Sentences with phrase «early years of the program»

Though the marine mammals were captured from the wild in the early years of the program, since the late 1980s, the program has bred its dolphins in - house at its training facility in San Diego and buys young sea lion pups from marine parks, said Mark Xitco, who heads up all the marine mammal training and care for the program.

Applicants during the early years of the program were included in a federally mandated evaluation that compared students who won the voucher lottery to those who applied but lost.

During the early years of the program, we researched questions such as:

Good Morning WDSU - TV looks at the 3rd year study of the Louisiana Scholarship Program, schools having to adjust in the early years of the program, strong parental satisfaction, and the upward trajectory of test scores.

In the early years of the program, schools had great latitude in creating teacher leader roles.

WDSU - TV looks at the 3rd year study of the Louisiana Scholarship Program, schools having to adjust in the early years of the program, strong parental satisfaction, and the upward trajectory of test scores.

He also suggests the fund or ETF variables that lead to higher expected returns, along with the impact on a child or grandchild if the investment has performed well during the early years of the program.

But there is a lot of pressure from utilities, energy - intensive industries, and their sympathetic representatives to hand out a majority of the permits free of charge in the early years of the program.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

High - grade hits of copper and gold from the maiden drill program at Jubilee sent Hammer's share price soaring from 3.4 cents in mid-December to a peak of 5 cents early in the new year.

While the organization anticipates that Digital Cookie 2.0 will drive interest in the Girl Scout Cookie Program, the Girl Scouts of the USA spokesperson says «it is too early to speculate how many Girl Scouts will be selling cookies online this year.»

The program came under scrutiny earlier this year after it was revealed that Nicole Meyer, the sister of senior White House aide Jared Kushner, who is the son - in - law of President Donald Trump, name - dropped Kushner while giving a presentation to Chinese investors.

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.

In the film Snowden, released earlier this year, Woodley plays Lindsay Mills, girlfriend of the former National Security Agency contractor, who leaked details about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs and was granted asylum in Russia after fleeing the United States in 2013.

Missouri passed a law earlier this year that reduces residents» participation in SNAP from four to five years, and in Maine, Gov. Paul LePage has threatened to overhaul or completely cease administering the food - stamp program because he believes it is a waste of public money.

While policy doves like Rosengren currently hold sway over Chairman Ben Bernanke and the majority of Fed policymakers, minutes from last month's policy meeting suggest the quantitative easing program could draw to a close by year end, earlier than some economists had expected.

Early last year, Martin competed in Jet's «Insiders» referral program, ultimately spending about $ 18,000 to cinch himself the top prize of 100,000 shares of common stock.

«The power of international law is primarily reputational and measured in terms of legitimacy,» Mira Rapp - Hooper, a senior fellow in the Asia - Pacific Security Program at the Center for New American Security, told CNBC earlier this year, when China's island - building in the region came under scrutiny.

That's a far cry from the far - reaching American Health Care Act passed by the more conservative House of Representatives earlier this year, which would gut numerous Obamacare protections and massively scale back the Medicaid program for the poor and disabled, as well as from the BCRA.

HealthIM won $ 25,000 in funding last fall from the University of Waterloo's Velocity accelerator hub and a further $ 60,000 from the school's AC JumpStart program earlier this year.

The program, which was announced earlier this year, allows partner publications to offer The Post's suite of digital products free as an added value for their paid subscribers.

In past years, the early launch has been restricted to members of Starbucks» rewards programs or people who participate in an online scavenger hunt.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

Earlier this year, Waymo accused Uber of using stolen tech to kick - start its autonomous car program after Uber acquired Otto, another self - driving car company, that was founded by a former Google employee.

Walmart announced its holiday layaway program two weeks earlier than last year, dropping the price of eligible items from $ 15 to $ 10.

Earlier this year, under investor pressure, Apple decided to increase the size of a dividend - and - buyback program to $ 100 billion, including $ 60 billion to repurchase stock through 2015.

The roll rate — the percentage of credit card users who «roll» from early stage delinquencies to 60 - 89 day delinquencies — reached the highest since 2008 for one credit card program, while delinquencies for another were above the 10 - year average, according to Royal Bank of Canada credit analyst Vivek Selot.

So, for example, I would argue that in the early stages of reform, especially in countries that have suffered many years of terrible economies and weak investment, crony capitalism can be consistent with high levels of growth because the kinds of programs that lead to growth — mostly massive investment programs in countries in which capital stock is excessively low — benefit the elites directly.

Minutes from the Fed's June meeting were released earlier on Wednesday, and revealed that about half of the officials thought the central bank could end its stimulus program by the end of the year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The Federal Reserve could begin reducing the size of its bond - buying stimulus program as early as September but might wait longer if economic growth fails to pick up in the second half of the year, a top Fed official said on Tuesday.

Curiously, even the hint earlier this year that the Fed would be dialing down its massive stimulus program caused stock markets in a number of emerging nations to stumble.

DuPont early this year announced a $ 4 billion buyback program — on top of a $ 5 billion program announced a year earlier — to beat back activist investor Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management, which was seeking four board seats to get its way.

Social Capital kicked off a trial of Carroll's model last year with a referral program of sorts — the fund asked other venture capital firms to direct promising early - stage companies to apply through the system.

Top officials at the European Central Bank may revise the outlook for their massive monetary stimulus program early this year, according to an account of their last meeting.

PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR TOM WOLF ANNOUNCED A COMPREHENSIVE CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROGRAM AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA: Officials at the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority anticipate an aggressive schedule beginning early next year.

Prime Minister Trudeau can share our experience with his G20 counterparts and — particularly in the context of our Asian partners — commit to building on some of the SME enterprise support programs that he announced last year and again earlier this month.

Earlier this year, Tomicah Tillemann, Trust Accelerator co-founder and New America director of the Bretton Woods II program, commented about Georgia's decision to use the public Bitcoin Blockchain: «If you think about this happening at a time when a lot of people are struggling to separate what's real from what's fake, this is a powerful tool to prove what's real.

Although Anavex Life Sciences» Alzheimer's disease program should offer up plenty of data to digest this year, its research program is very early stage, and the company's balance sheet is worrisome enough for me to avoid it until placebo - controlled trial results are available.

Roll rates in National Bank of Canada's Canadian Credit Card Trust program are at the highest since 2008, while for CIBC's CARDS II program, early stage delinquencies, 60 - 89 day delinquencies and roll rates are all above the 10 - year average, Selot said.

«We're excited about the new launch of our marketing strategy in September and the new loyalty program in October,» said Jeff Gennette, who took over as CEO and president earlier this year, on a conference call to discuss the results.

Earlier in Asia, the Nikkei was in focus as it jumped to its highest close in more than five years after global finance leaders effectively backed the Bank of Japan's stimulus program as a legitimate attempt by the country to get out of its two - decade era of stagnation.

Religious programs on television are not a new phenomenon: they have been a part of the schedule since television's first year of operation, just as religious programs were some of the earlier types of broadcasts on radio.

Other professions have had great success with programs of «early identification,» such as summer and co-curricular programs for student in high school and early college years.