Sentences with phrase «in failing programs»

At institutions that would pass a GE test, less than 1 percent of students are in failing programs, but 7 percent are in programs in the at - risk zone category.

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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.

The company tried to launch a similar program in San Francisco in mid-December, but failed to get the proper license and the California DMV revoked the registrations of the company's 16 vehicles.

Price has been pilloried on Fox News and trashed by the multimillionaire Limbaugh («I hope this company is a case study in MBA programs on how socialism does not work, because it's gonna fail»).

Jon Levs, author of All in: How Our Work - First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses — And How We Can Fix It Together, studied the effect of paid leave in California and New Jersey, which have paid family leave programs, and found that the majority of businesses reported that their state's paid leave programs had either no effect or a positive effect on their business.

In 2012, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation gave special mention to the program, in part for failing to lower productioIn 2012, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation gave special mention to the program, in part for failing to lower productioin part for failing to lower production.

Hulu had struggled for years to find its footing with original programming, marked by failed pushes to launch original series with high - profile talent, including actors James Franco (in the time - travel drama 11.22.63) and Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul (in The Path, about a sinister cult).

Uber started testing in Arizona in December 2016 after it was forced to shut down its self - driving car program in San Francisco for failing to obtain the proper permit.

This obsession with metrics has led to initiatives like affirmative action hiring programs set up by some of the biggest names in tech, which, unfortunately, have failed to perform as hoped.

In the pilot program backers can pay a small fee in exchange for a guaranteed refund if the product fails to arrive within three months of its estimated delivery datIn the pilot program backers can pay a small fee in exchange for a guaranteed refund if the product fails to arrive within three months of its estimated delivery datin exchange for a guaranteed refund if the product fails to arrive within three months of its estimated delivery date.

If Yellen's Fed fails to convince Wall Street about the policy path, a rate increase could trigger financial turmoil of the sort seen in 2013, when investors were caught off guard by the central bank signaling an end to its bond - buying program.

For example, Pfizer said in January that it will be cutting 300 jobs as part of its closing of its neuroscience research and development program, and it was a brutal 2017 for Alzheimer's research as a number of key trials failed.

But despite his passionate following in the sports world, the program failed to generate much positive buzz, and it was eventually shelved just four months after it launched.

Last year, San Antonio approved a similar program, but the mayor's office in Austin says that version failed to get much traction because it lacked enough incentives to make drivers want to participate.

Given that the Federal Reserve was tapering from its bond - purchasing stimulus program (otherwise known as quantitative easing), Doll said, you had to be crazy bearish to not believe interest rates would fail to reach 3.5 % in 2014.

Almost 25 % of startups fail because they don't assemble the right team and - in our technology - drenched world today -; J.B. noted that it is crucial that your E suite (engineering, design and programming talent) be at least as robust as your C suite.

These facts are consistent with what the United States has long known: Iran had a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people,» the White House said in a statement.

In addition, this Update again failed to incorporate the reclassification changes to Fiscal Arrangements and Alternative Payments for Standing Programs, which were included in the Public Accounts of Canada, the Annual Financial Report for 2011 - 12 and Fiscal MonitoIn addition, this Update again failed to incorporate the reclassification changes to Fiscal Arrangements and Alternative Payments for Standing Programs, which were included in the Public Accounts of Canada, the Annual Financial Report for 2011 - 12 and Fiscal Monitoin the Public Accounts of Canada, the Annual Financial Report for 2011 - 12 and Fiscal Monitor.

In spite of the growing number of organizations with Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officers and the array of programs being implemented by these companies, we are still failing to make significant progress.

That is why many such programs continue to fail or cost millions of dollars with little to no benefit to the refugees or people living in extreme poverty.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The Federal Reserve could begin reducing the size of its bond - buying stimulus program as early as September but might wait longer if economic growth fails to pick up in the second half of the year, a top Fed official said on Tuesday.

The Bretton Woods system failed due to the over valuation of the dollar as spending increased over the war in Vietnam war and America's Great Society programs.

$ 119.1 billion of those unfunded liabilities are tied to shortfalls in the state's failing pension program.

The IRS overpaid nearly $ 3.5 billion in Obamacare tax credits last year that it can not recoup because of constraints built into the program, frustrating Republicans who have failed to repeal the health care law but say that money could have been spent on programs for veterans or infrastructure.

Fidelity reserves the right to discontinue membership in any program or to reassign clients, without prior notification, to the appropriate program tier if clients fail to continue to meet the applicable qualification criteria.

ICI General Counsel David Blass told California State Treasurer John Chiang in a Thursday letter that the feasibility study, conducted by Overture Financial LLC, fails to fully consider the range of likely events that could raise the costs and undermine the feasibility of the program.

Ultimately, of course, the biggest winners this year are schools that failed to make the top 100 list of the best EMBA programs in 2009.

But the show has also done good, small - bore reporting on President Trump's domestic agenda — the impact on Kentucky drug - treatment programs if Obamacare is repealed, or how public - private partnerships, of the sort championed by Trump to rebuild infrastructure, have failed to work in building highways in Virginia.

The ECB president was very forthright in explaining that if the inflation data failed to rise the ECB Governing Council had TOTAL DISCRETION to increase the QE program.

In particular, greater opportunities for students to partake in sustainability - oriented internships and consulting programs are needed; more than 50 per cent of programs failed to provide anIn particular, greater opportunities for students to partake in sustainability - oriented internships and consulting programs are needed; more than 50 per cent of programs failed to provide anin sustainability - oriented internships and consulting programs are needed; more than 50 per cent of programs failed to provide any.

And that poses its own problem: House Democratic leadership has been adamant that it won't agree to any spending measure that fails to address the fate of those enrolled in the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

The secret renegotiation also failed to address the numerous other problems with CETA including a billion dollar increase to drug prices, threats to supply - management, a ratchet mechanism that locks in privatization and restrictions to local procurement which will hurt locally sourced food programs and other buy local programs.

Conservatives, for their part, repelled by the public vision of civil rights advocates and convinced that the programs of the past have failed, prefer not to address racial issues at all; when they do, they talk in formalistic terms about the principle of «color - blind state action.»

While China succeeded in reigning in this growth, India's half hearted policies which failed to provide promised incentives turned their people against family planning programs, and poor economic plans left traditional structures that led people to have large families.

(Illuminating in this connection is the fact, established by a number of studies, that many female college students program themselves to fail, in order not to abandon the accepted image of femininity.)

They studied the revolutionary thoughts and experiences of Mao, Ho Chi Mihn, and Che Guevara; reopened the books on previous U.S. counterinsurgency programs; and painstakingly examined the political and military strategies that had failed in Vietnam.

New York City emergency medicine specialist Stephen Wall has endorsed a program in which patients who suffer trauma or cardiac arrest are afforded some resuscitation efforts, but if these fail and the patient is pronounced dead (as determined by a remote authority), CPR will be continued — on the dead patient — until a relative or other surrogate can give consent for organs to be harvested.

Between 1948 and 1961, when Buhler left, 65 % of Jewish students either failed out or were forced to repeat up to two years of coursework in the four - year program.

Along the way, women who had failed to lose weight on their own took a cue from the strategy of such commercial groups as TOPS (for Taking Off Pounds Sensibly, founded in 1949), Overeaters Anonymous (1960) and Weight Watchers (incorporated in 1963) and began seeking help from other struggling dieters, adding a biblical dimension to the program.

About the same time, 248 - pound Neva Coyle from Minnesota, having failed at every commercial diet program she tried, turned to the Bible, lost 100 pounds, and founded Overeaters Victorious in 1977, which launched her successful career as a best - selling author and inspirational speaker.

If out of fear or ignorance any real consideration of religion is excluded from the school curriculum, the educational program is thereby trivialized and the school fails in its central educative mission.

Lyndon Johnson's overly ambitious Great Society program, especially its failed War on Poverty, did much to diminish the faith in government that FDR's New Deal had generated.

Although the $ 75 Million Campaign failed to reach its goal, Southern Baptists embraced this cooperative giving approach as a long - term strategy by creating the Cooperative Program in 1925.

And unless the very availability of modern contraceptives by itself stimulates a revolution in attitudes toward family size — as over a quarter of a century of family planning efforts have failed to do in Nepal, and three decades of programs have not done in rural Pakistan — the demographic impact of family planning would be a discrete and self - extinguishing adjustment, as the previously «unmet demand» of motivated users is progressively satisfied.

But if the program fails, well, it's still okay, because we learned in the process, and now the program is not a dead corpse that we have to drag around to every calendar and budget meeting for the next decade.

I did find it a bit odd that the Doctor mentioned that this event in 2049 was what rebooted the space programs and sent humanity to the stars when he said something very similar in the Waters of Mars episode about Adelaide Brook's grand - daughter being inspired by their failed mission.

Their whole program — worthy as it is in many, particularly its practical, aspects — fails to do justice to religion itself.

Perhaps you think you can perform some sort of mental gymnastics that allow you to bypass the AA god, but you're fooling yourself and in the process giving credibility to fundamentally flawed program that fails to improve on the rate of natural remission while increasing the mortality rate.

Federal programs for the poor, designed when the Kennedys discovered «the other America» through Michael Harrington, were seen as the work of distant planners who, in Alinsky's phrase, failed to see «the difference between the world as it is and the world as we would like it to be.»

According to the religious leaders in the video, titled «Drones and Religion,» the drone program fails to meet several of these criteria.