Sentences with phrase «nations report issued»

A United Nations report issued in June of 1974 indicated that as many as 800 million people, nearly a quarter of the human race, are now suffering from malnutrition.

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A United Nations report on edible insects issued in 2013 pointed to estimates that «insects form part of the traditional diets of at least 2 billion people.»

Dec. 5, 2013: Vancouver lawyer Doug Eyford issues report saying Ottawa must build trust with First Nations.

, which focuses on the nation's health policies and medical issues, 29 % of Americans report problems paying medical bills, and 37 % have increased their credit card debt to help pay for medical bills.

According to a 2016 - 17 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which focuses on the nation's health policies and medical issues, 29 % of Americans report problems paying medical bills, and 37 % have increased their credit card debt to help pay for medical bills.

In Panama, you're guaranteed social freedom, individual freedom, freedom of religion... in fact, Freedom House, an independent organization that issues an annual «Freedom in the World» report, gives Panama high marks for civil rights, rating it one of the freest nations in Latin America.

Ever since ASCE began issuing its «National Infrastructure Report Card» in 1998, the nation has gotten a dismal grade of D or D +.

In October, 1967, the distinguished scientists who composed this group issued a significant volume, Alcohol Problems, A Report to the Nation (prepared by Thomas F. A. Plaut).

The issue of Newsweek that appeared just after the landslide reelection of Richard Nixon reported that the President believes that this nation needs to reject permissiveness in favor of a new stress upon personal responsibility.

That being said, why is there so much focus and obsessive reporting being done on an issue that is not representative of the sentiment of the nation?

Jerusalem (CNN)- Anti-Semitic incidents worldwide dropped sharply in 2010 from their peak in 2009, according to an annual report issued by an Israeli university on the eve of the nation's Holocaust Memorial Day.

RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(the «Company»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. («ISS»), the nation's leading independent proxy advisory firm, has issued a report recommending that RiceBran Technologies shareholders vote on the WHITE proxy card «FOR» the election of ALL the Company's director nominees — W. John Short, Marco V. Galante, David Goldman, Baruch Halpern, Henk W. Hoogenkamp, Robert C. Schweitzer and Peter A. Woog — at RiceBran Technologies» Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the «Annual Meeting») on June 22, 2016.

This special issue will present stars of all the competing nations — in color — commissioned paintings, scouting reports and an exclusive forecast on the track and field contests by Roger Bannister.

Earlier this year the Institutes of Medicine issued a report on the nation's over-consumption of sodium and how it's negatively affecting our health:

The Fiscal Policy Institute issued a report today on the widening gap between New York's rich and poor, pointing out fun facts like: «Wall Street, with its stratospheric profits and bonuses, sits within 15 miles of the Bronx — the nation's poorest county.»

It's little wonder that the State Integrity Investigation, in a report issued earlier this week, ranked New York one of the more corrupt states in the nation.

Astorino, speaking outside the United Nations building, didn't attack the governor directly on the issue, WCBS 880's Paul Murnane reported.

A group that includes representatives from the engineering, construction and highway industries has issued a new report on the nation's Interstate Highway System, calling it an aging and underfunded network of roads and bridges.

For a nation that was waiting for a messianic vision and direction from his government, President Buhari does not have the privilege or the right to remain silent on issues such as the current fuel scarcity (save for a one - page press release signed by him), the Mainagate, the NNPC $ 25bn contract scandal, the continued Fulani herdsmen attack on communities, despite their being listed as the fourth deadliest terror group in the Global Terrorism Index, and the full report of the Presidential Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate a former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Lawal Babachir, and a former DG, National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, because beyond election, the validation of the legitimacy of any government through good governance rests on this core element which is communicating.

By the middle of the next decade, demand at JFK Airport, the region's largest and the nation's most popular with international travelers, «will exceed capacity by up to three million passengers annually,» according to a report issued in conjunction with Cuomo's speech in the ballroom of the Midtown Manhattan Hilton Hotel.

Across the nation, concern over contamination has risen in places like Seattle, where the city recently sued the agribusiness giant Monsanto over chemical pollution in the Duwamish River, and in Minnesota, where a state report issued last week found that up to 60 percent of groundwater samples from wells in the central part of the state had unsafe levels of nitrates.

In 2010 alone, 41 new psychoactive substances were reported by European nations — more than triple the amount identified in 2008, according to a report issued by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

«The fact that women are capable of contributing to the nation's scientific and engineering enterprise but are impeded in doing so because of gender and racial / ethnic bias and outmoded «rules» governing academic success is deeply troubling and embarrassing,» wrote the authors of a 2007 report on women in academic science and engineering issued by the National Academies [7].

A report issued by the United Nations Environment Program in April says at least 44 lakes in Nepal and Bhutan are filling so rapidly with icy water from melting glaciers that they could burst their banks within five to 10 years.

Spending on innovation among the richest nations took a nosedive early last year and began a slow recovery in 2009 — shown in sharp relief by data in a report issued today by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

There is probably no greater scientific heresy today than questioning the warming role of CO2, especially in the wake of the report issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The nation's incoming president needs to move quickly to appoint a respected scientist or engineer to serve as the next science adviser to ensure immediate input on issues related to science, according to recommendations laid out in a report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy...

But the reality is that the nation's most populous state is an industrial colossus — the world's ninth - largest economy — with the worst air quality in the nation, according to annual report cards issued by the American Lung Association.

The report, which UNAIDS issued on the eve of World AIDS Day (1 December) describes this news as «encouraging,» but also squarely acknowledges the daunting challenge of hitting several of the 2015 targets set at the United Nations meeting.

UNAIDS issued the report today to coincide with the U.N. General Assembly High - Level Meeting on AIDS, which will gather member nations in New York City from 8 to 10 June to hammer out a new declaration about how best to address the epidemic.

Our 7 August issue reported his concern that too many nations drove on the right - hand side and so were affecting the rotation of Earth.

Adding pressure on Trump, scientists from the United States and other Arctic nations issued a report ahead of the meeting warning that the warming could lead to trillions of dollars worth of damage to buildings, roads and other infrastructure this century..

Neurosurgery and Neurology at Mount Sinai rank 16th in the nation for neurological surgery, according to the 2017 - 2018 «Best Hospitals» issue of the U.S. News and World Report.

The IPCC, the United Nations institution that compiles the scientific consensus on global warming, has issued a series of reports since 1990 based on those models.

UC San Diego Medical Center is the only San Diego hospital ranked among the nation's best in eight specialties in U.S. News & World Report's new 2008 «America's Best Hospitals» issue.

The report, «Promoting Value, Affordability, and Innovation in Cancer Drug Treatment,» is the latest released by the advisory group, called the President's Cancer Panel, which since 1971 has regularly provided U.S. presidents a report on high - priority issues in the nation's anti-cancer efforts.

The United Nations and World Meteorological Organization established the IPCC in 1988 to provide information relevant to climate change, periodically issuing reports to provide a comprehensive and up - to - date assessment of the current state of knowledge on climate change.

7/13/2007 UCSD Medical Center Programs Rank Among The Nation's Best The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center is the only San Diego hospital that ranks among the best in the nation in six specialty areas in the 2007 U.S. News and World Report annual «Best Hospitals» Nation's Best The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center is the only San Diego hospital that ranks among the best in the nation in six specialty areas in the 2007 U.S. News and World Report annual «Best Hospitals» nation in six specialty areas in the 2007 U.S. News and World Report annual «Best Hospitals» issue.

By framing the issue in terms of a carbon budget based around cumulative emissions, the IPCC's most recent report showed that it doesn't necessarily matter what short - term emissions reduction targets are adopted, or which country cuts emissions by a particular amount relative to another nation's pledges.

«A Nation at Risk,» the grimly titled report issued in 1983 by the U.S. Department of Education, answered this question by describing the «rising tide of mediocrity» in young Americans» education.

Yet his administration also issued the most influential education report of the past two decades, which ultimately helped pave the way for today's federal mandates aimed at improving the nation's schools.

Like the higher - education group, the K - 12 forum will meet periodically and will draft three to four reports a year on the issues confronting the nation's schools, said Robert B. Schwartz, Pew's program director for education.

Two years into the presidency of Ronald Reagan the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued a report, «A Nation at Risk,» to highlight the low, declining performance of U.S. schools.

WASHINGTON — Hispanics remain the most undereducated major segment of the nation's population, according to a report issued last week by the National Council of La Raza, an umbrella organization for Hispanic groups.

ROCKVILLE, MD — Over the past few weeks, the Colorado Department of Education released a study on student performance in geography, an international research organization put out a 32 - nation study of reading literacy, and the National Education Goals Panel issued its second annual progress report.

I am also a TODAY show contributor reporting late - breaking educational and child related issues (as well as to Education Nation and Dateline) and serve as Goodwill Ambassador for One Laptop per Child (OLPC) whose goal is to bridge the education divide in third world countries so all children have a chance to receive an education.

Washington — Seeking to refute the Bush Administration's contention that the United States spends more on education than its economic rivals, an economic - policy think tank issued a report here last week asserting that the U.S. spends proportionately less on precollegiate education than 13 other major industrialized nations.

Though she castigates the «Nation at Risk» report, she seems never to have read it, nor to have read the many serious studies that take a deeper look at the issues that concern her.

As a new presidential administration nears the close of its first year in office and educators across the country grapple with the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act, the nation's educational performance earns a grade of C from Quality Counts 2018, the 22nd annual report card issued by the Education Week Research Center.

Washington — Lynne V. Cheney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, levels the charge in «American Memory: A Report on the Humanities in the Nation's Public Schools,» a Congressionally mandated study issued late last month.