Sentences with phrase «billion plan»

Now facing increased competition from Amazon.com Inc. and a resurgent Wal - Mart Stores Inc., Cornell, 58, has responded by unveiling a $ 7 billion plan to open smaller urban stores, remodel others and lower prices.

The federal government came through with real incentives for home buyers when it passed the $ 790 billion economic stimulus package in mid-February, followed a day later with more positive action when the Obama administration released a $ 275 billion plan for helping home owners facing foreclosure (for more on these plans, read «A Stimulus for Home Sales»).

Three years later and another developer appeared, trumpeting a $ 1.2 billion plan to revive the oceanfront — only to see that effort stall out, too.

Also, the Ghermezian family of Edmonton, Alberta, which has controlling interest in the 4.2 million sq. ft. Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., has a $ 1 billion plan to double the mall's size.

Last month, the focus was on a $ 700 billion plan to save the financial - services sector.

He claims that the federal government is adequately protecting the coast of British Columbia with its Ocean Protection Plan, a $ 1.5 - billion plan that promotes marine safety and responsible shipping and has consulted over one hundred Indigenous groups who may potentially be affected by the project.

Alberta and B.C. have been locked in a battle over the future of Kinder Morgan Canada's $ 7.4 - billion plan to triple capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which runs from Edmonton to Burnaby.

$ 6 billion plan to save the world's rainforests risks derailment before it begins, warn leading environmentalists

Transit plays a prominent role in the Alliance's 10 - year, $ 500 billion plan to create 5 million new jobs.

The $ 50 billion plan, intended to strengthen American highways, railroads, and runways, would create jobs and provide much - needed repairs to the nation's transit systems.

In recent years, New Yorkers, like people all over the world, have faced the realities of human - made climate change: extreme storms, rising sea levels, summer heat waves, massive winter nor'easter s, and a $ 20 billion plan to reduce future flooding.

The City of New York has reportedly filed a federal claim seeking damages from BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell to help pay for a $ 20 billion plan to protect the city from the effects of global warming.

The project was completed with little public input, bypassing the Texas Public Utility Commission's Competitive Energy Renewable Zones (CREZ) process in which the PUC designated new transmission routes and assigned companies to add more than 2,300 miles to the grid in a $ 5 billion plan to reduce congestion and allow Texas wind capacity to swell to 18,500 MW by late 2013.

For its own use.The Kingdom has just announced a $ 109 billion plan to create a solar industry that generates a third of the nation's electricity by 2032, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

A Mighty (Texas) Wind A $ 4.93 billion plan to build transmission lines for wind - generated electricity has been approved in Texas.

Officials at Nashville International have released details of a five - year, $ 1.2 billion plan to make over the airport.

This is part of a larger $ 800 billion plan to help homeowners.

The two Liberal leaders did issue a joint statement saying they also talked about the importance of investing in infrastructure, which is good news for Ontario's 10 - year, $ 130 billion plan for roads, bridges and public transit projects.

On the eve of the IAA, the largest car show of the year at Frankfurt, aka the Frankfurt Motor Show, the Volkswagen Group announced a massive $ 84 billion plan that will move the group towards an electric future.

To put America on track towards that goal, the Obama Administration has proposed a six - year, $ 53 billion plan that will provide rail access to new communities; improve the reliability, speed and frequency of existing lines; and, where it makes economic sense, build new corridors where trains will travel at speeds of up to 250 miles per hour.

The budget makes important investments in higher education, too, with a $ 30 billion plan that increases funding to the University of California, California State Universities, and community colleges, and seeks to bolster degree attainment for low - income and underrepresented students through a number of newly funded programs.

With classes now over, Baltimore's $ 1 billion plan to renovate and rebuild schools is entering its most active phase yet.

From jaw - dropping pay and perks at universities to a $ 1 - billion plan to purchase iPads, here are some of 2013's best accountability stories in education.

• Los Angeles Unified School District's $ 1 - billion plan to provide all its students with iPads is not going well, the Los Angeles Times has been reporting.

California: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will hold an industry forum on February 4, 2016, to discuss a $ 5 billion plan to decongest LAX street traffic.

The Bloomberg News article «News Corp.'s $ 1 Billion Plan to Overhaul Education Is Riddled With Failures» outlines the company's efforts to cash in on education without positive results.

The 74: Poll — 75 % of Millennials Support School Choice; Majority of Americans Like Trump's $ 20 Billion Plan http://bit.ly/2j7uLCn

President Donald Trump offered one major K - 12 education proposal during the presidential campaign: a $ 20 billion plan that would reprioritize existing federal education funds to provide vouchers for private - school choice.

http://www.courant.com/politics/hc-budget-deal-connecticut-legislature-0601-20150531-story.html#page=1 It's in — all that $ $ for charter schools: On the spending side of the $ 40 billion plan, negotiators restored full funding sought by Malloy for expanding charter schools, including opening two new schools in Stamford and Bridgeport.

Deasy Resigns as Los Angeles Schools Chief After Mounting Criticism NYT: John E. Deasy, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, had clashed with the school board, and drawn flak for a flawed $ 1.3 billion plan to give iPads to students.

As if that weren't trouble enough, the president's $ 1.5 billion plan entailed shifting to his high - school reform plan funds traditionally spent on vocational education, a move that riled many members of Congress since «voc ed» remains popular back home.

President George W. Bush started things off in January, when he delivered a ringing address at a suburban D.C. high school about the urgency of reforming American high schools and offered a bold $ 1.5 billion plan for doing so.

There has been little for child - care advocates to celebrate since President Clinton announced a $ 21.7 billion plan in January to make high - quality care more affordable.

The Federal Government has announced a $ 1.1 billion plan to increase Australia's innovation, including a renewed focus on promoting science, maths and computing in schools.

Western University President Amit Chakma applauded the Canadian government for creating a $ 1.5 billion plan to bolster innovative research at Canada ’ s universities as part of the 2014 federal budget.

Back when George W. Bush announced a $ 1.2 billion plan to advance hydrogen fuel cells, the idea seemed rather implausible.

That same year the state proposed a $ 14 - billion plan to restore the delta's natural wetlands — which, by absorbing water, can help protect inland areas from sea surges.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters)- TransCanada Corp on Thursday said it would move ahead with Canada's largest - ever pipeline, expanding the scale of its $ 12 billion plan to ship oil sands crude in the West to refiners on its east coast and beyond as its U.S. - bound Keystone XL line stalls in Washington.

The state hopes to save its rapidly disappearing coastline with a 50 - year, $ 50 billion plan based on science that has never been tested

Yesterday New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed a $ 19.5 billion plan to protect his home town against future sea level rise and other effects of climate change such as heat waves.

There's both good news and bad news for researchers who had worried about a new design released this week for the troubled National Children's Study, a $ 3 billion plan to follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21.

The $ 7.8 billion plan, the most expensive restoration effort ever undertaken, calls for a 20 - year overhaul of southern Florida's water management system, with the cost split between the state and the federal government.

Earlier this year, Adrian Baltanas, the national director - general of water, proposed a # 20 billion plan that involves building two hundred large dams and wholesale transfers of water from the north, where most of Spain's rain falls, towards the parched south.

President Emmanuel Macron yesterday announced a $ 1.5 billion plan to turn his country into a world leader for AI research and innovation, a field dominated by the United States and China.

To finally get ahead, the government is seeking assistance for a 10 - year, $ 2.2 billion plan to eliminate cholera, including $ 1.6 billion to improve water and sanitation.

And on Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced financial awards to the developers of 1,200 supportive housing units as part of a five - year, $ 2.6 billion plan.

The Related Companies» West Side Rail Yards complex is going to need more affordable housing units if its $ 15 billion plan is to gain City Council approval, Speaker Christine Quinn said at a hearing on zoning changes for the site yesterday.

«It is time that Albany and City Hall step up to provide greater support to our public higher education system and today all of us here today and countless others are calling upon New York City, City Hall and Albany to commit to a $ 2 billion plan over the next five years,» James said.

Cuomo aides shot back that he has created a tenant protection unit and announced a $ 20 billion plan to address housing and homelessness, including $ 2.5 billion for supportive housing in this year's budget.

«There is a certain appeal to the notion of starting over,» Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, told reporters on Tuesday, while promoting his $ 2.5 billion plan for a Brooklyn - Queens streetcar line.