Sentences with phrase «concerned about some of the program»

Not exact matches

He is concerned about the issue of childhood obesity in the U.S., and raced to raise $ 1 million for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which helps schools develop and improve programs focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donations).

Nixon said the Germans are probably suffering from a «lack of legitimacy» at the central bank and are still very concerned about the impact of quantitative easing — a massive stimulus program following the euro zone debt crisis of 2011 that's designed to boost lending but also stoke inflation.

She said her biggest concern about Brexit is that new business owners won't be able to take advantage of these programs like she did.

But we are increasingly concerned about unscrupulous promoters charging excessive fees to taxpayers who have no chance of meeting the program's requirements.

Dr. Leah Millheiser, a clinical assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Female Sexual Medicine program, told INSIDER that she would recommend the copper IUD for any woman who is concerned about her mental health.

SBA FLA, which holds roughly 1.3 million shares, or about 0.14 percent of shares outstanding, was concerned about the «general poor relationship between level of compensation and the company's performance,» Senior Officer of Investment Programs & Governance Michael McCauley wrote in an email to CNBC.

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.

Concerns about such a knock - on effect on Viacom of the decline in traditional cable TV subscriptions deepened last quarter, when Charter Communications Inc moved five of its flagship networks to its most expensive programming tier, a move that will likely result in lower affiliate revenue for Viacom.

Apple has been increasing the level of encryption in its mobile software amid heightened privacy concerns following leaks by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about NSA surveillance programs.

As Bloomberg reported earlier this summer, a «sea of dudes» climate among AI developers has some concerned about gender bias cropping up in AI programs even before those programs start interacting with users.

When Berkeley first agreed to offer an executive program in the early 2000s, the school decided on a partnership with Columbia because it was in the midst of a number of initiatives and administrators were concerned about stretching the school's resources.

In our assessment of Budget 2013, we raised concerns about the Government's ability to keep within their forecast of direct program expenses.

Already, as Reuters has reported, «China's finance ministry... has grown increasingly concerned about rising hidden debt risks from potential abuses of the program.»

Rising U.S. debt supply and the pace of the U.S. Federal Reserve's tightening, the possibility the European Central Bank's quantitative easing program is heading towards the finish line, and concerns about the credit quality of riskier asset classes restrained investors.

Concerns about Chinese inroads into advanced technology come as the U.S. military looks to incorporate elements of artificial intelligence and machine learning into its drone program.

We've already voiced concerns about the Obama administration's use of drones and its dubious claims about the program.

«Clearly this program is attempting to manipulate Americans into ignoring the threat of jihad and to influence them to believe that being concerned about the jihad threat would somehow victimize these nice people in this show.»

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

This latter concern may evoke an outreach program named evangelism, but the content will only be the worst kind of public relations, and the gain will be about as durable as the product loyalties that derive from commercial hype.

Like all highly organized systems, ecclesiocracies are more concerned about whether their leaders are operating within a programmed, «professional» context than about whether their leaders» God - given gifts are allowed to flourish and make their special contributions to the body of Christ.

This raises questions about the internal coherence of the Reformed catholic program, and it also raises questions concerning ecumenical fruitfulness.

When Romney ran this combination of middle - class solidarity and lack of interest in the poor through his campaign's glitchy conservative - to - English translation program (the same one that produced formulations like «severely conservative») the result was «not very concerned about the poor.»

A congregation concerned about the prosaic quality of its self - understanding might therefore begin to tell its story in circumstances that before had encouraged the other types of self - description: mechanist accounts of numbers and program, organicist projections of family, contextualist categorizations of age, class, and the like, and formist symbolizations of property or other important totem.

The church is not the only social institution to complain about the difficulty of getting volunteer workers, Nor is the church the only social institution to express concern about the effect of violent or sexually explicit programs, particularly on children.

But these impressive data mask concerns about the gradual depletion of the resources and personnel needed to maintain these programs.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

Sustainability First Although students several years ago had expressed concern about the quality of food offered by Cal Dining, the program's patrons today have few doubts when it comes to what's on their plates.

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're talking to Marcia DeLonge, a senior scientist and agroecologist in the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) about working in environmental science.

Additionally as a division of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), the SQF program incorporates continual retailer feedback about consumer concerns.

He added the recent elimination of the park district's planning department raised some concerns about the future of senior programming.

As Chicago Public Schools pushes ahead with a district - wide roll - out of its Breakfast in the Classroom program, concerns are mounting from some parents worried about kids» allergies

A Tribune analysis in January highlighted concerns about fraud in the federal school lunch program within Chicago Public Schools because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.

We should all be less concerned about supermarket shoppers being misled (though that's a real problem) and far more worried about the 32 million public school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times a day.

In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

There have been legitimate concerns about food waste, sanitation problems, lost instructional time, and the quality of the food served (though it has improved somewhat since the early days of the program, when the inclusion of daily animal crackers in the breakfast was what actually motivated me to start this blog.)

As the lead investigator said in a statement, «Countries that have been holding back on implementing medical circumcision programs due to a lack of evidence regarding risk compensation should have no concerns about scaling - up programs.»

Contacting local elected officials and youth sports program directors with your firsthand account of issues in youth sports is a starting point for voicing your concerns, and directing them to the Recommendations for Communities not only shows that you are serious about your complaint but that you are also committed to resolving the issues by providing an action plan.

«A list of concerns from this past year include the wrong starting time published in programs, a lack of information about money and insurance issues, and not informing residents about the free entrance times to the festival,» Cook said.

Spurred by her own concerns as well as complaints from Grant Park patrons about the traffic noise, Catherine Cahill, festival director of concert programs, has secured a city permit allowing the Park District to close off heavily traveled Jackson Street between Columbus and Lake Shore on concert nights through July.

Also last week, in the wake of the Jan. 7 resignation of program coordinator Lisa Cali, about 100 parents of children enrolled in the Tiny Tot program met with park commissioners to voice their concerns.

Though in many ways the program has been a success, there is growing concern among parents and doctors about the health of America's children and the quality of the food provided by school lunches.

While the program continues to generate a lot controversy in more affluent schools (lost class time, sanitation issues and concerns about the nutritional quality of the food), our Food Services department has said that in poorer schools the program has been enthusiastically welcomed by principals who are seeing increased attendance, reduced tardiness and fewer discipline problems.

In addition to several concerns about the extra-biblical content of GFI materials and divisive tendencies in the GFI program, we also initially voiced some rather significant concerns about Mr. Ezzo's personal character.

Concerned about safety, Winkler doesn't give away the Baby Box as part of her program.

Personally, I'm more concerned with this happening since the majority of Republican congressmen I have spoken to always ask me about how I feel about making NSLP a block grant, very similar to how Reagan dismantled the program in 1990 by cutting $ 1.4 BILLION from the budget.

To parents with little knowledge of how school food programs operate (i.e., the vast majority), this statement from FSIS would seem to settle the question — and provide solid reassurance for those concerned about Chinese - processed chicken being fed to their kids at school.

This raises concerns about how to bring these programs «to scale» without the same level of staff preparation and experience.

A public meeting last night concerning an update on the PFOS water contamination issue in Newburgh brought a formal announcement about the launch of a blood testing program for the city.

In the second of two stories about the district's special education program, the recent budget proposal aims to address some of parents» concerns, but some worry it doesn't go far enough.

And there's a real fear, I think a real important concern about the reduction in production that would happen if the 421 - a program ended up having a prevailing wage requirement,» said Rafael Cestero of the Community Preservation Corporation.