Sentences with phrase «more controversial efforts»

So this change could be easier for regulators to pursue than more controversial efforts.

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This seems innocuous enough, but other efforts are more controversial.

Assemblyman Michael Benjamin warned that state Democratic leaders» latest effort to distance themselves from Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. could backfire and end up helping the controversial lawmaker more than it hurts him.

Reform groups including Citizen Action New York gathered in Albany on Monday to protest the outsized influence of the natural gas industry on the state legislature's approach to hydrofracking, noting that the industry has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to state legislators in an effort to buy support for the controversial practice.

But there were already some efforts, it seemed, to distance the department from the more controversial aspects of Bratton's tenure.

The letter — so far signed by more than 900 researchers, including many prominent scientists — represents the latest salvo against a controversial reform effort launched roughly 4 years ago by CIHR President Alain Beaudet.

Scientists doing the most controversial work — efforts to make pathogens more lethal or more transmissible — say the research helps predict mutations that might arise in nature so that vaccines can be created.

The rationale is that local officials will be more likely to adopt politically controversial changes to how teachers are compensated when outside resources are available to support their efforts.

But officials said Tuesday that even if the state does win a federal grant of up to $ 700 million, there's unlikely to be any effort to mandate any of the more controversial aspects of the latest California Race to the Top application - including incentive pay for teachers and principals.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

Projects like Google's controversial but necessary effort to preserve rare texts, for example, is one of the chief applications... [Read more...]

They were controversial in the XBLIG community because their products seemed to take minimal effort to make, but still got more attention than most XBLIG devs could ever hope for.

So, while businesses and miners are pushing for more aggressive scaling via the controversial Segwit2x proposal, the open - source team behind bitcoin's most widely used software is focused on other efforts entirely.

Scrubbing away the more «controversial» aspects of your public social media profiles is a good start, but if those efforts leave your Twitter and Facebook feeds completely blank, you aren't going to impress a potential employer.