Sentences with phrase «few public findings»

Curran and Martins would increase funding and staffing for the county Ethics Board, which investigates complaints of misconduct by county employees but has issued few public findings or reports in recent years.

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One of the few public documents we found stated that the Binary gateway is a «new, faster protocol [which] reduces bandwidth and latency».
Evercore, founded in 1995, is smaller than Lazard and went public a few months after it did.
If you think your voice may be working against you or if others find it difficult to understand you, don't hesitate to invest in a speech coach or a few public speaking courses.
Mylan is one of only a few public companies, and the only publicly - traded pharmaceutical maker, that uses these tax credits, a Reuters review of a comprehensive database of filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission found.
(Of course, a few companies — I'm thinking of Tesla here — might not wait to find out what regulators or the public think.)
UpGuard, who spent the past few weeks analyzing the data, says the LocalBlox archive it found contained data scraped from public profiles on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and real estate site Zillow.
A deal with a new investor is expected in the next few weeks will be seen by media industry - watchers as another step along the road towards an initial public offering of shares in Vice, which was founded in 1994 as a «punk zine» for music enthusiasts in Montreal, Canada.
Meanwhile, there are few beneficiaries of financial capitalism that have done better than Goldman Sachs, which was founded in the late 19th century and went public in 1999.
Over the course of a few years, there would be an erosion of the Church's public presence, as Catholic institutions find themselves burdened by fines and unable to offer health coverage.
He told me he wasn't religious, but had few opportunities to play in public, so his musician friends suggested he find a church with an orchestra that needed someone to play the instrument he played and volunteer there.
In this mass society every person — a few misfits excepted — can at last find public warrant for being or becoming whatever his heart desires.
Whether it is Lutheran social service agencies in the Midwest or Presbyterian parochial schools in New Mexico (founded because the Catholics so dominated the territory's few public schools) or Jewish philanthropies in New York or the ubiquitous Catholic hospitals and Protestant colleges throughout the land, religions have provided much of the social (and financial) capital for building local communities.
There is no need to shrug and assume that current government - funded schemes of sex education or vague imitations of them are the only way forward: Catholic schools are popular and highly - regarded by the public in general in Britain and in a stand - off between them and officialdom the latter might find it had fewer allies than it imagines.
I really, really wish that I found it easier as I have to do a fair few public talks and also, next year, I'll be teaching classes at uni.
But few things are logical in the Southern Conference, a strange assortment of public, church and military schools that has changed borders more often than Czechoslovakia; 32 institutions have been members at one time or another since its founding in 1921.
An enterprising Arsenal fan found this guide to stadium etiquette tacked to a few of the public bulletin inside the Emirates this week.
The key to supplementing an active baby in public is to find a relatively quiet place to nurse, with fewer distractions, especially when baby is tired and hungry.
But the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (the public exhibition arm of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, founded in 1857), celebrates a few days early with its fourth annual Summer Solstice Celebration on Thursday.
Erin Esteves:..., on those few occasions that I have, which only re-enforces my..., I don't want to say, shame, but I'd rather say «Modesty», for breastfeeding in public and when people find out that I'm still breastfeeding my son, as I said, he's 11 months old.
Researchers found that fewer children displayed behavioral and socioemotional problems when their low - income mothers participated in a public health program promoting positive parenting.
Thankfully, I did find that even though people continue to have a problem with breastfeeding in public (it's 2016, people) there are more than a few supportive people around, too.
When Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino announced he was running for the Buffalo Public School Board, more than a few political observers found the idea laughable.
Gallivan hopes the public will keep a few things in mind before passing judgment solely on the findings of the Moreland Commission.
Today, a few corridors down from the Commons fight on «Amendment 7» — that «meaningful vote» motion — we will attempt to input the public's voice into the debate, by launching the findings of the Citizens» Assembly.
However, Cuomo found nothing illegal on either side (Bruno's flights were OK because he did a few public chores while on fund raising missions) just a whole lot of unethical stuff.
More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.
According to the report's findings, «enforcement actions» — including ones for low - level crimes like fare beating and public urination — have also decreased in the first few months of 2015.
The system, released last week in public beta testing online and to be formally introduced in the next few months, runs thousands of directives to find a story's context.
«With the UCSF team, thanks to funding by public and private organizations, we're able to harness the team science model for collaborations like this that yield findings with the potential to change things for patients who've had very few options for far too long.»
But despite these contributions, researchers found there are few public or private programs that directly support the needs of military caregivers.
Once that goes public, which should occur in the next few weeks, finding disease genes in dogs will be even easier.
A new national survey conducted by The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and researchers at Yale University found that fewer than 1 in 3 Americans, and 40 percent of Catholics, are aware of Pope Francis's efforts to publicize global warming as a priority issue for the Catholic Church.
«This is the first field - based study of mandatory menu labeling laws that found a large overall adjusted difference in calories between customers who dined at labeled restaurants when compared to unlabeled restaurants — about 155 fewer calories purchased,» said Amy Auchincloss, PhD, an assistant professor in the Drexel University School of Public Health and lead author of the study.
Lomborg claims in his rebuttal that «Holdren could find little but a badly translated word and a necessary specification for nuclear energy production in this chapter».8 Actually, as my original critique indicated to the extent practical in the space available, and as Lomborgs rebuttal and this response make even plainer, his energy chapter is so permeated with misunderstandings, misreadings, misrepresentations, and blunders of other sorts that it can not be considered a positive contribution to public or policy - maker understanding, notwithstanding its managing to get right a few (already well known) truths about the subject.
«However, a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that fewer than 20 percent of public middle and high schools in the U.S. start at the recommended time,» Owens says.
Making things worse was that with fewer public monies available for farm research, scientists, and their universities, found themselves increasingly dependent on the seed companies for funding.
Sontine is a client of mine who made diet changes, lifestyle changes like walking and added the key nutrients like zinc and vitamin B6 (and a few others) and found she too had no more fear of public speaking — and she actually started to really enjoy it!
The dates found on these public places last just for few weeks only.
Though obvious from start to finish - it's little more than a Public Service Announcement - there are a few moments in this that are thought - provoking: how these starlets balance their «jobs» and personal relationships (Silguero's boyfriend is clearly bothered by her sleeping with so many other people), how they regard each other (none of them likes Belle Knox, the famous Duke student who turned to porn) and especially how they view the difference between «on - screen performing» and «real - life romance» (I found the scene of the one girl awkwardly trying to get a male waiter's number to be completely adorable).
Another literature review, conducted by economists Jeffrey Grogger and Derek Neal, found few clear - cut gains for white students, while «urban minorities in Catholic schools fare much better than similar students in public schools.»
For example, a 2010 report by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that black charter school students were twice as likely to attend schools that enrolled fewer than 10 percent non-minority students as their counterparts in traditional public schools.
This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.
Another possible reason private schools might have fewer instances of bullying is that private schools often find it easier than public schools to create a strong school culture centered on common values of members.
A nationally representative survey by Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents agreed that the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»
Maybe, if our corporations and corporate leaders gave our public schools the time, money, and respect they currently lavish on a very few private schools, they would find that a quality education is available to every child — no strings attached.
But in areas with fewer closures there's been a reduction of services and staff, leading to fewer open access services such as Stay and Play and more parents having to rely on public transport to find a centre offering what they need.
For instance, a study by the group Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents felt the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»
The strong emphasis on job preparation is consistent with and expands upon the findings from PDK's 2016 survey, in which fewer than half of respondents said academic preparation should be the main goal of a public school education.
Public Impact researchers working with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on a new study found that replacing low - performing charter schools while replicating high - performing ones could dramatically improve quality within just a few years.
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