Sentences with phrase «almost federal ones»

Not exact matches

ALMOST all of the failed bidders are pleased with the federal government's surprise decision to set up a company that will build a high - speed national broadband network (NBN), with criticism coming from one failed NBN bidder.

Almost six in 10 adults (57 %) say they would be willing to pay one dollar more per week in taxes to increase federal funding for the scientific research into the causes and treatment of pain.

Over the 10 years between budget 2006 and budget 2014, and including the PM's announcements in October 2014, the net impact of all tax measures will be almost $ 332 billion, equal to almost 17 per cent of annual GDP and almost one - half of total federal debt.

Americans share almost one - third of the fruits of economic output (via taxes that help pay for an array of social services) through their federal, state, and local governments.

So you'd conclude that the January 1, 2012 reduction in the CIT rate from 16.5 % to 15 % would reduce revenues by about $ 3b, and increasing the federal rate from 16.5 % back to (say) 24 % would increase CIT revenues by some $ 15b - almost one per cent of GDP.

Although first reported in a local paper, it was left to BC - based The Tyee to break open this scandal, which includes a concerted federal government cover - up of information about the TFWP, including a new TFWP initiative called the Canada - Alberta pilot project — one that has been left almost completely unregulated and which likely paved the way for the dismissal of those 270 tradespeople.

One scenario is that markets almost always underestimate how much and how fast the Federal Reserve will hike.

«As was almost universally expected, the FOMC» - the Federal Open Market Committee — «closed the year with its one - and - only rate hike of 2016.

The level of dependency on public assistance for basic economic survival has essentially doubled since 1964; almost one - half of all black children are supported in part by transfers from the state and federal governments.

-LSB-...] overview of where federal school food reform now stands, almost one year after President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 into law.

Nestle is a professor in the nutrition, food studies and public health department at New York University, and here she provides a concise but comprehensive overview of where federal school food reform now stands, almost one year after President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 into law.

Because whatever this announcement means in the end, you and I — and almost a quarter million others — managed in just over ONE WEEK to get a federal agency to change course on an issue we care about.

This structural deficiency of what government spends its resources on and who are the real beneficiaries thereof, is worsened by another structural problem - the structure of Nigeria's pseudo-federation with one overwhelmingly large and not surprisingly wasteful and inefficient federal governments; 36 handicapped states; and 774 almost utterly useless local governments which are now de facto area offices of the handicapped states and therefore doubly - disabled and dysfunctional.

One big issue who that almost always there will be some people who benefit from one situation and others who benefit from another and a federal control board is going to have winners and loseOne big issue who that almost always there will be some people who benefit from one situation and others who benefit from another and a federal control board is going to have winners and loseone situation and others who benefit from another and a federal control board is going to have winners and losers.

To the surprise of almost no one, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has turned a deaf ear to pleas that it at least reconsider its decision — effective May 1 — to create a new energy capacity zone linking the Mid-Hudson with New York City.

Judge Maryanne Trump Barry presides on the 4th federal circuit Court of Appeals, and certainly has all the traditional requirements for appointment to the SCOTUS, except perhaps one — she's 79 years old, which almost certainly precludes her from consideration.

ALBANY — Bernie Sanders may be the one supporting a $ 15 federal minimum wage, but it's Hillary Clinton who has scooped up support from almost all of the state's biggest and most powerful unions.

Moving the skills one develops as a Science & Technology Policy Fellow from the federal to state or local level comes almost naturally.

In one of the longest cases — lasting almost five years — in the history of the U.S. federal courts, Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, Judge Earl R. Larson concluded in the 1973 verdict that Eckert and Mauchly's patent for the ENIAC was invalid.

By doing this one step we would not only cut federal spending (which seems nearly impossible and almost blasphemous for me to utter) but we would also level the playing field some for organic farming to gain more ground in the marketplace and make organic options more available for others.

Again, across these countries and across these populations, the average salt intake was about one and a half teaspoons a day, which is almost 50 percent above what federal guidelines consider the safe upper limit, which is, again, between 1500 — well, 1500 is really the safe upper limit; 2300 is really the upper, upper limit for healthy Americans... ish.

To one hunter, deer seem to become almost completely Constitution of India - Whether Federal or Unitary.

Goodman's film, while stressing Timothy McVeigh's virtually one - man show in accumulating the needed materials for a bomb which he detonated on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, spends almost half of its ninety - eight minutes giving the backdrop — not way back to third - party structures like the anti-Catholic Know Nothing movement of 1855 but stretching to the mischief - making of two of McVeigh's forefathers.

Oh and I'm sure you've all heard about the numerous awful plot hololes that plagued the finale, but I'd like to add one I saw in the episode before: How the f# % @ did a FEDERAL MARSHAL fail to recognize Saxxon after his face had been all over TV for almost 2 days?

Delegates to the National Education Association's annual meeting took up almost every issue under the sun — from health - insurance coverage to «free trade,» from reading instruction to chalk dust — but the one that cast the biggest shadow was the new federal education law, the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001.

The federal government also provided almost $ 7 billion in grants annually to the 2,700 public and private Head Start programs across the country, which offer one million low - income children and their families education, health, and nutrition services.

Providing a non-arbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible...» He says that the agency's subjective measures of equity grant almost complete control to federal regulators over a district's administration, something that is at odds with the very structure of the American educational system and will surely damage local control.

Almost every time one looks at an Education Department initiative nowadays, one is forced to wonder why they persist in thinking that education utopia can be attained via federal regulation.

While Sheridan, Sidwell Friends and the Washington International School each have one voucher student, the Academy for Ideal Education depends almost entirely on the federal program.

I differ on this point as to the weight of its contributing impact, because this one - time decrease in state funding for public education doesn't alter the fact that for the past 20 years in Texas, total annual public education funding from all sources — local, state, and federal — has increased by almost twice the sum of inflation and enrollment growth over that period, even after an adjustment for the growth in special education students.

That debt was repaid almost one year after the federal government filed the tax lien, the Cumberland County Court's clerk said.

Given the almost total absence of research evidence supporting the effectiveness of professional development for teachers as it has been conceptualized in the U.S.A. (in effect, supporting the proposed cut in the proposed federal budget), one is left wondering if the major purpose of the US News article was to criticize the current presidential administration for proposing to eliminate it, as suggested by the sub-title.

In Howey's data, 944 authors out of the 3,439 authors of the almost 7000 Amazon best - sellers (with estimated sales greater than one book per day) were estimated to have earned above federal minimum wage ($ 7.25 * 8 hours = $ 58 / day) from their best - selling books on data collection day.

When it comes down to a choice between federal and private student loans, the federal ones should almost always be higher in priority.

While you may prefer one federal loan over another, you'll almost always get better terms than you would with a private loan.

With our Online Bill Pay + Tax Payments, you can make online payments to almost anyone you want — from cell phone providers to office supply vendors to state, and Federal tax agencies — all in one convenient place.

A study by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that almost one in four credit reports contains errors that are serious enough to cause a consumer to be denied credit, a loan, an apartment, or even a job.

Enhancement to the federal child tax benefit — which will cost the government almost $ 3 billion this year — is just one of an array of financial goodies Canada's three major political parties are rolling out to woo coveted middle - class voters.

Repayment solutions fail the nearly one - half of African American borrowers who default on their loans.6 Although the federal government measures and enforces sanctions on colleges with high default rates, the accountability measure fails to track almost one - half of all defaults, which explains why only 10 institutions are at risk of losing access to federal aid this year.7

Already, one US District Court judge has reversed one of many rollbacks Zinke has ordered; almost all of which, so far, have served to lessen environmental protections while increasing opportunities for using federal lands to drill for oil and gas.

«The Manufacturers Alliance's Donald Norman and API's Howard Feldman will warn that the agency's regulations would be too expensive for industry and put almost the entire country into nonattainment for federal air quality limits, including rural areas where no one lives.

The wind industry faces uncertainty again as a key federal incentive for wind farms expired, almost one year after getting a reprieve.

Alberta's government ushered the first oil sands mine to completion in 1967 and joined with the federal and Ontario governments to provide almost a third of the capital needed to build the second one.

With the extension of the US Federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for solar, 2016 will almost surely see the One Millionth solar installation in the first half of the year.

Federal laws, to take just one more example, do an almost adequate job of serving up decent URLs.

The federal courts and state courts have concurrent jurisdiction over almost all federal courts (one or two federal claims can only be brought in state court, and federal court has exclusively jurisdiction over a handful of kinds of claims).

One important consideration to remember is that just because life insurance death benefits are almost always federal income tax free the death benefit may still be subject to federal estate taxes.

Back in early 2016, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to pursue all possible solutions to unlock the iPhone 5c owned by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook before demanding Apple's help accessing the device, reports Reuters.The information was shared today in a report issued by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General.According to the report, the FBI's in - house unit that handles breaking into mobile devices did not begin looking for outside help to unlock Farook's iPhone until the night before the FBI demanded Apple's help through a court filing.The FBI was aware that one of the vendors contacted at that point in time had «almost 90 percent completed» a technical solution that would allow the FBI access to the phone.

As of Aug. 14, Equity One was trading at $ 25.34, 14 percent below its 52 - week high of $ 29.51, and Federal Realty was trading at $ 75.24 per share, almost 24 percent below its 52 - week high of $ 98.92.

The reason: Almost 40 years after passage of the landmark federal Fair Housing Act, one in five African Americans and one in three disabled persons still face housing discrimination in the United States, according to HUD.