Sentences with phrase «earliest programs in»

President Franklin D. Roosevelt started one of the earliest programs in Warm Springs, Georgia, at a rehabilitation facility with mineral springs.

The earliest programs in central Canada air at 6 a.m. and Atlantic Canada at 7 a.m. Numbers from the Television Bureau of Canada show that consistently for the past six years, the 4 a.m. to 5 a.m. slot has had the fewest viewers, with an audience size about one - fifth of the peak time between 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Still, Canadian broadcasters aren't overlooking the value of starting early.

The new lawsuit challenging the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account program claims the program violates the same constitutional provisions used to strike down the previous voucher programs — specifically, that they don't offer choice beyond a private school option — but Empowerment Accounts differ from these earlier programs in important and constitutionally relevant ways.

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The former CIA director was speaking on a flying visit to the region, where he had earlier in the day met with Saudi King Salman in Riyadh and stressed the need for unity among Gulf allies as Washington aims to muster support for new sanctions against Iran to curb its missile program.

Earlier this year, his Toronto - based startup was one of 20 selected for C100's 48 Hours in the Valley program, which introduces teams to successful Canadian entrepreneurs as well as influential Valley VCs.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The program helps companies with promising early data — often obtained overseas, because of the high cost of medical testing in Canada — design and execute the key study provincial authorities need to see to sign off.

While these programs might create participation spikes early on, engagement quickly dries up, actually diminishing employees» motivation to adhere to healthy behaviors in the long run.

Kim first paid for mentorship in early October by spending $ 5,000 for a Millionaire Mentor program hosted by Instagram influencer and self - made millionaire Jason Stone.

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

Earlier this year, for example, it launched a program in which more than 420 of its most active and influential community members sell products to their friends and followers; in turn, they receive a cut of the profits, as well as rewards that include sneak previews of products and trips to New York to visit Glossier and have dinner with Weiss.

One was Lt. Grace Hopper, who helped program the Harvard Mark I computer in the early 1940s.

Seacrest earlier this month was named permanent co-host of the «Live with Kelly and Ryan» syndicated morning show, in addition to hosting his daily radio program.

An executive board member of the European Central Bank (ECB) has told CNBC that it is too early for the central bank to start discussing a reduction in its bond - buying program.

The programs are still in early days, with the Parkinson's program aiming to start its clinical trials in 2018.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

With an early success on its hands, Econet is staking much of its future growth in Zimbabwe — and other African countries in which it does business including Nigeria, South Africa, and Botswana — on non-voice revenues that come from programs like EcoCash.

Airbus has a new senior management team coming on board in early 2019 and Myerson said that while it will be expected to address the future of the A380, investors will be focused more on the success of the A320 and A350 programs.

The five - year program, launched by the federal government in early January, proposes to make over 90 percent of the total U.S. offshore acreage available to oil and gas drilling.

After the Freedom Act became law in early June, the agency was granted a 180 - day grace period to get its affairs in order before putting an end to the bulk phone metadata collection program authorized by a particular portion — Section 215 — of the Patriot Act.

Under the program, the federal government pays the lion's share in the early years but the state contribution gradually increases.

A new paper from the Center for Global Development finds that from the early 1990s to 2010, the H - 1B visa program resulted in net gains for the United States and India.

To that end, Wonder Workshop promises to appeal to curious kids and parents who want to inspire an enthusiasm for coding and programming in their kids early.

The company is launching Vice Studios, a «global multi-platform scripted studio» aimed at developing original content that Vice can market around the world after the company signed content deals earlier this year to make its programming available in more than 80 territories by the end of the year.

«We're still in the early stages of that program, but we're hoping that there will be results showing that this technology can make a real difference to public safety in a more cost - effective way, but also in a more effective way,» Ger Daly, Global Managing Director of Defense and Public Safety, Accenture, said in a report for CNBC's Innovation Cities.

The Social Security Administration received nearly 2.7 million applications for the program in 2013, up from 1.9 million a decade earlier, according to its most recent annual report.

A few of my early investors came from my alma mater, and similarly, the majority of those involved in my current round of fundraising are alumni from my own and similar academic programs.

The channel was kind of on auto - pilot while it regrouped itself from some earlier difficulties back in 2008 and 2009, so it was just a question of putting in the dollars for programming.

The company announced in early 2017 that it would be discontinuing the program, however, it's still up and running at Starbucks in Japan.

Harvard Business School launched the Rock Summer Fellowship program in 2007 to aid MBAs interested in starting their own ventures or spending summers at early - stage ventures.

The program, still in early stages of planning, is aimed at both helping janitors maximize efficiency and establishing standards and best practices for the use of robots in janitorial work, according to Brain Corporation.

The startup, which has $ 51 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Silver Lake Kraftwerk as well as Autodesk's Spark Investment Fund, now counts Ford as a customer in the company's early access program for its device, which isn't being sold to the general public as of yet.

Last summer, 47 full - time MBAs participated in the Entrepreneurial Summer Internship Program, which only provides a living stipend for some students working at early - stage startups, compared to 40 students in the summer of 2011.

Earlier this week, I took part in a lively discussion of Britain's upcoming filtering of online porn on Al Jazeera's The Stream program.

Less than a year after their Indiegogo campaign, Whirlscape has also nabbed $ 500,000 in seed funding from BDC Venture Capital (a Canadian venture capital fund), a U.S. - based fund, and California's renowned Y Combinator incubator, which took Whirlscape on as a participant in its accelerator program earlier this year.

3 - D test An early test of a software program that renders 3 - D objects in flat pieces.

Earlier this month, it was revealed the number of applications for H - 1B visas — a similar, coveted program for companies to onboard specialized foreign labor — declined for the second year in a row, as the administration moves to streamline the program.

It launched six more programs in 2013 and early 2014 and the company has said it will add four per year going forward.

... We are able to make these hard decisions, because of the cost reduction program that we put in place earlier this year,» said Pincus.

Lemann and his partners at Brazilian investment bank Banco Garantia ran a scholarship program that backed promising young people in their early careers.

«There were some problems when we first started in the early 1990s, but we feel now this is something we have mastered,» says Eric Martel, a senior vice president responsible for the CSeries outsourcing program.

«In addition to Canada's 270 percent tariff on milk, a program called the «Class 7» pricing program, a market - distorting supply management system, has caused severe pain to New York dairy producers like Avon's Anderson Farm and their fellow Upstate Niagara Co-Op dairies since it came into force last year,» Schumer said earlier this week.

She does a lot of public speaking, and earlier this year starred in the Oxygen series Quit Your Day Job, a reality - type program that documented her and three friends as they invested in and mentored young entrepreneurs.

To facilitate those transactions, Draper co-founded and serves as CEO of Boost VC, a 12 - week accelerator program in San Mateo, Calif., that offers housing, office space and mentoring to early - stage startups with a focus on Bitcoin - related businesses.

Commissioned in the exciting early days of the Shuttle program, it proved that Canadian science and engineering could match any in the world.

The Darden School of Business offers one of the top MBA entrepreneurship programs among b - schools, awarding over $ 1 million in scholarships annually and offering highly specialized training like Venture Capital Bootcamp, a three - day workshop focused on early - stage investing.

Since Google announced its plans to launch a Fiber for Communities program in early February, hundreds of cities nationwide have expressed interest in being the project.

Some companies offer incentive programs to encourage employee participation in health and wellness programs because learning about potential risks and screenings for early detection helps decrease large claims.

A large portion of the spread compression happened in reaction to two events: the Fed's decision to begin winding down its large - scale asset - purchase program known as quantitative easing on Dec. 18, and Janet Yellen's first meeting as Fed chair on March 19, which coincided with the release of forecasts by Fed officials who anticipated earlier rate hikes than before.

Early in his career, Taylor helped create Google Maps and its application programming interface.