Sentences with phrase «early initiatives in»

Grants.gov is a result of the U.S. government's early initiatives in electronic government.

Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev has followed his earlier initiatives in reducing nuclear weapons by making two announcements of momentous import: economically, socialism does not work, and politically, democracy is the road to the future.

This launch follows the earlier initiative in which CCC, as part of its commitment to educating the market on the latest OA news and trends, launched its Open Access Resource Center in collaboration with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP).

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Total, which joined the initiative in its very early days, was the first company to do so.

St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

In early April, for example, Facebook, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, and others created a $ 14 - million initiative to help invest projects that «to increase trust in journalism around the world, and to better inform the public conversation,» according to an announcemenIn early April, for example, Facebook, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, and others created a $ 14 - million initiative to help invest projects that «to increase trust in journalism around the world, and to better inform the public conversation,» according to an announcemenin journalism around the world, and to better inform the public conversation,» according to an announcement.

«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.

Co-founder and CEO Evan Sharp outlined Pinterest's initiative to include more women and minorities by 2016, in a blog post published earlier today.

«More capital at the early stage is going to drive the breakthroughs that will drive costs down,» said Brian Deese, Obama's senior adviser on climate change who announced the private - public sector initiative to reporters in Washington.

Earlier this year, Jones launched a public initiative asking commercial insurance companies to write policies to cover what he described as «coverage gaps» in the industry.

To better understand and leverage data to drive personalization, the company, in early 2016, invested in sweeping digital transformation initiatives around customer - relationship management.

Early returns suggest a significant majority of voters in the State of Washington have approved an initiative to privatize the state's remaining government liquor stores.

And while the bank grew through mergers and by adding new business lines throughout the 2000s — acquiring Canadian Direct Insurance and Valiant Trust Company in 2004, Adroit Investment Management in 2008 and National Leasing Group Inc. in 2010 — «these initiatives are still in early stages,» Chan notes.

Online initiatives like online renewals and online reservations enhances customer convenience and positions us as a cutting - edge supplier in a market largely populated, especially in the cycling segment, by customers who tend to be early technology adapters.

But that was nothing compared with the self - inflicted pain Hanrahan suffered through in early 2016 as he waited for his self - service onboarding initiative to stop bleeding and start being profitable.

When Berkeley first agreed to offer an executive program in the early 2000s, the school decided on a partnership with Columbia because it was in the midst of a number of initiatives and administrators were concerned about stretching the school's resources.

In a deeper recession, marketers can benefit by cleaning up their product lines and so should seize the initiative early rather than waiting to be forced into making changes.

But according to Pandora's new CEO — who quickly began implementing a number of changes to reinvigorate growth ranging from investments in Pandora's ad tech, marketing, distribution partnerships, and new content launches — most of their new growth initiatives are «still in early stages, and their impact will build over the course of 2018.»

After the company announced its massive $ 1.2 billion investment round in June, CEO Travis Kalanick acknowledged Uber's potential in delivery but said it was still early days for such initiatives.

«This collaboration will help us identify and support breakthrough innovations in IoT, and look forward to having early access to new technologies with a focus on high quality products and ideas that will develop through this initiative,» he added.

Before taking the helm of the PNC Foundation, McCradywas the architect of the firm's ambitious philanthropic initiative to boost early childhood education, Grow Up Great, which launched in 2004.

B2B marketers in this vertical are beginning to understand that the investment in early - stage engagement initiatives is just as critical, if not more so, than late - stage, more traditional marketing collateral such as technical spec sheets and sales presentations.

TIL, which typically uses its own resources or that of its deep - pocket parent BCCL to fund growth initiatives, had kicked off the uncharacteristic move of raising substantial external capital for MagicBricks Realty Services Ltd early last year when the digital real estate business in India saw the emergence of a host of new players backed by global investors such as SoftBank, News Corp and Tiger Global.

The FSA's press release describes the event as taking place «in accordance with an initiative of the «Multilateral Joint Research» project,» which was inaugurated in early 2017.

«Most of Alibaba's initiatives are in the early stages, with significant investment poured into video and payments recently.»

I Done This provided an opportunity for Envoy employees to take initiative in the early days — a necessary function of any fast - growing startup.

Having just attended the Angel Capital Association's Annual Summit in Washington the buzz is, Canada is further advanced than the USA on it's initiatives for capital formation for seed and early stage companies siteing such programs as Start - Up Visa, FEDDEV's IBI program and Province of Ontario's ANP (Angel Network Program) as examples.

The companies said the initiative, which is in its early stages, would be «free from profit - making incentives and constraints,» but did not specify whether that meant they would create a nonprofit organization.

«The initiative, code named Kalamata, is still in the early developmental stages, but comes as part of a larger strategy to make all of Apple's devices — including Macs, iPhones, and iPads — work more similarly and seamlessly together.»

MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.

Toronto, August 21, 2013 — MaRS Discovery District today announced that the RBC Generator, the impact investing arm of RBC's Social Finance initiative, has invested $ 500,000 in the MaRS Cleantech Fund, Canada's most active dedicated early - stage cleantech venture fund.

In early December 2013, Bezos made headlines when he revealed a new, experimental initiative by Amazon, called «Amazon Prime Air,» using drones — remote - controlled machines that can perform an array of human tasks — to provide delivery services to customers.

While talks are still in early stages, the Corfo executive believes that the American company's initiatives might end up starting a chain reaction that benefits not only the country's lithium industry.

The German foreign ministry welcomed his comments and ministry officials underscored the Saudi role in pushing for an Arab peace initiative as early as 2002.

NACO is proud to publish its first whitepaper with the objective to promote policy initiatives intended to increase the number of successful startup companies, jobs, and wealth creation by supporting early stage capital investment provided by Angel investors in Canada.

In defense of Yahoo's security, a company spokeswoman, Suzanne Philion, said the company spent $ 10 million on encryption technology in early 2014, and that its investment in security initiatives will have increased by 60 percent from 2015 to 201In defense of Yahoo's security, a company spokeswoman, Suzanne Philion, said the company spent $ 10 million on encryption technology in early 2014, and that its investment in security initiatives will have increased by 60 percent from 2015 to 201in early 2014, and that its investment in security initiatives will have increased by 60 percent from 2015 to 201in security initiatives will have increased by 60 percent from 2015 to 2016.

While it has been overshadowed in the media by the TPP (Trans - Pacific Partnership), CETA is Canada's largest bilateral initiative since NAFTA was signed in the early 1990s.

The PRI initiative began in early 2005 when the United Nations Secretary - General, Kofi Annan, invited a group of the world's 20 largest institutional investors from 12 countries to join a process to develop the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

Earlier this Fall, CME and the Saskatchewan Manufacturing Council proudly launched the Manufacturing 2025 initiative — the largest manufacturing consultation in our province's history.

The government announced in early 2016 that it would do so as part of its wider fintech initiative.

NACO's newest research initiative covers the broader early - stage funding opportunities for entrepreneurs in Canada.

Business and consumer surveys broadly continued to suggest the post-election bounce in sentiment was intact, despite signs some policy initiatives from the Trump administration — including key tax and health care reforms — might take longer to implement, and in some cases be less radical, than earlier indications.

-- The initiative, code named Kalamata, is still in early developmental stages but comes as part of a bigger strategy to make Apple's family of devices work more similarly and seamlessly together, according to the report

The initiative focuses on the bottleneck that academic research centers and their faculty face in advancing their high - potential but early - stage and therefore high - risk ideas and inventions to the point where they can attract private sector investment.

Some activists pointed to the less public role in same - sex marriage ballot initiatives in 2012, a marked departure from earlier fights - such as California's Proposition 8 in which the church vocally supported the move to have same - sex marriage banned.

(A similar initiative had been taken even earlier by a group of Reformed women who had started a community in Grandchamp near Neuchatel in Switzerland.)

A Series of attempts and initiatives began in the early eighties to systematically articulate the faith in the context of the newly emerging Dalit aspiration for liberation.

Except among black Methodists in earlier times, churches owe their origins not to the initiative of home missions boards but to concerned laypersons or clergy who undertook «to raise the flag of Zion.»

This places the clergyman in an important position in that if he can recognize the existence of an emotional crisis in one who is communicating to him, he can often take the initiative and begin his work of crisis intervention early in the developing crisis and often forestall serious suicidal behavior.

Yet in contrast with earlier periods the nineteenth century was marked by freedom for individual initiative and liberty of association for a great variety of undertakings.