Sentences with phrase «last major effort»

It has been nine years since the last major effort by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg died in Albany after state legislative leaders refused to bring it to a vote.

The last major effort occurred in 2007, in the Supreme Court case Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1.

It has been nine years since the last major effort by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg died in Albany after state legislative leaders refused to bring it to a vote.

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The drugstore brand has made major efforts to expand their shade ranges, offering their popular Fit Me Matte & Poreless Foundation in 40 shades and their new SuperStay Long - Lasting Full Coverage Foundation in 16 shades.

The company has been making major changes in the last few months, ramping up its digital ordering, slowing down its expansion plans and slimming down its menu to refocus its efforts on being a beverage - led brand.

Our efforts and influence have resulted in major and lasting benefits to businesses, residents, and visitors alike.

Sacramento, CA, July 9, 2007 - The efforts of California winegrape growers and vintners to build on their environmental successes gained a major boost late last month, when the United States Department of Agriculture awarded a $ 607,500 Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) to the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance.

Today, the introduction of Nestlé ® Pure Life ® rPET bottles to consumers nationwide, complements our efforts to inspire and make it easier for consumers to recycle, building on last year's move to begin adding How2Recycle information on the labels of our major U.S. bottled water brands.

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Your child might protest, but that last trip to the bathroom might save you a major cleanup effort in the middle of the night.

LIRR riders, who last summer weathered service disruptions due to major repairs at Penn Station, are bracing for the next installment in the ongoing effort to renovate the aging Manhattan rail hub — a new round of work that starts today, with winter kicking into high gear.

After years of setbacks and declining membership nationally, labor groups were seen as being on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major union - led effort that initially began by focusing on fast food restaurants.

Last month, he started a nonprofit called New York's World's Fair of 2014, and he's drafting letters to «all the major leaders» around town to join his effort, which he says is a better idea than Mike Bloomberg's failed bid to draw the Olympics.

Cuomo was also a major focus, since he has been running a cautious, Rose Garden - strategy effort for most of the last year, with limited access for reporters.

The U.S. Senate approved the Republican - backed budget last night, a major step forward for the GOP effort to enact tax cuts.

The anti-tax Club for Growth has endorsed Neumann in Wisconsin, and Fitzgerald played a major role in last year's legislative efforts to gut public employee union power.

After teaming up with hotel owners and state lawmakers last year to hand home - sharing behemoth Airbnb a major setback in New York, he has hooked up with Mayor Bill de Blasio in an effort that some industry players adamantly oppose.

Most of the same groups who lobbied in the last legislative session for the women's equality act have joined the effort again for 2014, with one major exception.

For the second time in the last four months, a major de Blasio administration official directly responsible for the city's efforts to address a persistent homelessness problem has announced plans to resign.

(CNN)- Republican and Democratic lawmakers were split Sunday over the trajectory of last - minute efforts to avoid the fiscal cliff, a series of major tax hikes and spending cuts set to kick in just after the start of the new year.

The LLC loophole has become a major flashpoint in the battle for campaign finance reform because other efforts at reform failed in this year's budget negotiations and a pilot public financing program for last year's comptroller race never got off the ground.

A major effort is underway to conserve the last remaining 60 individual paintbrush lilies (Haemanthus pumilio) in the Duthie Nature Reserve in Stellenbosch, South Africa, as well as increase the population through micropropagation.

«For the U.S. to pull out now or put the project on hold while we transfer responsibility to a whole new set of players will be a major blow not only to our cooperation with Thailand, but to our high - priority effort to find an HIV vaccine for the developing world,» Hecklinger wrote the Deputy Secretary of Defense last week.

While U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R - Mo., clearly has his philosophical and political differences with the president, last night he praised Barack Obama's plan to embark on a major effort to cure cancer and boost medical research.

The festival has always expended considerable effort in getting a major Hollywood film to kick off proceedings, but in the last two years it has excelled itself: 2014 saw Birdman open the festival, and the year before that Gravity.

Warner continues to place a distant last place among the major studios in menu creativity, simply dropping an short score excerpt over poster artwork formatted to fill 16:9 screens on both discs and, as is now the case, pouring no effort into the DVD's generic submenus (which don't even include a scene selection one).

A major new school - reform effort in Maryland ignores the needs of teachers and denigrates their efforts, the head of the state's largest teachers» union charged last week.

What began last spring with a simple question over lunch with Dean Kathleen McCartney became the inspiration for a major fundraising effort by a group of first - year Ed.D. students.

A leading national effort to reform science education suffered a major setback last week when the National Science Foundation withdrew its financial support.

(L to R) Beth Schueler, Lisa Utzinger, Janine de Novais, and Liz Hale Rozas What began last spring with a simple question over lunch with Dean Kathleen McCartney became the inspiration for a major fundraising effort by a group of first - year Ed.D. students.

The Mississippi Senate last week handed a setback to Gov. Ray Mabus's efforts to fund a major new education - reform program in the state without a tax increase.

Over the last half century, three major movements have dominated efforts to reform education in the United States: equity - based reforms, which were a product of the 1960s and 1970s; the school choice movement, which arose in the late 1980s and took hold in the 1990s; and standards - based reform, which came about in the 1990s and the 2000s.

The association is one of the last major education organizations to endorse the state - led effort spearheaded by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association.

The No Child Left Behind law, the major education reform effort of the last decade, is overlaid by a gloss of civil rights rhetoric, but it has done nothing to address the concentration of black and Latino students in the same schools, and the lack of resources they face.

Last year, when Achievement First was fighting to open charter schools in Rhode Island, RI - CAN (the Ocean State's ConnCAN affiliate) ramped up a major public relations effort to soften opposition to the out - of - state charter school chain.

The Quality Schools Compact effort is an outgrowth of a roundtable discussion that occurred last February between 13 major urban school district superintendents matched with charter leaders from each of those cities.

Although four years have passed since Congress approved the last major rewrite of the Americans with Disabilities Act, federal education officials are continuing their efforts to further clarify the 2008 Amendments Act» legislation for local school districts.»

Though the magnitude of total resources that these two entities collectively bring to bear yields an outsized impact on the field, it exemplifies a trend among some of the major funders of public education - related efforts of the last decade.

The 300's last major redesign, in 2011, introduced more refined, subtler styling — a nice but misplaced effort, considering the car's entire appeal rests on its over-the-top ostentatiousness.

It also builds on the disaster assistance efforts President Obama approved in the last several days, including major disaster declarations, which make federal assistance - like these emergency relief funds - available to supplement state and local response and recovery efforts.

Traditionally, book publicity encompasses outreach to media such as radio, television, newspapers, magazines, and — in the last decade or so — major blogs, websites, podcasts, and «influencers,» including publishing industry leaders, celebrity book lovers, and tastemakers in the effort to secure review or feature coverage for a book and author.

Intel has revised and revisited its mobile strategy several times in the last decade, but regardless of their efforts they have yet to see any real adoption from major handset and tablet vendors.

We're going to continue our conversation with Helen Simonson, author of the bestselling novel, «Major Pettigrew's Last Stand,» and also her new one, her second novel, the sophomore effort, called «The Summer Before the War.»

This is the second major USDA effort regarding puppy mills in the last 12 months.

The west coast placement of these furry Texans is the result of ongoing efforts to alleviate the growing orphan pet problem exacerbated by major destruction caused by last year's Hurricane Harvey.

The last time we needed a major energy transition, government helped most through regulation, creating the TVA so that we would have enough aluminum to build aircraft and an ablility to enrich uranium for the war effort.

That effort foundered in Congress last year, and Mr. Obama has acknowledged that no major climate change legislation is likely to pass in the next two years.

Our knowledge of the Canadian Arctic has increased tremendously during the last decade as a result of increased sampling effort made possible by a dedicated research icebreaker (CCGS Amundsen) and the emergence of major scientific programs (e.g. CASES, ArcticNet, CFL, CHONe, C3O, IPY, Arctic Census of Marine Life).

Before the 2009 bill, it had been 25 years since the last major Wilderness effort in Oregon.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.