Sentences with phrase «few changes in the program»

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While the International Mobility Program will certainly help a few American companies to «park» their foreign employees in Canada during this tumultuous time, it's the broader policy changes that will tangibly impact the tech community at home, as well as foreigners seeking a safe and stimulating place to innovate.

Airline and hotel loyalty programs have undergone some significant changes in the last few years.

Many a desktop computer has been purchased specifically to take advantage of these programs, which allow even an unsophisticated computer user to change a few critical assumptions and, in the blink of an eye, recalculate an entire financial model (see «How VisiCalc Works,» INC., November 1981, page 104).

The bipartisan Senate plan would attempt to maintain TPS in return for ending or changing a «diversity» lottery program that has been aimed at allowing up to 50,000 people a year from countries with few emigres to the United States.

From what we see coming out of the top levels of China's leadership in the past few weeks, we should be reasonably encouraged that some of the targets of these complaints are programmed for change.

With only a few days left before the FOMC meets, markets have already factored in a NO CHANGE stance by the Fed and are instead focusing on what the Fed meeting will dish out in terms of its asset - sale program.

So much has changed over the past few years in the credit card industry, what with new regulations, the disappearance of easy credit, the reduction of credit card offers and advertisements through the mail, and not to mention, the expiration of lifetime balance transfer programs (and awesome card terms).

While any announcement is likely to cause a dramatic response from the financial markets — all the more so because few markets seem to be pricing in the possibility of a change in tack at the moment — we don't foresee a quick end to the ECB's asset - buying program.

There have been a few changes — Hartford and Johns Hopkins have faded, Emory and Fuller have emerged, and far fewer faculty, especially Roman Catholics, are trained in Europe — but every program on the list still is located in a seminary, a religiously related university or a university that has a divinity school.

As numerous cities make energy choices to tackle climate change, so too should municipalities invest in farm - to - hospital and farm - to - school programs that deliver healthier food and strengthen rural communities while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.

In Shoop's first year, the Commodores allowed 9.6 fewer points per game and.98 fewer yards per play, massive changes for a program outmanned in the SEIn Shoop's first year, the Commodores allowed 9.6 fewer points per game and.98 fewer yards per play, massive changes for a program outmanned in the SEin the SEC.

Rather than asking her to make what could be a very expensive permanent change in the food at your school, ask her to do a pilot program for a few weeks; if the pilot is successful, it can be made permanent.

In the Family to Family program we have had very few women change their minds late in the game because they are getting resources as soon as they come iIn the Family to Family program we have had very few women change their minds late in the game because they are getting resources as soon as they come iin the game because they are getting resources as soon as they come inin.

Lawmakers in the next few weeks will consider a proposal to reverse a change to the STAR, or School Tax Reduction, program that was earlier rejected by the Legislature but ended up in the budget anyway.

It may be that in the absence of a program to cover certain kinds of losses, such losses would be unlikely to occur at all, and few people would suffer from them, but the existence of such programs can change both those facts.

The report outlines a series of first steps, including holding fewer people on bail; expanding diversion programs for drug offenders and those with mental illness; and changing state law to treat some low - level offenses — like fare - beating, marijuana possession in public view, prostitution and possession of so - called gravity knives — as civil rather than criminal matters.

«These aren't pilot programs that help a lucky few; they are foundational changes that will lift up schools in every neighborhood,» said Mayor Bill de Blasio at the announcement, which can be seen in the video below.

«It seems like you're spending a lot of time coming up with really different methodologies to count a few dollars and cents,» said Annaka Peterson, a program officer at Oxfam America who focuses on efforts by communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change.

A few weeks ago, in writing a story about the Preparing Future Faculty program, I heard about changes in graduate student training and how those changes are affecting today's postdocs and new faculty.

She has promised that more radical changes, intended for the next Framework Program, will be offered in a green paper in a few weeks» time.

Researchers learned that even as few as five lessons from a community - based dating violence prevention program can effect changes in student attitudes and behaviors.

Few prevention programs target men or encourage bystanders to intervene, despite demonstrated success of such programs in changing behaviors, including encouraging empathy among men and women who have the power to stop violence.

Because the body always has and always will adapt to change, people normally find the good reductions in weight lose shown in the first few months of their healthy eating and exercise program soon slow down, stop or even reverse to weight gain as their body adapts to the changes they have made.

From packing 20 pounds of muscle onto a skinny vegetarian, to getting a life long couch potato to lose over 83 pounds in just 5 months, to creating the Number ONE program for helping people lose the last few pounds, I've spent the last 12 years helping people change their lives and bodies.

A three - week intensive program at the beautiful campus in Poughkeepsie, New York sounded like a great way to spend a few weeks of summer vacation, but that program changed the course of my life.

In other words, schools with more veteran teachers before the creation of the ERI program experienced much larger changes in teacher turnover and declines in teacher experience when the program was implemented than schools with fewer such teacherIn other words, schools with more veteran teachers before the creation of the ERI program experienced much larger changes in teacher turnover and declines in teacher experience when the program was implemented than schools with fewer such teacherin teacher turnover and declines in teacher experience when the program was implemented than schools with fewer such teacherin teacher experience when the program was implemented than schools with fewer such teachers.

Evaluations of the impact of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) in four multiracial, multiethnic school districts in New York City showed that 84 percent of teachers who responded to a survey reported positive changes in classroom climate, 71 percent reported moderate or significant decreases in physical violence in the classroom, and 66 percent observed less name - calling and few verbal insults.

Yet, fewer than one half of elementary schools in the New York City area offer dance, music, theater, and the visual arts programs; were trying to do our part to change that.

In some ways, these changes strengthened NASDC's claim of being a bold new venture in education reform, since few privately funded initiatives had ever committed to so ambitious a prograIn some ways, these changes strengthened NASDC's claim of being a bold new venture in education reform, since few privately funded initiatives had ever committed to so ambitious a prograin education reform, since few privately funded initiatives had ever committed to so ambitious a program.

While it may not be widely known, many of the positive changes seen in education reform over the past few decades — from replication of high - quality charter schools to expansion of teacher residency programs — have been made possible, at least in part, through partnerships with AmeriCorps and other national service programs.

Take a look at any college teacher education program — things have not changed in the past few decades.

Berman laughed, reeling off the major changes that his colleagues have collaboratively implemented in fewer than 24 months: environmental magnet schools, university lab schools, new vocational curriculums for the high schools, performing arts in the elementary schools, more physical activity in the classroom, and international studies programs that will celebrate the cultural diversity of Jefferson County.

The details of these accelerative programs are true in all respects, and they are being undertaken by Australian students as we speak, but I've taken the liberty of changing the children» names and replacing them with names with which you'll become well familiar over the next few days (the keynote speakers at this conference).

In order to accommodate the form's use within our transportation industry program, the Department is making a few necessary regulation changes in order for collectors, laboratories, and Medical Review Officers to know how to use the new forIn order to accommodate the form's use within our transportation industry program, the Department is making a few necessary regulation changes in order for collectors, laboratories, and Medical Review Officers to know how to use the new forin order for collectors, laboratories, and Medical Review Officers to know how to use the new form.

The GT - R's engineering team spent the last few years camped out near the Nürburgring Nordschleife, and as a result, some changes have been made to the programming in the suspension's Comfort Mode.

To this end, Apple has listened to feedback aimed toward their iPads in Education program and is making more than a few changes (at just the right time, when educators are starting to make plans for the next school year beginning in the autumn).

We have a listing in your directory and would like to make a few changes to our company information and loan programs.

You can obtain a free flight in the contiguous U.S. for as few as 7,500 AAdvantage miles after changes to the program on March 22, 2016.

Changes: We have revised § § 668.412 to specify that an institution may not include on the disclosure template information about completion or withdrawal rates, the number of individuals enrolled in the program during the most recently completed award year, loan repayment rates, placement rates, the number of individuals enrolled in the program who received title IV loans or private loans for enrollment in the program, median loan debt, mean or median earnings, program cohort default rates, or the program's most recent D / E rates if that information is based on fewer than 10 students.

Almost any new program of any size and substance is going to encounter a few bumps at the outset — especially an effort that requires significant changes in internal systems and computer programs at large financial institutions as well as 103 counseling agencies across the country.

Personally, I'd like to see a U.S. city identify a couple of zip codes and implement a pilot project, involving a few animal control officers who have done some understudy work in Calgary, which afterwards will compare before - and - after stats to make the case for the sweeping change that will be needed to put a Calgary - style program into effect in a major U.S. city.

For example, they reportedly stopped giving humane education talks at schools after a few months because they decided it was a relatively ineffective intervention, and stopped publishing an online magazine once they thought that it would be more efficient to direct readers to their website.137 They also report that they have changed the focus of several programs in response to new information.

Starting or strengthening programs today, even if those changes feel small and incremental, can pay off handsomely in just a few months:

You can obtain a free flight in the contiguous U.S. for as few as 7,500 AAdvantage miles after changes to the program March 22,2016.

This comes only a few months after Delta announced that it will be changing its SkyMiles program in 2015.

Changes to that program will see their value fall by up to a third in a few months» time.

Sure, it's a good program, but it has seen its share of partner devaluations in the last few years (think about the changes Southwest and United have made), and Chase has made no attempts to offset those devaluations.

The trip was booked in mid November 2011 a few days before British Airways changed their mileage program and made such redemptions to South America totally unreasonable!

American Airlines announced several sweeping changes to its loyalty program last year, including a devalued award chart, fewer upgrades for elite members, and plans to begin awarding miles on the basis of revenue — rather than distance — sometime in 2016.

Delta Air Lines announced significant changes to the Delta Sky Club membership program, citing the $ 50 million the airline has invested in new and expanded lounges over the past few years as well as member complaints that the clubs have been overcrowded.