Sentences with phrase «of years spent»

But lawmakers on the Senate education committee expressed enthusiasm Monday when discussing raises tied to teacher performance, opposed to the number of years spent in the classroom.
If Sigt were randomly assigned, ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates of (1) would capture an average causal effect of years spent at a charter or pilot school.
This table reports 2SLS estimates of the effect of years spent in a charter or pilot school.
Which is more likely: that the labor market has failed to provide the right level of average compensation to almost every occupation, or that workers simply differ in important ways beyond their age and the number of years they spent in school?
Helmed by Mimi Leder, making a return to feature films after a number of years spent directing peak television, this could be one of the year's attempts to get Oscar to notice more offerings not made by just white men.
Gillooly's account of the years he spent with Harding, however, was so markedly different from hers that Rogers realized that his script would need to address, and even ought to be about, the elusiveness of truth, «the things that we tell ourselves in order to be able to live with ourselves,» he says.
According to Kazuki Morishita, it's been in development for about 4 - 5 years (though with most of those years spent protyping, we're not talking of something stuck in development hell).
The film was co-written by Anderson and Day - Lewis over a number of years spent obsessing on the topic (Day - Lewis goes uncredited), and is, in part, a fascinating character study of a fastidious solitary man devoted to the creation of the graceful silhouettes in his mind's eye.
Centered By Design is the culmination of her years spent in marketing, philanthropy, and event planning — it is her own creative endeavor, and an inspired one at that.
After a couple of years spent learning everything she could about running a gallery, the California native returned to the West Coast.
That's because in the 35 years of my existence, with the majority of my years spent soul searching in a serious manner, I have yet to...
Naturally, all of those years spent behind the bars and in grueling workouts have made him a man with superhuman fitness powers and a long list of attacks on inmates and prison staff.
I hadn't known about this center's work, and it is highly illuminating and also offers hope for those of us who'd like to see men feel accepted and embraced in that role My only concern is that of the 31 fathers in this study most were at home with babies / young children (meaning they probably hadn't been married too long) and the mean number of years spent caregiving was slightly greater than 5; I wish the authors indicated how many had been doing it for 17 years.
Sometimes it's because of years spent in uncompetitive or unreliable cars, or sometimes it's because they couldn't quite perform as expected.
I can see you are one of those who think IQ and football know how are functions of age grade or number of years spent following a club.
Some of my favorite childhood memories are of the couple of years we spent living on that farm - horses, gardening, chickens, outdoor shenanigans, and oddly enough a pie exactly like this one.
Lord, what I could've done with all of those years I spent kneading!
Over half of this is due to girls having had access to higher levels of education and achieving greater equality in the number of years spent in education between men and women.
Remember how we were here in the snow just yesterday and now we are older in the rain, and we have all these years, all of the years we spent together.
At the same time, with rising life expectancy the number of years spent in retirement has increased dramatically, health care costs are high and rapidly rising, and interest rates are at historic lows.
And after a couple of years spent cracking down on wealth - making activities through a fierce anti-corruption campaign, Beijing could also reassure business and financial elites that it had their interests at heart.
The number of years spent on the job.
While he is likely the youngest sole manager to ever raise a fund, Fiance isn't daunted by his youth or his lack of years spent building connections.
On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.
They ended up traveling for 18 months, and today, they've built a life that allows them the best of both worlds: half the year in a London flat and half of the year spent abroad, a lifestyle they chronicle on their website, Global Help Swap, and on their Instagram.
HRT: One of the most difficult aspects of that year spent in Jordan was the loneliness and isolation that you experience being in a foreign culture and how you're often misunderstood just because of the cultural differences, and how alienating that can feel.
If you've been following Coconut and Berries for a little while, you may remember that in April / May of this year I spent a month working in Geneva.
When Andrew came home with the bag, I felt like this guy: Except for the fact that it's been > 100 degrees the past 2 days (and we don't have AC...), which is just crazy considering how much of the year I spend FREEZING here in Pennsylvania.
If we can secure Petr Cech and Kondogbia early on in this transfer window, then we spend the rest of the summer searching for the superstriker marquee signing that will signal the end of this years spending spree.
«What happens when the first two bills of the year spend the whole year's budget?».
And, on the same line, there will be no policy dictating the bills, so decisions will be made almost at random: what happens when the first two bills of the year spend the whole year's budget?
We need to continue to focus on cutting our debt and defecit in common sense ways, and hopefully, next year, the goal is to go through the regular appropriations process department by department, committee by committee, instead of one end of the year spending bill.»
Well I guess I am a little bit different to the normal, living and working in Asia for a number of years I spend a lot of time in the forest with my job.
Summer and fall is my favorite time of year spend time outdoors, sightsee, the beach.

Not exact matches

April 24 (Reuters)- Burger King owner Restaurant Brands International Inc and its franchisees will spend C$ 700 million ($ 546 million) over four years to revamp coffee chain Tim Hortons, following a round of bad publicity over its management of the Canadian chain.
He spent five of those years in Silicon Valley where he became inspired by the fast pace of successful startups.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.
I've watched the behavior of 14 - year - old girls spending 10 minutes to take the best selfie, post it on Instagram, and then take it down when it doesn't get enough likes.
The push in recent years to patronize small businesses for holiday shopping resulted in the creation of Small Business Saturday, and this year's holiday shoppers spent an estimated $ 5.5 billion at small businesses the day after Black Friday.
Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.
The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.
Thomas Thurston, the founder of Growth Science in Portland, Ore., has spent the last seven years building databases and algorithms aimed at finding commonalities between businesses that thrive and fail.
Measuring GDP is a bit complicated but the calculation can be done in one of two ways — by adding up what everyone earned in a year, or by adding up what everyone spent.
After graduating from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business, she spent five years working in international operations management.
Though the thought of running your own business, spending your days working on something you're passionate about, and choosing how and where you spend your time is enticing, realize there are days if not years of sleepless nights, cash flow shortfalls and mindset hurdles between you and your destination.
Still, we're in the fifth year of a very weak recovery in which small businesses have been hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.
Driving more than half the growth in drug spending in 2015 were sales of new branded medications that have been available for less than two years.
Psychologist Angela Duckworth has spent years studying kids and adults, and found that one characteristic is a significant predictor of success: grit.
Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.
González Franch has run AI alongside CEO Tomas Bello Garza for almost 30 years, and by their own admission the broader well - being of their 4,000 employees wasn't something they'd spent a lot of time thinking about.
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