Sentences with phrase «public history at»

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«We have this long history of using it in the southern US and it hasn't caused [anywhere] near the problems people are claiming,» said Dr. Grayson Brown, a public health entymology expert at the University of Kentucky.»

She made history 14 years ago when, at 27 years old, she became the youngest - ever CEO of a public company.

Valued at $ 7 billion, Zynga was the biggest initial public offering in gaming history, and — at that time — the largest tech IPO since that of Google in 2004.

What we're looking at is the inevitable result of that history expressed through public opinion, and influenced by racialized ideas on crime and criminality.

One caveat: A history of public speaking doesn't automatically make you a true influencer, just like the absence of a long track record of speaking at events doesn't mean you aren't an influencer.

Phillip Plotch, a political science professor and director of the public administration master's program at Saint Peter's University, told Fortune that as new transportation technologies have emerged throughout history, they have allowed humans to radically alter the landscape.

You might be surprised to know that the business world was strongly in favor of profit sharing at many points in American history, typically when the concentration of wealth was a major public worry or the country was trying to come together after a crisis.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

Then, in February, the former Uber engineer Susan Fowler wrote a public blog post detailing what she said was a history of sexual harassment at the company.

Nevertheless, as traditional lenders have shied away from the smallest small businesses; and loans to those businesses has been in overall decline since the year 2000 [3], online lenders are using technology to look at other information available from the public record as well as transaction history, cash flow, and other metrics in addition to credit profiles, that demonstrate a healthy business.

They look at business - to - business data submitted by suppliers, historical payment history, public records, and industry data to create what they call, «a more complete» business profile.

They'd stayed up all night at an employee «hack - a-thon» to celebrate the big day when Facebook was finally going public, in what might have been the most anticipated initial public offering in history.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

Kalanick's at times frat - like behavior over the company's eight - year history has come into focus in the past months, as Uber battles a public relations disaster that has led some customers to delete the app.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic ouPublic Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic oupublic offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

The United States has a long history of public policies aimed at reducing inequality.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

The history of how societies have dealt politically with their debt overhead throughout history needs to be highlighted in the public consciousness and placed at the heart of the academic curriculum and media discussion.

«Let me add a lesson from history: Coke went public in 1919 at $ 40 per share.

There is a long history at play here between Kanye's obsession with celebrity, his sense of kinship with bombastic figures like Trump, and his very public struggles with his mother's death in 2007, his mental health, and his recently disclosed opioid addiction.

The ex-boxer who is cozy with Donald Trump is now trying his hand at the largest initial public offering in history.

Breyer was the managing partner at Accel Partners, which invested $ 12.7 million in Facebook in 2005 when the company was priced around $ 100 million; that bet proved to be among the most lucrative in the history of the venture business, returning many billions of dollars to Accel's investors after the company went public in 2012.

Byrne made history again in Dec, 2016, when Overstock.com issued the first shares of a public company ever traded on an alternative trading system (ATS) utilizing the blockchain's distributed ledger technology.

At oral arguments about whether public prayers at a New York town's board meetings are permissible, the high court took a broad look at the country's church - state history and even the Supreme Court's own traditionAt oral arguments about whether public prayers at a New York town's board meetings are permissible, the high court took a broad look at the country's church - state history and even the Supreme Court's own traditionat a New York town's board meetings are permissible, the high court took a broad look at the country's church - state history and even the Supreme Court's own traditionat the country's church - state history and even the Supreme Court's own traditions.

In the vast medley of private and public actions and political and economic decisions, in the enormous and incomprehensible complexity of the history of men, some decisions and works finally accomplish the intention of God, or are at least chosen and adopted by him.

Both in private and in public, religion seems more vigorous today than at earlier periods in American history.

It would be interesting to know, over the history of the USA, how many Presidents, have harbored secretly atheistic / agnostic views, but show a pious side, only to the public at large?

The database is accessible to the public online or at more than 4,850 LDS Church family history centers and libraries in 126 countries.

One scholar believes that the reading of 1 Thessalonians was an «event which contributed to the formation of the Christian church at Thessalonica.118 First Thessalonians is an example in early church history where an act of public reading «allowed the believers at Thessalonica to come into existence as the church of God.

So stop the pointless labeling, stop dealing in poorly - reasoned absolutes, and start looking at history — and you will find that this country HAS ALWAYS DONE BEST — economically, socially, culturally - when PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL POLICIES (government — i.e. PUBLIC — economic regulation, direct democracy, progressive taxation) have been implemented.

A generation ago, Colin Patterson, the senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London, said in a public forum that he didn't know of any evidence for evolution.

«The real issue is whether denominational leaders, of whom Land is perhaps the most public right now... have any intent on sharing real denominational leadership with Luter or other non-whites outside the traditional networks of denominational power,» said Bill Leonard, professor of Baptist studies and church history at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

It motivated a change in public school curriculum during the 1950s and beyond toward science, mathematics and engineering at the expense of history, communication skills and the liberal arts.

The clearest and probably the purest expression of the ethical dynamism I have located in the realm of the public theology broke through at one crucial moment in our history into the civil religion itself in the person of our greatest, perhaps our only, civil theologian, Abraham Lincoln.

Oh Amber, besides your frail grasp of our nation's history you must also realize that there will be plenty of «public prayer» at this event.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

Indeed, at this special juncture of the world's history, few things need more to be driven home on the public conscience than this simple but ominous fact: it is a good deal easier to waste a patrimony than it is to make one.

The line history graph below, which is available to all Live Odds and All - Pro Combo members, shows how the public Betting Percentages have affected line movement for this game at Pinnacle.

MATCHUP: No. 4 Mission - San Francisco (33 - 1) at No. 3 Vanden - Fairfield (30 - 3), 7 p.m. HISTORY: Mission is not only makings its first regional finals appearance in program history, but it's just the fourth appearance ever for a San Francisco public HISTORY: Mission is not only makings its first regional finals appearance in program history, but it's just the fourth appearance ever for a San Francisco public history, but it's just the fourth appearance ever for a San Francisco public school.

However, if you look at the line histories on our live odds page, you can actually see the public betting trends at the time of each line move at every sportsbook.

The nation's second - largest hamburger chain is the latest company to join the public relations war over so - called «pink slime» — an ammonia - treated beef filler product that the meat industry calls «finely textured beef» — that is at the center of one of the biggest U.S. food fights in recent history.

At public forums where city officials unveiled the details of the proposed $ 90 million project, the public got its first chance to comment on the plan, which will dramatically change the face of the lakefront from the Field Museum of Natural History to McCormick Place.

Public Speaking & Debate was requested by my social studies students a year ago as an extension of discussions we hold at the end of each year's History classes in a current events unit.

Originally founded so that scientists and nature aficionados alike could study and share the specimens they collected, we continue to build on our legacy of natural history education at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum through immersive exhibits, critical conservation and research initiatives, public engagement and education programming.

«At the next election we shall have a choice between the people who've given us five years of austerity, the people who left us this mess, and the people who signed public pledges that they wouldn't raise student fees, and then did so - the most blatant lie in recent political history.

A professor of European History at New York University (NYU), founder and director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at NYU, frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, and public intellectual, Judt's plan for his next book mothballed, as personal history intervened in the form of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's dHistory at New York University (NYU), founder and director of the Erich Maria Remarque Institute at NYU, frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, and public intellectual, Judt's plan for his next book mothballed, as personal history intervened in the form of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's dhistory intervened in the form of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Joshua Lafazan, who in 2012 became the youngest public office holder in state history when he was elected at 18 to the Syosset school board, kicked off his campaign for the Nassau Legislature, vowing to bring young energy to fight political corruption and restore the county's fiscal integrity.

Shockingly, the UK political establishment looks poised to loosen further what already looks like a very lax fiscal regime, at a time not only of straitened public finances and austerity (and a high burden of personal taxation), but also of extraordinarily high petroleum prices (2011 was the first year in history when the international price of crude averaged over 100 dollars per barrel, 2012 was the second, 2013 the third, and 2014 looks dead set to be the fourth).

He then went on to study Politics and History at Swansea University after which he returned to the Valuation Agency and then full time as a trades union official for the Public and Commercial Services Union, a role he held until until 2004.