Sentences with phrase «high focus states»

An Assessment of Association between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Infant Mortality in High Focus States in India

According to the paper, «in 2011, in the high focus states, 60 % of the district hospitals did not offer intensive care services and nearly a quarter of these hospitals were struggling to cope with basic issues like drainage and sanitation.»

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As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.

The co-founder of another platform said they were re-thinking their strategy outside China, and «will shift our focus to markets which are not banning ICOs, but rather trying to put in place higher standards and regulatory supervision» — such as the United States, Canada and Singapore.

Each fund has a stated objective, generally focusing on a particular sector, such as corporate or Treasury bonds, or broad category, such as investment grade or high yield.

Leading up to the passage of the Sherman Act, price levels in the United States were stable or slowly decreasing.165 If the exclusive concern had been higher prices, then Congress could have focused on those industries where prices were, indeed, high or still rising.

Windstream is one of the largest providers of telecommunications services in rural communities in the United States, and we are a customer - focused telecommunications company that provides phone, high - speed Internet and digital television services.

In the U.S. markets today, stocks were mostly higher as investors looked forward to Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night which is expected to focus on the economy and jobs.

He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational program through an aviation focus), and has served on the State Board of Education.

Here Lindblom quotes with strong approval Harold Knight, The Hebrew Prophetic Consciousness (London: Lutterworth Press, 1948), p. 96: «Here we have a state of the highest integration, for the attention is wholly focused upon a single object which gradually fills the consciousness until the connexion between the subject and the outside world is broken.»

His papacy had become, and would remain, the kind of happy, hopeful, and uplifting phenomenon that kept focusing the eye, and the mind, on things higher and more essential» even for me, a Jew with a rather different set of worries and angers of my own about the state of the world to contend with.

Some parents come specifically for the religious instruction, but others seek an alternative to the utility - focused aims that typify many high - and low - performing schools in the United States.

In the state of the busy world today, it seems that our priorities are so focused on the high speed rhythms of work and priorities, that we don't have any time to think about what we are feeding the very body that is endlessly chugging us through a life of almost impossible demand.

U.S. communities and states that have implemented alternatives to extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies are achieving high municipal solid waste recycling rates at reasonable costs, while also addressing a wider spectrum of the waste stream than narrowly - focused EPR mandates, according to a new study conducted by consulting firm SAIC for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).

«While this is not Tajín's first venture into the food service sector, at this time we are executing a dedicated long - term plan to increase our presence in restaurants across the United States,» said Aldo Fernandez, CEO of Tajín International Corp. «The brand is focusing on the food service sector because of the increasingly high incidence of families eating outside the home and in casual restaurants, at least once a week.»

This camp will focus on individual basketball fundamentals as well as team concepts that have made Bishop O'Dowd High School a perennial league, North Coast Section, and State playoff champion.

like I've said before, Wenger is simply stating that Sanchez is staying so that he can regain some leverage when it comes time to make a deal and to shift the focus back squarely on Sanchez... this is 101 tactics in PR management... the very fact that he even mentioned RVP's name speaks to the utterance arrogance of a man that believes he answers to no one... before you harshly judge Sanchez think carefully about what the ultimate intentions of both parties involved... Sanchez wants to win trophies and get paid generously for his efforts, whereas the club wants to pull the wool over our eyes once again so that we blame the player for wanting the very things we told him we wanted when we brought him in... how many times do we have to go down this road before we realize the only common factor in each of these scenarios is the club itself... trust me, if we showed any ambition Sanchez's contract demands would be much different... just like in other major sports players will take a «home town» discount if they see those in charge making a truly honest attempt to fight for the highest honours in their respective fields... that being said, if they see a team trying to make disparaging remarks about them in the press and not following through on their promises, they will likely try to make them pay a premium for their services or seek greener pastures... btw if anyone simply looks at the score versus Bayern today and thinks that even for a second that this was a deserved victory, just watch the game and judge for yourself... actually save yourself the anguish and just know that if it weren't for Cech and Martinez this could have been a repeat of our Champions League flopping or worse

A second study (Chrisman SP, et al. 2014), focusing on the knowledge of high school coaches in Washington State, found that concussion knowledge was high.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

This whole debacle reminds me of when Chipotle changed their bags to state their philosophy of «Food With Integrity» and focused on the pig, and Chipotle's FB page was inundated by high school and college kids who plastered its walls with endless postings about their so - called ethical treatment of their factory farmed pigs.

There has been concern raised about a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets among infants and children, with reports emerging in the United States from Alaska, 1,2 Iowa, 3 Nevada, 4 California, 5 North Carolina, 6 Texas, 7 and mother - infant pairs in Boston, 8 among others.9 The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in young children also appears to be high in other countries, including England, 10 Greece, 11 and Canada.12, 13 One study from China found a 65.3 % prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among 12 - to 24 - month - olds, but few cases (3.7 %) of radiographic or clinical rickets were noted.14 Previous studies suggest risk factors to be dark skin pigmentation1,3 - 12 and breastfeeding without supplementation.1 - 7, 9,12,13 To date, reports have focused primarily on young infants compared with toddlers.

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Lou Costa, who is the founder of the newly formed United States Strength Coalition and is also a strength and conditioning coach for high school football players focused on the importance of a level playing field and stressed that proper strength and conditioning along with a proper diet are the keys to athletic success.

Western New York's largest business group, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, once again plans to focus its lobbying efforts on core issues familiar to its members: the high cost of doing business in the state, the need for more trained workers and the importance of encouraging investment in the region.

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

«The call center type jobs were a way to ramp employment rapidly, but IBM has been adding research jobs in artificial intelligence recently and has assured us they will continue to ramp high - paying jobs focused on artificial intelligence and development going forward,» said Howard Zemsky, the Buffalo developer who serves as president of Empire State Development.

«If we're going to get an assault weapons ban passed in the United States House, I think we need to make sure that that bill focuses specifically on the high - capacity elements of that law,» he said.

During the ongoing high water and flooding along Lake Ontario that began in May, the state DEC has added boat patrols focused on identifying public safety concerns.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is once again focusing on the state's highest - in - the - nation property taxes, an issue he doesn't directly control but has for years used to make political hay.

«We're all focused on how we make sure the middle - class taxpayers are better off after tax reform and that we recognize the burden of those taxes in those high - tax states,» Brady said.

The majority of the programs focus on in - state high school students and / or adult learners.

The new entity will focus on supporting research and development and high - tech projects in collaboration with the entire SUNY system as well as Empire State Development, private industry and possibly with private colleges.

It will be the turn of the State Judiciary as they hold a special session to celebrate the State on Thursday, May 18, 2017 at the Igbosere High Court Foyer, while the cultural heritage of the State will be on focus as the Eyo festival holds on Saturday, May 20 at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos.

In schools that are focused on achieving high scores on the state tests, she said, the curriculum becomes geared towards test day at the expense of deeper learning.

«People are so focused on the state's future and concerned about the state's economic growth under governor Malloy and one of the worst job recovery records and higher taxes,» he said after a campaign stop in Shelton.

State Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre), Long Island's highest - ranking legislator and majority leader of the Senate, is the focus of a federal investigation into allegations of corruption.

Cuomo said the $ 500,000 one - year study to be undertaken by the state departments of health and environmental conservation will focus on what factors might be behind the higher cancer rates on Staten Island, Long Island, Warren County, and parts of western New York.

While saying he feels he's right for the job, Gianaris told The News he believes in the current political climate there is a need for women in high positions of government and that he wants to focus on helping the Democrats claim control of the state Senate.

Following the Great Recession in 2008, many states decreased the amount of appropriations set aside for higher education, with many states» budget cuts tending to focus largely on education spending, according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report.

«As a city with one of the highest rates of concentrated poverty in the United States, we need to focus our efforts on projects that can alleviate the pernicious effects of poverty, creating meaningful jobs and improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods.»

Deputy Director of the Governor's Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic Development, focusing particularly on developing new high technology business in the state, 2001 - 03.

He sounded themes he focused on during his campaign; a poor economic outlook for much of the state, Albany corruption and high property taxes among them.

Hydrofracking is indeed an issue on both the state and federal level, but attention in New York for the last several months has focused on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Department of Environmental Conservation's long - awaited report on the feasibility of high - volume hydrofracking.

Before the focus of US Attorney Preet Bharara's probe emerged this week, Moreland Commission members said they had considered the speaker's outside income a high priority up until the point that the panel was disbanded by Cuomo in a budget deal with Silver and the state Senate.

Now the President's renewed focus on higher graduation rates will be dramatically undermined by the consistent under - funding of public higher education in this state.»

A 24 - year - old who might have been best known for playing on the 2010 Skaneateles High School state champion soccer team has become a poster child for all that is wrong with staffing problems in the Trump White House, and held up as proof that the administration lacks focus on the nation's opioid epidemic.

«SUNY Poly's narrowly focused on some very high - profile tech projects, but for someone to say economic development, broadly speaking, has been turned over to to someone at SUNY Poly is just incorrect,» Mr. Zemsky said, citing the governor's efforts to involve regional officials in economic planning and to spread state funds across thousands of smaller economic development projects.

An organized effort formed, led by high - profile unions and advocates that focused on the state's «botched» implementation of the Common Core rather than the standards themselves.

In high - tax states, officials have been focused on protecting taxpayers from the impact of a new $ 10,000 cap on deductions for paying state and local taxes.

The governor proposes increasing education funding by $ 1.1 billion (only half of the $ 2.2 billion that nearly every education and student - focused organization in the state is demanding), but only if the legislature agrees to draconian education reforms that mistakenly blame teachers for poor student outcomes in underfunded, high need, low wealth districts.