Sentences with phrase «national headlines by»

Just the other day Connecticut made national headlines by voting to raise their minimum wage to $ 10.10 / hr, which gives a full time worker $ 21,000 a year in pre-tax income, in one of the most expensive states in the country.

Rhee, who stepped down last month after three and a half years, made national headlines by firing 241 teachers based on their students» test scores.

At the same time, teachers in West Virginia made national headlines by organizing a statewide strike over persistently low pay.

This young shooter made national headlines by dropping 70 on the Celtics last season and he has the chance to put up bonkers numbers on a team that will once again be competing for a top 5 pick this year.

«When the residents of Hoosick Falls were plagued by contaminated water the governor took months to visit the affected areas, but he's now attempting to steal a national headline by acting as a compassionate leader.»

Not exact matches

The deaths of Brown and Garner made national headlines, but according to a recent report by the FBI, there was an average of 96 cases per year, from 2006 to 2012, of a white police officer killing a black person.

The long - anticipated slowdown in Canadian residential real estate is now underway, and guessing how far national home prices might fall has become a popular pastime — scarcely a month goes by without a new estimate making headlines.

This is the headline for this morning's release of the Chicago Fed's National Activity Index, and here is the opening paragraph from the report: «Led by slower growth in production - and employment - related indicators, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) declined to +0.10 in March from +0.98 in February.»

These are poems that take as their beginning point headlines from the National Enquirer: «Beauty Queen Has Monster Child,» «Woman Picked up by UFO, Flown into Black Hole,» «Sweethearts Vanish in Tunnel of Love,» «Human Boy Found in Indian Jungle Among Wolf Pack.»

Outrage was typified by the Rev. Charles P. Smith, in Worship and Arts (April - May, 1967), under the headline «Filthy Movie Wins Award from National Council of Churches»:

Loyola has a proud basketball tradition, headlined by the Ramblers winning the national championship in 1963.

While the PAC has been rather quiet in recent history, Grimm's racy headlines have been the boost of energy needed to renew interest, said Schwartz, aided in part by a bit on Bill Maher's Flip - a-District campaign which made national headlines.

The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has observed with concern media headlines suggesting that fuel prices have increased by 11 % which is false.

The statement signed by Adesina reads thus: «The Presidency is constrained to respond to the banner headline story in a national newspaper of Wednesday, April 26, entitled: BUHARI»S GOVT HARASSING MY FAMILY, SAYS JONATHAN.

Headlining the initiative is the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a venture led by former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and backed by President Barack Obama that — in addition to gearing up for legal battles and gubernatorial contests — will also focus prominently on state legislative races.

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Add to this the terrible state of the economy that Buhari inherited, headlined by a collapse in global crude oil prices, our main export earner, and the rapacious emptying of the national treasury by previous governments, and you have a seething, discontented people.

Yesterday, after a meeting at Akufo - Addo's office by prominents of the «Kyebi family» of Nana Akufo - Addo, it was agreed that, they should hire services of what they described as a «kiss ass» northerner be used to path a line of procuring headlines against the first Northener NPP National Chairman and Independent minded Paul Afoko as well as Kwabena Agyepong, who are victims of an illegal sacking from the party by Nana Akufo - Addo.

About the same time Roach reached out to Syracuse police again, Lang independently called ESPN to say that he too had been molested by Fine as a child and the news made national headlines.

People moved by headlines assembled Saturday in Albany and also Kingston observing a national day of protest in support of the people of Baltimore, calling for justice for Freddie Gray and all victims of police brutality.

He added that the event would be headlined by the Guest Lecturer, Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State, who would speak on «National Unity and the Demand for Restructuring — A Governor's Perspective.»

When Jacobs addressed the Long Beach Democratic Club on Sunday, at a dinner headlined by national party chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman - Schultz, he alluded to the recent war with a sly quip.

The Office for National Statistics's latest bulletin backs up Cameron's claim that the number of people seeking work has risen by 23,000 (see headline labour market indicators, page 1).

The study, which was funded by NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, made headlines around the world.

«Unemployment among Doctoral Scientists and Engineers Remained Below the National Average in 2013,» proclaims the headline of a report issued 12 September by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The dangers of life in the National Football League made headlines in 2009, when a study commissioned by the NFL found that retired players were 19 times more likely than other men of similar ages to develop severe memory problems.

It may not hold Italy's interest like presidential sex scandals, but the country's premier science funding agency, the National Research Council (CNR), is generating its own unwelcome headlines after it came out that CNR helped fund and support a pro-creationism book compiled by a vice-president at the organization.

These events have been sponsored by the Illinois Center of Soy Foods, the National Soybean Research laboratory and many other pro soy organizations, and their carefully orchestrated headlines have been widely reported in the media.

Dixons, in Bradford, faced a challenging time after it hit national headlines when a teacher was stabbed by a pupil, and earlier this month when its founder, former financial director and a former teacher were all found guilty of defrauding the Department for Education out of # 150,000.

In 2015, a massive recall election marked by massive spending and deliberate deception by the teachers union and its allies in Jefferson County generated national headlines.

The fight in Compton, California, where a largely low - income Hispanic community voted to do just that, has garnered national headlines, as has the aggressive push - back by the unions.

At the same time, gang violence in several parts of inner city Chicago was drawing national headlines, much of it instigated by youths under the age of 18.

One of the stories that recently hit national headlines told of a woman who alleges she was gang - raped by officers after they forced her to drink alcohol.

The headline continues baldly to state what not only is not a known fact but a story now reversed by a reputable, national medium, NRK.

Last year, a senior cat named Tara made national news headlines by chasing a dog away after stopping its attack on her 4 - year - old owner, Jeremy.

That headline was published by both national and international news media and in respected publications such as Time and Information Week — all of them quick to jump on a then newly released Princeton study.

I remember a handful of people telling me to not go to Mexico City because our national news — owned and operated by only two major corporations — headlined how two Canadians were killed on some coastal resort.

Headlined by lead speaker Dr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary - General of UNWTO, the dialogue was joined by dignitaries including Mr. Thong Khon, Minister of Tourism, the Kingdom of Cambodia; Ms. Sandra Howard Taylor, Vice Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Colombia; Mr. Du Jiang, Vice Chairman of China National Tourism Administration; Dr. Alexis Tam, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR Government; Mr. Alejandro Schiavi, Undersecretary of Coordination, Ministry of Tourism, Argentina; Mr. Rodolfo López Negrete Coppel, Chief Executive Officer of Mexico Tourism Board, as well as private leaders like Ms. Pansy Ho, Managing Director of Shun Tak Holdings Limited; Mr. Gerald Lawless, President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Jumeirah Group; Mr. Peter Meier, Chief Executive Officer of Kuoni Group; Mr. Qian Jiannong, Vice President of Fosun Group; Mr. Francisco Silva Silva, Chairman of the Board of Grupo Security and Mr. Zhang Ling, Chairman of HNA Tourism Group Co. Ltd..

A version of this review appears in print on March 10, 1989, on Page C00028 of the National edition with the headline: Review / Art; Flashing Aphorisms By Jenny Holzer at Dia.

A portrait of artist Damien Hirst will feature in a headline display of artwork by Jonathan Yeo at the National Portrait Gallery.

Nevertheless I say again that I'd like to see someone of stature in science or someone of high visibility in the national media challenge Professor Happer specifically about the contrast between the very headline on his WSJ op - ed («Global warming models are wrong again») and what's asserted by this RC posting (and by Lazarus @ 31) about the retrospective reliability of Hansen et al. (1981).

Marco @ 47: I see what you mean about the general relevance and importance of the posting that you cited, but I'd still like to see someone of stature in science or someone of high visibility in the national media challenge Professor Happer specifically about the contrast between the very headline on his WSJ op - ed («Global warming models are wrong again») and what's asserted by this RC posting (and by Lazarus @ 31) about the retrospective reliability of Hansen et al. (1981).

With welcoming remarks by Congressman Lamar Smith (R - TX), Chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and headlined by Gov. Sarah Palin (2008 Republican Vice Presidential Candidate; 9th Governor of Alaska), the panel will be taped and shown during the national theater event.

With welcoming remarks by Congressman Lamar Smith (R - TX), Chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and headlined by Gov. Sarah Palin, the panel will be taped and shown during the national theater event.

By Kenneth Richard Last month, National Geographic and other news organizations ran the disheartening headline «First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change «1.

It seems that there's a reluctance to challenge statements issued by organisations such as the National Trust, and an inclination to turn them into dramatic headlines.

The same country that has made headlines for measuring Gross National Happiness (there are some legitimate questions for how GNH is calculated) and aiming for 100 % organic agriculture recently announcing a partnership with Nissan to supply electric vehicles (EVs) to government and taxi fleets, as well as electric vehicle chargers, as part of a broad scale effort to cut fossil fuel imports by a whopping 70 %, eventually aiming to become a zero emissions nation.

Similarly a «dumb decision», like the one made by Earls in 2016 to cut ties with Canadian beef suppliers in favour of American suppliers, can make national news headlines.

That headline isn't referring to a stampede by me (that would be an Elefant Stampede), but to this amusing post by In House Counsel on how a contractor's breach of a contract to erect a fence near Kasunga National Park lead to an elephant stampede in the surrounding area.

Last week the National Post spun a headline into the obscenely wrong by claiming that 68 % of Canadians want tougher copyright law, when the CRIA poll was only able to coax 32 % to say that, with 91 % wanting artists work to be protected onilne.