximately $ 950 million on environmental compliance measures at its Big Sandy Unit 2, an 800 MW coal unit approximately 40 years old.

Given the relatively healthy levels of support for Occupy's central critique, and given the outrage voiced by many at the pepper spraying of UC Davis students, it would seem that a large portion of the American public would agree.

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For while the large urban public defender and district attorneys offices have been a mainstay of employment for graduates of American law schools since the war on crime began in the late»60s, the long war may be winding down (at least in growth terms).

Justice Quince has received the following honors and awards: 2017, National Bar Association Hall of Fame; 2017, Women Lawyers Division Jurist of the Year; 2017 Sharon Press Excellence in ADR; 2008, Lifetime Achievement Award by The Florida Bar's Government Lawyer Section; Florida Commission on the Status of Women, 2007 Florida Women's Hall of Fame award; American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession; 2007 Justice Quince was inducted into Florida Blue Key as an honorary member; 2006 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award; 2006 Rickards High School Outstanding School Volunteer Award; 2005 Key to the City of Winter Haven; 2005 Richard W. Ervin Equal Justice Award; 2004 Key to the City of Panama City, Florida; 2004 Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, Black Law Student Association Alumni Achievement Award; 2004 Lee County Association for Women Lawyers and the Lee County Bar Association Award for dedication to the promotion of equality in law and outstanding service as a distinguished member of the Florida judiciary; 2002 Florida Bar Equal Opportunities in the Profession Award; 2002 Florida Girls State Award; 2003 Helping Hand Award; 2003 Southern Women in Public Service Pacesetter Award; 2003 Florida Girls State Award; 2003 Pioneering the Future in our Community Award; 2003 Outstanding Jurist and Howard University Alumna Award; 2001 William H. Hastie Award from the National Bar Association Judicial Council; National Bar Association Presidential Achievement Award; Girl Scouts, Woman of Distinction Award, 2001; National Bar Association Women Lawyers Division Jurist Award for Outstanding Leadership Achievements and Dedicated Service to the Community At Large; Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association for Service on the Bench; Virgil Hawkins Bar Association Award for Community Service and Advancement of Equal Justice Under Law; the Virgil Hawkins Bar Association Certificate for Achievement in Jurisprudence; the Fort Lauderdale High School Award for participating in the School Law Magnet Program; the Broward County School Board Appreciation Award for Inspiration and Devotion to Our Youth; Award of Distinguished Service and Continuing Commitment to the People of Florida from the Fort Lauderdale B'nai B'rith; Proclamation from the Broward Board of County Commissioners stating that February 28, 1999, as «The Honorable Peggy A. Quince Appreciation Day»; Hillsborough County Sheriff's Black Advisory Council Appreciation Award; Lakeland NAACP Award for Contribution to Civil Rights; the African - American Production Company Personal Achievement Award; Paul C. Perkins Bar Association Appreciation Award; Florida State University College of Law Appreciation Certificate for Contributions made to Summer Law Program For Undergraduate Students; Certificate from the Office of the Attorney General, Florida Crime Prevention Training Institute for Exemplary Contributions to Crime Prevention in the State of Florida; and 2016, inducted into Stetson University College of Law Hall of fame.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, also welcomed efforts to increase safety measures and resources, but she said legislators and Mr. Trump had used it deflect from the larger demands of the public, including students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who had been in the forefront of gun control advocacy since the shooting.

The The American Dental Assistants Association Web Site may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and / or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, «Communication Services»), you agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service.

McKinsey looked at 350 large public companies in North America, Latin American, and the UK and found that the companies among the top 25 % in gender diversity were 15 % more likely to produce better returns than comparable companies — an unexpected outcome for many in a traditionally male - dominated industry.