Sentences with phrase «director fights for change»

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Not exact matches

«New Yorkers deserve better than to have their benefits taken away,» said Charlene Obernauer, executive director of the Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, an organization fighting the changes as proposed.

«We've been fighting for a Democratic - working families Senate because we believe the scale of change that's necessary requires a progressive Legislature that can tackle the many issues that people across the state are struggling with,» said Bill Lipton, state director for the union - backed Working Families Party.

James Hansen; Climatologist and Director, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies: Fighting Global Warming Al Gore won a Nobel Prize for explaining global warming to the world, but James Hansen was the one who explained climate change to Al Gore.

This year's Action Award honorees include global leaders in the fight to end cancer as we know it; a world leader in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments; the president of a non-profit group focused on developing cures for chronic, debilitating and fatal diseases; a sickle cell and stem cell advocate and founder / science administrator of the Axis Advocacy; and the founding director of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University.

But directors Joe and Anthony Russo layer all those powers, personalities, and quips until they've created a barrage of frenzied playground comic - book fantasizing: What if Spider - Man tried to capture Captain America and then Cap's best friends Bucky and Falcon fought Spider - Man and then Black Widow fought Ant - Man and then Ant - Man turned into Giant Man and Black Widow changed sides, and on and on, for 15 giddy minutes.

As critics blast the parent trigger as harmful and ineffective, the group sees the latest West Athens development as a sign that the parent trigger can evolve into a more collaborative mechanism for achieving changes, and proof that the law can force schools to take parents seriously without a divisive fight, said Gabe Rose, Parent Revolution's deputy executive director.

Fire - power covers a host of tactics: Sometimes it's just sheer weight of money (and they become the largest shareholder), but it also includes nominating directors to the board, conducting proxy fights, deposing and / or appointing management, suggesting operational changes and / or asset / business sales, scaring up bidders for a company (or even bidding themselves), demanding strategic reviews or even wind - downs or liquidations, etc..

This fire - power covers a host of tactics: Sometimes it's simply sheer size (they become the largest shareholder), but it also includes nominating directors, conducting proxy fights, deposing / appointing management, recommending operational changes & asset / business sales, finding bidders for the company (or even bidding themselves), demanding strategic reviews or even wind - downs / liquidations, etc..

And having that realization, will she then also realize its corollary: that merely asking for change from shelter directors who do not care — something which the No Kill movement has been doing for years only to find our pleas falling on deaf, defiant ears — does not yield the same change as publicly fighting and legally mandating it do?

«California's dirty oil extraction undercuts all other progress the state makes fighting climate change,» said Jean Su, associate conservation director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Frank Rijsberman, Director - General of Seoul based Global Green Growth Institute expected international funding for investment needed to fight climate change would suffer, noting a $ 1 billion reduction in U.S. funding the Green Climate Fund in South Korea.

«It's unusual for a chairman to write this kind of letter, but we feel the situation's unusual,» said Science Committee staff director David Goldston, adding that the fight was about the need for independent scientific research, not climate change.