Sentences with phrase «think tank launches»

Think tank launches get lots of publicity and speeches pour out about creating «informed citizens» and much more.

Prior to founding Earth Policy Institute, Brown was well known in environmental and policy circles for his work with the Worldwatch Institute, a pioneering environmental think tank he launched back in 1974.

The Heartland Institute is a Chicago - based free market think tank launched in 1994, which has accepted millions of dollars from conservative groups and fossil fuel interests.

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Besides Uber, which is also making inroads with the technology, Amazon more than a year ago launched an in - house think tank to leverage autonomous vehicles for faster delivery.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2015 / PRNewswire - USNewswire / — To protect Main Street from predatory lending, today a coalition of nonprofit and industry lenders, credit marketplaces, brokers, think tanks, and small business advocates launched the Small Business Borrowers» Bill of Rights at a special event in Washington DC.

The Smart Prosperity Leaders» Initiative was launched by respected Canadian leaders from business, think tanks, labour, Indigenous Peoples, youth, and NGO communities.

The Albany - based think tank and fiscal watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy launched in 2005 as a project of the Manhattan Institute is being «re-launched» as an independent organization, the organization's president E.J. McMahon announced.

The state Education Department is launching a new think tank to come up with a statewide school accountability plan, in accordance with the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Philip Blonde is launching his new think tank in autumn: http://www.respublica.org.uk/ This'll be one to watch and we'll see if progressive conservatism actually lives up to its name in being progressive.

Thirdly, there is launch of an entirely new think tank — Onward — which has been created by MP Neil O'Brien (former director of Policy Exchange) and which will be run by former No 10 deputy director of policy, Will Tanner.

The Reform think - tank today launched a new report highlighting cases of successful private sector involvement in public services.

So a new report from the think - tank Civitas, launched by veteran Labour MP Frank Field and parliamentary researcher Andrew Forsey, should be given credit for positive thinking.

Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, will be launching a tracker for government's free Senior High School policy christened EQUINOX.

Following the 2010 election, Foley launched the Connecticut Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank that publishes research and hosts discussions on topical policy issues.

Adding to the hilarity was that shortly before Molinaro launched his own «healthiest county» campaign, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a think tank that studies these things, dropped Dutchess from ninth in the state to 11th.

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign groups.

Daniel Hannan has launched the Institute for Free Trade: pretty much what you'd expect, it appears to be a bog - standard right - wing think - tank.

Britain's permanent green «think tank» has decided to launch an investigation intothe impact of transport on the environment.

We give special attention to perhaps today's poster child of the climate denial machine's free market think tanks, the Heartland Institute, which is about to launch a new version of its «NIPCC» or «climate change reconsidered» report next week in Chicago.

As the new purpose - built home for the world's most inspiring ed - tech start - ups, Futures was launched at Bett 2015, in collaboration with the UK's leading education think - tank, The Education Foundation.

Our graduates work for state and federal departments of education, they launch and lead non-profit organizations and school - community partnerships, they conduct research and data analysis for policy think tanks, and they lead progressive schools and school districts.

A just - launched project will review education reports released by private think tanks for the quality of their research, methodology, and conclusions, using expert academic reviewers.

FutureEd, a non-partisan think tank at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, launched a new website on various education related topics including ESSA examination.

«We want to capture the changes people make over time — it's a process,» said Julia Freeland Fisher, director of education at the Clayton Christensen Institute, the San Francisco - based nonprofit think tank that advocates for blended learning, and that launched the Blended Learning Universe project.

32) Think Tanks: The pro-privatization Center for Education Reform is launching a «grassroots» advisory network, which includes a number of CEOs and COOs of charter school chains, and Will Cain of CNN's The Blaze.

An influential group of leading headteachers has launched a think tank to crowdsource an alternative white paper that focuses on classroom concerns rather than «political diktat».

We get her thoughts on Wildstar launch, a World of Warcraft garrison's preview, Rob Pardo's gaffes on Twitter as well as her experiences as a druid tank.

Brotalitometer: You can now compete to be the most manly or wantonly violent in custom levels.Level Sharing: Combined with Level Editor, you can now create, publish and upload your levels.Rate Levels: Tell Level Creators what you think of their genius and hard work, and have bros» vote on your levels as well, to bring the cream of the crop to the top.Mac build now available!ADDED!Sign posts (with words written on them) Can tag doodads in the Level EditorBrotality triggers, Entity triggers for when entities dieIMPROVED!The custom menu looks less like pandsThere will always be a bro that is spawned in the Level Editor (which is less confusing) Less z - fighting on trees and vehicles (though there is still more to do in this regard) FIXED!Stopped McBrover's satchel packs exploding arbitrarily on doorsBlocks don't float after being above cagesLevel Editor keeps better track of the level's filenameScout Mooks don't levitate while screamingSuicide Mooks are now less forgetfulSoftened the tanks» explosion of death (that had the effect of launching bros in the tanks» rockets)

In 2007, GAMEHOTEL launched the spin - off GAMEHOTEL THINK TANK.

THINK TANK In 2007, GAMEHOTEL launched the spin - off GAMEHOTEL THINK TANK.

It feels like people have been less interested in the new tank character when compared to the two previous hero launches - Ana and Sombra - but I think there's a lot to be excited about.

Australian «think tank,» the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), has launched a fundraising drive for its 2017 edition of the book Climate Change: The Facts.

The launch of the financial think - tank's first roadmap comes as BP adopts a shareholder resolution on the risks climate laws pose to its business and as Royal Dutch Shell gives its backing to a similar resolution to be voted on at its forthcoming AGM.

Oscar Widerberg, IVM Vrije Universitet Amsterdam and Daniel Engström Stenson, Swedish think tank Fores, yesterday launched a new study on Climate Clubs and its relation to the UNFCCC.

In 2004, Greenpeace launched ExxonSecrets.org, which houses a relational database of Exxon funding to these people, think tanks and front groups.

The former Chancellor Lord (Nigel) Lawson, last week launching his new think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, rightly called for a proper independent inquiry into the maze of skulduggery revealed by the CRU leaks.

Well, if you count the money used, say, to launch earth observation satellites as funding for the opposition, and the time and effort used to download and interpret the data as efforts in favor of the opposition, the opposition is funded more than a single so - called «think tank».

The concept of Earth Overshoot Day was first conceived by Andrew Simms of the UK think tank New Economics Foundation, which partnered with Global Footprint Network in 2006 to launch the first global Earth Overshoot Day campaign.

He's fully aware of the myriad PR campaigns launched by the fossil fuel industry and the organizations and think tanks it funds that routinely seek to sew doubt about climate change in the media.

Following a preparatory PR bombardment by think tanks and media spokespersons — often consisting of unsupported allegations of «fraud,» «plagiarism» or «scientific misconduct» supposedly committed by those evil climate scientists — the principle attack was launched: the so - called Climategate hack.

According to the About section of this site, the center is slated to officially launch in January 2014 as a think tank and education resource focused on the nexus of fashion and law.

Kazakhstan last year launched the Kazakhstan Association of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, a government - private sector think tank whose role will involve proposing blockchain legislation and regulating cryptocurrency exchanges.

This may include development of launch tanks or «think» incubators («Thinkubators») designed to assist those with entrepreneurial ideas the resources to begin...

«The longer we wait, the more draconian the solutions will have to be,» says former Sen. Kent Conrad, D - N.D., who co-chairs the Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings launched by the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank.