Sentences with phrase «last year the program»

The American Cancer Society opposes any cuts, noting that last year the program funded 25,000 cancer screenings for poor New Yorkers.

Last year the program was expanded to five middle schools and an algebra 1 component was added, and this fall its monitors will follow the original cohort into high school.

Spellings has been unhappy with the provision, saying some states» HOUSSE plans were less than rigorous, and announced last year the program would be eliminated.

For example, last year the program funded Johanna Fateman to write about a new generation of feminist artists who have come of age in the Internet age.

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Money for the original program — which helped to lend $ 22 billion to some 55,000 small businesses — was included in last year's economic stimulus bill.

The news of the program, announced Wednesday night, comes as a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report shows U.S. entrepreneurship education lagging and follows a decrease in VC fundraising last year.

SBA Administrator Karen Mills said the program led average weekly loan approvals to leap by 87 percent compared to the weekly average before the passage of last year's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The New York Times reported yesterday that, in October of last year, Uber altered its testing program by putting only one safety monitor in each autonomous car rather than two, over the safety concerns of some employees.

Last year, a machine vision program developed by Stanford researchers was able to distinguish between cancerous and non-cancerous moles with more than 90 percent accuracy, beating out its human dermatologist counterparts — possibly a sign of what's to come in the field of AI.

«The new entrants into that over the last several years have helped to raise a lot of the excitement and innovation, and I think that's great for the space program,» Hewson said.

These programs cost taxpayers $ 4.6 billion last year.

The last two years of my life, I spent a huge amount of time building a program for GE, where we've trained thousands of GE's top managers in the Lean Startup.

He says he recently attended one of the largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»

Over the last several years, Apple has been building out its own local programs.

Last tip: You have to be able to afford the program in the first place, and you should expect to see a positive ROI from a successful system within a year.

The North Korean malware program WannaCry did serious damage to computers around the world last year, but it would have been much worse if not for the rapid discovery of a flaw in the attack found by young British security researcher Marcus Hutchins.

«Trump's current approach is basically ignoring an entire industry that has grown up over the last 10 years or so and is quite robust,» Liz Delaney, program director at EDF Climate Corps, told Business Insider.

It may be a moot point in the end because European aerospace giant Airbus, Boeing's chief rival, last year agreed to take a majority stake in the jet program and the two plan to build the aircraft in Alabama, where Airbus makes narrowbody passenger planes.

While the cable giant's mammoth $ 5 billion purchase of exclusive rights to NHL programming last year got all the headlines, Thursday's deal with World Wrestling Entertainment is equally interesting, especially to fans of the squared circle.

In a pilot program with Mohawk College in Hamilton last year, Game - Based Learning boosted course completion rates by 25 %.

One of the best things we did for this business was spending four months in the Silicon Valley at Y Combinator program last year.

UBC's Sauder School of Business, meanwhile, reorganized its program offerings last year into functional streams like entrepreneurship, and product and service management — specialties that have focus but can be applied across a variety of industries.

PARIS (AP)-- Researchers say they've discovered a worrying breed of power grid - wrecking software, saying the program was likely responsible for a brief blackout that hit Kiev late last year.

Chatbots, computer programs that mimic conversation with people by using artificial intelligence, «can transform the way you interact with the internet, from a series of self - initiated tasks to a quasi-conversation,» The Guardian declared last year.

Last year, instead of paid time - off, Apple donated $ 50 per hour for volunteer work employees performed as part of its gift matching program.

Last year at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, Nadal awarded $ 1 - million startup funding for an advanced program in New York called the Digital Works Institute.

Last month, the BOJ adopted a 2 percent inflation target and pledged to carry out an open - ended asset purchase program from next year, bowing to pressure from Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to adopt an aggressive monetary policy to end years of deflation.

New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair used the club's stage in 2013 to reveal the party's energy platform for the most recent federal election; MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren pitched a Toronto casino from it that same year; Governor General David Johnston announced his new innovation awards program there last summer.

In the first quarter of last year, the average Netflix subscriber watched 161 hours of programming, Barclays says.

The programs are competitive: Last year, Durham's Startup Stampede selected 11 startups from 78 applications, offering them two months of free office space.

Meant as a stopgap measure, the braceros program lasted 22 years.

In September of last year, McDonald's launched an ambitious program to sell deep - fried chicken wings across its 14,000 U.S. locations.

The spending bill appeared to only be waiting for Trump's signature when he tweeted Friday morning that he was «considering a VETO» because the bill does not fully fund a wall on the Mexican border or create a solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a program protecting some undocumented immigrants from deportation that Trump chose last year to end.

The report indicated that while more than 78 percent of organizations have engaged in lead generation programs throughout last year, only about 17 percent of these companies are actually meeting their lead generation goals.

Saujani says last year, Girls Who Code engaged with more than 700 girls through their learning programs.

Two federal bills introduced last year, which would create a grant program to help states introduce or improve review committees, remain stalled in committee.

(AlphaGo is a «deep learning» computer program that prevailed last year over the world champion of the board game Go.)

Following launches of the Shanghai - and Shenzhen - Hong Kong Connect programs in the last few years, Chinese regulators now have plans for international and mainland investors to trade in ETF products in the Special Administrative Region, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Hong Kong media reported.

The 24 - year - old had an hour - long television program, «Tomi,» that Beck and his news outlet stopped producing after she said last month that government shouldn't interfere with a woman's right to choose.

Meanwhile, the report points out, federal funding for housing assistance programs has actually declined by 3 percent in the last seven years.

«In the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Association.

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

Corinne skipped her last two years of high school in Ohio to go straight to college at age 15, enrolling at Mary Baldwin University's Program for the Exceptionally Gifted in Virginia.

Khanna also points out that the biggest contributor to productivity growth in the U.S. in the last 15 years is in information technology — a sector that's now inextricably linked with India and the H - 1B visa program.

Driving the program are the findings of the No Ceilings report, which showed that over the last 20 years, women have become healthier and more educated, but have not made much progress economically.

In addition to the Shaw partnership and sponsorship from ICUC Moderation Services, Moderation Town (like Ruby Skye P.I.) received funding through the IPF, which launched a program specifically for web series last year.

Before taking the company public last year, Mellinger instituted an education program to explain to employees how the stock was valued and how options work.

Using this method, we can estimate that the average college football player at the University of Texas is worth $ 622,104 per year (up from $ 604,921 last year) based on the program's $ 112.5 million in annual revenue.

In a previous LinkedIn survey last year, 69 percent of U.S. HR professionals said their internal mobility program is well - known among employees.