Sentences with phrase «r.a. dickey»

Since 1996, under a provision called the Dickey Amendment, Congress has prevented agencies in the U.S. Health and Human Services administration from using funds «to advocate or promote gun control.»

Dickey says that in addition to the ten Gigster employees currently working on the platform, there are ten more programmers hired from Gigster also working on it.

All of that interest speaks to a real need, says Dickey, who sees the company as «the world's software engineering department.»

Customers work with a product manager, the same way they would if they were contracting their internal IT department to get an app built, says Dickey, and they have similar weekly check - ins and the like.

«We therefore are prepared to consider all alternatives to complete this transaction,» Gannett CEO Robert Dickey said in a letter to Tribune Publishing's board.

Dickey spoke about possibly being traded by the Mets, the day - to - day grind in the major leagues and how the knuckleball saved his career.

Dickey led the National League in strikeouts and became the first knuckleballer to ever win the Cy Young this season.

The study ascribed this dearth of research to restrictions — namely a 21 - year - old congressional appropriations bill called the «Dickey Amendment» that stipulated «none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.»

In 2012, he and Mark Rosenberg, who directed the CDC when the Dickey Amendment was approved, co-authored a Washington Post editorial calling for scientific research to prevent firearm injuries.

In response, Jay Dickey, an Arkansas Republican who described himself as the National Rifle Association's «point person in Congress,» submitted an amendment to strip the CDC budget of $ 2.6 million, the amount it spent on firearms research the previous year.

According to ASC spokesman Mark Dickey, only «a small portion of the administrative penalties related to the Concrete Equities case has been collected by the ASC to date.»

White - collar wrongdoers, Dickey noted, typically will have spent, hidden or lost money obtained through their schemes by the time the regulator passes judgment on them.

Gigster's goal is to offer developers what Dickey calls «the employee experience.»

Gigster has found a sweet spot in providing experts in fields like machine learning and blockchain, where talent is hard to come by — and so too are full - time jobs, Dickey said.

Dickey's growth plans for Gannett — which owns 107 other newspapers and their affiliated online properties — entail owning as many local market media properties as strategically feasible.

Then, Dickey gamed out his timeline.

Closing his first major acquisition of Journal Media just last month, Gannett CEO Bob Dickey seized the time to pounce — after Ferro's own opportunistic putsch won him effective control of the company at the beginning of the year.

Doctor predicts that Dickey's effort may ultimately pay off.

Tribune's chairman, Michael Ferro, clearly prefers to operate Tribune as a standalone company, having largely ignored Gannett's bid when it was privately sent in a letter from Gannett CEO Robert Dickey to him and Tribune CEO Justin Dearborn on April 12.

Dickey estimated in his offer Monday that Gannett could achieve about $ 50 million in savings.

Megan Rose Dickey is a senior reporter at TechCrunch focused on diversity, inclusion and social justice.

The local grant winners whom received the equipment were St. Louis Public Schools, St. Louis Boys and Girls Club, Mathews - Dickey Boys and Girls Club and Emerson Family YMCA.

For example, a 1996 provision known as the Dickey Amendment effectively barred the Centers for Disease Control from tapping taxpayer funds set aside for injury prevention and control for research that could be used for gun control advocacy.

That's the bigger backdrop to what appears to be a tugging match between the plodding conservatism of Gannett CEO Robert Dickey and the irrational exuberance of Tribune parvenu Michael Ferro.

Ferro and Gannett CEO Bob Dickey may be the generals, but they've got some of the best, and highest - paid, legal, banking and strategic communications firm helping to advise them, from behind the lines.

Further, it would tell us that Gannett believes the annual savings it could gain from merger synergies would top both the $ 50 million Gannett CEO Robert Dickey initially named, and even the $ 100 million I had reported.

In an earnings call that day, Dickey tells analysts that the company's ultimate goal is to become the top news network in the country as measured by ComScore metrics.

In an interview with Poynter, Dickey says Gannett intends to use the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun as regional anchors for its national network of newspapers.

Tribune Publishing CEO Justin Dearborn reportedly talks to Gannett CEO Robert Dickey about «next steps» for the deal.

From Meteorologist Jim Dickey: Temps will push back into the 90s this afternoon for much of SWFL — with little to no rainfall expected.

Today, Dickey's Gannett took a public deep breath — and vowed to persist in its unwanted wooing of Tribune.

Gannett CEO Bob Dickey is slowing down in his quest to acquire Tribune Publishing, but he has no plans on stopping.

Gannett CEO Robert Dickey said that by withholding their votes, Tribune Publishing stockholders would send a «clear message» to Tribune's board that it should engage in talks with the company.

In 1978, he pitched one final season for the Atlanta Braves when he was a year older than R.A. Dickey was last season.

Present law — the 1996 Dickey — Wicker Amendment — badly needs updating if not outright repeal, says Nature, to fit the current research reality.

The Dickey - Wicker provision inhibits the use of «specially created» embryos for research.

Dickey Flatt was a hard - working small businessman whom Gramm knew back in Texas.

Alongside the Dickey Flatt Test, we need a Wayward Sons (and Daughters) Test.

Gramm argued that every penny of government spending should be measured by whether it was justified in taking that dollar from Dickey Flatt and his family.

R. P. Dickey, «Leonardo da Vinci — A Legend»

There are, however, some contemporary poets who seem, more than others, to be «strange ones»; for instance, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Paul Blackburn, Charles Olson, James Dickey, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur.

This year's headliners are Boney M, Gwen Dickey's Rose Royce and Abba Gold on Friday 23 May; Peter Hook and the Light, Ruts D.C. and Goldblade on Saturday 24 May; and Zion Train and Black Roots on Sunday 25 May.

Management at Dickey's sought to re-engineer the menu, evaluate existing pricing systems and design new menu boards as part of a prototype development process.

Prior to joining RAVE, Zimmerman was the Director of Public Relations for Dickey's Barbecue Restaurants, where she guided the brand through a period of unprecedented growth and evolution.

R.A. Dickey is missing a ligament in his arm, and when he was in his mid-30s, he basically had to send teams his LinkedIn profile to get a job.

This battle is also tight, with R.A. Dickey (above) and Johnny Cueto (Reds) nearly impossible to separate.

Dickey leads the league in innings, strikeouts and ERA, so he's the pick.

Zook, who was named as Steve Spurrier's replacement at Florida on Jan. 9, did well to sign highly regarded players like quarterback Gavin Dickey of Tallahassee's Lincoln High and tailback DeShawn Wynn of Reading High in Cincinnati.

Brittenum was racing to his left under a heavy Aggie rush, and just before he slid out of bounds he lofted the ball to sophomore Halfback David Dickey, who took it away from an A&M defender.

Bill Dickey walked; then Gordon followed with a screaming liner that hit the leftfield fence so hard that it rebounded past a pursuing Jimmy Wasdell.