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Several lawmakers — led by William Coughlin (D - Fredonia)-- expressed concern over the program, questing if it was saving the county any money and also if the D - A's office should even receive the money, since attending an arraignment proceeding could be considered part of the office's responsibilities and covered in its regular annual budget allocation.

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The New York Times reported yesterday that, in October of last year, Uber altered its testing program by putting only one safety monitor in each autonomous car rather than two, over the safety concerns of some employees.

The measure is aimed at European businesses, mainly in the financial and health sectors, which have been concerned over the safety of their data after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed in 2013 a widespread U.S. surveillance program.

BEIJING, March 5 - China on Monday unveiled its largest rise in defense spending in three years, setting a target of 8.1 percent growth over 2017, fueling an ambitious military modernisation program amid rising concerns over its security.

The Start - up Visa came two years after the federal government shuttered the Immigrant Investor and Entrepreneur programs over concerns that rich foreigners were simply buying their way into the country.

There are concerns that in some cases companies have little incentive to do so when they can access inexpensive labour through the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program, which has expanded dramatically over the past few years.

Pharmaceutical companies are concerned about an onslaught of legislative proposals percolating in state houses around the country, among them: changes to Medicaid programs to rein in the high cost of prescription drugs, intellectual property issues, and the fight over biosimilars.

Now there is a lot of concern over what will happen to the estimated 700,000 people covered by the DACA program.

«Instead of constructively addressing [his concerns over the intelligence programs], Mr. Snowden's dangerous decision to steal and disclose classified information had severe consequences for the security of our country and the people who work day in and day out to protect it,» Lisa Monaco, the White House adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism, said in a response to an online petition seeking Snowden's pardon.

After acknowledging that Obama also had concerns over the scope of the surveillance programs, Monaco said Snowden's offenses are not excusable.

«As the battle over consumer spending between Amazon and Walmart intensifies, we are concerned Amazon's Prime membership program is fortifying an impenetrable moat around its customers,» the Morgan Stanley analysts wrote.»

Country fund outflows of $ 21 billion are focused in a group of 10 locally - listed China A Shares funds, due to concerns over valuations and the impact of the Shanghai Hong Kong Stock Connect program on ETFs.

While these aren't trivial concerns, the new commission - free program is still a dramatic improvement over the previous offering from Fidelity.

In addition, given stubbornly low inflation and investor concerns over global growth, there's also the prospect for an extension of Europe's current quantitative easing program, as many in the media speculated last week.

Earlier optimism over the European Central Bank's bond buying program has waned and concerns about Greece's debt has become a top concern.

The comments filed Monday with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services express concerns over the regulations» exemption of houses of worship but not other religious entities such as schools, hospitals and social welfare program providers.

One pastor, concerned about parish mission, notes that on the same day, her congregation celebrates Communion, fights over its music program, and fixes its plumbing.

Each of these schemes has its advantages; on the whole the last is probably best, since it provides for a certain variety in the over-all program and makes it possible for those who attend not only to take part in one large meeting where the whole group is stimulated by consideration of a single topic over a considerable period of time, but also to share in special «interest groups» which will give them the opportunity to follow up lines of thought that particularly interest them or to explore problems that are peculiarly relevant to their own needs and concerns.

We... express our deep concern and protest over the... crusade now being conducted by the Moral Majority and the Coalition for Better TV to purge television of program content they deem offensive.

«I would be remiss to say that it's business as usual, because it's not,» said Walsh, whose program was sanctioned by now - former CCS Commissioner, Nancy Blaser, after the coach chose to forfeit out of a postseason consolation game citing concern over his players» health.

My guess is that when it is over, those concerned with the sport over there will realize the obvious shortcomings of a program which has not until now allowed itself a genuine test of international competition.

Though I share Wu's concerns about insufficient time for children to eat lunch and overly processed foods, I have worked with the CPS meal program as they have made substantial improvements over the last two years.

This past January, I and two other food advocates, Barbara Kowalcyk and Nancy Huehnergarth, launched a Change.org petition seeking to keep Chinese - processed chicken out of school lunch programs and to prevent the eventual importation of Chinese - raised and slaughtered chicken into this country, due to our concerns over China's very poor food safety record.

Other possible sites on the southern portion of Knoch Park and the nearby Garden Plots were ruled out because of resident concerns over security, noise and interference with existing park programs.

In a piece written two days after the presidential election («The Fate of Hungry Kids in a Trump Administration,» cross-posted in Civil Eats), I expressed my own grave concerns over the fate of school food reform and other child nutrition programs under a Trump White House and a Republican - controlled Congress.

Even the National Toxicology Program says there is «some concern» over its effects on infants and children.

Local governments had raised concerns with the program as proposed by Cuomo's initial budget presentation, pointing to the costs they've managed to contain over the years as well as the lack of increased state aid over the years.

A group of 15 New York Senate Democrats sent a letter to U.S. Senate Majority Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner to voice concerns over funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

Although current New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has declined to participate in public financing — citing concerns over the inadequate structure of the pilot program — his Republican challenger Robert Antonacci has said that he will op - in.

The state Business Council on Friday released new concerns over the proposed increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 as well as the proposal for a 12 - week paid family leave program.

Independent Democratic Conference Sen. Diane Savino in a radio interview on Monday called Gov. Andrew Cuomo's concerns over allowing a medical marijuana program inconsistent and complained that proposed bill language from his office hasn't been made available.

After the controversy over what has come to be called the «flawed» implementation of the Common Core, there is some concern over having the state jump into a federal program, such as the pilot.

Assembly Democrats have a copy of de Blasio's bill proposing reforms to the 421 - a program, but have yet to introduce the legislation, suggesting possible concerns over criticism from labor groups over the absence of a provision in the bill that would require developers building 421 - a housing to pay construction and building trades workers a prevailing wage.

As the state finalizes the medical marijuana program's draft regulations, advocates are making a final effort to call attention to their concerns over accessibility and affordability before the regulations are approved in the coming weeks and businesses begin submitting applications.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., today voiced deep concerns over the proposed New York State Budget's impact on Oneida County taxpayers and on vital programs that serve county residents.

Savino shot back, telling reporters that Cuomo's concern over smoking is «disingenuous» because he is pushing a pilot program that would allow patients to smoke marijuana as part of a medical study.

Ferreras - Copeland also highlighted continuing concerns over a lack of clarity in the Citywide Savings Program, pointing out that most savings were from spending re-estimates and delays in spending rather than programmatic savings in agencies.

The amount of money heightens the concerns over inadequate disclosure, said Jennifer Wilson, program and policy director at the League of Women Voters.

But local governments and green groups bitterly oppose the measure, citing concerns over reduced payments to their localities and school districts, a lack of comprehensive study and how the program might change under future administrations — all of which would lead to a larger tax burden for local taxpayers.

Several dozen members of various community groups organized under the coalition of «Real Affordability for All» gathered on the steps of City Hall to voice their concerns about Mr. de Blasio's housing program, which aims to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next decade.

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Despite concerns over Scott Pruitt's record of opposing ethanol, experts say the renewable - fuel program is on safe ground

Dr. Mona Hanna - Attisha, a pediatrician, director of a pediatric residency program in Flint, Mich. and the first person to raise public concerns about elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint area children, talked about the consequences of sounding the alarm over her research that found Flint's water system was leaching lead into drinking water and making her young patients sick.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

Devon Energy Corp., a major producer, recently quit the program over concerns that the agency was miscalculating data in order to justify regulations (Greenwire, March 11).

As Montana's only representative in the House, Zinke has also been a strong supporter of Montana coal and has expressed concern over a three - year leasing moratorium and programmatic review of the federal coal program undertaken this year by Interior.

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Not simply concerned with billionaire arms dealer - turned - metallic hero Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Justin Theroux's story features a bevy of superheroic figures outfitted with deadly artillery, from Stark pal Lt. Colonel Jim Rhodes (Don Cheadle, taking over for Terrence Howard) decked out in his own silvery weaponized War Machine suit, to a straggly haired, heavily tattooed Russian genius named Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) who mimics Stark's tech to create an outfit equipped with energy - beam whips, to a horde of gigantic drones programmed to kill.