Sentences with phrase «good number of bills»

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Bill Gates has a habit of reading for at least one hour each night, so he makes his way through a good number of books.

Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up,» Mills said last month while introducing the borrowers rights bill in Washington.

Billionaire Chipotle investor Bill Ackman spoke about the chain during a conference Tuesday, suggesting there were a number of opportunities for improvement for Chipotle, including introducing desserts and breakfast options as well as extending store hours and introducing more drive - thru windows.

«If Congress passed this bill that the American Bankers Association wants, how many community bank mortgages would be eligible for QM that aren't currently eligible... and how does that stack up against the number of mortgages held by Well Fargo, Citibank, JPMorgan and the other giants that would become eligible under this change in the rules?»

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These advances allow companies to close the pay gap between billed work and payments to suppliers and contractors, and a good number of small businesses utilize this method to create liquidity for their business.

Here's an interesting Bloomberg piece on what bond guru Bill Gross is calling «financial repression», but what you can just call «low interest rates» The big story is that the world is still crawling out of a near - depression, and there is not a central banker in the developed world who would dare dream of pushing interest rates to anything above a number you could count out on the fingers of one hand (and seriously, in most countries you could leave out the thumb and index finger as well).

We have a number of guests that need gluten & soy free as well so this looks like it will fit the bill for everyone, which makes my life easier.

According to the Morning Agriculture report, the bill has the support of a number of agricultural groups as well as six co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle.

Be sure to prepare your callers well — arm them with the House and Senate switchboard numbers (duh), the name and bill number of the measure in question and quick bullet points to get across to the staff member who answers.

Mayor Bill DeBlasio has offered reforms that would require that owners have a certificate of approval on file before they can start receiving the tax break, as well as increasing the number of below - market - priced units in each building.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill are scheduled to discuss the year - end crime data at a news conference Thursday, an event that will likely be highlighted by a number of superlatives: the lowest number of major felonies in the modern era of police record keeping, as well as 790 shootings, the fewest in recorded city history.

I'm pretty sure a good number of upstaters have no idea who Bill de Blasio is, but the «we're your last line of defense against the liberals in NYC» argument is one they've certainly heard before from the Senate GOP.

«As written, this bill would hurt our economy by driving manufacturers out of New York City, reducing the number of good - paying jobs available to New Yorkers at precisely the time we need them the most,» Bloomberg wrote in a letter sent to the governor this morning.

Ellison had the backing of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — who helped roll out Cuomo's free SUNY and CUNY tuition plan in January — as well as a number of New York Democrats, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The bill's main Senate booster, IDC Sen. Diane Savino, has added amendments to the bill to make it easier for GOP lawmakers to accept, including an age limit on those who can use smokeable marijuana as well as limits on the number of manufacturers.

Citing a need to better deploy police and curb overtime costs, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is extending a policy that limits the number of permits allowed for neighborhood street fairs in 2018.

Lerner says Common Cause has analyzed the details of the bill authorizing the constitutional change, and has found a number of technical loopholes that she says keeps the power to manipulate the lines well within the hands of the legislature, including the ability to continue to add additional Senate seats for political purposes.

In a huddle with reporters earlier this week in Washington, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) acknowledged that his party's chances of reaching the 60 - seat plateau were «better than they were two weeks ago» — the result of an across - the - board collapse in Republican numbers due to the economic crisis and handling of the bailout bill by Congress.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

A number of Republican elected officials — including state Sen. Bill Larkin, a veteran GOP lawmaker and well - respected military veteran — crossed party lines this year to endorse Maloney.

The best example I can think of, when a major bill had significant influence by a small number of senators was Obamacare.

His campaign has amassed a number of endorsements, including that of former Mayor David Dinkins and Harlem state Sen. Bill Perkins, as well as the New York City Principals» Union and District Council 37, which includes city parks workers, school workers and social service workers.

-- Avella's theoretical opening — POLITICO New York's Laura Nahmias: De Blasio's middling poll numbers have provided a theoretical opening for a Democratic challenger, but it's unclear how well Avella — an outer - borough moderate and member of the Independent Democratic Conference in Albany — fits that bill.

Confirming a strategy he had been executing for several months, Mayor Bill de Blasio said this afternoon he would cut down on the number of opportunities City Hall beat reporters would have to ask him questions — opting instead for more radio and TV interviews, as well as town halls.

Applicants must bring a copy of a recent utility bill as well as documentation verifying income, rent, and the date - of - birth and social security number of each household member.

With voter turnout at record low numbers, a new bill that just passed in the closing days of the New York State Assembly session could very well go a long way to bringing out new voters.

So we end up with a bill that would guarantee a fairly large number of students — a number that would be larger than the number of professors, larger than the support staff (because they're not there), and that would decrease as well the number of members appointed by the lieutenant governor in council, i.e., the government.»

De Groot, who landed at number 33 on the list of 50, joins other well - known researchers and philanthropists including Dr. Paul Offit of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Bill and Melinda Gates.

Consequently, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D - CA) proposed an alternate version of the bill (Attracting the Best and Brightest Act; H.R. 6412), in which the diversity visa lottery program is retained, thereby increasing the total number of legal immigrants to the United States each year.

«Over half the costs of being overweight can be from productivity losses, mainly due to missed work days... This means that just focusing on medical costs misses a big part of the picture, though they're a consideration, too,» study co-author Bruce Lee said in a statement, noting that of course medical bills contribute to this number as well.

In Billings, over 40 % of the population is over the age of 45, and a good number of them are unattached.

The Hooligan Sports Bar is a renown joint in Billings that is known for its quality food and alcoholic beverages, as well as a great number of individuals coming in to watch a game - use this to your advantage!

Composed of field testimonies and hidden camera footage, the film also features interviews with Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Raymond Joseph, the U.S. Department of States» Ambassador John Miller from the Office of Human Trafficking, renowned anthropologist and sugar historian Sidney Mintz, Carol Pier from Human Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher Hartley.

Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.

The first disc includes the theatrical release of the film, along with an interesting feature commentary track by director Marshall and screenwriter Bill Condon, as well as the deleted musical number «Class,» and a 27 - minute documentary on bringing the musical to the big screen («From Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago»).

Ensuring that Independence Day 2 will have the requisite number of dramatic speeches and old Jewish guys that any good Independence Day movie should have, director Roland Emmerich has confirmed that both Bill Pullman and Judd Hirsch will be reprising their roles from the original movie in the new alien - fighting...

Other striking male performances were provided by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin and Anthony Anderson in The Departed; Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones in The Painted Veil; Wim Willaert in When the Sea Rises; Leslie Phillips and Richard Griffiths in Venus; Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Inside Man; Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase and Shido Nakamura in Letters from Iwo Jima; Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine; Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell in The Illusionist; Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman and Ty Simpkins in Little Children; Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer and Dylan Walsh in The Lake House; Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena and Stephen Dorff in World Trade Center; Tim Blake Nelson, Pat Corley, Jeffrey Donovan, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson in Come Early Morning; Ryan Gosling and Anthony Mackie in Half Nelson; Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, and Danny Huston in Marie Antoinette; Matt Damon, Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Ivanir and Joe Pesci in The Good Shepherd; Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones and Ben Foster in X-Men: The Last Stand; Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Simon Abkarian, Sebastien Foucan, Jesper Christensen and Tobias Menzies in Casino Royale; Ebru Ceylan and Mehmet Eryilmaz in Climates; Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Bob Hoskins in Hollywoodland; Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover, Keith Robinson and Hinton Battle in Dreamgirls; Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Kevin Smith and Jason Lee in Clerks II; Justin Kirk and Jamie Harrold in Flannel Pajamas; Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker and Adrian Grenier in The Devil Wears Prada; Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hulce in Stranger Than Fiction; Samuel L. Jackson, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray, Sam Jones III and Brian Presley in Home of the Brave; Harris Yulin, Ty Burrell and Boris McGiver in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore and Nick Swardson in Art School Confidential; Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Alec Baldwin in Running with Scissors; Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar and John Ortiz in Miami Vice; Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam and Tim McMullan in The Queen; Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Marlon Sherman and Clarke Peters in Freedomland; Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Alex Rocco, Ron Silver and Raul Esparza in Find Me Guilty; Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley in Lucky Number Slevin; Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Cho, Tony Yalda, Sam Golzari and Willem Dafoe in American Dreamz; Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane in A Scanner Darkly; Adam Beach, Ryan A. Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker and Robert Patrick in Flags of Our Fathers; Chow Yun - Fat in Curse of the Golden Flower; Sergi López, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo and Federico Luppi in Pan's Labyrinth; Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal.

THE DVD by Bill Chambers Number three on my list of the year's best films and number five on Walter's, The Bourne Identity comes to DVD in separate widescreen and fullscreen Collector's Editions from UnivNumber three on my list of the year's best films and number five on Walter's, The Bourne Identity comes to DVD in separate widescreen and fullscreen Collector's Editions from Univnumber five on Walter's, The Bourne Identity comes to DVD in separate widescreen and fullscreen Collector's Editions from Universal.

Host James Corden reminded the audience that you don't need to be a musician to win a Grammy — the award for Best Spoken Word Album has gone to books written by a number of politicians like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

Newly added to Warner Archive Instant's ebulliently eclectic grab bag of choices, Blackboard Jungle has always been best remembered for its opening number, the pivotal Bill Haley jump tune that heralded the rock & roll era, «Rock Around the Clock.»

Bill Mitchell, director of education at BCS said: «We are delighted the scholarship scheme is running again this year and are pleased to have the support of a number of leading industry partners who are as passionate as we are about ensuring we attract the very best people to become computing teachers.»

The film, which included interviews with Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates, and the economist Eric Hanushek, among others, made the central points that public education was failing, that resources don't matter, and that the best ways to fix the national crisis of low test scores were to expand the number of privately managed charters, fire ineffective teachers, and weaken the unions that protected them.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration recently announced that a number of charter and district schools will become partners this school year in exchanging ideas and best practices.

«I think there will be a great number of states and systems that will say, - Let's do as much as we can without breaking our backs,» knowing full well that the bill will be up for a new reauthorization before any of these really bad consequences kick in.»

This disparity, as well as national trends toward disproportionate numbers of suspensions for African American and Latino students, led LAUSD to reexamine school discipline policies in 2013 with the School Climate Bill of Rights.

Holden's bill, he said, would «strengthen one of our best tools against truancy — the School Attendance Review Board» by increasing their accountability for reporting additional information, such as the number of students referred to them, how the student's issues were addressed and follow - up on how the student is performing after the intervention.

A number of other ed reform groups are lobbying against the bill, including Educators 4 Excellence, Students First and Alliance for a Better Community.