Sentences with phrase «national dues increase»

The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ® Board of Directors voted to fund the association's «Second Century Initiative» with a $ 16 per member national dues increase, the first such increase since 1994.

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Entrance fees are due to rise at national parks over the next three summers, though a public outcry over specific increases could cause the government to reconsider.

The tracking began in 2011, at a time when national funding for the weatherization program increased from $ 450 million to nearly $ 5 billion due to the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.

A National Cancer Institute long - termstudy, involving25, 619 industrial workers in 10 factories that produced or used formaldehyde, found an increased risk of death due to leukemia, particularly myeloid leukemia, and higher rates of nasal - pharynx cancer.Further examination of the same workers, with ten more years of data, continued to show a possible link to leukemia, as well as lymphoma and multiple myeloma, amongthosewiththe highest exposures.

The latest iteration of the National Climate Assessment, released earlier this year, notes that the risk of waterborne illnesses in the Great Lakes region is likely to increase in the coming decades due to these factors.

Increased water use in the rapidly growing oil industry in North Dakota's Bakken oil shale region, or play, is surprisingly due not only to oil well development but also to people, according to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

«Recent increases in chronic diseases like childhood asthma and autism can not be due to major shifts in the human gene pool,» says physician and geneticist Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute.

«Many of these other durian species are in this part of the world, and sadly some are endangered due to the increasing loss of biodiversity,» said co-lead author Dr. Teh Bin Tean, deputy director of the National Cancer Centre Singapore, in the press release.

According to the National Eye Institute, age - related macular degeneration affects more than 1.75 million Americans, a number that is expected to increase to almost 3 million by 2020 due to the aging of the U.S. population.

«It also will give us crew return capability so we can increase the crew to seven, letting us complete a backlog of hands - on critical research that has been building up due to heavy demand for the National Laboratory.»

Tick - borne illnesses in general appear to be increasing; the National Pest Association stated that 2017 might be the worst season yet for ticks, due in part to mild winter conditions that allowed ticks to thrive.

Reality: A large 2007 study funded by the National Cancer Institute found no increase in breast cancer risk due to the use of hair straighteners or relaxers.

The National Climate Data Center says the perception of increasing tornados is due to a number of factors, including more people living in remote areas where tornados would have previously gone unreported, and far better radar coverage of the continental U.S..

With schools facing increased costs amounting to 4.5 per cent due to pay rises, National Insurance contributions and pension deficits, it's no wonder that more than 90 per cent of 1,000 head teachers surveyed by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) say that their finances are going to be critically under pressure for 2015/2016.

The complexity of the construction industry has increased due to architectural design changes, environmental considerations, government regulations, and national building codes.

In part, the perception of increasing funder participation in policy discussions is due to the very public personas of founders of major foundations like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.7 And the advocacy efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation have increased dramatically with a shift from local funding efforts to more direct support for national - level policy advocacy on issues such as the Common Core State Standards.8

The National Education Association shared that teachers are also going on strike in southeast Washington in Pasco while the state legislature struggles to increase funding for education due to a state supreme court order that sanctions the state $ 100,000 every day that the lawmakers failed to «adequately pay to educate the state's 1 million school children.»

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is urging Americans to protect themselves this busy holiday travel season due to an increase in highway fatalities and injuries this time of the year.

It noted important consequences of alliance development not just for air travel consumers, but for local and national economies as well, due to greatly increased air travel.

The increase is 150 % of the national conforming limit of $ 424,100 and is due to rising home prices.

And tragically, due to our ever - increasing national debt (and the very real possibility of our government «printing money» to pay it off), investors can no longer afford to ignore these risks.

Note: Poás Volcano National Park closed in 2017 due to increased volcanic activity.

Stay alert: The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has released a map, which shows areas in Mount Agung, Bali, that are now prohibited for any visit due to increases in its volcanic activities.

Due to increased and unpredictable volcanic activiy then national park remains closed for visitors since April 2017!

Adjaye Associates has received increasing global attention for their work, which includes the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — due to open September 24 in Washington DC.

And the National Academy of Sciences indicate that the increase is due in large part to human activity.

«Not a single paper in a large sample of peer - reviewed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 refuted the consensus position, summarized by the National Academy of Sciences, that «most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.

The primary changes appear to occur ~ 1975, most likely as a result of the retrospective rating process that assigned ratings to tornadoes prior to the near - real - time ratings that began when the [National Weather Service] adopted the F - scale operationally in the mid-1970s, and ~ 2000, for reasons that aren't completely clear, but are likely due to an increased emphasis on examining construction details and policies that changed the nature in how the ratings are created for the strongest tornadoes.

The results over time may vary as a function of a) the input data (which change due to corrections, increasing archived data, changes in homogeneity adjustments, bias corrections etc. made by others — including the National Met Services), b) the method (all of which are documented in the various papers).

More than 20 million people in the Midwest experience air quality that fails to meet national ambient air quality standards.14 Degraded air quality due to human - induced emissions66 and increased pollen season duration67 are projected to be amplified with higher temperatures, 68 and pollution and pollen exposures, in addition to heat waves, can harm human health (Ch.

Unions for Jobs and the Environment (UJAE), an organization of 12 national and international labor unions, including the United Mine Workers, the Teamsters and the Sheet Metal Workers, thinks the ozone revision «would lead to significant job losses across the country during a period of high unemployment, due to the significant increase in the number of counties classified as nonattainment.»

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

Even with ongoing questions about the proxy data, the IPCC's key statement — that most of the warming since the mid-twentieth century is «very likely» to be due to human - caused increases in greenhouse - gas concentration — remains solid because it rests on multiple lines of evidence from different teams examining many aspects of the climate system, says Susan Solomon, the former co-chair of the IPCC team that produced the 2007 physical science report and a climate researcher with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

In 2001 the National Research Council said that «The IPCC's conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue.»

Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami: «The increased activity since 1995 is due to natural fluctuations (and) cycles of hurricane activity driven by the Atlantic Ocean itself along with the atmosphere above it and not enhanced substantially by global warming,» he testified.

The Malenad - Mysore tiger landscape currently maintains > 220 adult tigers, one of the greatest concentrations in the world, mainly due to intensive protection of its source sites such as Nagarahole National Park, where tiger numbers have increased by 400 % after protection began in the early 1970s [17], [18], and has now maintained a high density for 30 years -LRB-[19], unpublished data).

With accidents on the rise due to cell phone usage while driving, the trends in road rage increasing, and a national increase in traffic and congestion, motorcyclists have to take much more caution while riding in public today.

The national minimum wage is due to increase as well.

Many SUVs are recalled due to their increased likelihood to roll or because their roofs fail to meet the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations roof safety standards for automobiles, which are tragically low to begin with.

The annual increase to the minimum wage rates are due to take effect from 1 April 2018 as follows: The National Living Wage for workers aged 25 + is set to increase from # 7.50 per hour to # 7.83 per hour; For workers aged between 21 — 24,...

A January 2017 national survey ** completed by 107 college and university bursars and student accounts representatives revealed that 45 percent of respondents reported increased withdrawal rates due to illness, while 74 percent said they do not currently offer tuition insurance.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatal Accident Reporting System, from 2010 to 2016 the numbers showed an increase in overall fatalities due to motor vehicle traffic accidents.

The FSB also recognised the increased regulatory oversight by various national governments, though it states that due to the global nature of cryptocurrency markets, ``

However, it's expected this particular indicator could increase again in future years due to Singapore's rapidly ageing population and labour market pressures due to the stringent work visa measures in place on foreign nationals.

Minnesota Pharmacy Technician State Requirements — Board of Pharmacy Technician Guidelines states the following requirements for becoming a registered pharmacy technician: - Complete application and pay $ 35 application fee - Complete a board approved, ASHP approved, military, or employer based (240 hour) pharmacy technician training program - If at least one pharmacy technician on duty per pharmacist is PTCB or other recognized national certification, then the ratio is increased by one (i.e., 3:1) Online / Correspondence Pharmacy Technician Training Programs — Due to approved training program requirements, online schools do not qualify by themselves, an employer can use one to meet the requirements for their employer based (240 hour) training program.

Due to the increase of her national speaking engagements, she accepts new clients on a limited basis and no longer offers reduced session fees.

In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.

Due to the increasing cases of parental alienation after a divorce or separation, the National Parents Organization, along with several charitable and educational organizations, have strongly promoted the legislation of the shared parenting bill.

Directors of NAR voted to increase member national dues $ 16 for 2008 and offer a range of new programs to position it for its second 100 years.

Sales of existing homes increased in October, even with some regional impact from Hurricane Sandy, while home prices continued to rise due to lower levels of inventory supply, according to the National Association of Realtors ®.