Sentences with phrase «cost years of effort»

The remarkable proof of the theory might not cost years of effort and billions of dollars.

Not exact matches

Home Depot said it was too early to compare the scale of this year's operation with earlier efforts or to estimate how much Harvey would cost it.

Collins, a moderate who voted against the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare earlier this year, says the bills will offset the impact of the loss of the individual mandate, but experts largely disagree, arguing that the elimination of the mandate will spike health costs and reduce choice in plans.

Around this time last year, when Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, attempted to introduce «Qwikster,» a Netflix spin - off that would, essentially, just cost more money for customers, he addressed complaints, abandoned the effort, and he, too, issued an apology.

Companies typically spend an average of two years in a business incubator, during which time they often share telephone, secretarial office, and production equipment expenses with other startup companies, in an effort to reduce everyone's overhead and operational costs.

Boston - based GE is divesting about $ 20 billion in assets in an effort to reduce costs and boost profits as part of a three - year restructuring plan under...

To be fair, many of Avon's problems can be traced back to Jung's mistakes: there was a federal bribery probe that cost Avon $ 500 million and distracted management for years, stemming from overseas expansion efforts and deprived Avon of any viable China business.

The American legend had tried a number of turnaround strategies and cost - cutting efforts in recent years, but the company — which since 2004 has reported only one full year of profit — ran short of cash.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is embarking on its biggest cost - cutting push in years as it tries to weather a slump in trading and dealmaking, according to two people with knowledge of the effort.

To get there, Lemann recruited a team of young, fresh - faced executives, led by 33 - year - old Daniel Schwartz, to oversea a turnaround effort that's so far focused on relentless cost - cutting and a dramatic reorganization of Burger King's business.

With ongoing efforts to maximize efficiency and keep costs down, Helix looks ready to bounce back after years of poor performance.

Aetna has benefitted in the past five or six years from industry and government efforts to tamp down costs and declining hospital inpatient admissions in favor of less costly outpatient services, he said.

Father Driscoll discussed the shocking cost of shipping from Florida, and expounded on coconut palms, and fishtail palms, and tiger palms, and many other species of palms, and noted that as far as he could tell from his inquiries, Our Blessed Lord rode His donkey over the fronds of date palms, which is why our parish makes a strenuous effort every year to obtain date palms, for historical accuracy, but inasmuch as this year the cost of date palm fronds was prohibitively high, he was sure that the ladies would agree with him that the correct thing to do was to use local willow wands instead, and thus save money that could be directed to the poor and unfortunate of the parish.

i hope your right there there is talk that we might be extending arteta's contract by a year, i am of the mind that we should say thanks for all your effort here is a little gold cannon enjoy your retirement and come back if you want to do some coaching in a year or 2, as well as replacing diaby and flamini thats gonna cost hopefully hayden will step in to d / m and grow in to that role for us and we could get someone else in the jan window, i think wenger will do the midfield replacements in jan in advance of summer so he doesn't have to next summer.

As we saw last year, just because a player costs millions of pounds, it doesn't mean they are going to put in the sort of effort you'd get from someone who has come through the ranks.

The efforts of March of Dimes have helped reduce the U.S. preterm birth rate for the past 7 years, saving an estimated $ 12 billion in health care costs!

«The year before I came to the Village, this beautiful building had been closed and shuttered as part of downsizing and cost - saving efforts.

Broadly the picture seems to be that over the past thirty years, the results of efforts to rein in administration costs in UK central government were at best modest as long as governments stuck to a fairly consistent definition of what counted as administration costs.

The past thirty years have seen many ambitious reform efforts worldwide to cut the costs of government and to improve its quality.

In a meeting at the Labor Temple on Third Street, both candidates said they wanted to reach an agreement, while also saying they supported efforts to contain health care insurance costs, including kick - starting the work of a six - year - old city committee that has been sporadically studying potential consolidation of health insurance coverage among the city's unionized workers.

Now, six years later, efforts to bring free or low - cost high - speed Internet to the residents of Albany have been moving along at dial - up speed.

Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.

Cuomo has been clashing with de Blasio for over a year on a wide range of issues including homelessness, higher taxes on the wealthy, pre-K education cost, minimum - wage hikes, and efforts to win Democratic control of the Senate.

It suggested average savings of up to 7 % a year may be required in the acute sector over the next five years, compared with the 4 % called for by the Department of Health as part of efforts to slash # 20bn from running costs.

Hawkins said Cuomo's fundraising is why he has favored corporate interests over the needs of workers, attacking teachers and unions, impeding efforts to make the minimum wage a living wage, and largely ignoring wage theft which costs low - income workers in NYC alone an estimated billion dollars a year.

The Oneida County Sheriff's Office makes highway safety a top priority all year long, and we believe that reminding drivers about the costs of DWI in a dramatic way is an important part of this effort — particularly as the summer driving season begins and young drivers take to the roads.

The effort comes as a way to stem the tide of rising costs for government and public safety from a growing drug epidemic in Westchester County, which has seen opioid - related deaths increase by 60 percent in the last year, according to county Legislator Ben Boykin, a White Plains Democrat.

Over the past several years, the jail's inmate population has been significantly reduced to approximately 1,200 inmates by the county's efforts to find safe and cost - effective alternatives to incarceration, such as supervised pre-trial release, credit card bail and other means of supervision.

After months of passing the hat among countries and private companies, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that it has garnered the $ 100 million the 3 - year effort to construct a so - called haplotype map is likely to cost.

State and local programs that expedite Medicaid enrollment for people being released from jails and prisons have become more common in recent years as part of efforts to reduce soaring criminal justice costs.

The $ 7.8 billion plan, the most expensive restoration effort ever undertaken, calls for a 20 - year overhaul of southern Florida's water management system, with the cost split between the state and the federal government.

The heart of that effort would be the creation of two Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation, which are expected to cost $ 150 million over 5 years.

The critique from an Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) panel raises questions about whether the National Children's Study (NCS) can sustain the political support needed to assure funding for the ambitious effort, which has already cost $ 1 billion and could require billions more in coming years.

Now it is the object of a mammoth international modeling effort that is expected to occupy hundreds of scientists for 10 years at a cost of at least $ 100 million.

The effort, which would harness an automated synthesis machine he and his colleagues developed to snap together molecules from a set of premade building blocks, could cost $ 1 billion and take 20 years, Burke estimates.

At a cost of less than $ 500 per patient each year, this modest quality improvement effort is projected to reduce the incidence of major complications, such as end - stage renal disease, which can cost $ 44,000 per patient each year.

In addition to supporting adaptation efforts through its pipeline of infrastructure projects (which will average $ 1.1 billion per annum over the next three years), the Bank is providing (in countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Djibouti, and Yemen) knowledge and technical expertise for better analyzing likely impacts of climate change, and for designing least - cost adaptation interventions to minimize such impacts.

Still, with the expense of producing full - length documentaries at a fraction of the cost of sophisticated research studies, expect to see more philanthropic support for these efforts in coming years.

In the final year of the project, we will use data from the experiments to scale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more districts.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Most of the examples cited in the complaint were from the 2012 - 13 school year, when under outgoing Schools Superintendent Paul Vallas there was a concerted effort to bring down special education costs.»

Over the first 10 years more than 22 sponsors worked with over 180 sites at a cost of over $ 500 million in a massive effort to find ways to break the cycle of poverty through improved education.»

Mr. Walker is proud of his district's 100 - megabit Internet connection, which has come at a «tremendous effort» and costs about $ 20 million a year.

More than one expert has also informed us that much of our effort in K - 12 to prepare students for college may be in vain if the cost of college continues to climb beyond the present $ 10K to $ 50K per year.

School leaders in these communities, forced by the storm to delay the start of classes or reboot just after students returned for the 2017 - 18 year, face huge academic, financial, and social / emotional costs of a months - long recovery effort.

As part of SEMA's ongoing efforts to accommodate members with growing economic concerns, there will be no rise in drayage (material handling assistance) costs from the previous year for the 2008 SEMA Show.

Hachette argued that the landscape for e-book sales had changed positively since the adoption of the agency model in 2010, writing, «Two years ago, Amazon effectively had a monopoly on the sale of eBooks and eReaders, and was selling products below cost in an effort to exclude competitors.

The human merry - go - round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.

NOOK EBITDA losses of $ 11.2 million declined $ 17.9 million versus the prior year as the company continues to focus on cost rationalization efforts.

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