Sentences with phrase «large impact on the working»

He said the reduction of the point at which tax credits start to be withdrawn from families from # 6,420 to # 3,850 was the most regressive of the changes Osborne was introducing, and also had the largest impact on work incentives.

These changes are likely to have a large impact on the working lives of low - wage and precarious workers.

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«There's a full section that talks about pay equity, and what is the larger impact that the gender pay gap has on our society, our economy, our families,» says Deepti Gudipati, vice president of member leadership programs for the AAUW, who is working with the city to roll out the program.

Publisher's Weekly called it «a successful exploration of Scotland's disproportionately large impact on the modern world's intellectual and industrial development,» through the work of some of the nation's great thinkers, from Adam Smith to David Hume.

For many women, even spending that precious, limited free time in a dressing room to find enough different combinations to wear to work is both exhausting and unappealing — a thought that hasn't made a large enough impact on retail, yet.

Define exactly what you need, whether that's a larger budget to get real results, an assistant, flexible hours, working from home a few days a week, time to go to the gym and clear your head in the afternoons, more realistic expectations, the ability to define strategic goals or otherwise, and explain how that will have a positive impact on your output.

And being able to go around the country and see the impact that my company and my work has done — teenage girls saying they love to play games because of me, and families saying, «we picked up a tabletop game because of [Geek & Sundry show] Tabletop,» and college kids who come up and say, «Hey, I'm really glad you made The Guild because I never knew I could say that I was a gamer until you made that» — that's why you need to be creative, whether it's on a large or small scale.

Jim Cramer sees two large macro-economic themes at work that are having major impact on the U.S. economy currently.

Start with a showcase and by working on a small model, show what you can do; something that is manageable but makes a significant impact, if not on a large scale but even a village or a house.

This world stage, billed by many as the Noble Prize of gastronomy, will continue to shift attention towards the large impact causes many chefs are working on.

«LWG has given me the ability to work with all walks of life and help make an impact on a larger audience of young men as they prepare for their upcoming season,» he said.

«If a player is observed repeatedly sustaining larger impacts to the crown of his head,» he told SI, «coaches will work with him on adjusting his technique.»

«If a player is observed repeatedly sustaining larger impacts to the crown of his head,» he told SI, «coaches will work with him on adjusting his technique,» said Guskiewicz.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, is working with Swanswell, a national drug and alcohol recovery charity, to raise awareness of the potential impact of energy drinks on the behaviour of children and young people.

Many words will be written on his scientific work, from black holes to the birth of the universe, but, of course, his cultural impact has been much larger.

The people we associate with — or don't associate with — at work can have a larger impact on your success than you might expect.

By looking at the larger data sets, researchers working on this study could examine individual species and groups of species within a geographic region, the temperature range inhabited by each species or species group, and the impact of temperature changes over time.

Work is now being finalized on a much larger project around the Volcanoes National Park in northern Rwanda, made famousby the film Gorillas in the Mist, where McGuinness is assessing the impacts of mountain gorilla, buffalo and golden monkey on the conservation of this park and the development of surrounding human communities.

The predicted hosts for the Klosneuviruses are protists (single - celled eukaryotic (nucleus - containing) microorganisms) and while their direct impacts on protists are not yet worked out, these giant viruses are thought to have a large impact on these protists that help regulate the planet's biogeochemical cycles.

Air conditioning is needed to provide comfortable and productive working and sleeping environments, but its impact on the environment and the electrical grid is large, the team said.

Measles causes significant absence from school or work and has a much larger impact on people's daily lives than illnesses like flu or chicken pox, according to a new study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Public Health England.

Climate change may be perceived most through the impacts of extremes, although these are to a large degree dependent on the system under consideration, including its vulnerability, resiliency and capacity for adaptation and mitigation; see the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

With support from the National Science Foundation, the Climate Impact Lab is working to keep the projections framework up - to - date, building upon the latest science on potential mechanisms that may destabilize large portions of the Antarctic ice sheet.

All of these practices had a large impact on my worldview, the way my mind works, and my performance benefited because of it all.

Because the medication works locally, it is typically well - tolerated and does not have the impact on bacteria within the large intestine that other antibiotics have.

«This is a really, really great way to work the entire body in a low - impact way and to pretty much touch on every single muscle group, especially a lot of those little muscle groups that tend to get forgotten when we focus on the larger muscle groups,» says Daily Burn 365 trainer Becca Pace.

Teachers on the cusp of dismissal under the IMPACT evaluation system in the nation's capital improved their performance by statistically significant margins, as did those on the cusp of winning a large financial bonus, according to the study, published as a working paper last week by the Cambridge, Mass. - based National Bureau of Economic Research.

Participants will work in groups based on their specific research needs and interests to craft research projects whose answers could have a large impact on education policies both in the participating districts and across the nation.

«SDP represents a unique opportunity to build on this foundation, by working even more closely with districts and states to impact student achievement on a large scale.»

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

The rubric reflects both a scholar's larger body of work and their impact on the public discourse last year.

While the public discussion around college usually focuses on the price paid by students, recent work by economists David Deming and Chris Walters suggests that declines in the amount colleges and universities spend may have a larger impact on student outcomes.

Now, implicit bias is a much larger societal issue, and there are many organizations working within school systems to help educators to recognize and mitigate the impact of decisions based on our unconscious attitudes and stereotypes.

In schools where ICs are working with larger numbers of teachers, it is extremely difficult for coaches meeting with individual teachers to have a measureable impact on overall student achievement.

This course also helps them situate this particular work within the larger context of challenges and innovations in urban education by introducing participants to literature on the achievement gap, the impact of racial identity on school achievement, charter school policy and critiques, and the advent and development of charter schools serving low income students that are based on high support and high expectations.

The heart of the initiative is the largest study of its kind, a randomized controlled trial that seeks to determine what works and what doesn't in implementing high - quality summer learning programs, as well as the impact the programs have on students.

Based on the findings from the iQUEST student summer camp data showing increased interest and attitudes for the students who attend, the project leadership is working to identify ways to support implementation of similar experiences into classrooms to increase the positive impact for larger numbers of students.

This investment was intended to strengthen the LEAD network and support work to expand the impact of this method of leadership training on a larger scale.

This represents a new phase for our work and the large - scale impact that it can have on student achievement.

Although it may seem like these lives are somehow simple and serene, she shows that they are plagued with the same worries that keep all of us up at night - the safety and well - being of our families, the desire for self - fulfillment and, on a larger scale, the impact we have on our environment... Further, Badkhen is fully willing to do hard work - she blisters her hands pulling nets, bakes in the sun while helping to build a boat and expends emotional energy consoling abandoned wives in the community; clearly she is not afraid to fully immerse herself.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

A relatively small market movement will have a proportionately larger impact on the funds you have deposited or will have to deposit, which may work against you as well as for you.

Our work has a powerful impact not only on the dogs that we save, but also on the larger community as a whole.

Whether it be exchanging adoptable animals who need a change of scenery or fresh set of eyes, sharing food and supplies, or collaborating to make a larger impact on the lives of those in need, we know that by working together, we can make tremendous progress.

But we found it hard to make a large enough impact at events, so worked on a way to better showcase the game.

Works on view (until November 27 2016) include several of Walker's large - scale print series, cut - steel sculptures, a mural, and a video installation, displaying the range of approaches the artist has taken to exploring the legacy of slavery and its impact on contemporary American identity.

Even a focus on a single prominent artist, Gary Simmons, made its impact with relatively few, large works.

Then I branched into larger works in silhouette and linear treatment, several relying mostly on burnt sienna and black, which in my mind is reminiscent of the impact of Andalusia.»

Other works in the exhibition, such as the slide show Dismal Science, Chapter 8 of the larger project Fish Story (1989 — 92), or the film The Forgotten Space (2010), look closely at the maritime economy and its impact on globalization.