Sentences with phrase «york times attempt»

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In fact, The New York Times recently attempted to catalogue all of Trump's attacks and insults on Twitter.

Damon has come under fire following allegations made by a former New York Times reporter that may have been used by Weinstein in an attempt to bury allegations against Weinstein in 2004.

The National Security Agency used its public Twitter account to send roughly a dozen coded messages to a shadowy Russian who had attempted to sell them dirt on President Donald Trump, The Intercept and The New York Times reported on Friday.

Last year, President Donald Trump insinuated without citing evidence that Rice may have illegally attempted to learn the identities of Trump associates for political purposes, The New York Times reported.

Last month, Uber admitted that it would stop using a technology called Greyball, first reported by The New York Times, to deceive city officials who wanted to take rides in an attempt to regulate the service.

Today, according to The New York Times, Parker is set to announce that he is donating $ 250 million to bolster the research and development of cancer immunotherapy — a treatment method that attempts to use cancer patients» own immune systems to fight the disease.

As of this weekend, at least 1,500 people have died attempting to flee the region for Europe, and, according to The New York Times, «Officers intercepted 10,445 migrants from Jan. 1 to March 31, compared with 2,863 in the same period in 2014.»

The New York Times is dropping a bombshell, claiming that in 2006, the CIA bought and destroyed nerve agent rockets from an Iraqi seller in an attempt to keep them out of the hands of terrorists.

This morning the New York Times had a front page story about Mayor Michael Bloomberg's attempt to seek USDA approval of a plan which would bar New York City's 1.7 million food stamp recipients from using the stamps to buy soda for two years, while a... [Continue reading]

«On May 1, Faisal Shahzad attempted to blow up his SUV in Times Square, days later President Obama cut terror funding to New York and it was Mayor Bloomberg not Senator Schumer who lead the charge in getting the funding restored.

But she spent much of the time confirming and defending the administration's attempt to kill a New York and New Jersey rail program.

Eliot Spitzer's attempt to return to public life — with a perilously late entrance into the race for New York City comptroller — was being compared to Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign about 20 times a minute on Twitter, last I checked.

Emails obtained by the investigator show the campaign rejected two attempts, first because the corporation attempted to purchase the ticket, which is illegal in New York, and the second time because the company's founder, a Canadian national, tried to personally buy it — that's against federal law.

It comes in the case against state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Queens), who stands accused of scheming with officials in New York City and Rockland County to raise funds for his one - time attempt to switch parties and run for mayor as a Republican.

The Democrat admitted he's eying this year's mayor's race in a lengthy New York Times Magazine article that detailed his life with wife Huma Abedin, a close aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and their attempts to stay out of the limelight over the past two years - until now.

The New York Times reviews «Weiner,» a documentary about former Rep. Anthony Weiner's failed attempt at a political comeback by running for NYC mayor in 2013.

Uber's attempt to expand its operations to upstate New York and to Long Island could jeopardize the jobs of 11,150 full - time workers, according to a report released by the Committee for Taxi Safety.

Shortly after being briefed on an attempted terror attack on his hometown, Trump took to Twitter to sound off — on a New York Times story from the weekend.

Trump tweeted this weekend reporting by The New York Times helped foil an attempt capture an Islamic State leader.

«It's unfortunate that the City Council is attempting to block a proposal that would generate significant revenue for the New York City Housing Authority — money that would go directly into developments and repairs for residents,» the housing authority said in a statement to the Times.

But an internal memorandum that appears to have been prepared by the Cuomo administration and was obtained by The New York Times provides a rare glimpse inside the negotiating room, where Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo; the Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos; Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver; and their aides are attempting to hammer out a budget deal before the March 31 deadline.

Unfortunately, this odd betrayal of leadership at a time when our constituents needed her most seems to be part of a pattern that comes shortly after similarly short - sighted attempts to gut federal funding for New York's homeland security even while approaching the 10 - year anniversary of 9/11.

Senator Klein at first attempted to lighten the moment by joking about the attention the situation has attracted, which was first reported in the New York Times.

Klein at first attempted to lighten the moment by joking about the attention the situation, which was first reported in the New York Times, has attracted.

At a time when the Western New York region is seeing significant investment in an attempt to jump start Upstate's economy now is not the right time it to raise the minimum wage.

The constituent said that his source for the story was the New York Times, prompting Warren to joke, «Oh, you mean fake news,» in an apparent attempt to mock President Donald Trump.

Now, after running the APOE - free patient through a battery of cognitive tests, it appears that he is fairly normal, suggesting treatments that attempt to eliminate or limit the protein could be safer than expected, The New York Times reports.

Bumble is responding with a full - page ad in the New York Times, «We swipe left on your multiple attempts to buy us, copy us, and now, to intimidate us.»

Bradlee, for his part, might be dealing with mundane problems like how to cope with President Nixon's attempt to bar Post reporters from covering daughter Tricia's wedding, but he's heard rumors that the New York Times is onto something big.

The New York Times doesn't use a scale, but A.O. Scott's decidedly mixed review is considered «fresh»: «Attempts the difficult feat of balancing self - consciousness about the olden days with wide - eyed, headlong, present - tense fun.

Last year, during the 2017 Oscars telecast, The New York Times ran an ad — the first one the paper ever aired during the ceremony — that attempted to convert anxieties about the political moment into subscriptions to the paper.

Lemkin was nominated more than half a dozen times for the Nobel Peace Prize, never won, and died in New York in poverty, attempting almost daily to convince the U.N. to formulate a world judicial system to bring to trial and punish those who commit genocide both within and outside the borders of their own countries.

At least with this 1987 film, starring Steve Martin and John Candy as a pair of mismatched traveling companions attempting to get to Chicago from New York City in time for Thanksgiving dinner, the ordeal is a hilarious one.

Every time you turn on the TV or open a film magazine he's asserting that this movie is «Raymond Carver soup»; worse still, in the pages of the New York Times Book Review last month, he actually remarked, in an attempt at self - disparagement, «I agree that real art is without irony,» one of the dumbest statements a director of his distinction has ever uttered.

The New York Times recently published a rather complicated chart attempting to map the ways in which Allen's influence has crossed generations and genders.

New York City's mayor at that time, Rudolph Giuliani, a voucher supporter, attempted to secure public funds that would allow Catholic schools to fulfill the cardinal's offer.

The New York Times, for example, called the moratorium a «misguided attack on charter schools» and ran an editorial with that title in an attempt to get the NAACP Board of Directors to overturn the vote of its members.

He followed up with his hyperbolically titled May 2010 New York Times Magazine feature «The Teachers» Unions Last Stand,» which admired the Obama administration's attempt to pressure states to tie teacher evaluation and pay to students» standardized test scores.

The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age This leaked document shows the NYT attempting to face up to its problems when competing in a digital age

This Sunday, 900 authors including Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen King, and Goldfinch author Donna Tartt published a two - page open letter in The New York Times lambasting Amazon for directly hurting writers in their attempts to manipulate Hachette Book Group.

His step - mother, uber - socialite Dede Wilsey, threatened legal action against his publisher (after excerpts had run in the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle) in an attempt to stop publication of the book on the basis that there were more than 30 «actionably defamatory statements of fact... which constitute libel per se» (and that was just in the excerpts!).

ResultSource, a company that doesn't even attempt to hide its purpose in allowing authors to buy their way onto the New York Times or Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, including upon debut for the right price, is coming under fire for this practice.

Amazon.com has purchased flexible touchscreen maker Touchco in an apparent attempt to beef up technology aboard its Kindle e-readers to better compete against Apple's iPad, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

As noted in this recent New York Times article, however, a number of creditors and debt buyers are allegedly attempting to collect on discharged debts.

Founded by former Google CIO, Douglas Merrill, it appears to be an attempt at short - term consumer lending with a Google - like «don't be evil» approach and markets itself as an alternative to payday loans.The venture caught my eye when mentioned in the New York Times this weekend as part of a story about Gil Ebaz's work of adding value to different services by providing better, more reliable data.

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Both Vekselberg and Intrater have donated to Trump and both attended his inauguration, according to The New York Times, which also reports that both men have since been interviewed by special prosecutor Bob Mueller's office, the team in charge of investigating Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 election.

Over the last decade there have been a very few exhibitions that have attempted to explore this history from a New York perspective («High Times Hard Times: New York Painting 1967 - 1975» in 2007, «Conceptual Abstraction» in 2012, my own «Reinventing Abstraction» in 2013), and if there have been any books on the subject, I haven't yet seen them.

In 1931, to mark the opening of the museum's first home, on Eighth Street in Greenwich Village, The New York Times praised what it called the «elastic policy that has governed the purchasing of works of art,» adding that «no attempt has been made to apply any hard - and - fast rules as to what art is manifestly American.»

Conductor John Myers — straight out of «downtown New York central casting, circa 1984,» according to one pal — summoned an at - times - unholy noise from the six hundred assembled strings, and the music's power conjured a litany of metaphors, all describing moments verging on abandon: His calisthenic conducting elicited a tidal surge of synchronized nodding heads; the performers then inspired him to feats of excitement that could compete with Christian - revival praise dancing; his attempts to rein in the players for quieter passages gave the impression of a lion tamer placating a feisty animal.