Sentences with phrase «alarming reports on»

Such thoughts come to mind in the wake of alarming reports on the achievement levels of many Colorado high school students and the fact the State Board of Education has less than a month to adopt guidelines for graduation mandated a few years ago.

You may have missed it, but on Thursday a nonpartisan arm of Congress released a rather alarming report on the national debt crisis.

France's health authority has released an alarming report on the potentially toxic effects of a controversial industrial chemical used in food packaging on pregnant women and their unborn children.

Officials from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction will present an alarming report on the educational performance of students with disabilities at today's State Board of Education meeting that calls into question the quality of education the state's most vulnerable children receive.

It's a year since the State received an alarming report on...

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Now, we're getting some more details on exactly what happened: The performer reported thought he was taking traditional prescription Vicodin but was actually taking a counterfeit treatment laced with the far more powerful (and deadly) opioid fentanyl, which has become an increasing source of alarm for public health officials.

Studies relying on self - reported data have come to even more alarming conclusions; a survey conducted by the U.K. branch of Weight Watchers, for example, found that people were sitting an average of 14 hours and 39 minutes a day.

Deutsche Bank is seeking to replace Chief Executive John Cryan amid an intensified boardroom row over the bank's future and alarm at its performance, the Times newspaper reported on Monday.

Social media accounts on Twitter reported that the park had been evacuated, and several news outlets — including Russian propaganda stations RT and Sputnik — published alarming stories based on the tweets, which escalated in hysteria as the afternoon stretched on.

The Chamber of Commerce put out a report today — actually I can't find much in the way of background research on their web site — which points with alarm to labour and skills shortages, and calls for a less generous EI program to get -LSB-...]

The Chamber of Commerce put out a report today — actually I can't find much in the way of background research on their web site — which points with alarm to labour and skills shortages, and calls for a less generous EI program to get workers to move to the supposedly available jobs.

Its report, only mildly alarmed, was based on misleading FBI - prepared «short summaries» of COINTEL incidents.

Now it is up to the clergy, who more and more can begin to act on the convictions expressed by the U.N. report, which opens with the words «Alarmed by the threat to the very survival of mankind,» and proceeds:»... the accumulation of weapons, particularly nuclear weapons, today constitutes much more a threat than a protection for the future of mankind.

Most alarming, probably, is that there are no real restrictions on the way the facial detection is being used, so officers can regularly run searches on people's faces without any sort of reasonable suspicion, something that 16 states allow, according to the report.

Real time monitoring, HACCP monitoring, Live Data streaming, alarm and fault history reports are included in the iMax 1000 and can be accessed on the controller itself or by PC.

Scientists have been sounding the alarm on the danger of glyphosate for years now, but it has apparently taken a report from the World Health Organization last year stating that the science on glyphosate shows it is likely linked to cancer, to get the FDA to finally start testing American food for glyphosate.

You know you're at an awesome hotel when a sign on the desk reports how much your bill will go up if you steal the alarm clock.

A new edition of No Kid Hungry's Hunger In Our Schools report surveyed three groups on the front lines of childhood hunger — families, teachers and kids themselves — and found alarming statistics about the challenges for those facing hunger.

«The report is clearly edging on the side of precaution and people should not be unnecessarily alarmed.»

Ponte also told the NYC Council he didn't know city rules banned him from using his government car for jaunts out of state, wasn't alarmed about an underling potentially eavesdropping on investigators — and admitted he hasn't even read a key report on closing Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex he oversees.

Erie County leaders expressed alarm and outrage over a report by National Public Radio on Friday that the Trump administration is thinking about gutting several federal programs aimed at fighting the opioid drug crisis.

Responding to a review of 19 research papers, funded by Cancer Research UK, which reported information on cancer false alarms and the impact on people reporting future symptoms, including six carried out in the UK, Davinia Green, Head of Breast Awareness and Early Detection at Breast Cancer Care, says:

The command spokesman, Dsp Okasanmi Ajayi in a statement on Friday described the report as a «false alarm, adding that no bank robbery occurred in the State.

The Hall of Justice, the 4 - year - old criminal court building on 161st Street that was supposed to be something of a civic architectural gem, is still plagued with faulty elevators, electrical wiring and fire alarms, not to mention a leaky roof and an underground parking garage and courtyard that remain off limits, the Daily News reports.

-- Parents at Great Oaks Charter School on Delancey Street sound the alarm following the release of a traffic safety report.

On Dec. 29, 2014, an alarm went off, indicating low pressure in the fire suppression system at the Unit 2 reactor, according to the report.

Alarmed over the number of reported rapes in the city, elected officials are calling on police to beef up security.

That includes audible door alarms and DOE training on related safety protocols to the City Council in a formal report by May 30, 2015.

A report released on Tuesday by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office raised alarms over the state's budget picture, finding lower tax revenue and a $ 4.1 billion budget gap.

State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) and Councilman Ritchie Torres (D - Bronx), joined by Councilman Mark Treyger (D - Brooklyn) and outraged New York City Housing Development tenants, released an alarming investigative report on Tuesday, «Sex Offenders in Public Housing: NYCHA Residents at Risk,» detailing a sharp rise in predators illegally residing in public housing developments across the city.

ALBANY — The executive director of the Washington, D.C. - based Food & Water Watch on Wednesday sent an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo «to express concern and alarm regarding recently reported ties between your live - in girlfriend, Food Network celebrity Sandra Lee, and the petroleum industry.»

The threat was made on social media and a faulty sensor set off a fire alarm that exacerbated fears of a threat, the Daily Times reported.

Senator Jeff Klein recently released an alarming report analyzing the growing problem of assaults on corrections officers and staff and the seemingly unabated flow of contraband into our prisons.

Erie County leaders expressed alarm and outrage Saturday over a report by National Public Radio on Friday that the Trump administration is thinking about gutting several federal programs aimed at fighting the opioid drug crisis.

Chu cited his role in key reports by National Academies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on the competitiveness of the U.S. scientific enterprise and the state of fundamental research, studies that «sounded alarms that the health of science, science education and integration of science into public decision - making in the U.S. was in peril and heading in the wrong direction,» he said in his candidacy statement.

The study, which is published today in Scientific Reports, used a mathematical model that takes into account whether people are naturally more of a morning or evening person, the impact of natural and artificial light on the body clock and the typical time of an alarm clock, to predict the effects of delaying school start times.

Last month SAR, based at New York University in New York City, released a new report that sounds the alarm on this issue.

International checks on plutonium are so lax that terrorists or would - be nuclear nations could acquire enough plutonium to make eight nuclear bombs without ringing any alarm bells, a pressure group claims in a report released this week.

Actual catches on the islands were an alarming 2.8 times, or 86 % higher than that reported to the FAO, and this has very troubling implications.

«Under - reporting of fisheries catches threatens Caribbean marine life: Actual catches on the islands were an alarming 2.8 times, or 86 percent higher than that reported to the FAO, and this has very troubling implications.»

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), the trade group for sugar - cane ethanol from Brazil, criticized the IPCC for raising alarm on biofuels in the Working Group II report published on March 31.

Some smokers do respond with anger or indifference to alarming pictures on cigarette packages, but in numerous health surveys around the world many smokers report that graphic images motivate them to quit.

New Scientist reports on an alarming new threat to genetic privacy

When molecular biologist and Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman first sounded the alarm about the need for major overhauls to the way the United States trains its biomedical workforce in the 1998 National Academies of Science report Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists, many of her proposals fell on deaf ears.

The Associated Press reports that the waist - high robot, on the job since September, is built atop a three - wheel scooter and features a home - alarm loudspeaker attached to a walkie - talkie that allows Terrill to order vagrants to clear out of his bar from a safe distance.

FDA documents show that cows injected with rBGH are 79 percent more likely to contract mastitis.4 In 1991, a report on Monsanto's BGH test herd at the University of Vermont found the same kinds of problems identified by the FDA, plus an alarming number of dead and deformed calves born to cows treated with BGH.5 Other problems include reproductive difficulties, increased need for antibiotics, digestive problems, enlarged hocks and lesions, and foot problems.

While this news shouldn't be alarming, I dug a little deeper and read that last year, the Los Angeles Times reported on this trend, and there's actually a name for this mobile phone anxiety disorder — Nomophobia.

I hate to get heavy here, and ruin your buzz, but alarming figures released by The National Crime Agency (NCA) show the number of people reporting rape on their first date with someone they met on a dating website or app has risen by more than 450 % in five years.

One newspaper even reported that a school in Scotland had its fire alarm maliciously activated 15 times in two months interfering with important exams on consecutive days (Source: Daily Record, 2016).

The good thing about these little squawk alarms is that if you can get the more responsible pupils on your side, you can ask them to report any pupil they hear or see touching the alarm system to a teacher, which is especially useful if a teacher isn't nearby at the time of the incident.