Sentences with phrase «citizen groups focused»

In 1949, he took charge of the newly created National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, which, by the end of the 1950s, helped spur the creation of more than 15,000 citizen groups focused on working with local district officials to improve local school problems.

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The talks between Apple and Goldman Sachs are focused on providing financing for an upgrade program similar to what the tech company launched in 2015 with Citizens Financial Group.

Drawing connections between this group and Fox News North, a former vice-president of the National Citizens Coalition, Gerry Nicholls, questioned why his former organization has focused on «shilling» for Sun News Network.

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

We will join with the Angels in marble and defeat your plan to reduce us from pro-active citizens to a fucking focus group.

«Unfortunately, «Citizens for District 13» — a group that my office has never heard of in the many years of dealing with community organizations — appears more focused on furthering a counterproductive anti-Independent Democratic Conference agenda than taking any action that has to do with a healthy and constructive debate about the future of this district,» he wrote.

Shale Network for the past six years has fostered a dialogue about shale drilling between concerned citizens, watershed groups, government regulators and personnel from large energy companies by focusing on publicly available water quality data.

Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, a group that focuses on engaging Republicans on climate policy, welcomed the plan.

I recently completed a focus group in which I spoke with 30 senior citizens about the secrets of a happy life.

Larry Yust's black comedy focuses on a group of senior citizens who learn they're about to be evicted from their apartment building.

Focusing on the leaders of two groups — one in charge of a citizens» anti-cartel organization known as the Autodefensas, another the head of a self - appointed border patrol in Arizona — the pic finds most of its best moments in the action - packed scenes south of the Rio Grande.

Focusing on the leaders of two groups — one in charge of a citizens» anti-cartel organization known as the Autodefensas, another the head of a self - appointed border patrol in Arizona -LSB-...]

Matthew Heinemann's City of Ghosts takes place in another sieged Syrian city, IS stronghold Raqqa, focusing on the city's citizen journalist network, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a group that records and releases in secret from this controlled zone, at considerable risk.

But knowing about character and putting character into action are two different things, so in 1987 a group of 120 concerned citizens gathered to decide which values would be important to focus on for the students and families in the Friendswood Independent School District.

The story is set one hundred years ahead of the present and focuses on a group of Canadian citizens -LSB-...]

On now at NYC's The Untitled Space, coinciding with the anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration, the group show ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE features the work of 80 + artists — each of whom created pieces that celebrate art as activism, but also focus on various issues that US citizens are facing.

After you take out the occasional embarrassment like the citizens assembly on delaying action against climate change as long as electorally convenient, the climate achievements of those governments come down to remarkably low proposed emission reductions, increases in MRET, a series of on again off again focus group - driven programs like Green Loans and the solar feed - in tariff, and shovelling as much coal as possible out of the ground and exporting it.

In terms of dealing with the U.S., the focus should shift toward working with cities, states, businesses, and citizens groups.

His research focuses on the intersection of science communication and the politics of scientific issues, especially energy and climate change, and aims to both broaden citizen participation in scientific issues such as energy and improve the work of groups already active in movements toward a clean energy economy.

In that sense, there is a clear pragmatism to Staff's framing of the case, since Staff have narrowed their focus to the four named individuals (three of whom are Canadian citizens), and are apparently willing to let the mystery group of foreign nationals — who benefitted the most from the alleged illicit scheme — off the hook.

In the Bitcoin news today — Venezuelan authorities are cracking down on Bitcoin mining facilities and are focused on «weakening» these mining operations within the region; Ethereum at a crossroad as corporate interest grows; Last week at the World Economic Forum 2017 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the technology firm Bitfury announced the formation of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC); Cryptoseed Adds Security to Your Bitcoin Recovery Seed; Paxful has unleashed their new «Bitcoin Kiosk» widget allowing anyone to buy bitcoin in 300 different ways; A working group within the US central bank believes digital currencies and distributed ledgers could come to have a significant impact on how its citizens and businesses conduct payments — 60 page report.

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Two focus groups consisted of engaged citizens and the other two focus groups consisted of state - based policymakers.