Sentences with phrase «about the minority report»

I talked about the Minority Report moment on this blog back in 2007.

Not exact matches

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

And, whether we're talking about hedge funds or mutual funds, private equity or real estate trusts, there is not a single field with more than 5 percent of its assets managed by minority or women - owned firms, according to a recently released Knight Foundation report.

According to a report by the Senate minority staff of the Committee on Finance and the Committee of the Judiciary, then SEC Associate Director of Enforcement Paul Berger was instrumental in the firing of SEC Senior Counsel Gary Aguirre, who wanted to question Mack about the insider trading matter.

In its first decade, the Rooney Rule seemed to make a notable difference: Beginning in 2003, ESPN reports that minorities filled about 20 % of head coaching vacancies — and that percentage edged up steadily each year.

WASHINGTON - Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party's 2016 presidential convention due to its unease over Donald Trump's controversial comments about women, immigrants and minorities, Politico reported.

The user likened Facebook's monitoring of user's messages to pre-crime monitoring, which is a popular theme in sci - fi about the state going too far like in 1984 by George Orwell or The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick.

Russian Protestants have been more ambivalent about the legal fate of the fellow minority group, as CT previously reported.

What about when CNN becomes a hated minority for not reporting without political bias?

The dreadful things that we now know about were still, though none of us knew it then, going on in many Irish schools (though the numbers given in the report indicate that they were in a minority).

Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu has finally made his stance clear about reports linking him to running for the flagbearer slot of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in 2020.

Updated: As Liz Benjamin reports, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos said on Capital Tonight that Senate Democrats are now in debt about $ 2.1 million.

Florida Politics reported last week that Cruz had spoken to Democratic leaders about making a run in SD 18 and was received positively — Minority Leader Oscar Braynon said he'd been supportive of Cruz entering the race since Democrats flipped SD 40 with the election of Annette Taddeo late last year.

A charter school advocate and major donor to Gov. Cuomo made racist remarks on Facebook about Senate Democratic Minority Leader, according to a report Thursday.

Reports for succeeding quarters show the share of minority workers grew from about 4 percent to 9 percent to about 11 percent for the quarter that ended in March this year.

In addition to the reports, he said State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli audits state agencies on MWBEs and noted the state has provided information about different minority groups and has held outreach events all over the state.

He cited a recent Newsday report, which showed that racial and ethnic minorities on Long Island were far more likely than whites to be arrested and incarcerated, as reason to consider an «outside perspective, who will bring about the change that needs to happen.»

Ekow Annan earlier reported that the Minority also felt Mr Osafo Marfo lied to the committee about the botched CNTCI and IFC loan deals.

«We certainly consider what the minority is saying, how the press will report it... that's the great thing about democracy, no one acts in a vacuum or without some accountability.»

But, he says, just as research experience can enhance the work of his program's graduates, growing up in a minority community can enhance reporting about and for that community.

The report also provides state - level comparisons, insights into the representation of women and minorities in science and engineering, and insight into what the public thinks about science.»

The IOM report, ordered by Congress more than 2 years ago, contends that the National Cancer Institute is spending only about $ 24.2 million a year on studies involving minorities — considerably less than NCI's own estimate of $ 124.4 million.

According to the report, cancer incidence is 15 % higher among African - American men than among white, non-Hispanic men; all minority groups have higher rates of stomach cancer than white Americans; and the 5 - year cancer survival rate of Native Americans is only about two - thirds that of whites.

And it's easy to see what Sherley was talking about after picking through the 150 - page report, which includes data from a faculty - wide attitudinal survey and in - depth interviews with minority faculty members.

Several CEOSE committee members talked to MiSciNet about the report's findings and offered suggestions on how minority students may improve their chances of entering these fields and continuing on to establish rewarding careers as professional scientists.

White men are about 1.5 times more likely than minority women to report that their mentors respect their ideas.

2 B. C. Rodrigues, News release (30 March 2004) about report from Florida's Miami Dade College President Eduardo Padrón, A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low - income and minority access.

The News, Events, & Publications subsection contains information about NIGMS - sponsored meetings, news releases, publications, and other reports related to minority programs.

And then you would hear about a patient occasionally who did well with high - dose IL - 2, or with CTLA - 4 blockade, but the reports were in a minority of patients.

Colin Farrell (Minority Report, Hart's War) gets the choice role of the New York publicist who cares more about being the big - shot himself than in any of the people he represents.

In addition, the three brand new cast members that were not previously linked to the project are Andy Serkis (as we reported just moments ago) along with Domhnall Gleeson (About Time) and Max von Sydow (The Seventh Seal, Minority Report).

As it stands, there's that worth - the - admission first half, wherein ex-CIA agent Snow (Pearce) is interrogated about the death of a colleague and a briefcase that goes missing before being sentenced to thirty years in suspended animation (Minority Report) on an orbiting prison station.

Yeah, because this looks exactly like Munich, which was exactly like Jurassic Park, which was exactly like Indiana Jones which was almost a copy of Schindler's List which was the blueprint for Jaws and that film directly influenced Catch Me if you Can which led him to make Minority Report which seemed to be another telling of Saving Private Ryan which was loosely based on the character from The Terminal who was in some way based on Djimon Honsou's character in Amistad who was on a boat, just like the captain in Hook which had a black person in it like The Color Purple which is a film about aliens or E.T.s (Extra Terrestrials) who started a War of the Worlds after many Close Encounters in 1941 with the Empire of the Sun...

The report also indicates that controlled choice — a type of voluntary desegregation that allows parents some choice about which schools their children will attend — and other desegregation efforts benefit minority students.

The report, released by the American Council on Education last week, expresses optimism about the progress made by minority students, but argues that challenges to affirmative action and public skepticism about such policies «make it imperative» that colleges articulate the importance of racial and ethnic diversity...

The 1983 report A Nation at Risk, found that about 13 percent of all 17 - year - olds in the United States could be considered functionally illiterate, and that functional illiteracy among minority youth could run as high as 40 percent.

The report by the Center for Demographic Policy at the Washington - based Institute for Educational Leadership offers data debunking what it says are common myths about poor and minority families.

«Instead of waiting for individuals to self - select administration, educational leaders must be identified and groomed in a systematic way that facilitates the recruitment of potential leaders among women and minorities,» concludes a 1992 report about a joint program of the New York City Board of Education and the Bank Street College Principals Institute (From Teaching to Administration: A Preparation Institute, by Crow, Mecklowitz, and Weekes, 1992, Technomic, Lancaster, PA).

It was my understanding that the report talked about the growing disparities, preparationally and economically... [between schools with mostly minority students and those with mostly white students].

In the Washington Post, Richard Whitmire writes about a new report from the National Research Council that finds that students in Washington, D.C., including low - income minority students, are doing better.

«In a recent Runnymede Trust report commissioned by the NUT, called Visible and Invisible Barriers, Black, Asian and ethnic minority members reported structural barriers such as racism, including assumptions about capabilities based on racial / ethnic stereotypes which railroaded their ambitions for career progression and hastened their departure from the profession.

The NCES said it conducted the report because of growing concerns about resegregation in the nation's public school system, and it hoped to shed more light on how segregation affects the achievement of minority students.

«At Creative Assembly we are working flat out to fix the 2 % of ROME II players reporting technical problems, it is a minority of cases but it's a minority we remain very unhappy about and are doing all we can to get them in - game as fast as possible with the entire team working on a series of patches that will hit weekly for the immediate future.

There have indeed been complaints about the IPCC's handling of non refereed material, which are a small minority of material in the IPCC report.

Sonangol's website does report that a subsidiary of Exem Holding has been pre-qualified by Sonangol to bid for oil licences in Angola as a «non-operator» - that is, as a minority shareholder in a joint venture with other oil companies.18 However, there appears to be no information on this website about tenders in relation to Exem Holding's other interests.

The environmental justice lobby's concerns about local air pollution are justified: A new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights acknowledges that low - income and minority communities face disproportionately high air pollution.

The report by the Ontario Human Rights Commission released Wednesday finds a widespread feeling among racial minorities and indigenous people that their complaints about the practice have been ignored.

Beyond this, while the reporting doesn't measure pay equality and is intended as a motor of social change, revelations about women systemically being paid lesser salaries are bound to shine a spotlight on wider issues around discrimination on gender or minority lines.

About 11.5 percent of Howrey's Washington, D.C., partnership consists of minorities, the NLJ reports.

The Entertainment Software Association doesn't address race in its Essential Facts about the Computer and Video Game Industry report, though it offers a fellowship program designed to encourage minority students to get involved in gaming.