Sentences with phrase «nations report published»

Producers like the Goldins believe bugs are headed for big - time consumption and point to a United Nations report published in 2013 as a turning point.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

In an essay published in local media, Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th birthday Thursday by arguing that the United States owes Cuba «many millions of dollars» because of the trade embargo Congress imposed on the island nation back in 1963, according to a report in L'Agence France - Presse

She is also a formidable voice for women's empowerment in Turkey, a nation with one of the worst gender gaps in the workplace; the university founded and chaired by Sabancı made headlines last year when it published a report on the impact of domestic violence against white - collar working women in Turkey.

In a report published in February, Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page projects the cost of elderly benefits will increase from $ 36 billion today to a peak of $ 142 billion in 2036 - 37 — but as dire as that fourfold increase may sound, that will amount to a relatively small portion of the nation's economy (3.2 % of GDP), and Page estimates that «the federal fiscal structure is sustainable.»

Between 2010 and 2012, taxpayers in the Peach State claimed about 36 % of all federal tax deductions for easements — despite having only 2.5 % of the nation's land under easement, according to a May 2017 report that Looney, the former Treasury official, published for the Brookings Institution, where he's now a senior fellow in economic studies.

Eunice Yoon takes a look at China's economy after the nation published a report saying the pace of growth accelerated last month.

Overall, postinvasion international surveys published by the Washington - based Pew Center reported that in countries from North Africa through the Middle East to Indonesia, Muslim regard for the United States had plummeted; in many nations, respondents preferred Osama bin Laden to George W. Bush.

The Institute for Government has published a report on Devolution after Brexit, «Managing the environment, agriculture and fisheries», recommending changes to the way the governments of the four UK nations interact and make decisions.

The collaboration of Ms. Gerstner, a first - rate, professional journalist with a background in reporting on sports science, and Dr. Kutcher, one of the nation's top concussion researchers and clinicians who lives, breathes and eats concussions every day for a living as the National Director of The Sports Neurology Clinic at The CORE InstituteTM in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and for whom I and my staff at MomsTEAM have enormous respect, is a match made in publishing heaven.

An annual report that monitors fuel poverty across the UK has today been published, highlighting the fact that the relentless increase in the scale of fuel poverty across all four nations of the UK continues despite the efforts of the Westminster Government and the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

In an Editorial published on 29th November with the title, Commendable Efforts, and a rider — INEC, Others Deserve Praise For Ensuring Credible Election In Anambra, The Nation newspaper declared that all the reports released by local and international observers on the election affirmed that «the will of the people reflected in the result declared by INEC».

The US Census published a report on voting in America last week that was the usual — the nation's voters don't go to the polls as often as they should and in some parts of the country, like New York, and for some age groups — mainly young voters — the turnout has been dreadful.

Modern diesel cars emit less pollution generally than cars that run on gasoline, says a new six - nation study published today in Scientific Reports whose groundwork was laid in part by an American chemist now working at Université de Montréal.

According to the 2016 State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report published by the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organisation, aquaculture production is expected to reach 102 million tonnes by 2025.

The US National Research Council claims in a report published last month that rich nations should spend much more on safeguarding genetic diversity in the world's crop plants.

Those voices include, as this column noted in early July, two recently published reports: Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security, from the U.S. National Academies, which urges universities to «restructure doctoral education..., shorten time - to - degree and strengthen the preparation of graduates for careers both in and beyond the academy,» and the Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which advocates «additional training and career development experiences to equip students for various career options, and test ways to shorten the PhD training period.»

Rich nations should spend more on safeguarding genetic diversity in crop plants or they will jeopardise the world's food supply, warns the US National Research Council in a report published last week.

At least two studies published since 2010 — one report from the United Nations Environment Programme in 2011 and a follow - up published in Science last year — suggested that significantly reducing the emissions of soot and methane could trim human - caused warming by at least 0.5 °C (0.9 ° F) by 2050, compared with an increase of about 1 °C if those emissions continued unabated.

A few independent organizations, including the United Nations, have published their own reports on civilian casualties in Afghanistan, but only for illustrating broad trends.

The joint International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) of the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) publish the first State of the Science Report on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals.

The annual report to the nation on the status of cancer in the United States, published Monday, shows cancer death rates overall continue to decline.

This past November, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization published their most recent global science report, analyzing the trends and developments that have shaped scientific research, education and industry during the past five years.

The National Cancer Institute should be credited as the source and a link to this page included, e.g., «Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975 - 2014 was originally published by the National Cancer Institute.»

The United Nations and a large coalition of financiers have urged policy makers to clarify the role of private investment in helping to fight deforestation, in a new report published ahead of this year's...

published report, Hayward stated that holding the US back from fulfilling it's petroleum - based product requirements is «a reluctance to develop the nation's massive natural resources under the mistaken belief in the unproven science that claims carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning of fossil fuels is the major cause of recent and future warming of the Earth.

SMH.COM - Aug 9 - The RSVP Date of the Nation report, published this week, has found that just 41 % of singles would like to get married.

China has some strong programs when it comes to using the native languages of minority groups for school instruction, according to a report published in 2005 and released online in July by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO.

In the early 1980s, spurred by disappointing national test results and reports such as «A Nation At Risk» — the seminal document published in 1983 that decried the mediocre state of public education in America and recommended sweeping change to fix the problem — other states mounted reforms using administrative reorganization or new curriculum as levers for change.

The new «average cohort» accountability metric was implemented at about the time their paper was published, and Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University have released an annual report using it (the «Grad Nation» report).

A poll survey report published in Washington Post «Mass Extinction Underway, Majority of Biologists Say» «A majority of the nation's biologists are convinced that a mass extinction of plants and animals is underway that poses a major threat to humans in the next century.

The latest edition of «The State of Our Nation's Youth,» which has published poll results episodically since 1996, finds a marked increase in academic pressure reported among the nation's teenNation's Youth,» which has published poll results episodically since 1996, finds a marked increase in academic pressure reported among the nation's teennation's teenagers.

Having worked first in the publishing sphere in Australia, and then for a UK shipping publisher, and having also written a lengthy Annual Report for United Nations FAO sub-group, the UK Freedom From Hunger Campaign, while in England, I was later invited by Canadian friends to join them at a Radio - Television corporation in Montreal, Canada, which led me into Advertising, via radio and television commercial production.

Back in 1983, President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education published an influential report called A Nation at Risk.

This brief keeps pace with the release of graduation rate data by the National Center for Education Statistics and lays a foundation for the more comprehensive annual Building a Grad Nation report that will be published in spring 2016.

The EPI's latest report, published in partnership with Professors John Jerrim and Toby Greany at the IoE, looks at how well England is serving its disadvantaged pupils, compared to other developed nations.

Department of Education researchers have been publishing studies for several years that use data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- often called «The Nation's Report Card» — to compare state standards and to analyze the impact of NCLB on student achievement.

Concern about the quality of education led to the establishment of the National Commission of Excellence in Education, whose final report, «A Nation at Risk,» was published in 1983.

By 2004, the Council of the Great City Schools, a national nonprofit, published its own report, noting that D.C. remained one of the lowest - performing urban school districts in the nation.

Ever since the public report «A Nation At Risk» was published, the United States has discussed, mandated, and reported on the progress of student achievement.

The Government has published its first annual progress report on its new sport strategy that aims to get the nation more active.

To see how states compare, ECF has published charts showing the percentage of students deemed proficient in various subjects and grade levels and compared them to percentages reported for each state by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP, or «The Nation's Report Card»), considered to be the gold standard.

The new data, published in FHWA's latest «Traffic Volume Trends» report — a monthly estimate of U.S. road travel — illustrate the growing demands facing the nation's road system.

Here are some interesting figures on the children's books market in China we'd like to draw your attention to: according to the 2017 Chinese Retail Book Market Report the Chinese retail book market is worth more than 80 billion CNY, with over 40,000 children's titles published every year in China — more than any other nation in the world, targeting 367 million children and young adults, with more than 800 million books printed every year and nearly 300,000 titles on the market currently.

«The report published this week by Sallie Mae, the nation's largest student loan provider, captures a disturbing rise in credit card debt, much of it fueled by the rising cost of college and an anemic financial aid system that can't keep up.

WIth global interest in using well - being as a way to look at the quality of human development, the first World Happiness Report was published in support of the 2012 United Nations High Level Meeting on Happiness and Well - Being.

The scientific community has convened conferences, published reports, spoken out at forums and proclaimed, through statements by virtually every national scientific academy and relevant major scientific organization — including the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)-- that climate change puts the well - being of people of all nations at risk.

The IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007, involved more than 500 Lead Authors and 2000 Expert Reviewers from more than one hundred participating nations.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report 2016 published today is yet another proof that ambitious objectives of the Paris Agreement require stronger short term action already before 2020 and deeper emission cuts in the period until 2030.

The State Department's Office of Global Change, for instance, no longer publishes Climate Action Reports, which the U.S. is obliged to produce under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.