Sentences with phrase «millions of dollars spent»

«The report's findings clearly do not give adequate justification for the millions of dollars spent on federal abstinence - only - until - marriage programs.»

Remember that production costs are only one part of the equation and do not take into account the millions of dollars spent by Apple on R&D and software for its new iPhones.

Millions of dollars spent on pre-need funeral plans are lost due to funds being misspent or misappropriated.

Millions of dollars spent on scientific research comes to the same conclusions our elders warned us of years ago — that «Combatting climate change is an urgent common challenge for the international community and requires immediate global action».

In the little corner of surface engineering technologies I work in, I am aware of tens of millions of dollars spent funding companies trying to replace one type of coating in particular.

Daikatana banked everything on the name recognition of its director John Romero, who had previously had a string of FPS hits with Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, but was about to end that winning streak with a ho - hum shooter that under - delivered on its lofty promises after multiple delays and millions of dollars spent in development.

Millions of dollars spent on marketing, years of work spent on promotion, and still only 12 people in Japan own an Xbox.

Ranking dead last in the upper upscale segment, however, was Marriott's Sheraton brand, which like W was part of its Starwood acquisition — despite the millions of dollars spent in recent years to upgrade and modernize Sheraton properties.

Communications is important: Whether you are talking debates, commercials, editorials, news reports, interviews, speeches or a myriad of other mediums, thousands of hours and millions of dollars spent on communicating a message can not be better seen than during election season.

After 17 years and millions of dollars spent to have the place called Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, as of April 1, 2018, it will be known once again as, simply, Laguna Seca.The scenic road course in the...

At the same time, Zimmer decries the millions of dollars spent on the campaign, arguing that the money could have been better used for programs benefitting students.

Senator Moynihan asked Laura D'Andrea Tyson of the Clinton Administration for two supportive studies justifying the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on a favored program.

It is so important in the minds of many students that the pressure to do well leads to untold millions of dollars spent on private tutoring and test prep courses; medications taken to relieve anxiety and stress and / or improve alertness and attention; and therapy.

It is not difficult to tally up millions of dollars spent in and for schools that have left minimally discernible impact in their wake.

It's a story of collaboration across the political aisle, heroic efforts and millions of dollars spent by state governments, and dogged researchers uncovering new insights that arguably changed the lives of tens of thousands of young people.

We think this merits a much closer look given the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on teacher evaluation and the political blood spilled to get us here.

After all of the effort and political capital expended to enact [Florida's teacher evaluation] program, tens of thousands of hours spent observing and documenting teachers, and tens of millions of dollars spent developing the requisite tests... 97 % of teachers were rated effective or better.

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) promised to the dream of a truly adaptive learning experience almost 30 years ago, but in spite of millions of dollars spent and promising student learning outcomes, they have not flourished.

It's the biggest of all award shows, the culmination of months and months of speculation from supposed «experts» and millions of dollars spent behind the scenes to jockey certain films into the best position possible to take home as many trophies as they can.

Years of development and millions of dollars spent making remarkably unremarkable games that you can't earnestly champion any one part of.

Instead, it's a modern, Hollywood version of the Japanese sequels to Gojira and like - minded, derivative works, pumped up by millions of dollars spent on visual effects to make the incalculable destruction of property and the deaths of thousands of people look as inoffensive — and lovely — as possible.

«This is going to be an expensive general election,» Perpich said, recalling the tens of millions of dollars spent on recent high - profile 8th District clashes dating back...

CLI President Chuck Donovan commented, «Despite the millions of dollars spent on this research, cures brought about by embryonic stem cells have continued to prove elusive, while adult stem cell research applications have exploded.»

Such wildlife corridors linking up larger but isolated protected areas are the most widely adopted strategy for halting biodiversity decline, with tens of millions of dollars spent creating and protecting them every year.

After many millions of dollars spent redesigning the space shuttle's external fuel tank after the Columbia disaster, sizeable chunks of foam insulation still fell off the tank during the launch of Discovery on Tuesday.

If AIDS is caused by a virus, why has it been impossible for researchers to develop a vaccine after 20 years and millions of dollars spent?

Yet in 2016 Fisheries and Oceans Canada wrote in a report there was an «extreme» risk of Asian carp species establishing populations in three of the five great lakes within 50 years, despite millions of dollars spent by the U.S. government to build aquatic barriers and promote harvest programs.

Other city - wide bail prototypes have a return appearance rate in the 90th percentile, said Mark - Viverito, and would save the city millions of dollars spent holding individuals charged with minor offenses.

«As we head into the fall, you're going to see millions of dollars spent to educate voters from the special interest groups — supporters and opponents — that will have an effect on voters,» Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said.

One of the most unusual primaries in Illinois history comes to an end Tuesday, when voters get their say after active presidential campaigns on both sides, millions of dollars spent on individual legislative races and the White House making an endorsement...

What we couldn't answer then was whether New York State was prepared to participate in a public - private partnership that would allow us to recoup the millions of dollars we spent on investigating the proposal.

The Assembly meeting, led by Kenmore Democrat Robin Schimminger, heavily scrutinized the benefits of state programs compared to the millions of dollars spent.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature economic development program, Start - Up NY, created just 408 new jobs in its first two years - including nine in Central New York - despite millions of dollars spent advertising the program.

With hundreds of millions of dollars spent on Onondaga County's water treatment plant over the past two decades, the amount of sewage spilling into the lake has dropped dramatically.

Over the last few election cycles, IE operations have become all the rage at the party committees, with tens of millions of dollars spent through them.

Which is EXACTLY what GE did (hundreds of millions of dollars spent on lobbying).

«While we wish to state that he is at liberty to go ahead with what we know he intends to do, we wish to point out the underlying dangers in a massive purge of senior officers of the agency, to the effect that, not only will the millions of dollars spent on training and retraining us be lost, we are also custodians of the country's intelligence dossiers and may decide to use same for mischief,» they warned.

«There were tens of millions of dollars spent attacking him on radio and television commercials, and they weren't answered,» said Siena poll spokesman Steven Greenberg.

What are the results of hundreds of crusades launched and millions of dollars spent?

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We could focus on the millions of dollars spent on Proposition 8 through the decisions of a relatively few people.

And this article doesn't even begin to address the hundreds of millions of dollars spent paying for these transgressions.

When we see the same large protests and see millions and millions of dollars spent by Christians to remove the marriage tax break like they protest gay marriage, then you will have far more credibility.

«thousands discharged, millions of dollars spent».

The rate of errors may be even higher today, some evidence suggests, despite the millions of dollars spent on much - touted patient - safety efforts.

With millions of dollars spent each year on marketing and brand activation strategies and campaigns, it is imperative that you have the right execution team in place.

You can't be confident that you are 100 percent safe and secure if millions of dollars spent on security from one of the world's largest retailers didn't prevent an attack on them.

The high - powered jetpack was 40 years in the making, the culmination of millions of dollars spent and decades of trial and error by Mayman and his business partner, Nelson Tyler.

The chief executive of Overstock, Patrick Byrne, estimated that it cost about $ 100,000 to integrate Bitcoin into the site's payment system, pennies compared with the millions of dollars it spends on advertising, for example.

At a colourful event at the historical town of Komenda in 2016, ex-President John Mahama inaugurated the $ 35 million Indian EXIM Bank loan project meant to produce sugar to save the country the hundreds of millions of dollars it spends on sugar importation.