Sentences with phrase «for competitive awards»

The FY 2006 language provides SEAs with the flexibility to reserve up to 100 percent for competitive awards to eligible local entities.

In the Department's fiscal year (FY) 2006 appropriations bill, Congress also included language overriding the statutory provision that SEAs use 50 percent of the amount available for grants to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) for formula awards and 50 percent for competitive awards.

As for the competitive awards, HBO's Big Little Lies (which was positioned in the limited series categories) won four awards, including honors for stars Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, and Alexander Skarsgard.

Not exact matches

They supplement base pay to provide competitive compensation, can act as a recognition tool to award employees for satisfactory work, and they help ensure that employees» interests are aligned with shareholders.

One sure sign of an engaged culture is that our award for «We Have Fun» is held in just as high regard as other categories such as creativity — and it may even be the most fiercely competitive category.

Under the terms of the LTICP, in addition to or in lieu of stock options, we may award, and have awarded in selected situations for retention purposes or to address other competitive pressures, other types of equity - based long - term compensation, including restricted stock, RSRs, stock awards, stock appreciation rights, performance shares, or performance units.

Further, the Compensation Committee uses its discretion and judgment, taking into consideration competitive market data, Company and executive performance and relative internal positioning to determine the actual long - term incentive award for the individual NEOs.

She also choreographed award - winning pieces for competitive teams.

Morningstar awards Wal - Mart a wide moat rating, which is its highest designation for a company's competitive strengths.

Or consider the following finding: 76 per cent of undergraduates trust their faculties, and yet this «trust» is surely strained by the «inflation of grades by faculty [as well as by] competitive awarding of academic credit by some departments and by some institutions for insufficient and inadequate work.»

Being shortlisted for such a prestigious award is an incredible achievement, our understanding of what makes modern UK manufacturing competitive has obviously struck a chord with the judges.»

With a 1950s décor and a menu built around its award - winning burgers and 13 flavors of hand - made milkshakes served in traditional metal cups, Wayback Burgers has carved out a space for itself in the highly competitive fast casual burger market.

Private Brand Spirits: With designer flavors, competitive pricing and award - winning quality, Terressentia offer custom - designed distilled spirits manufactured for brand owners with a Federal Basic Permit.

Source1's management team, competitive market position and strong community involvement were among several factors that put them in contention for the award.

The distillery, built over an ancient underground water source, has been synonymous with distilling for 120 years and we are so proud that Hawthorn's has been awarded such a coveted prize against such a competitive field.

The young centre - back was a close second to his defensive partner in the running for the monthly award, which will come as a huge boost to the 20 year - old who had suffered a 4 - 3 loss on his competitive debut only weeks ago.

Our award winning gymnastics program is the place to go for all of your favorite kids activities including: preschool gymnastics classes — recreational gymnastics classes — competitive gymnastics teams — parkour classes — tumbling classes — kids birthday parties — kids fitness — kids summer camps — open gym — parents night out.

The All - Star Student - Athlete Award recognizes student - athletes for their outstanding achievements on the bike and potential for future success in competitive cycling.

He has won numerous awards and accolades for his work in forming what has become the modern landscape of competitive cheerleading.

Many wondered why such a large fee had been paid for a relatively unknown player, but as it does most of the time, the players made his critics eat their words after his first few competitive appearances saw him win Man of the Match award twice.

The Baxter Equipment for Education Grant will award equipment to a school district in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant process.

Whether it's through the integration of our award - winning healthy vending machine program, the sourcing of healthier products for your student stores and a la carte lines, or through fundraising, HUMAN can work with you to ensure your competitive food and beverage options are healthful, meet all federal mandates, taste delicious, and generate revenue for your school.

HUMAN Healthy Vending (http://www.healthyvending.com), an award - winning franchisor of healthy vending machine businesses, will be working directly with schools across the nation to comply with the USDA's recent landmark proposal for improving competitive foods.

The Baxter Equipment for Education Grant awards equipment to one school in need of improving its school meal kitchen facilities through a competitive grant process.

On an annual basis, USDA awards up to $ 5 million in competitive grants for training, supporting operations, planning, purchasing equipment, developing school gardens, developing partnerships, and implementing farm to school programs.

But the budget encourages efficiency and innovation through the competitive award of $ 79 million for local government consolidation and performance improvements that will help jump - start the Governor's vision of partnering with local governments to deliver smarter and more effective services to New Yorkers at lower cost.

In December 2017, Governor Cuomo and the Empire State Development Corporation announced that after a competitive selection process, the State would award state land adjacent to the Belmont horse racing track to a real estate development partnership, New York Arena Partners, to build a 18,000 seat arena for the NY Islanders, a hotel, retail mall, public open space and parking lots.

The Task Force began their anti-fraud investigations in mid-April of this year, after Erie County was awarded a competitive grant for this purpose from the New York Office of Children and Family Services.

Requiring competitive and transparent contracting for the award of state funds by all state agencies, authorities, and affiliates.

As a result of the first two rounds of competitive awards, the State is supporting more than 1,450 regionally significant economic development and community revitalization projects that are creating new jobs for New Yorkers and generating investments that grow our economy.

Westchester, NY — Westchester Congress Members Eliot Engel (NY - 16), Nita Lowey (NY - 17), and Sean Patrick Maloney (NY - 18) announced today that Westchester County has been awarded a $ 3.6 million federal grant from the United States Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration for new vehicles under the Bus and Bus Facilities Competitive Grant Program.

While they may disagree on many policy issues Miner and DeFrancisco agreed on the need to invest in aging infrastructure such as pipes and roads and faulted Cuomo's efforts to boost the upstate economy, which include tax breaks for start - up companies and competitive regional economic development awards.

«The process for awarding contracts is supposed to be fair, competitive, and unbiased.

Senate Democrats earlier this year pushed for a community schools grant program that would provide wraparound social services and empower the education commissioner to award competitive grants to eligible school districts that use existing buildings for community - based hubs.

In a statement, HCR spokeswoman Stephanie Davis noted the agency «has granted 180 awards over the last five years through its annual competitive funding application for tax credits and low interest loans, and these projects were given the same consideration as all the others.

The state, in awarding the competitive license to del Lago, accepted its numbers, anticipating the fees and taxes they would generate for the state and local governments.

Addressing the press in Accra on Tuesday, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, appealed to the media «to probe further whether this contract was awarded through an open competitive tender process to guarantee and ensure value for money.»

Following a competitive request for proposals, the city awarded a lucrative city contract to Conner and a partner in 2010 to deliver lost luggage from the airport.

But the Procurement Policy Board, an obscure agency if ever there was one, has decreed that the competitive bidding rules «shall not apply to contract awards made from line item appropriations and / or discretionary funds to community - based not - for - profit organizations or other public service organizations identified by elected city officials other than the mayor and the controller.»

Chapter 13 of the City Charter requires sealed competitive bidding for virtually every purchase or grant awarded by the city.

«Paying Success Academy NYC for pre-Kindergarten programs when it has not met the requirements for payment is not only inconsistent with the DOE's assurances to the [SED] and the competitive award process, but also with section 328 of the New York City Charter,» Elia wrote.

Rather than use a fair and competitive process to award contracts, Kaloyeros improperly tailored requests for proposals to award certain contracts for the construction of facilities for SUNY Poly in Albany, Schneiderman alleged.

2010 Lynford L. Goddard is honored as the first recipient of the AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science for exemplifying an early career scientist eager to share his excitement about science and demonstrating excellence in reaching high school students with activities in electrical engineering, while simultaneously pursuing a competitive research career.

For the 26 most competitive programs, less than 15 % of applicants were awarded the grants.

Although smaller, NSF works the same way as NIH; NSF expects to make about 10,400 competitive awards in FY 2008, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Long - Term Fellows who return to their home country at the end of the fellowship may apply for the competitive Career Development Award.»

For example at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), recruitment of international faculty is occurring across a wide range of subject areas, including engineering and science, with special emphasis on its Nanyang Assistant Professorship scheme, awarding 10 to 12 distinguished young faculty each year with a competitive salary and up to $ 1 million startup funds over the first three years.

Some fields are more competitive than others, but «the abilities to survive in science can be learned,» Echenique, who is the president of the Donostia International Physics Center and a past recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research, told his audience.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

BALTIMORE — Most mathematicians are more interested in double integrals than triple axels, but one team of number crunchers is concerned that the International Skating Union's new rules for awarding marks for competitive figure skating may fall flat on their face.