Sentences with phrase «balanced began operations»

Smarter Balanced began operations in 2009 and has managed to move to full implementation as of 2015.

Not exact matches

The Barry Callebaut Group, manufacturer of high - quality chocolate and cocoa products, will switch its sourcing of core cocoa butter equivalents (CBEs) from RSPO mass balance to RSPO fully segregated material across its European operations from the beginning of November.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

The observatory will begin operations after travelling to a gravitational balance point known as Earth - Sun L2, which is located about one million miles from Earth in a direction directly opposite the Sun.

The company's strengths really begin with management's focus on generating consistent annual funds from operations (FFO) per share growth, increasing the dividend annually, and assuming below average balance sheet and portfolio risk.

Beginning operations in 1939, the company's Balanced Fund charges no up - front or back - end sales charges while maintaining an expense ratio of 0.68 % as of Dec. 31, 2015.