Sentences with phrase «even serve the public»

At times, it can even serve the public good in much the same way investing in municipal bonds can help society.

Not exact matches

Late in July at its new headquarters in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, Lyft served pink martinis and prosciutto to around 40 reporters, public relations specialists, driver partners, and Lyft staff at an early - evening happy hour celebrating the ride - hailing startup's four - year anniversary.

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

But the GOP congressman, Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, minced no words: «If you want to serve the public, particularly as a member of a president's staff, I don't care who you are, even if you're a Rhodes Scholar, you can't beat the hell out of your spouse.

Unfortunately, this baseless action then serves as a basis for public opinion, which is not easy to reverse even after the actual facts are revealed.

Many public services, like police and fire departments, are headquartered in Memorial Villages even though they serve Piney Point.

This manner of advertising doesn't serve the public and it's not even clear it serves advertisers.

In our view, this is not a very transparent way to dissolve a Crown corporation, even if served little public value.

Instead they acted like political hacks rather than spiritual authorities, doubling down on the invective and serving up to the American public an even deeper draught of petty partisanship.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

Even former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, one of the most articulate Christian political leaders, seemed uncomfortable as he fielded questions from moderator Tim Russert that hinted there is something nefarious about religious groups receiving government funds for programs that serve the public.

It's hard to feel good as a parent when you can't even get his socks on, when every word you've said to him has been a reprimand, when the innocent act of serving tuna casserole instead of the expected tacos incites a riot, when you realize you've left more public places in a huff with your child in five years than most parents do in a lifetime.

Several examples of the work of IBFAN groups were mentioned: the collaboration in Argentina of the Buenos Aires provincial breastfeeding program; in Albania the Group for the Protection and Promotion of Breastfeeding serves as a centre for child feeding expertise; in Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Mauritius, Pakistan and Uruguay the groups place particular emphasis on Code implementation, related marketing research and public information activities; national surveys in Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon and Senegal to monitor International Code implementation show numerous violations even where national measures are adopted.

Companies have been delisted for failing to provide Communications on Progress, but as these are posted to the Global Compact website even if proven to be misleading, as in the case of Nestlé, they only serve a public relations purpose, says Baby Milk Action.

However, the «personal use» ban does not explain what «personal use» actually means, and that ambiguity has created a loophole enabling candidates to buy anything that could conceivably have some connection to a bid for public office or even serving as an elected official.

We then have a duty to listen but also to lead, willing to respond to concerns but also to take difficult and even unpopular decisions where necessary to serve the public good.

Mr. Eldridge has no prior experience in public service, he hasn't even served on a school board or town board.

Government - sponsored programs have a mandate to serve the public, at large, and to serve them in a relatively even - handed fashion, because it is the public, at large, in its entirety, that are paying the taxes that fund those programs.

Long Island school districts lack a reliable funding stream for public pre-K and serve less than one - third of an estimated 28,000 eligible 4 - year - old children, even as support grows for a universal program available to all children.

«We feel that they are always open to accusations of conflicts of interests, even when supposedly on a not - for - profit basis, and this serves to undermine public confidence.»

In Ghana, some public officers serve on many boards, even up to 5 boards, and are paid monthly sitting allowances that are more than the monthly salaries of many full time employees.

The alleged hostile behavior, even if it appears to comport with Percoco's preexistent public persona, serves as an example of the kind of unflattering material the trial may dredge up.

Over the collegial 50 - minute segment, Teachout and Astorino agreed that Cuomo's policies have been self - serving and that his shuttering of the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption demonstrated corruption in his administration, even as they disagreed starkly about taxes, fracking and other policies.

No «Veteran» adulation here in this silly manufactured photo op., for the man who ran over in desperation to VFW POST 231 to gain some Wall Street like cheap credibility with the public concerning his lack of profile with those currently serving in the military, and sadly it was with, «Veterans of Foreign Wars, (VFW), which made it even more sickening and cheap to me.

Even after legislative leaders were convicted — and public support for change soared — it was always going to be difficult if not impossible for lawmakers to change the rules of a system that has served them so well.

It's quite slow and it's quite a challenge to us because we think that the faster they are prosecuted and results are made public, it will serve as a disincentive for prospective illegal miners and even those who are already in the field,» he said.

According to Gillibrand's office, the legislation would help improve nutrition and enhance learning in under - served areas by better integrating summer education and meals programs, making it easier for public - private partner organizations to participate in the summer meals program, and by providing a third meal for children who attend evening enrichment programs.

But because of her family name, Kennedy's received the most media attention - and because she's never served or even run for public office, she's received the most scrutiny.

Virtually all this research is paid for at least in part by public money, which raises an inconvenient question: Is the public interest served by journals that don't even recognize scientific excellence?

We, at the Office for Science and Technology, hope that this will in turn bolster even higher levels of French - American scientific collaboration, greater mobility for students and researchers between our two nations, and serve to promote the sciences to the general public.

This is a woman who knew her calling from day one... she has never wavered in her desire to serve the public and her confidence in her own ability to do so, even when that flew in the face of social standards.

But this article on private tuition for special education «burdens» is even worse because the burden on the district isn't the total cost, but the cost for private placement in excess of what the district would have spent if they had served these disabled students in traditional public schools.

Formal education is plainly going to have to change in fundamental ways if it is to serve the nation well in the 21st century, and so is the public's willingness to endure — even demand — those changes.

Liberty High School, a Houston public charter school serving recent immigrants, offers weekend and evening classes, providing students with flexible scheduling that enables them to work or handle other responsibilities while still attending school.

And special education vouchers even improve the quality of services for the disabled students who remain in public schools because those schools risk losing students to the voucher program if they do not serve the students well.

«Democracy Prep provides a test case of whether charter schools can successfully serve the foundational purpose of public education — preparation for citizenship — even while operating outside the direct control of elected officials,» the Mathematica report concludes.

To make matters worse, 40 percent of all public school teachers, including those teaching in Colorado, are not eligible to participate in Social Security, placing even more weight on a system that isn't serving the majority of its members well.

They mandated these models before they even researched them,» said Keith Rheault, who served more than a decade as Nevada's superintendent of public instruction, before retiring on April 2nd.

Denver Public Schools, the largest school district in Colorado, 90,000 plus students, has been expanding these programs but even their work internship program only served 212 internships last year.

«Diverting public funds away from public education to fund private schools doesn't serve all children equally, and places traditionally underserved students at an even greater disadvantage.»

However, even with the funding «following the student,» charter public schools receive less funding for each student than a school district would if it were to serve the same student.

What some may not know about Garcia was that he worked on educational equity and supported charter schools, even served on the board of Green Dot Public Schools.

«Through Raising the Bar, The Mind Trust has released a thoughtful analysis that identifies strategies to keep the charter movement on the cutting edge of education and can guide future discussions about the paths public charter schools can take to serve even more scholars across the country.»

In Lee County Schools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percent black.

Yet even taking into account the possible differences in students» and parents» levels of motivation, the academic performance gap between these charter schools and public schools that serve similar students is striking.

Internal candidates often have inside track Even with the process cloaked from public view, the best candidates, particularly those already serving as superintendents elsewhere, may not apply if they think an internal candidate has the inside track.

That includes teachers and other employee salaries who work with students with disabilities, services and resources for those students, transportation for students with disabilities and other expenditures to ensure districts are serving students with disabilities in accordance with federal and state laws that can range from due process costs or even tuition for schooling alternatives when a public school can't meet their needs.

This from the Democratic governor whose «Commissioner's Network» program has undermined local control, handed public schools over to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain in Hartford and Bridgeport and devastated a number of urban schools by implementing a «money follows the child» system that has left troubled schools without the resources they need to even serve the students that have remained in those schools.

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