Sentences with phrase «flurry of publicity»

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a major lawsuit.
Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Florida teachers who complained they would be rated on the test scores of students who weren't even in their classes.
23andMe launched in 2006 amid a flurry of publicity and celebrity endorsements, marketing its saliva - based test kit as an affordable way for consumers to peek into their own genetic code.

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Each year about this time, when the first snow flurries fly and the proprietors of publicity - conscious resorts start trying to get their pictures taken doing a slalom on pine boughs, we like to present you with a resort or a ski way of life you may not have heard of.
Jan 04,2016... Each year about this time, when the first snow flurries fly and the proprietors of publicity - conscio...
Under the encouragement of local pharmacist and seasoned activist, Edith (Helena Bonham Carter), downtrodden cockney, Violet (Anne - Marie Duff) and the watchful leadership of Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep) Maud finds herself engaged in a flurry of violent, illegal activity to increase media publicity for the cause.
You may recall two years ago, amid a flurry of negative publicity over excessive investment bank executive bonuses, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein asked employees to refrain from high profile, flashy, or excessive purchases.
The Xbox Live star rating system is an important way of securing publicity for Indie Games, but recently, a mysterious flurry of negative votes has caused deserving titles to fall off of the limelight in favour of other more cynical offerings.
And a flurry of bad publicity that centered mainly on Wells has so far failed to slow down the stream of new unlisted offerings set to hit the market in 2004.
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