Sentences with phrase «agency about it last year»

The FBI, for one, would neither confirm nor deny wiretapping Amazon Echo devices when Gizmodo asked the agency about it last year.

The FBI, for one, would neither confirm nor deny wiretapping Amazon Echo devices when Gizmodo asked the agency about it last year.

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As I've chronicled extensively, Exondys is an extremely controversial treatment, and the FDA's decision to approve the therapy over the objections of the agency's own scientific staff stunned many observers last year, raising questions about whether or not the FDA had succumbed to a well - orchestrated and heart - wrenching PR campaign by patients and advocates.

The questions about Russia only deepened late Tuesday when The New York Times reported that U.S. agencies had intercepted phone calls last year between Russian intelligence officials and members of Trump's 2016 campaign team.

Last year the PR agency scored with about half the target media on the top 10 list; that led to a record number of inquiries from potential customers who had read about the company, helping to fuel 32 % sales growth in 1991.

About 40 per cent of the increase over the last three years has been in the law and order departments (Correctional Services Canada and related agencies, Justice and the Canada Border Services Agencies) and defense civiliaagencies, Justice and the Canada Border Services Agencies) and defense civiliaAgencies) and defense civilian staff.

Democratic lawmakers lashed out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday amid a report that the agency was backing off an investigation into a massive data breach at Equifax last year that exposed sensitive data about millions of people.

«The people in football don't know how good they have it,» says Minnesota Twin general manager Andy MacPhail, who knows something about coping with free agency; the Twins are the only team to win two World Series in the last 10 years.

I swear it seemed like we needed a secondary for 10» years before this last couple seasons and they just never did anything about in free agency or the draft until some project guys in the 3rd round.

The state Health Department faced scrutiny last year when it was reported that the agency had brushed off complaints about the brain studies and the branding, which was done by a licensed medical doctor associated with NXIVM.

The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority stands to lose about $ 3.6 million a year in federal funding — and agencies statewide would lose $ 100 million — thanks to a little - noticed amendment to a House transportation bill that passed last week.

Last year, both agencies said they'd been misled about the Rivington House deal.

A study last year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency raised similar concerns about groundwater contamination.

When The Post last week inquired about the year of missing rent, Rangel's office and OGS blamed federal sequestration, not the lost lease referenced in agency correspondence.

It's all about his executive agency, his people, although the sentencing last week of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to 12 years in jail does ring in our ears, and probably also in the governor's.

Playing catch - up without a plan The White House budget request for 2011 included enough money to support roughly 1,600 JPSS staffers, but the agency could only afford to pay about 800 staffers last year because Congress slashed funding for the program.

While he has offered few details on policies for biomedical research, Trump said last year that he has heard «terrible» things about the US National Institutes of Health; he has also derided NASA as a «logistics agency for low - Earth orbit activity ``, and said he would expand the role of the commercial space industry in the US space programme.

Overall, that collective research budget request is essentially unchanged from what the agencies were given for FY 2010, though it is up about 5 % from the Administration's request last year of $ 1.7 billion.

Last fiscal year, NSF — like NIH — funded about 1 in 5 research grant applications, according to the agency's most recent budget submission.

A University of Texas study found last year that natural gas wells leak methane at about the rate reported in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency methane emission inventories, and the leaks can be contained with emissions control technology.

At last year's Take Back event, law enforcement agencies and community groups collected about 447 tons of unwanted prescription drugs.

She journeys into an area sealed off by the government for the last 30 years as an environmental disaster zone with the help of a secret agency known as the Southern Reach that has sent many expeditions over the years to discover the truth about «Area X».

Logline: Seeking answers to her husband's tragic disappearance, a biologist journeys into an area sealed off by the government for the last 30 years as an environmental disaster zone with the help of a secret agency known as the Southern Reach has sent many expeditions over the years to discover the truth about «Area X».

About a year later, Random House became the last big - six publisher to adopt the agency pricing model.

Publishers Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Holtzbrinck, Apple and HarperCollins offered to terminate ongoing agency agreements and give retailers freedom to discount e-books, subject to certain conditions during a two - year period, last December, following an antitrust investigation by the European Commission into concerns about price - fixing.

If most people know about this agency at all, it's for some high - profile sanctions to big banks, like the $ 100 million fine it levelled against Wells - Fargo last year for opening more than a million new accounts without authorization from the account - holders.

Last year, the agency distributed more than $ 6 billion in farm loans to about 40,000 recipients.

This is what was indicated to me last year when I contacted both these agencies about Advantage and Frontline.

Last year's letter called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to restore inspection reports and other documents abruptly purged from the agency's website in February 2017, leaving the public in the dark about violators of the AWA and the Horse Protection Act on soring.

About 2 million Chinese visited Indonesia last year, accounting for about 15 percent of inbound tourists, Xinhua News Agency repAbout 2 million Chinese visited Indonesia last year, accounting for about 15 percent of inbound tourists, Xinhua News Agency repabout 15 percent of inbound tourists, Xinhua News Agency reports.

Flashback: December 18th last year David King made similar claims about sinister government agencies hacking the emails, which was call «far - fetched» in this BBC report at the time, du n no why it's getting legs again this time?

Last year, we wrote about David Lola, a document review attorney who sued Skadden, Arps and his placement agency.

In September of last year, I blogged about a decision of the Federal Court of Canada that ordered eBay to hand over to the Canada Revenue Agency information about Canadian «power sellers».

Just last week, they were accused by South Korea's spy agency as being behind attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges this year, stealing about $ 6.99 million worth of cryptocurrencies.

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Outgoing HUD Secretary Julián Castro expressed concerns about the fate of the agency in an interview with NPR last week, saying, «I'd be lying if I said I'm not concerned about the possibility of going backward over the next four years.»

In Colorado the average income of the assisted homebuyer has been moving up steadily in the past few years, and last year it was about $ 35,000, says David Martinez, a spokesman for the Colorado Housing Finance Agency.

The Federal Housing Administration, created during the Depression era, has been a steadying presence in residential markets for the last two years, yet some buyers, sellers, and even practitioners remain hesitant about the agency's role, believing that obtaining federally backed mortgage loans requires more hoops to jump through than conventional mortgages do.

The agency made only about a half - dozen loans in the southwestern region in the year before the first mortgagemobile was introduced; last year, that number jumped to more than 200, Taylor says.

By Kathy Bevan CREA's Agency Task Force is holding an «Agency Summit» meeting with executive representatives of provincial real estate associations from across the country in September to gather feedback about whether or not to issue a national response to the recommendations filed by the Canadian Regulators Group (CRG) Agency Task Force (ATF) last year.