Sentences with phrase «department says at least»

The US Justice Department says at least US$ 4.5 billion was stolen from 1MDB by associates of Najib, and it is working to seize US$ 1.7 billion taken from the fund to buy assets in the US, potentially its largest asset seizure ever.

Not exact matches

Although officials from corrections departments in all three areas say things went smoothly, accounts from inmates and their families suggest otherwise, with reports of flooding, at least one mass escape, food and water shortages, unhygienic conditions, and a lack of reliable communication.

At the very least, she said, the Department of Education should create a public awareness campaign to get the message out to current and former higher education students that there are programs available that can help them.

In the meantime, membership in the free - trade group at least gets Canada in China's neighbourhood, says Laura Dawson, a former adviser at the U.S. State Department and president of Dawson Strategic, an Ottawa trade consultancy.

But they agree that a decision by the U.S. District Court in April or May will be a «key catalyst that will tip the scales or at least show the hand» of the Department of Justice, she said.

Considering that 70 percent of people turning 65 will need some form of long - term care in retirement, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, you will need at least $ 100,000 a year to cover your costs, says Armstrong.

At least one person was arrested, the sheriff's department said.

Orders for durable goods — manufactured products intended to last at least three years, such as stoves and industrial robots — increased a seasonally adjusted 2.6 % in March from the prior month, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

The department store chain's stock rocketed after it beat analysts» estimates and said sales at stores open at least a year — a measure that takes the ever - changing number of stores into account — rose 1.7 %.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said the operations, conducted in at least a dozen states, were routine and consistent with regular operations.

«We now have 28 companies who have committed to reducing the salt levels in at least one of their categories of products,» says Thomas A. Farley, M.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and coauthor of an editorial accompanying Kuklina's study.

«I'm sure that first number is at least 85 % now; gambling is growing at a phenomenal rate in the United States,» says Henry Lesieur, chair of the criminal justice department at Illinois State University and the acknowledged dean of American gambling researchers.

«Walter Willett, a physician and chairman of the department of nutrition at Harvard University's School of Public Health, calls the committee report «egregious,» saying it excludes at least six major studies linking dairy consumption to prostate cancer.

Soldato said the city has reviewed the cost of running a parks department and has found it would be roughly the same as the district spends, at least at first.

Walt Schamber, district general manager, said this week that a Fire Department inspection had indicated that at least $ 200,000 in safety upgrades would be necessary, including improved wiring and additional emergency exits.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

«The Department for Transport's complete lack of common sense in the way it ran the West Coast franchise competition has landed the taxpayer with a bill of # 50 million at the very least», said Margaret Hodge, chair of the PAC.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from Agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» he said.

Onondaga County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jon Seeber said the United States Department of Agriculture was notified about at least one establishment that bought the stolen goods «due to the chicken being transported improperly.»

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» Azzopardi said in a statement.

That changed a few months after last year's budget was adopted, with Mr. Bratton saying his re-engineering of the department had determined he'd need at least 1,000 new officers, if not more.

The head of the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development — which receives 86 percent of its funds from federal grants — said it will see at least $ 20 million vanish from rental assistance programs affecting 39,000 New Yorkers.

The mayor, he said, has given more resources to the Police Department «than any mayor we've seen, at least in my lifetime.»

«Our state government, not only were they slow to move, what was discovered was that our state department of health already knew that the water was contaminated for at least a year,» Nixon said.

Even though Obama said in 2008 that he considered the «basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors... entirely appropriate» and did not plan on using the DOJ's resources to circumvent state laws, the department has continued to raid, and in some cases shut down, dispensaries and cultivation facilities in at least nine state since he took office.

The department said that last year there was an 8 percent increase over the year before in students taking and passing at least one Advanced Placement exam.

«That the department, at least as currently constituted, intends to follow and adhere to that policy should amendments to the agreements between the state and the tribes be submitted for approval does help to alleviate concerns about risk to the revenue sharing agreements,» Falkowski said.

«Angle's radical plans to eliminate the Department of Education would cost Nevada college students more than $ 500 million in financial aid like Pell grants, and hundreds of millions for our state's elementary and secondary schools — all at a time when our students can least afford such draconian cuts,» Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele said in a statement.

The Syracuse Police Department, the Onondaga County District Attorney's office and the New York State attorney general's office are still investigating the shooting and said at least four different guns were fired.

The good news, at least for now: No bat deaths have been attributed to the disease in Missouri, says bat biologist Tony Elliott with the state's Department of Conservation.

That explains why they exhibit levels of cognition at least as complex as primates,» said Herculano - Houzel, who recently joined the Vanderbilt psychology department.

Robert Reynolds, a consultant who has studied ethanol infrastructure for the Department of Energy, says ethanol would have to make up at least 30 percent of the gasoline supply to justify the expense of making current oil pipelines fit for sharing.

«It is often presumed that the cooler North Atlantic will quickly lead to cooling in Europe, or at least a slowdown in its rate of warming,» says Ayako Yamamoto, a PhD student in McGill's department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and lead author of the study.

At the very least, students could find out «whether each department is meeting minimum standards as set forth by the Association of American Universities (and others) and whether each graduate student feels comfortable enough at the department to stick with the graduate program and finish with a degree,» says graduate student Susan Mahan - Nieber of Washington University in St. LouiAt the very least, students could find out «whether each department is meeting minimum standards as set forth by the Association of American Universities (and others) and whether each graduate student feels comfortable enough at the department to stick with the graduate program and finish with a degree,» says graduate student Susan Mahan - Nieber of Washington University in St. Louiat the department to stick with the graduate program and finish with a degree,» says graduate student Susan Mahan - Nieber of Washington University in St. Louis.

In Southampton, he says, he interacts with at least 30 researchers in many different departments, «connecting people who are doing really good things independently but could really work more together.»

Barbara Beltz, a biology professor at Wellesley College who has hosted three postdocs on her research grants over the past several years, says that at least one Wellesley science department (neuroscience) has funding and a plan in the works to hire postdocs who have an interest in teaching at a liberal arts college.

Taken alone, research funding — a category that does not include development spending, which is primarily found in the Defense Department, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Energy Department — would increase by at least 2 % in fiscal 2017 based on spending measures House and Senate appropriations panels have approved, the report said.

But it says the U.S. Department of Energy's research program on nuclear energy, budgeted in 2011 for $ 737 million, needs to grow to at least $ 1 billion per year to explore more advanced conceptions of nuclear power.

While the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends we eat at least two servings of seafood per week, the UF / IFAS survey suggests about 40 percent of Floridians do not meet that recommendation, said Fluech.

«Our findings have potential implications for autism and seizure disorders that currently aren't treatable — at least not by targeting GABA,» said Eisenstat, the senior author of the study and chair of the Department of Oncology at the U of A as well as professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics.

The encouraging news is that turning stem cells into auditory neurons can be controlled — at least in a Petri dish, said Kelvin Y. Kwan, senior author of the study and an assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Instead it looks like at least some of the processes that cognitive psychologists and linguists have historically attributed to the application of rules may instead emerge from the association of speech sounds with words we already know,» says David Gow, PhD, of the MGH Department of Neurology.

The research could lead to at least tripling the provitamin A levels [the precursor to vitamin A] in Africa's maize, said senior author Edward Buckler, a U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Station research geneticist in Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity and Cornell adjunct associate professor of plant breeding and genetics.

«At least half of the department, six or seven people at the time, were working in one particular area, how you move materials between different organelles,» she sayAt least half of the department, six or seven people at the time, were working in one particular area, how you move materials between different organelles,» she sayat the time, were working in one particular area, how you move materials between different organelles,» she says.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that at least half of the grains you eat each day should be whole grains.

Well, I have to be honest, I dated A LOT of people over the past year... last I counted there were at least 30 different men... now before you scream out some nasty names, I must say about 27 of them were one date wonders, so I can't really count them in the relationship department.

At least one of them is meant to suggest something about corrupt cops and departments, but there's just not enough material here to get a feel for what is being said about it.

NCLB says states must set at least three cut scores on their assessments, but the Education Department's RFP for the new Common Core assessments makes no such demand.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «Schools will be held to account either for ensuring all children make sufficient progress from reception to the end of primary school, or for ensuring at least 85 % achieve the expected level in reading, writing and maths.

«We have removed the cap for schools and providers on training allocations for maths and increased the bursaries and scholarships available for postgraduate initial teacher training recruitment in maths, so that trainees with at least a 2:2 degree will receive # 25,000,» said a Department for Education spokesman.