Sentences with phrase «biggest funding sources»

She says for example, one of the district's biggest funding sources, state aid, has declined three years in a row.

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Increasingly, there's a new technological race in which hedge funds and other well - heeled investors armed with big - data analytics instantly analyze millions of Twitter messages and other non-traditional information sources to buy and sell stocks faster than smaller investors can hit «retweet.»

The federal government is the biggest source of funding, and even that doesn't amount to much.

March 26 - U.S. gunmaker Remington Outdoor Co has obtained commitments for nearly $ 300 million from its existing lenders, including some of the biggest U.S. banks, after new sources of funding dried up in the months leading up to its filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

In addition to start - ups» concerns about taking on the big platforms, they have at their disposal a flood of capital from new funding sources, such as Softbank's $ 100 billion Vision Fund, allowing them to stay private for longer periods of time.

The U.S. is now the world's largest debtor nation, and the biggest sources of capital are the large sovereign wealth funds of the Middle East, Russia, and China.

March 26 (Reuters)- U.S. gunmaker Remington Outdoor Co has obtained commitments for nearly $ 300 million from its existing lenders, including some of the biggest U.S. banks, after new sources of funding dried up in the months leading up to its filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

GigaOm reported Snapchat is in the middle of closing a big round of funding led by Benchmark Capital, and our sources indicate it's raising over $ 10 million at a $ 70 million valuation.

TechCrunch has learned that Patreon has closed a big Series C round of funding, three sources confirm.

Many young Indians are now choosing to learn Chinese to access a bigger pool of job opportunities in Chinese - funded enterprises, as more and more Chinese enterprises go to the country to do business Source: Xinhua 2018/5/2 17:03:39

The four biggest Greek banks received 18 billion euros (US$ 22.6 billion) in rescue funds on May 28, 2012 to help reinforce their capital bases, a Hellenic financial stability fund source said.

As you can tell from its title, a Sources, and Uses of Funds statement shows the reader the information needed to get the «big picture» of:

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The proceeds have helped fund the development of new almond orchards — the biggest source of its income — and acquisitions in new high - value markets including buying macadamia orchards in Bundaberg and a $ 42 million portfolio of cattle breeding and finishing properties in Northern Queensland, lifting the value of its total portfolio to around $ 350 million.

The main source over the past few months has been a return to a coherent transfer policy — something which can be extremely difficult in the Championship, particularly when the money is there to fund big - money signings.

A plausible argument could be made that upstate hick Senators have incentives to block progress in the NYC schools so that they have greater reason to move towards Cheaters Schools — another source of big hedge fund donors for the TEAPubs Senators!

Capitol sources say there's a chance for a session in the middle of this week — both Cuomo and Flanagan have big political fund - raisers scheduled for Monday — but it's equally possible negotiations could drag into July or even August.

About 85 communities would see their education cost sharing grants, the biggest source of state funding for public education in Connecticut, cut to zero in October.

Robert Foran, the MTA's chief financial officer, said Wednesday that one of the challenges going forward will be to find new, sustainable sources of funding in addition to fares and tolls to support the rising demands of operating and maintaining the country's biggest transit network.

But reacting to a question on whether or not he honoured the invitation, Dr Nduom told Umaru Sanda Amadu on The Big Issue on Saturday [Otober 29] that, the Electoral Commission was the only institution that could ask political parties questions concerning the source of their campaign funds.

Many sources do not agree that the Obama campaign was funded by small donations, and have criticised the lack of transparency which masked the hugely important role of the massive donations from big corporations (eg the financial sector gave more to Obama than to his opponents).

The BMBF is the biggest single source of R&D funding in Germany.

And because US electronics companies — the biggest buyers — are going elsewhere, the price of minerals from such conflict areas has dropped by two - thirds, making them less appealing to rebel groups as a source of funds.

One source of extra funding, which a growing number of savvy schools are starting to wise up to, involves driving value from one of their biggest - and most underused - assets: the school car park.

This plan was originally outlined in the Conservative manifesto and was believed to be the biggest source of extra funding promised for schools.

In particular, savings accounts which are initially funded by an outside source (either a government or a foundation) can make a big difference, even with small savings amounts.

«I think School Board members will have a big conscience problem, and a lot of hot taxpayers, if they provide funds to a source which is not accountable to them as board members,» Matthews said.

This continued into the 1970s, when school funding lawsuits and property tax reforms such as California's Prop. 13, forced states to become the single - biggest source of funding for public school systems.

This equation forces you to really consider your biggest cost drivers and funding sources in a district.

This takes away the biggest source of extra funding promised for schools in the Conservative manifesto.

The other big source able to fund such massive TFSA contribution limits will likely be the large RRSPs or RRIFs of near - retirees and seniors.

Pension funds, insurance companies, banks, and corporations are the biggest customers, buying bonds to have stable sources of cash flows to meet predictable obligations.

SBA loan guarantee programs may not be the biggest source of funds for small business owners, but they do fill an important niche within the small business lending landscape for those that qualify.

The second biggest source of funds is shareholders equity which can be invested with an infinite time horizon.

But Pet Supplies Plus may have remained a relatively small player in the retail pet industry world had management not started to look for an outside revenue source to both level the playing field with the big players in the industry and fund growth.

These devs — who have tens of millions of plays between them — have worked on big games and small, ranging from mobile to Flash to social, with funding from corporations, portals, boot strap and crowd source.

I've never been a big fan of artists and arts orgs being dependent on the government for funding, and now it looks like artists need to be more proactive about finding funding sources outside of government grants.

They denigrate realists as «climate deniers» (deliberately suggesting Holocaust denial) and «oil industry shills» (while hiding their own suspect ethics, data «adjustments,» and Big Green billion - dollar Russian and other funding sources).

Heartland hasn't disclosed the sources of its funding in years (although leaked documents have done some of that work for it), but we know that ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute have been big donors in the past.

And we've got a situation coming in a year or so when the UK's going to leave the European Union and the European Union has traditionally made up quite a big chunk of science funding more generally, or been a source of science funding.

Alternatively you can remind Big oil where I live so they can fund these expensive activities you want me to carry out because you don't seem willing to read the collective wisdom put together over many years by noted historians who have gleaned the weather observations from numerous sources.

During the interview, EDF's Symons «confronted» Ebell about his sources of funding, asking, «Isn't Murray Energy your biggest funder of your dinner?

Greenpeace's own ExxonSecrets web site (created and run by Davies) has a page dedicated to Dr Soon, where it cites the above John Vidal Guardian article as the source to say Dr Soon received a million dollars of «big oil» funding.

It's apparent that, among the plebs like me, the ultimate source of «science» funding, there is a growing skepticism of «big (government) science», and the tide is slowly turning against it.

There is a tremendous disconnect between what most people (especially here in the US) think that the state of the scientific knowledge is, and what it really is — partly, I think, because it's hard to grasp just how big the field of climate science is, partly because of organized disinformation campaigns orchestrated by the likes of Senator Inhofe, Exxon and Massey Energy, and informed by the tactics (and sometimes funding sources) of the tobacco denial movement, and partly because who really * wants * to believe in a big, tough - to - deal - with danger to the well - being of our kids and our society?

With this statement Sir Richard Branson, supporter of the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge, stresses the importance of developing an environment wherein entrepreneurs are better able to source funding to tackle one of the world's biggest challenges - climate change.

I find it interesting that Monbiot has utter faith in research financed by Big Oil, though of course no sane human being would believe that the source of funding for research is a valid argument for or against the truth of the findings, would they?

One big idea is for a 10 - year national advice and legal support fund to be set up by a future government and funded by the two lots of # 50m coming from that government and the second lot from other sources.