Sentences with phrase «attempt at budget»

Among the things that Google has unveiled at this year's I / O are the public beta of Android O, which is the next major version of the mobile operating system; the upgraded Google Photos; and Android Go, the company's second attempt at budget Android smartphones.

Motorola's latest cheap but powerful phone is the company's third attempt at a budget handset, and while there are no big differences over previous phones a few tweaks have improved this model, and it offers an impressive spec list for this end of the market.

There are various spins to this attempt at budget efficiency activism.

«As well, the failed attempt at a budget compromise by Congress and the President — the so - called Super Committee «Grand Bargain — was a $ 4 trillion battle plan over 10 years» worth $ 400 billion a year.

I've made one or two attempts at a budget before, but got discouraged and stoppped.

If attempts at budgeting or working out arrangements with creditors haven't produced a solution and you're on the brink of becoming destitute, declaring bankruptcy can work to eliminate most of your debts and allow you to start over again.

Not exact matches

The reconciliation instructions — the part of the budget that will most likely be acted on — increases deficits by $ 1.5 trillion and abandons the House's attempt at including $ 200 billion of mandatory savings.

Whether or not a budget cap will work at all is another matter, though - after all, it totally flopped the last time F1 attempted to introduce one, back in 2009...

So we're not attempting to rush through a two - way at 12:01 a.m. when we think we can actually get this last piece of the budget closed down successfully in three - way negotiations.»

During his budget testimony in Albany earlier this month, de Blasio highlighted his administration's attempt at turning around struggling schools: a $ 150 million Renewal Schools program to add academic supports and turn the schools into community schools with social services.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

Actor Mark Ruffalo is one of 100 wealthy New Yorkers who have signed an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a last - ditch attempt to get him to change his mind about continuing to tax wealthy state residents at a higher rate to generate revenue to restore some budget cuts.

In the overall scheme of things these pre-arranged little protests aimed at getting media coverage are not too effective and the e-mail blasts sent out by every special interest group to protest changes to their little corners of the budget pie and protect the paychecks of those who are writing them don't quite stack up against the masses that are overwhelming supporting the new Governor and the change he is attempting to bring to the state.

Connecticut lawmakers are expected to be back at the state Capitol on Tuesday with an attempt to override Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's veto of the Republican - backed budget.

Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein have made layoffs — currently estimated at more than 4,000 teachers — the centerpiece of their attempt to balance the city's budget.

«Very rarely we've had a day where we've had more than 10 bills under consideration at all, and we're roughly halfway through the session calendar,» said Senate Democratic floor leader Mike Gianaris on Wednesday, about an hour after his attempts to get a vote on his conference's budget proposal came to naught.

Beyond these organized efforts, Mulvaney also personally attempted sweeping cuts to the nondefense budget on at least one occasion.

When New Horizons roared into a blue Florida sky on 18 January 2006, it was met with excitement and frustration in equal measure: excitement because, after so many fruitless attempts to send a spacecraft to Pluto — ranging from the ill - fated Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF) to the Pluto Kuiper Express (PKE), which breathed their last in ferocious NASA budget cuts in the 1990s and at the turn of the millennium — a mission to explore the last of the nine «traditional» planets in the Solar System was underway, tempered with frustration that it would require such a long period of time in order to reach its quarry.

Similarly, many studies that attempt to examine the co-variability between Earth's energy budget and temperature (such as in many of the pieces here at RC concerning the Spencer and Lindzen literature) are only as good as the assumptions made about base state of the atmosphere relative to which changes are measured, the «forcing» that is supposedly driving the changes (which are often just things like ENSO, and are irrelevant to radiative - induced changes that will be important for the future), and are limited by short and discontinuous data records.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Though it does look a lot like a low budget, serious attempt at Joel Schumacher Batman movie.

The live action attempt at adapting Where the Wild Things Are created quite a bit of buzz, but in terms of box office numbers, it barely earned back its $ 100 million production budget.

The latest look (above) at the sequel to the 2013 low - budget hit «The Purge» includes the introduction of Frank Grillo («Warrior»), who plays a character out for revenge, but ends up shepherding (or at least attempting to) a group of survivors that are unfit for the government - sanctioned chaos on their own.

When: October 21st (limited) Why: Although it's technically been available on Video On Demand for a few weeks now, Kevin Smith's low - budget attempt at making a horror movie is getting a limited theatrical run towards the end of October in conjunction with its home video release.

This low - budget telefilm rarely gets any attention by Spielberg fans or horror enthusiasts who seem to prefer DUEL (1971) or his later attempt at producing a supernatural thriller, POLTERGEIST (1982).

After shooting the low - budget Monster (whose visual effects he funded himself), director Gareth Edwards got his shot at the big time by being given the huge budget to shoot the latest attempt by Warner Bros. to make a decent American version of Godzilla, 16 years after Roland Emmerich's pretty awful effort.

The world rolled its collective eyes at the prospect of a big budget Hollywood attempt to squash such an intricate web of plots into a two - hour film.

The last big budget attempt at an honest - to - god pirate movie (and I'm excluding last year's «Treasure Planet» because it was a mixture of genres) was «Cutthroat Island,» which was such a disastrous flop that it not only wounded director Renny Harlin's career, but his marriage to Geena Davis as well.

2017's Going in Style is the big - budget attempt at directorial career reboot for unfashionable funnyman auteur Zack Braff, who has assembled his own septuagenarian comedy supergroup in Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin.

Any attempt at zero - based budgeting would require decisionmakers to understand and work within the constraints imposed by these funding streams, each of which is typically earmarked for a specific group of students or a particular school program.

Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein have made layoffs — currently estimated at more than 4,000 teachers — the centerpiece of their attempt to balance the city's budget.

The first half of 2016 brought high stakes and high drama to Los Angeles» education scene, from dire budget predictions to heated charter debates to attempts at overhauling teacher tenure laws.

Away from boarding schools and instead looking at SEN provision, Mark Baker discusses the challenges of budget cuts in schools attempting to meet new reforms Children and young...

The government is seeking savings of $ 2.8 billion from higher education over the budget period, in another attempt at a major shake - up of Australia's university sector.

The House also would attempt to eliminate the waiting list for pre-kindergarten programs for at - risk 4 - year - olds by mid-2019, in keeping with Cooper's budget, although the House would use federal funds to do it, not state funds as Cooper has proposed.

Volkswagen's first attempt at the modern budget sports car was the Concept R (2004) and then the EcoRacer (2005).

What we're seeing here is just another episode of the boardroom savvy / life clueless idiots whose last haircut cost more than my food budget's attempts at destroying all of our livelihoods, industry by industry.

Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary will be Toei Animation's attempt at delivering a «top - level budget» 3D CGI film, with a story covering... Read more»

Heading to T - Mobile USA and Vodafone UK in August, the BlackBerry 8520 is RIM's latest attempt at luring in the average consumer to its line of smartphones with a very budget friendly price.

If you're looking for help in super simple budgeting, meshing the theory of your retirement budget with the reality of your current cash budget, spending only cash is a great way to attempt that as a trial run at retirement.

Most people that sit down with their spouse and make an honest attempt at creating a budget find that they actually feel like they got a raise.

For the budgeting tools at Mint and cash flow summary in Personal Capital, the two apps attempt to automatically categorize and display every account's transactions.

«We invest significant resources in this space, with full - time staff and budget to secure advertising,» said Kenneth Oh, general manager for the pet care division of W.F. Young in East Longmeadow, Mass. «More importantly, we not only attempt to educate the consumer, but also give them a reason to complete the purchase at their local retailer through sale incentives and other means.»

By Cathy Martin Special to Lost Girls When attempting to check in at a budget hotel on a recent trip to Toulouse, France, my aunt and uncle's Bank of America credit cards were received with confusion and ultimately refused, the well - meaning staff contending the Visa cards were incompatible with their...

While it's easy to laugh at what is blatantly an attempt to horn in on the Wii format at a budget price it is, in a sense, quite worrying.

I'm talking, of course, about WRC3 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted — two very different games with vastly different budgets, yet both represent the developer's first attempt at a Vita game.

The game is developer Ninja Theory's first attempt at reviving the mid-tier video game, building the title with a modest budget and smaller team.

Such gigantic sums would understandably intimidate many from attempting to develop games at the AAA level, and Anfossi acknowledges the stress involved with having to ensure a project with such a massive budget succeeds.

There were two attempts at boosting ARPA - E's budget (a list of amendments can be found here).

Other than budget certainty (at the highest end, mind you), there is no risk sharing in these kinds of proposals and they make no attempt to reduce the client's outlay.