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A new film from writer - director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War) is seemingly taking - on one of the military's most controversial programs which involves unmanned...

Several aid organizations and pro-immigrant groups are pressuring the Canadian government to pull out of a controversial program which turns away almost all refugees coming in through the United States.

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Section 5 of the immigration order — which stipulates a «realignment of the US Refugee Admissions Program for Fiscal Year 2017» and a suspension of the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days — has also proved controversial.

Part of the proceeds of the new fundraising will be dedicated to a new fund for the production of scripted programming, one of many strands of content creation into which the at times controversial company is expanding.

The controversial program Greyball allowed Uber engineers to take over a user's app and send them a map that did not accurately reflect which drivers were in the area.

The talks with prospective investors come as Vice seeks funds to plough into its international expansion, as well as a move into scripted programming, another strand of content creation into which the at - times controversial company is expanding.

Though the networks sought to make all religious programming emphasize broad religious truths rather than individual tenets of denominations and to avoid dealing with controversial economic and social issues which were of religious significance, many programs produced by the churches in relation with the networks were critical or prophetic in nature.

A second and more controversial pool of materials which the Commission should develop into mutually useful programs might include personal hygeine, public health, human geography, the races of mankind, technology and its applications to economic development and — history.

The Bronx lawmaker, himself a child of NYCHA, said he would like to see New York's developments take part in the program — which is seen as a major step toward the privatization of public housing — even though he acknowledged that it is «controversial» among liberal advocates.

Feniosky Peña - Mora, the controversial head of the NYC Department of Design and Construction, which controls contracts for the city's troubled Hurricane Sandy rebuilding program, is set to resign.

State lawmakers said a few years ago they would no longer permit the controversial member item program to continue, but critics said the old system, which gave taxpayer money to legislators» pet projects, is being revived in a new form.

Throughout budget negotiations budget writers said members projects were cut and priorities were reshuffled to fund the $ 400 million «Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Act,» which included $ 67 million for a controversial program to arm school personnel and more funding for mental health services in schools across the state.

The State Assembly in 2007 voted to allow Forest City to take advantage of the controversial 421a program, which gives tax abatements to developers who make 20 percent of their building's units affordable, even though Ratner didn't technically qualify.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

It expended several paragraphs praising the president for his controversial unilateral actions easing deportation enforcement — particularly the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields individuals entered the country without proper paperwork as minors.

In exchange for the payments to his son from the real estate firm and environmental firm, Dean Skelos introduced legislation to extend the controversial 421 - a program which provides tax abatements to developers and voted for legislation that allows landlords to increase rent on rent stabilized apartments.

State lawmakers said a few years ago that they would no longer permit the controversial member item program to continue, but critics say the old system, which gave taxpayer money to legislators» pet projects, is being revived in a new form.

The Rockland Legislature also approved the controversial voluntary separation incentive program, which would allow certain county employees to receive an incentive package in exchange for resigning from their positions.

New York Senator Charles Schumer introduced controversial legislation Friday that would create a federal program in which the refinancing of over-leveraged, multi-family buildings would be based on the apartments» current rent roll.

His comments — which outraged local leaders — came as the parents of a 3 - year - old Brooklyn boy shot by thugs in a playground said they support the top cop's controversial stop - and - frisk program.

He also briefly ran the New York chapter of the controversial Teach for America program, of which he was an early participant.

Cuomo's budget would also revamp the governor's controversial Start - Up NY jobs program, which created tax - free zones on college campuses for new businesses or those moving into the state.

It's a «somewhat unpopular, somewhat controversial» strategy, says Tom Peto, a co-leader with Rupam Tripura of the study, which is being done in collaboration with the Cambodian national malaria program.

One controversial feature of his program — which might more accurately be termed intervention than prevention — involves offering antipsychotic medication when only the warning signs of schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses, such as altered perception and paranoia, are present.

In hard economic times, the controversial H - 1B visa program, which lowers wages for Americans while exposing foreign scientists to the whims of employers, needs major reform.

Also noteworthy in the ITS budget is the quiet phaseout of the Technology Innovation Program (TIP), the successor to the once highly controversial Advanced Technology Program, which shared R&D costs between government and industry.

The $ 1.3 billion center, which funds biomedical resources such as large instruments and animal models, is slated to have its programs spread among other NIH institutes on 1 October under a controversial plan by NIH Director Francis Collins to create a National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).

(Some check - off programs are in fact mandatory, which is controversial.)

Phillippe recently hosted «Saturday Night Live» and will appear in the program's upcoming bigscreen spinoff «Macgruber,» which apparently features a controversial scene involving the actor and a stalk of celery.

The use of crosstown busing to accomplish desegregation was unprecedented — and the case went right to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the highly controversial forced integration program in 1971.

In his State of the State Address, Governor reaffirmed support for controversial teacher - evaluation program, which has been under heavy attack from the state's teachers» unions.

That's likely a reference that would include North Carolina's own controversial Opportunity Scholarship Program, which offers public cash to low - income students seeking to enroll in the state's primarily religious private schools, some of which reportedly maintain discriminatory admissions policies toward LGBTQ students and their families.

If that's not enough, the document — inked by a rural Lee County private school, which is eligible to receive public funds under the state's controversial Opportunity Scholarship Program — goes on to make this declaration:

«It was very controversial,» says Hae - Sin Thomas, who was an administrator with Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) for many years before becoming the CEO of Education for Change, which started as a district program to turn around schools.

I remember well the intensity of my participation in a four - week summer program entitled «Teaching Controversial Issues,» which was based on the curriculum work of Jim Shaver and his colleagues at Utah State University.

They were probationary teachers who were not given any reason for their dismissal, which * preceded * the controversial testing program.

That law, which replaces the controversial No Child Left Behind program, lets states set their own plans for making schools better and for identifying and helping struggling schools.

A controversial part of the new law is known as the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program, which arms some teachers if both the local school district and local sheriff's department agree.

«I don't think we've gotten a single complaint in the past year and a half dealing with the PowerUp program,» said P. Gayle Fallon, the president of the 6,000 - member Houston Federation of Teachers, which is currently involved in a lawsuit challenging the district's use of controversial statistical methods to gauge teacher performance.

Yet they're furious over a sweeping expansion of the controversial private school voucher program, which diverts public funds to low - income students seeking to attend private, mostly religious schools sometimes disparaged for apparently discriminatory, anti-LGBTQ policies.

If and when the F1 deal gets the official nod, Audi is expected to withdraw from all other motorsport activities, including its hugely successful Le Mans prototype program and its DTM efforts, which are handicapped by a controversial weight penalty.

While Land's Audi was at the center of a controversial Balance of Performance penalty for a refueling advantage at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, which was within the rules, team director Christian Land told Sportscar365 that its reduced program is instead due to scheduling issues.

The Liberals were the only party to promise to re-instate lifelong pensions for disabled veterans, which were replaced by a controversial lump - sum award, career training and income - replacement programs in 2006.

The $ 1.04 trillion measure contained $ 3.7 billion for disaster aid, $ 200 million of which was offset by cuts to green energy programs, including a loan account that once helped fund the now - defunct, controversial solar panel firm Solyndra.

We recently reported on a lawsuit filed by the ACLU that seeks to put an end to TSA's controversial SPOT program — Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques, in which TSA agents are trained to look for travelers exhibiting «suspicious» behaviors.

The closing this week of the Chicago Climate Exchange, which was envisioned to be the key player in the trillion - dollar «cap and trade» market, was the final nail in the coffin of the Obama administration's effort to pass the controversial program meant to combat global warming.

But still, broadcasters have been subject to rules aimed at ensuring people have access to the political information needed in order to vote and engage in political life, like the fairness doctrine, which required that broadcasters devote some programming to controversial political issues and that when a broadcaster endorsed a candidate, the news outlet still had to give airtime to the other candidates in the election.

This practice where mobile service providers had to select certain services and websites over others known as «zero - rating» has been a controversial matter in the United States as well, prominently due to «Binge - On» program by T - Mobile, which allows playing an unlimited amount of data on selected streaming apps.

Years before the arrival of Kogan's turkers, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg tried to address privacy concerns around the company's controversial Beacon program, which quietly funneled data from outside websites into Facebook, often without Facebook users being aware of the process.

A controversial part of the new law is known as the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian Program, which arms some teachers if both the local school district and local sheriff's department agree.