Sentences with phrase «first areas of the country»

Although it was one of the first areas of the country to be settled, it is one of the last to be developed.

San Diego, one of the first areas of the country to experience mass foreclosures is certainly ripe for the picking.

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JD.com, the country's biggest online direct retailer and Alibaba's top rival, said it tested delivery by drone to customers in four rural areas in what the company believed to be the first commercial use of such service.

Adam S. Minsky founded the first law office in Massachusetts devoted entirely to assisting student loan borrowers, and he is one of the only attorneys in the country practicing in this area of law.

China's growth over the same period was 6.9 %, unchanged from the first three months of the year, with the property sector a notable area of strength, as house prices continued to rise despite measures by the Chinese government to cool the country's housing market.

«A first analysis of the Iran 2006 census results shows a sensationally low fertility level of 1.9 for the whole country and only 1.5 for the Tehran area (which has about 8 million people),» Tehran University demographer Mohammad Jalal Abbasi - Shavazi recently observed.

... The UN Commission for the nutrition challenges of the twenty - first century, in its Report submitted on March 20, 2000, has pointed out that» about one in four new - born children in developing countries - around 30 million each year - suffer retarded growth in the womb, an indication of how the nutritional well - being of mothers in pregnancy remains one of the most neglected areas in world health.

This is the basic prescription for poor countries that Sachs and others envision — get most people out of rural areas and into the cities «because modern economic growth is accompanied first and foremost by urbanization.»

For the first time, Slack's Hoagie Shack has investors to help it develop stores in other areas of the country, with a focus on California, Atlanta, Florida, the Carolinas and northern New Jersey.

Bioagricert was also the first Italian organization working to promote the organic culture in countries outside Europe and especially in Third countries, in order to valorize the trade of raw materials and finished products that are typical of such areas.

The restaurant, which features 100 versions of the popular Spanish sandwich called the Montadito, plans to expand its footprint in the New York area and cement its U.S. presence as first franchise restaurant from Spain in the country.

After introducing the game to young African - Americans in Washington, D.C., over 100 years ago, he helped organized the first leagues in the city, which is now one of the most fertile basketball areas in the country.

The chapter covers many areas of the anthropology of childbirth in contemporary first world countries.

Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

The organization initially gave a voice and training to the first generation of school - lunch workers, who were called upon to introduce meals in every part of the country, including the remotest areas.

Since the first edition of the report in 2011, 23 of the countries have executed strategies to improve workforce retention in rural and remote areas, and 20 countries have increased enrollment and placement of midwives in underserved regions.

While many studies have observed that breast feeding protects against diarrhoea, few have explored the variability of this effect.6 — 8 Our study is the first to show that breast feeding may confer greater protection against diarrhoea in deprived rather than affluent areas or households within a developed country.

The world's first Green Investment Bank putting millions into green jobs and growth; our youth contract to get every young person out of work earning or learning; more apprenticeships than this country has ever had before; major investment in areas facing difficulties from the Regional Growth Fund and greater freedom to boost jobs in our great cities; and we will take further steps to make our tax system fairer too.

Households in five areas of the country will be the first to trial controversial «pay as you throw» bin taxes.

If approved by the Suffolk Legislature, it would be one of five around the country and the first in the Tri-state area.

«Again in the area of employment, for the first time in this country, we have a government that employed 200,000 Nigerians.

First, the researchers hand - labelled thousands of areas of interest — offices, shopping centres and industrial zones — across the country.

Professor Schneider continued: «While there have been studies that have assessed urban expansion and urban population growth across large areas, this is the first study of its kind to use empirical maps and datasets for every settlement and population in the 17 - country region.

Some of the first uses of the technology may be to make small, robotic aircraft — «super-efficient long - range drones,» Gershenfeld says, that could be used in developing countries as a way of delivering medicines to remote areas.

The first aerial assessment of the impact of Central African Republic's recent conflict on wildlife and other natural resources in the northern part of the country shows that wildlife populations have been depleted in large areas of their former range, yet there is hope as some populations of Kordofan giraffe, giant eland, buffalo, roan, and other key species that still survive in low numbers.

The first and third began with local transmission events, with new outbreaks occurring close to old ones, but the second appears to have started when the bacteria made long - distance jumps to areas in the north and southeast of the country, hundreds of kilometers away from Yunnan.

First, governments must recognize that conventional forms of monitoring for protected areas are not tenable in parks that are larger than some countries.

Loyola Medicine's Urogynecology & Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery Program was the first of its kind in the greater Chicago area — and is still one of the few programs in the country — to offer single - site location for the multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment of urogynecological disorders and pelvic - floor dysfunction for women.

March 29, 2011 Survey: University of Chicago Medical Center one of top Chicago - area hospitals The University of Chicago Medical Center, long recognized as one of the finest hospitals in the country, has now been named one of the best in the city in the first Best Hospitals metro - area rankings from U.S.News & World Report.

• Despite the fact that U.S. scientists were the first to derive human embryonic stem cells, leadership in this area of research is shifting to other countries such as the United Kingdom, Singapore, South Korea, and Australia.

The University of Chicago Medical Center, long recognized as one of the finest hospitals in the country, has now been named one of the best in the city in the first Best Hospitals metro - area rankings from U.S.News & World Report.

first off when you lose weight for those who obviously don't know you lose all over especially with cardio your not going to lose weight in just one area why is that before when she was «chubbier» she wasn't showing off her behind but now she is it wasn't big that's why but since lets keep it real she had more help other than a trainer now she's taking butt pics and all that now but a lot of celebs do that they get help in areas and act like they did naturally by going to the gym even some women I know who aren't rich and went to another country to get work done

Some parts of the country are seeing snow, while other areas are starting to see their first signs of spring.

First of all, Singapore is the wealthiest country in the area.

I think in my area of the country at least, the guys who spend a lot of time online looking for women (who are likely to make the first contact) are actually relationship dysfuntional.

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The first opportunity areas will be West Somerset, Norwich, Blackpool, Scarborough, Derby and Oldham, before the programme is widened out to other parts of the country in the coming months.

Norwich has been identified by the government as one of the areas in the country needing additional support to ensure all local children get a brilliant education and good start in life.Future First research shows alumni are crucial in inspiring current state students to greater motivation, confidence and success in the world of work.

The first edition of the Digest, Laying the Foundation to Measure Sustainable Development Goal 4, finds that many countries struggle to produce the data needed today, and will find it even harder to It focuses specifically on areas that are difficult to measure, such as education quality, learning, equity and inclusion.

In the first instance we had significant concerns about reviewing a curriculum that had yet to be fully implemented, and around the country in many states and territories there was a timeline in terms of curriculum implementation, and in particular the secondary sector had some curriculum areas that were being implemented this year and in 2016.

Suburban areas with high - performing school districts have shown little support for vouchers, so it was surprising to have the first locally enacted voucher program come from Douglas County, a Denver suburb with one of the highest median incomes in the country.

«This new partnership - the first of its kind - will establish a framework of support and provide much - needed expertise in an area that is becoming an increasing concern in the country's schools.»

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

As Kopp and the other conference - goers learned about the crisis in teaching — 12 percent of first - year teachers across the country were uncertified, clustered in urban and rural areas — they started to discuss whether they should teach.

Lampton School was designated as one of the first 100 teaching schools in the country and now has responsibility for leading the «self - improving school system» in their local area and beyond.

This first report analyzed the ESEA / ESSA Consolidated State Plans that have been submitted to the U.S. Department of Education over the past 10 months — from every state department of education in the country — in the area of school improvement for low performing schools.

In Washington, D.C., one of the first places in the country to use value - added teacher ratings to fire teachers, teacher - union president Nathan Saunders likes to point to the following statistic as proof that the ratings are flawed: Ward 8, one of the poorest areas of the city, has only five percent of the teachers defined as effective under the new evaluation system known as IMPACT, but more than a quarter of the ineffective ones.

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