Sentences with phrase «decades of effort into»

The government poured $ 9 billion and decades of effort into the planned permanent repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, with little to show for it.

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Leading the effort has been Gary Boggs, who spent four decades as a DEA agent before joining McKesson in 2013 as the senior director of regulatory affairs, in the midst of the government's investigations into McKesson.

A new study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwise.

Thus it is that over decades of Faith publications, symposia and youth catechesis we have and continue to put an extremely unfashionable effort into updating the traditional arguments for the distinction of matter and spirit, body and soul.

«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Decades of research on this autoimmune disorder opened a window into how the immune system and the CNS interact, but more recent research efforts have revealed the exceptionally broad scope of communication between the two.

Through a decades - long effort, physicists have managed to incorporate all of the forces save gravity into a theory called the standard model.

Google will funnel some of its profits into a new effort, dubbed RE < C (for renewable energy cheaper than coal, as Google translates it) to make sources such as solar - thermal, high - altitude wind and geothermal cheaper than coal «within years, not decades,» according to Weihl.

Given this strategic direction, the CCP4 Core Team and funded developers at the University of York are putting a major effort into updating CCP4's aging user interface, which was developed a decade ago.

The result is, by far, Scott's best effort in a prolific decade littered with big - budget epics and franchise installments (the latest in his prequel trilogy Alien: Covenant opened only six months prior), bolstered by some ostentatious performances which tap into the heightened pulp fodder of both the era and the event.

Researchers looking to tap into the treasure troves of long - term student - achievement data that states and districts are starting to pile up say their efforts are increasingly running up against a decades - old federal law designed to protect student privacy.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

In the past decade, SFL, widely used as a theoretical foundation for language and literacy education in international settings, has gradually made its way into the American educational field, partially due to the great effort made by American scholars in the field of ESL education.

As I'm sure you know, even the hint of testing irregularities and misconduct in the test administration process could call into question school reform efforts and undermine the State accountability systems that you have painstakingly built over the past decade.

I spent this morning diving into the new NAEP numbers in an effort to paint a more complete picture of student achievement in DC over the past decade, which included the three tumultous years of Michelle Rhee's chancellorship.

The shift toward accountability policies for schools over the past two decades — first introduced in some states, and made national under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), signed into law in 2002 — has been an important part of these efforts.

The campaign also highlights the country's rich tradition of innovation in order to make coding seem fashionable and ensure there is enough homegrown talent available to put their efforts into the various new aspects where digital technology permeates in say two decades from now.

I do feel for all the paperback writers throughout the last decades whose hard work and effort only got them a six - week shelf life for their masterpiece to hit it and if it didn't it would disappear forever, going out of print and into the paper shredder.

- Charles Duhigg «A Truck Full of Money brings us into unknown spaces of the complex workings of the mind - of a brilliant software engineer, of this new decade, of the brutal / fast business of technology, of stunning privilege, and of one man's efforts to put his fortune to humane use.»

The program began in 1998 as an effort to get cats into homes before their mental or physical health declined from prolonged shelter stays — and after close to two decades of the policy, the length of stay for adult cats has decreased by 78 %.

07/24/13 - Cleveland Scene - Caged: How Ohio Politicians Keep the State's Puppy Mill Business Booming with Little Regulation 06/27/13 - Animal Law Coalition - Proposed OH Puppy Mill Regulations «Terrible» 05/13/13 - Bargain Hunter - Dog kennel inspectors will be focused on Holmes county, surrounding areas 11/29/12 - The Best Friends Blog - After decades of frustration, a new strategy against puppy mills Excerpt from this article: In the case of puppy mills the greatest efforts have gone into exposing the horrors of factory farming pets, with the intent of generating public support for legislative measures that will improve conditions in high - volume breeding operations.

With decades of experience between the three, this is sure to be a deep, knowledgeable and downright interesting talk on the thinking — and sheer effort — that goes into making a title like Surviving Mars.

There are some very ambitious video games in the last decade and every game where developer puts time and effort into the game and it results in an awesome piece of art.

Among the periods she intends to highlight are the years 1924 to 1943, when the notion of a distinct American folk art came into public consciousness through the efforts of the Whitney Studio Club and MoMA director Alfred Barr; the long decade from the late 1960s through the early 1980s that saw both the publication of Roger Cardinal's 1972 book Outsider Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular art.

Speaking of hope, one of the great developments of the past half - decade has been a broad effort among curators to look back into history and recuperate artists, often painters, who had been left out of the official narrative due to their race, gender, sexuality, nationality, or otherwise outsider status.

However, it's something I put a lot of thought and effort into over the last few decades, so I have my opinions.

Inside was a $ 25.4 million earmark for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which gave Mr. Thompson, the museum's director, funds to start the last phase of an effort he helped hatch nearly three decades ago: transforming an abandoned 19th - century factory complex into a destination arts center that could help revive the struggling economy of North Adams.

In the past two decades, there has been an explosion of exhibitions and publications on Paul Thek, perhaps as part of an effort to re-insert him into the history of art.

But most important is the simple fact that, after a burst of effective mosquito eradication decades ago, a host of countries (Brazil in particular) relaxed such efforts, and did so just as humanity's boom in urbanization and global mobility got into high gear.

The campaign «has paralyzed implementation of what could have been a reasonable ramping up of control efforts over the last few decades, putting the nation and the world now into a situation where much more aggressive action to limit emissions is needed,» MacCracken said.

A water and climate scientist with decades of research in his field has admitted to deceiving the free - market conservative Heartland Institute into leaking confidential documents about their donors, fundraising efforts and plans to spread doubt about climate change.

After decades of Big Coal advertising efforts, some of our elected officials have mutated into Big Coal spokespeople.

In previous decades, it was assumed that once a certain amount of effort had gone into efficiency measures that those carbon reduction gains were essentially gone and the focus would have to shift away from efficiency and focus more on investment in renewable sources or carbon trading (for example) or other solutions.

About a week ago, The Legal Intelligencer made an heroic effort to unpack insurance data to see the effect of the changes in medical malpractice liability law from a decade ago, but ran into a serious problem: those very same medical insurance companies that cry the loudest about the need for tort reform also refuse to make public the data that would tell us the most about the malpractice system.

Having spent some time with company officials, it may be that decade old Super Lawyer puts more effort into screening for the nations best lawyers than the 140 year old Martindale - Hubbell, typically billed as the gold standard of lawyer ratings.

In an effort to reverse decades of decay in the south end of downtown Kansas City, developers and the city are plowing $ 1.5 billion into the area.