Sentences with phrase «close widening»

As we conclude in «Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant»: «If the United States hopes to compete for new clean energy industries it must close the widening gap between U.S. and Asian government investments in research and innovation, manufacturing, and domestic market demand.

One of the most intractable problems in modern education is how to close the widening gap in attainment between the haves and the have - nots.

Personal attention is the key to this approach, and that requires programs to stay small, raising the question: how much can a few programs, each enrolling only 100 or so students, really do to close the widening degree gap?

On Monday, Rockland County sent a delegation to Albany to ask for the authority to close its widening budget deficit by issuing bonds backed by a sales tax increase.

The dramatic drop comes as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio plan to hold an emergency summit on Tuesday with the heads of the five police unions to try to close the widening rift between cops and the administration.

While lower class size has a demonstrable cost, it may prove the more cost - effective policy overall in closing the widening gap between the lowest and highest achievers, even in tight budgetary conditions;

Not exact matches

When it comes to young people and technology, it's vital to widen the lens - away from a close focus on time spent, to the reality of people's lives.

With the yuan recently trading closer to the PBOC's dollar - yuan reference rate, conditions are ripening for a widening of the yuan's trading band, that by which the PBOC allows the yuan to move 1 % above or below the reference exchange rate.

And a bigger current - account deficit means that the already - large trade deficit will only widen further, violating one of the main tenets of Trumponomics — that making America great again requires closing the trade gap.

As close as two months before the deal closed, the merger spread widened on credit concerns, causing Anheuser - Busch to sell at $ 64.86 a share, while the buyout offer stood at $ 70 a share.

Betz is on safer ground when he suggests that «the ultimate point of the analogia entis, as employed by Przywara, is precisely not by philosophical means to close the gap between God and creatures, grace and nature, reason and revelation (as Barth seems to have feared), but rather to widen it.»

In the process of giving theology a practical expression he shaped a distinctively American social ethic that dominated Protestant thought in America from the close of World War I to the widening of the war in Viet Nam.

Closer to home, the UK gender pay gap widened at the end of 2013, and in Dove's latest survey, 41 % of British women reported being unhappy with their appearance and body shape.

This can be either a pillow to help align your neck a certain way, a chin strap to keep your mouth closed, a device to widen your nasal passages, or a special mouthpiece.

While other New York Democrats like Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE lamented the loss of Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney who held Albany's feet to the fire by convicting the state's most powerful leaders, the governor had reason to remain silent.

These are major victories for Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who threatened to block the bill over what they considered «poison pill» riders.

Do you sense that, as we get closer to the general election, that the Mayor's pulling away and widening his lead?

«It's gonna be the new Normans Kill creek is gonna shift around, get a little bit closer to the 5th and 6th hole on the Albany muni side and continue down but we're gonna have to do work to it, obviously, to widen it a little bit more, to make it flow a little bit quicker.

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (D - N.Y.) has called on Senate Democrats to be on the floor at 9:30 Wednesday morning to hear what, if anything, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)

Yesterday, a Siena poll appeared to validate Rangel's efforts, showing a widening lead over Espaillat, his closest challenger.

Last December, when the stagnating economy led to a widening new budget gap, Cuomo, after saying for months he was against raising any new taxes, agreed to extend an income tax surcharge on the wealthiest New Yorkers, closing almost half of the new deficit.

They also argue that boosting the wage in the fast food industry will go a long way toward closing the country's ever widening income inequality gap.

The FBI raided the homes of two men close to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as part of the widening federal probe into Albany corruption, The Post has learned.

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (D - N.Y.) on Saturday lauded former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara after the high - profile federal prosecutor said he was fired earlier in the day.

Deacon has strong ties to the party establishment given her work for Gillibrand and an endorsement from New York's senior senator, Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE, who is expected to be the next Senate Democratic leader in 2017.

In the close race for a City Council seat, Democrat Marsha Silverman widened her lead over Republican Matthew Connolly.

UPDATE: I should note that another way to look at the Quinnipiac University poll from earlier is that Lazio may actually have had Carl Paladino closer on his heels, and the mosque issue helped him widen the group.

«The Senate version of «TrumpCare» is even meaner than the House bill,» Senate Democratic Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (N.Y.) told reporters at a press conference.

Writing in the journal Applied Economics, Steve Cook and Duncan Watson (both from the University of Wales Swansea) and Louise Parker (from the University of East Anglia) take a closer look at two ways that unemployment impacts on crime: the «opportunity» effect (a strong economy means more goods worth stealing, and fewer people sat at home to guard them) and the «motivation» effect (a weak economy widens perceived differences between lifestyles and can tempt some into crime).

The patient was able to follow an object with his eyes, turn his head when asked to, and widened his eyes in surprise when a researcher's head came close to his face — none of which he did in a vegetative state.

The period of greatest risk to orbiting spacecraft will start about 90 minutes after the closest approach of the comet's nucleus and will last about 20 minutes, when Mars will come closest to the center of the widening trail of dust flying from the nucleus.

To close these gaps, «we really need to start before school,» when the gaps are emerging and widening, she said.

Since the jet originating from the centre widens with increasing distance, the gamma radiation is probably being generated very close to the black hole, i.e. quasi at the foot of the jet.

The present result would also widen the range of both basic and applied researches on superconductivity, because the Tc of 50 - 60 K achieved in the present study is high enough to keep the superconducting state by using a closed - cycle - gas - type cooling system without liquid helium.

We might even find that some gaps in some places were closing rather than widening.

Volume - rendering software was paired with CT angiography to discern an abnormal widening in the aorta (the large pink vessel running from the top of the image, surrounding the heart, to the lower parts of the body) close to the heart.

However, in fostering a new relationship of partnership between Africa and the international community, especially the highly industrialised countries, we will all need to work to overcome the mistrust borne out of the colonial era and to ensure that the development chasm that has widened over centuries of unequal relations is closed.

From the way their lips form words, from the body language that speaks more than words, from sharing a close space with another soul that brings yours pleasure... if we can find beguiling pleasure in exchanging words, smiles, darting eyes, in moments of understanding and amusement, we are only widening our other senses» capacity for pleasure.

That window can be anywhere between four to eight hours, and you close that window or widen it.

I have a wonderful family and some close friends but would like to widen my circle as I

There's Black Death as W'Kabi, T'Challa's head of security — face like an anvil, agreeability of a sledgehammer — and [takes inordinately long pull from oxygen tank, ambles closer with widened eyes for dramatic effect] Forest Whitaker as Zuri, T'Challa's oldhead bodyguard - slash - confessor - slash - drunk - uncle - figure.

Drawing on her experiences as a political theorist, an urban middle school teacher, and an education scholar, Levinson investigates the widening civic empowerment gap and offers ideas on how to close it.

Hispanic children do not experience this widening test - score gap relative to otherwise similar white students; indeed, they systematically close the gap, perhaps because their initial scores are artificially low due to the relative inexperience with the English language among some immigrants and their children (see Figure 2).

Alarmed by the widening gap in achievement between black and white students over the past 10 years, a group of leading scholars offers in a new book their suggestions for how to close it.

The gulf between North Carolina's richest and poorest school districts is widening despite an effort by the legislature to close the gap, a recent study of local school finance says.

In a second study, Supovitz and Brennan (1997) found that gender, socioeconomic, and racial inequities existed when portfolio performance was compared to standardized test performance, although the Rochester portfolios closed the gaps between blacks and whites and widened the gaps between boys and girls.

Although the gap is closing among students completing algebra by the 10th grade, it has widened on 4th grade reading tests and in high school graduation rates since 2003.

Put simply, this means that the best teachers close achievement gaps, while the worst teachers widen them.38 And these results are not just a matter of which teachers receive the less challenging teaching assignments: A major, multiyear study from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation showed that high - performing teachers remained so across schools, regardless of whether those schools were high - or low - poverty.39

As a result, movement conservatives and conservative reformers close themselves off to knowledge and ideas that may change or widen their thinking.

The achievement gaps by income, race, language and disability are closing in some states, but they are still sizable, and widening in some places.