Sentences with phrase «long public letter»

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a long public letter to Bill Gates that drew lessons from earlier philanthropic efforts in K - 12 education — including many billions of dollars wasted by the likes of Ford, Rockefeller, and Annenberg.

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This address - a long string of 34 letters and numbers - is also known as my «public key.»
The letter echoes the demands trade justice advocates have long called for: transparent and democratic negotiations; strong and enforceable labour rights, including for migrant workers; protection of public services; enforceable environmental standards; and the right to regulate in the public's interest.
-- Yeti, in a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission dated Friday, said it is no longer pursuing an initial public offering.
He is convinced that «brain death» is an invention of those promoting organ transplantation, stating in a letter to the BMJ that their:» explicit recognition that «brain death is a recent invention for transplant purposes is most welcome and should do much to expose the fallacies and fudgings associated with this supposednew form of death, which have been hidden from public and professional view for far too long
The public exposure of a long - past affair, and the publication of the painfully personal letter, would seem to violate journalistic boundaries, were they not unavoidably related to what is undeniably a story of legitimate public interest, namely, the Archbishop of Milwaukee was for eighteen years under the threat of blackmail, and paid off with $ 450,000 of archdiocesan funds.
But Mr. Malatras has been particularly visible in pushing Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, authoring a long and public letter to the state's Board of Regents and liaising with various interests in Albany as all sides gear up for a post-budget fight over the specifics of teacher evaluations.
When asked if he was surprised that it'd taken as long as it had for the letter to become public, considering the three months since it was issued, Vance stated, «I'm not surprised by anything.»
The members of the public were spurred on by an op - ed piece published on an internet news source that implied town officials had already made a back - door deal with another entity to run the shelter, and by a letter sent to other animal service organizations soliciting proposals by a woman who has long been an opponent of the League's presence at the shelter, ostensibly at the urging of a member of the Town Board.
The boycotts could cost Long Island's public schools more than $ 200 million in federal and state financial aid if Washington imposes penalties for low student test - participation rates, key superintendents in Nassau and Suffolk counties said in a January letter to acting U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr..
«It is entirely appropriate for faith communities to be given access to our parks,» Stringer wrote in a Sept. 21 letter to Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, «so long as our public spaces afford every faith community an equal opportunity to practice religious observance and such activities have no detrimental impacts on the parks.»
In a letter to the Guardian, the scientists wrote that «the ACMD clearly recommended — for the third time in the last six years — that cannabis remains a class C drug, and did so after examining all the available and latest evidence on short - and long - term health risks, as well as social harms, public attitudes and policing priorities.»
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So has the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, writing in a letter last month that «the federal government must no longer be expected to subsidize the inequitable funding of public schools serving high numbers of low - income students.»
However, because standardized testing is a matter of public concern, a local speaking as a union, or an individual member speaking as a parent or citizen, about educational concerns over standardized testing, for instance, in a letter to the editor or in a statement to the Board of Education, is protected by the U.S. Constitution at least so long as they are not encouraging other parents or students to opt out from a test.»
One thing I found interesting about reading through the older letters of Buffett was that his ideas on acquisitions were developed early, long before BRK ceased to be predominantly a public company value investor, which is the way that many still regard BRK.
People with dogs deemed a «pit bull» will be allowed to keep them so long as they do various things, including muzzling in public, keeping the dogs in an «enclosure» while in their own home, and posting a large sign on their home that is «at least eight inches by ten inches in rectangular dimensions and shall contain only the words «PIT BULL DOG» in lettering not less than two inches in height.»
In a letter to the Department of Public Utilities on Monday, the team evaluating the bids for a long - term offshore wind energy generation contract said it needs the extra 30 days but still expects to submit a negotiated... Complete story»
Under the new rules, which the NEB put in place at the direction of the federal government in response to overwhelming opposition from the public during the NEB's review of the Northern Gateway pipeline, Ontario residents who live along the 639 - kilometre pipeline route and want to submit public comments about their concerns — are you ready for it — fill out a long and complex application to ask permissionfrom the NEB, Canada's pipeline regulator, before they can even submit a letter to the NEB on the Line 9 pipeline proposal.
Under the new rules, which the NEB put in place at the direction of the federal government in response to overwhelming opposition from the public during the NEB's review of the Northern Gateway pipeline, Ontario residents who live along the 639 - kilometre pipeline route and want to submit public comments about their concerns — are you ready for it — fill out a long and complex application to ask permission from the NEB, Canada's pipeline regulator, before they can even submit a letter to the NEB on the Line 9 pipeline proposal.
Bitcoin is a type of cryptocurrency: Balances are kept using public and private «keys,» which are long strings of numbers and letters linked through the mathematical encryption algorithm that was used to create them.
This address - a long string of 34 letters and numbers - is also known as my «public key.»
In a letter to Damien Collins, Facebook's head of public policy, Rebecca Stimson said both men «report directly to Mr. Zuckerberg and are among the longest serving senior representatives in Facebook's 15 - year history.
In a Feb. 21 letter, Long Blockchain — one of a number of firms with public securities to ride the recent wave of investor hype around blockchain — wrote that Nasdaq» had determined to delist the Company's securities.»
This means you'll never have to yell out a long string of letters and numbers in public or remember where you wrote down your password.
Heather Krasna, an expert in public - sector executive jobs, tells of a client who left a long - winded thank - you message on an executive's voicemail, directly reading from the thank - you letter she was going to send.
In a letter given to members at the meeting and obtained by the Star, the organization tells members, «If CREA lost control over the use of MLS trademarks, the public would suffer, because the public would no longer be able to depend on the integrity of brokers using MLS trademarks to identify their services, or on the accuracy, completeness and uniformity of MLS data.»
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