Sentences with phrase «good use of public funds»

The disappointment resulted in fusion reaction experiments losing priority as focus on the best use of public funds shifted.

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As vice president and comptroller, Fisk used corporate funds to corrupt public officials, produce Broadway shows, and support Broadway beauties, especially the well - known Josie Mansfield, to such an extent that he was also called «The Prince of the Erie.»

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The paediatricians say that although the college has «progressively distanced» itself from such sponsorship, they warn that receiving any form of funding from manufacturers «will distort public and professional perceptions of the college stance on breast feeding as well as their advice on the appropriate clinical use of breast milk substitutes.

In this type of marketing, a company such as Nestle uses its marketing budget to fund a good cause, thus linking its public image with that of a charity or non-profit group.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

The conference plans to back measures that would strip public employees convicted on corruption charges of their pensions, as well as new regulations for the use of campaign funds.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusation this morning that school districts and their allies are playing politics with kids by using the threat of teacher layoffs to try to scare lawmakers — and the public — into opposing the governor's education funding cuts hasn't stopped them from doing... well... just that.

DiNapoli's proposal would require state - funded public authority projects to be «scored and ranked using measurable and objective criteria,» he said, as well as greater disclosure of those authorities» activities.

He also defended his decision not to reveal the source of money as well as the idea of using private money to fund a public service, arguing that without it, students would have lost out.

The restrictions on all personal use of campaign funds as well as the full disclosure of legislators» outside incomes and public financing of all state campaigns by 2018 would be major achievements if passed.

He also said Flaherty is using the power of incumbency, as well as public funds, to create a career for himself.

A new Survation poll for Labour List of 1,037 people shows that 72 % of the public are in favour of the policy to fund the NHS to the tune of # 2.5 bn extra a year, partially using taxes against tobacco companies and mansions as well as closing loopholes.

As a federal prosecutor representing Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens, and as Acting Deputy Chief of the Public Integrity Section, Todd took down corrupt elected officials who used taxpayer dollars to fund lavish lifestyles, as well as drug kingpins and other major felons.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

THAT NYSUT establish a task force which shall include member - participants in each of the public retirement systems, including the retirement plan trustees, if applicable, to discuss possible methods, including legislation, to harness and use public pension plan resources to improve poor labor practices and to provide workers the right to organize and bargain collectively in enterprises controlled by private equity funds, as well as other corporate interests; and

«There is probably no clearer example of how Mike Bloomberg uses his immense private wealth for public power in a fashion that is unprecedented not only at the city level but at the state and national levels, as well,» Douglas A. Muzzio, a professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, said, referring to the Doepublic power in a fashion that is unprecedented not only at the city level but at the state and national levels, as well,» Douglas A. Muzzio, a professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, said, referring to the DoePublic Affairs at Baruch College, said, referring to the Doe Fund.

For example, I have voted to improve fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, to provide communities with funding to expand public transportation, to provide tax credits to expand the use of wind and solar technologies, as well as expanding access to grants and tax credits for homeowners to weatherize their homes and purchase more fuel efficient vehicles.

What ideal combination of outcome and process measures should we use to ensure that students have a great virtual learning experience and public funds are well spent?

But Wisconsin state senator Russ Decker, a leading opponent of vouchers, has argued that the program gives money to children who would attend private schools anyway and declared, «You've got a lot of additional money going into the choice program that we could better use funding public education statewide.»

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

One chapter, by Ludger Woessmann (coauthor of «School Choice International,» research, page 54) uses international data to show that systems that make greater use of public - private partnerships (ideally combining public funding with private operation) perform better than systems that do not.

Reviewing the practices of other industrialized countries as well as U.S. case law, Glenn concludes that third - party payments (or vouchers) to individuals seeking treatment or services is the best way of using public funds to provide services while preserving the essential character of religiously affiliated service providers.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

Proposed legislation, which initially prohibited for - profit education organizations, now would require that such entities make available to the public information on their profitability as well as their use of voucher funds.

Obviously that is eight too many for WTU, which is suing over the use of state funding for the schools, as well as their «lack of public accountability.»

The second issue, her advocacy of vouchers funded through the use of public tax dollars, may well cloud her desired support of public schools.

As Bridgeport Superintendent of Schools Vallas rolled out his plans for a revamped Bridgeport education system, he included the creation of a «Good Schools Bridgeport Foundation» which will «support the school district by securing public and private funding that... and to use that funding to help the district expand high quality school options.»

The resolution cited the fact that charter boards accept public money but lack democratic accountability, that charter schools are contributing to increased segregation, that punitive disciplinary policies are disproportionately used in charter schools as well as other practices that violate students» rights, that there is a pattern of fraud of mismanagement in the sector in general, and it then called for opposition to privatization of education, opposed diversion of funding from public schools, called for full funding for quality public education, called for legislation granting parents access to charter school boards and to strengthen oversight, called for charter schools to follow USDOJ and USDOE guidelines on student discipline and to help parents file complaints when those guidelines are violated, opposed efforts to weaken oversight, and called for a moratorium on charter school growth.

The example was used to show how irrational some clients can be; even when your returns are in the top 1 % of all investment managers out there, some people can still find something to complain about (as an aside, that is why the truly successful mutual fund managers quickly exit the public domain once they have made «enough», and then they tend to go super private by either managing their own money or investing privately on behalf of some particular clients that they know to be rational — when you're worth tens and tens of millions of dollars, you don't need to deal with people that don't truly believe that good value investing often means underperforming the S&P 500 at least one out of every three years).

Instead of handing over 50 billion dollars to an industry that can not be sustained at its peak level, public funds can be better used to fund rails, buses, and bicycle pedestrian projects that have already been engineered, already been proven, and are just waiting for funding.

Another window of financing HELE could also look into the possibility of using public fund such as clean environmental fund to be utilized for clean environmental facilities such as HELE as well.

Second, I would use these two parallel lines of development to ask the question: is it possible that, regardless of the best intentions on all parts, the intersection of science, funding, politicians, media and public policy is doomed to create bad science (in terms of oversimplification and suppression of uncertainty), questionable public policy and, in the internet age, bitter acrimony amongst those who should be colleagues?

But Amdur found that the best way to gain public support for a carbon tax — and the only way to persuade a majority of Republicans — was to use the revenue to fund research into renewable energy.

Many places refuse to turn over climate data, BEST adjusted and cherry picked much of the data they used, Coastal areas appear to be heavily effected by coastal winds that are likely very very poorly documented, Non-coastal wind effected areas seem to have little to no warming, «Free» / online unadjusted data appears to be mostly at or near satellite data start thus provides little extra info about the past, Looking for help from anyone who has Europe based original data outside of the «taxpayer funded yet refuse to turn over data to the public / taxpayer groups».

Coupled with public education and interstate planning, these corridors are a good use of these funds to decarbonize transportation, the author argues.

We were pleased to cooperate with Scenic Hudson and Equity Trust and the other funding partners to protect the farm, resulting not only in the conservation of prime agricultural land but also in the permanent protection of lands adjacent to well - used and highly valued public recreation areas.

Our report estimates the total cost over the next decade for achieving these targets, and then offers recommendations on how best to use public funds that may become available in the creation of a global climate fund to leverage the private capital needed to meet these goals.

Polluter - funded members of Congress have tried to pass bills instituting this restriction for years, despite the fact that it would violate the EPA's obligation to use the best available science to protect public health.

The recent Heritage Lottery Fund's 2016 State of UK Public Parks report backs this up, demonstrating that parks are used regularly by over 37 million people each year, and good quality parks are helping to tackle many of society's greatest challenges, from childhood obesity to a changing climate.

A subscription was used during the early modern period as a term that covered the raising of funds for armies, hospitals, schools, and other public goods (which were later supported through the collection of taxes and that were judged better supported by public than private means).

In Vermont, the funding will be used to develop services specifically for seniors at the statewide legal hotline, Vermont Law Help, as well as to provide legal training, to do outreach, and to build and strengthen partnerships throughout the state with the court system, Adult Protective Services, the Office of Public Guardian, the Area Agencies on Aging, and others.»

She stated her hope that litigation funding could be further used for public interest cases, citing Woodsford's support of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre in Australia as a good example of what is pospublic interest cases, citing Woodsford's support of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre in Australia as a good example of what is posPublic Interest Advocacy Centre in Australia as a good example of what is possible.

While the law allows for universities to patent and license out federally funded inventions, we would hope universities take better care in ensuring that their deals align with the interest of the public whose funds they are using.

They have taken the best of brain research and coupled it with innovative ways to use public - private funding to help develop programs and best practices that are producing outstanding outcomes.

Some have built on this line of reasoning by suggesting that oral contraceptives should be given over-the-counter status too, as a replacement for comprehensive insurance coverage of contraception.1 Similarly, social conservatives seeking to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs such as Medicaid have argued that less - specialized health care providers, such as federally qualified health centers, could fill the void this would create.2 And in October, a leaked White House memo recommended that funding for the Title X national family planning program should be cut by at least half and suggested that money could be better used for teaching adolescents about fertility awareness methods exclusively.3

The Golden State recently passed legislation authorizing the sale of $ 2.7 billion in bonds that will be used to fund the fastest train in the nation as well as the largest public infrastructure project.

The company has published seven editions of the Kitchener Waterloo Street Map and Service Guide to help fund the Fire Safety Houses and accompanying van, as well as two training vehicles used by fire safety officers to carry equipment to and from their public education and awareness events.