Sentences with phrase «last calls for proposals»

The volume of submissions is likely to grow even more in the coming years, as 18 months have elapsed since the last calls for proposals and many scientists face a shortage of funding from their cash - strapped governments.

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In addition to getting rid of the potential for so - called fast and slow lanes on the internet, as allowed by a federal court last year, the proposal would provide consumers with stronger privacy protections.

Days later, Grisham submitted what he calls an «aggressive» proposal, including some property - tax breaks that lasted for 30 years.

Edwards, who last week unveiled a 2012 budget proposal that called for a 12 percent property tax increase, said he wants the Legislature to debate refusing to fund state mandated programs like welfare and Medicaid beyond the 2 percent cap.

NY - LEAD has so far floated no proposals to curb the power of so - called independent expenditure groups like, say, the Committee to Save NY — the pro-Cuomo entity formed by business interests that spent about $ 10 million last year to bolster key aspects of the governor's agenda and is gearing up for another push this year.

The proposal appears similar to one pitched by engineering firm AECOM last year, which called for a 1 train extension from the Rector Street station that would run to three new stations in Red Hook.

Critics say that, as is, that's simply putting a Band Aid on a larger wound: Just last week, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman, in a larger critique of the problems at the much - maligned terminal, called that plan «a project born of political expediency,» noting that Cuomo has «brushed off more sweeping proposals that might tackle once and for all the whole panoply of problems that plague Penn Station.»

Bellone last month also called for creation of a new $ 75 million surcharge on water use, but the administration so far failed to file a formal proposal to the county legislature or the state legislature.

When Mr. Schneiderman and a bevy of city Democrats called for a special prosecutor last year, Mr. Donovan declined to comment on the proposal, unlike his counterparts in the other boroughs.

In December last year, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, also called for more scrutiny of the Coast Guard's proposal.

Calls for evidence, like the one launched last week on «rent a room relief», and early stage consultations, such as that on corporate tax and the digital economy, launched on Budget day, are hopeful early signs that the government will be doing more early consultation, getting input from business, tax professionals and others to inform the process before a proposal has been drawn up.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, for his part, called he proposal a «very commendable idea» and that it «looks like a real step forward» but said that he looks forward to getting more specifics about the plan, recalling a «big controversy» last year in the state budget where he stated «tried to move some important costs over to the city.»

Education advocates disagree, noting New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget proposal last week called for 4,666 teacher layoffs and the closure of dozens of senior citizen centers.

Last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced eight proposals — one for each of the state's political offices — to close the so - called LLC loophole, including capping LLC contributions to state officials at $ 5,000.

The City Council and the de Blasio administration are currently in negotiations over another criminal justice proposal outlined by the speaker at this time last year, when she called for a change in how the city handles summonses for low - level, non-violent quality of life offenses.

It follows a call for a day of action against the proposals by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at the party's conference in Liverpool last week.

Paterson called King after the governor heard him on the John Gambling radio show Tuesday morning discussing a proposal that Paterson suggested last week for possibly finding another site.

The state Board of Regents, in its spending proposal issued last month, called for an additional $ 125 million, while advocacy groups have called for even more.

Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that Cuomo called Jeff Klein, co-leader of the State Senate, to push for a reduced amount of pre-K funding in his budget proposal.

(ABC / AP) President Donald Trump has called for bold action to improve school safety after last month's Parkland shooting, but a set of proposals the White House formally plans to endorse on Monday leaves most authority for reform up to the states and for consideration by a new federal commission...

Last week the Radiocommunications Agency — part of the Department of Trade and Industry — published its proposals for the future of the airwaves in a consultative document, called Future Management of the Radio Spectrum.

Last week, the European Research Council (ERC) launched its first call for proposals under Horizon 2020, the European Union's next research funding program.

As Nature detailed last week, one Italian science agency recently sent out a call for stem cell grant proposals but specifically excluded human ES cell research, leading three Italian scientists to sue the government.

The team received just over $ 2 million in 2012 for a proposal called «Detecting Early Signature of Persuasion in Information Cascades» and last month presented results about BotOrNot and other aspects of the project at a Department of Defense meeting in Arlington, Va..

Of note, last year's Heritage Foundation budget — which has had a major influence on the Trump Administration's budget proposals — called for a significant rollback or elimination of programs in nuclear physics, advanced computing, chemistry, materials science, biological, and environmental research.

Gov. Jim Edgar of Illinois released a proposal last week to restructure the Chicago public schools that calls for creating a powerful «superboard» to run the system for the next four years.

A few weeks ago, I attended a Harvard Innovation Lab event called «Writing a Great Challenge Proposal: Last Minute Advice from Former Finalists» designed to help students prepare for the President's Challenge.

President Bush put forward a fresh round of education proposals last week, calling for all states to test 12th graders under the National Assessment of Educational Progress and outlining a grant program that would encourage low - income students to study mathematics or science in college.

The president's upcoming fiscal 2001 budget proposal will also call for a new, $ 1.3 billion «emergency renovation fund» that would issue grants and loans to cover urgent school repairs, the White House announced last week.

But in announcing their endorsement last week, committee members also said the proposal is «too limited» and called for a national certification program that would be mandatory for all new teachers and optional for all teachers currently in the profession.

The budget proposal calls for a net $ 9.2 billion cut to the department, or 13.6 percent of the spending level Congress approved last month.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson, a Republican elected last November, has been silent on the cuts and he did not speak during the public portion of Tuesday's conference call session, but Cobey has said his office has been sharing proposals for the cuts with board members.

Mr. Weissmandl in a statement expressed support for some of the report's recommendations but called the proposal for a monitor with veto power «disappointing,» saying that it was «likely to reprise the divisions and strife we saw in the district last year.»

Deasy's proposal calls for that category to stay the same as last year.

A budget proposal released by the superintendent last week calls for another round of furloughs.

One proposal last year called for including higher education institutions in the process.

Last week, the U.S. Treasury Secretary advanced two proposals; one was a call for regulatory reform that is absolutely essential to the resolution of the current financial crisis.

announcing the selections for play miami beach 2017 Following the success of last year's open call for submissions, PLAY at PULSE Miami Beach 2017 again accepted proposals for video and digital art.

Last December, the Rauschenberg Foundation called for fellowship proposals for «Creative Interventions to Mass Incarceration,» granting chosen artists up to $ 100,000.

At last month's meeting, we successfully fended off an initial secretariat proposal to make so - called climate smart agriculture a priority investment area for Africa and Asia.

The governor's original proposal, filed last summer, called for 18.9 TWh of new clean energy by 2023.

I note that the Prime Minister of France last week called for discussion of a proposal for European nations to apply taxes on energy - intensive imports from countries that fail to comply with greenhouse gas restrictions.

Washington state Governor Jay Inslee announced last week his proposal for an ambitious carbon tax to reduce emissions, calling upon the state legislature to «step up» efforts to slow climate change.

The proposal is linked to last year's financial work conference and the SPC policy document (关于进一步加强金融审判工作的若干意见, Some opinions concerning the further strengthening of financial trial work) to implement it, which called for work on establishing specialized financial institutions within the courts (the reporter who wrote it «is unlikely that other parts of China will have specialised financial courts» was likely unaware of this.

But this week members of the Charter Review Commission in Broward County, where last week's massacre took place, called a meeting for Friday to consider a set of proposals to present to county voters in November.

Nothing has come to fruition, though, and last year the city issued a call for proposals on a listing service that specializes in such distressed properties as landfills and abandoned chemical plants.

On the day of the proposal expiration, he gave me a call, apologized for waiting until the last minute to call me, and said he would take the deal.