Sentences with phrase «half of our nation»

CNBC's Michelle Caruso - Cabrera takes a look at the state of our nation's crumbling infrastructure, and whether there's a role for private sector investment.

One of the worst problems facing the country — the state of our nation's bridges.

The agents were particularly interested in the facility's practices when it came to an even smaller subset of those scheduled drugs: the highly addictive pain medicines containing oxycodone and hydrocodone that have been at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic.

Orlando has been one of the nation's fastest - growing job markets for several years, with an economy driven by immigration, affordable real estate, and «snowbirding» baby boomers resettling for their empt7 - nest years.

The growth of the cosmetic medicine industry has led two Perth entrepreneurs to expand their businesses in order to tap into more of the nation's $ 6 billion annual spend.

Over the course of the 2016 campaign, Clarke was elevated to the mantel of the nation's most divisive law - enforcement figure.

They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense.

Additionally, government employees compose the next 40 percent of the nation's population.

Control over shipping routes was essential for the security of nations and empires.

Its first partnership: the 67 - member Central Texas Angel Network, one of the nation's leading groups.

«Hence it is incumbent upon the community of nations to prevent Greece from a sovereign default as well as leaving the euro, and the domino effect that this event could induce,» the study urged.

Although these large organizations also rate corporations, municipalities and much else besides, their opinions on the creditworthiness of nations are known as «sovereign» ratings.

That trajectory that will surprise no one who follows the news, or the bipartisan campaign - season bashing of the nation's sky - high prescription drug prices.

That day, total electricity consumption in Scotland — including homes, industry and businesses — was 41,866 megawatt hours, WWF Scotland said, meaning that wind power produced the equivalent of 206 percent of the nation's needs.

Now that Bornstein is claiming the original letter was essentially dictated by Trump (a stark turnaround from his previous assertions the physician «really» wrote the letter himself), the gastroenterologist might face censure by the New York medical board, according to Dr. Arthur Caplan, the founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York and one of the nation's most prominent bioethicists.

Scott Griest is founder and chief executive officer of American Finance Solutions (AFS), one of the nation's fastest growing merchant cash advances for small businesses.

Split between two islands, the country of New Zealand has — at 8,700 miles — one of the longest coastlines of any nation, not to mention some of the world's most dramatic landscapes.

His personal fortune in the early 1900s was equal to 1.5 percent of the nation's gross domestic product — which would be equal to $ 270 billion today.

EU Parliament head Guy Verhofstadt told Business Insider that Brexit was an opportunity for the EU to become a tighter, more unified family of nations, but this ambition is under threat from populist, anti-EU movements in numerous member states.

«I think the «pitchforks and torches» quote introduced David Clarke and his incendiary rhetoric to the rest of the nation,» Bice said.

HAVING spent three days at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) confer - ence in Brisbane last week, it is probably appropriate for me to report on the state of the nation, insofar as financial planners are concerned.

In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

Those looking for a deep dive into what Laszewski thinks will actually work can check out the complete post, but for non-wonks, his bottom line seems to be this: To fix health care we need to control costs overall, and to do that, the industry as a whole must be forced to stay within a set budget rather than gobbling up more and more of the nation's money.

A number of these nations have also adopted independent monetary policies.

Whether either man can shepherd a community of nations against the planet's most pressing threats is still very much an open question.

By 2017, nearly half of the U.S. population will be at least 50 and, according to Nielsen Research, will control 70 % of the nation's disposable income.

U.S. officials attended a meeting on Saturday of ministers from more than 30 of the nations that signed the climate change agreement.

«The actions of the crew and passengers of Southwest Flight 1380 show the great character of our nation,» Trump said.

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.

Two San Francisco - based startups, RelayRides and Getaround, are working to change these inefficiencies — and snag a piece of the nation's $ 20 billion car - rental market.

The highly buzzed about «Beasts of No Nation» will be available to stream for all Netflix users on October 16.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a wild state of the nation address to the country's elites on Thursday, and he chose to conclude the speech by hyping up a bunch of doomsday nuclear devices and threatening to retaliate against anyone who attacks the US with nuclear force.

However, as the League of Nations fell apart in the 1930s and was then replaced by the United Nations, the ruling on the status of Hans Island carries little to no weight.

According to Thomson Reuters and CityLab, the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas receive nearly 40 % of the nation's VC money.

She noted that the largest banks held over 80 percent of the nation's assets in 2012.

Adelaide - based Tom Moore has won one of the nation's most prestigious glass art awards from the Art Gallery of WA, with a work he says references quizzical historical applications of glass for comedic effect.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a raft of new nuclear weapons systems at his State of the Nation address on March 1 — and one demonstrates Russia's apparent disregard for human life.

The meeting was held before Trump instructed officials to consider tariffs on an additional $ 100 billion in Chinese imports, bringing the value of the nation's products set for higher duties to about $ 150 billion.

However, despite his advocacy of nation - wide programs, Farrington has a simple message for Canadians thinking about their retirement security: «We hope that this ranking can be a rallying cry to employees to be saving as much as possible, as early as possible.»

Car dealers in Western Australia will be hoping for a pickup this year, after the release of data showing a 7.9 per cent fall in new car sales in 2015 in WA, while the rest of the nation reported its best year on record.

Several of the nation's largest theater chains are already threatening to boycott the film, so get your popcorn ready.

Fast - forward 15 years, and Alibaba drives 80 percent of China's online sales and accounts for more than half of the nation's parcel deliveries, yielding profits that exceed those of Amazon and eBay combined.

Many of the nation's largest tech companies are headquartered there, and one economist recently told Mercury News that the Bay Area's economy «is defying gravity.»

During the last month, hundreds of thousands of our nation's college graduates have proudly crossed the chasm between college and the working world.

World Atlas notes that the island was decided to be Danish territory by the Permanent Court of International Justice of the League of Nations in 1933.

DBL Investors A spinoff of J.P. Morgan, DBL has become one of the nation's top impact investors, thanks to its $ 75 million Bay Area Equity Fund I. (Among DBL's portfolio firms is Tesla, the electric - car company that went public last June.)

In November of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November Eleventh as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: «To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations...»

But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

Germany now wants to reassert its control over a splintering community of nation states, Michael Ivanovitch writes.

Who really wields influence in the boardoroms of our nation?