Sentences with phrase «officials first raised»

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The new White House raised eyebrows on its first day by posting on its official website a biography of first lady Melania Trump that included an explicit reference to her jewelry collection, which it noted was sold on the home - shopping channel QVC.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

That's the question that confronts officials at the Federal Reserve and institutional investors everywhere ahead of March 15, when the U.S. central bank will decide whether to raise short - term interest rates for the first time since December.

At the end of 2015, Fed officials announced they would raise the federal funds rate for the first time in years.

As the Federal Reserve lays the ground to raise U.S. interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, it should weigh the effects of its decisions on global economies and expect some bouts of volatility in financial markets, a top Fed official said on Tuesday.

In honor of Black History Month, Montpelier High School in Vermont has become the first high school in the country to raise a Black Lives Matter flag in an official capacity on school grounds, say officials.

For it will be seen, particularly in the first section, that even the Church's official permissive toleration of a moderate theory of evolution still leaves many questions unanswered, and in fact raises new problems.

Canada is the most recent country to raise the issue after a Canadian citizen disappeared on Sept. 20, and American officials at first denied he was in their custody.

In the wake of her third Republican opponent's official entry into the race, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced this afternoon that she has raised more than $ 8.75 million since she took over last winter, including $ 1.6 million during the first three months of 2010.

An Astorino campaign official involved with his fund - raising efforts said the campaign had been flooded with dozens of requests to host fund - raising events for the candidate in the first 72 hours after the Republican state convention in Rye Brook last week.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — In the Onondaga County Legislature's first meeting of the new year, one member attempted to revisit a heated issue from 2015: Salary raises for elected officials.

Squirreled away in the new state budget is a provision — first proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo — that will guarantee future periodic pay raises for the governor, New York State legislators and other state government officials.

This joining of forces aims to form the first line of defence and protect the integrity of the sport by raising awareness on the dangers of match - fixing and educating players and sports officials on how to put the fair back in fair play.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio gave his stamp of approval to a city commission's plan to raise the salary of elected officials, and to make the City Council a full - time job with strict limits on outside income, but said he personally won't accept a raise in his first term.

Following the international press conference, the first official event will be an awareness raising and remembrance ceremony for those who have lost their lives or suffered from this preventable disease.

The beloved Legislative Revue performance, held every other year at Queens Theatre in the Park and starring the borough's elected officials, has been postponed from Nov. 20, much to the disappointment of its organizers and those who planned to participate.The off - beat musical comedy has been a centerpiece of the nonprofit's fund - raising calendar since 1997, when Jeffrey Rosenstock, the theater's executive director, created and first produced the show.

First Lady Chirlane McCray on Sunday sent out an e-mail blast urging supporters to attend the party, which officials said raised $ 500,000.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner was the first elected official in New York state to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 for public employees.

Mayor Bill de Blasio gave his stamp of approval to a city commission's plan to raise the salary of elected officials, and to make the City Council a full - time job with strict limits on outside income, but said he personally won't accept a raise in his first term.

It will be the first raise for city officials since 2006.

«WASHINGTON (CNN)-- Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will take his first official step towards a White House run Wednesday when he creates an exploratory committee, which will allow him to raise money under federal campaign finance rules.

She said she was inspired to run after the board's votes last year to increase taxes — the first increase after six years of nominal decreases — and to give salary raises totaling nearly $ 100,000 to elected officials, including 40 percent pay hikes for the board's four part - time members.

UPPER WEST SIDE — The two City Council hopefuls vying for longtime Councilwoman Gale Brewer's Upper West Side seat — including the candidate aiming to be the city's first transgender elected official — have each raised more than $ 60,000 in donations a full year - and - a-half before the election.

But in the opinion of Cuomo's appointees on a commission tasked with determining an appropriate salary level for state officials, lawmakers haven't done nearly enough to warrant their first pay raise in 18 years.

U.S. - based volcanologist Janine B. Krippner has been closely following since the alert status was first raised to the highest in September, and uses Twitter to share official information and bust myths and hoaxes circulating online.

The first time we hear a high - ranking police official raise a glass «to the North, where we do what we want,» it's a diminishing echo of a line from 1974 that was actually a bit chilling in its fuck - you sense of pride and entitlement.

Here's your first official look at HBO's adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1973 film, Westworld, starring Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, as well as a phenomenal supporting cast that includes the Cardellini - esqe Shannon Woodward from Raising Hope, Ed Harris, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, and the tremendous Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, who blew us away in Dwayne Johnson's Hercules.

Officials at Ravenna High School in Ohio this year opted to supplement the usual fund - raisers with the sale of expensive personal - seat licenses, possibly making it the first high school in the nation to do so, say experts who monitor fund - raising trends at schools.

The system, to be financed for the first three years under a controversial arrangement with private foundations approved by District Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi, could raise total compensation for some instructors to $ 140,000, officials estimate.

At the end of 2015, Fed officials announced they would raise the federal funds rate for the first time in years.

In 1992, they obtained official 501 (c)(3) status and the Door County Humane Society was born, though at first only in concept as they worked to raise funds and plan for a shelter facility.

We bet that when Nintendo originally planned on announcing the first raft of big changes for the 3DS it was hoping to further raise excitement levels for a booming console.Instead, the official unveiling of the 3DS Expansion Slide Pad and the announcement... Read more

Guests are able to preview and purchase the works on show before the official buyers» day, with the money raised helping to fund the RA Schools; Britain's first art school, which has offered free tuition for almost 250 years.

But at SkyTruth we have acquired good images often enough to illustrate the enormity of the spill and inadequacy of our initial spill response efforts; provide the first estimate of the spill size and rate that made any sense; to identify oil making landfall along the Alabama coast before it was being acknowledged by officials; to show clear entrainment of the spill in the Loop Current while officials were actively denying it; and to detect small but chronic leaks from other damaged wells, raising the related issue of inadequate plugging and abandonment.

Heavy pollution from coal power stations is forcing officials to consider alternative forms of energy — and raising the stakes for the country's seven pilot emission trading schemes, the first of which launched in Shenzhen on June 18.

Plantation, Florida - based startup Magic Leap finally unveiled its first official product following seven years of development and close to two billion dollars raised in funding from tech giants like Google, Temasek, and Alibaba, having announced the Magic Leap One: Creator Edition, a mixed reality headset which adopts the form of retro - futuristic goggles.

At the end of 2015, Fed officials announced they would raise the federal funds rate for the first time in years.

The Federal Reserve will be taking the health of the housing market into consideration as officials consider when to raise interest rates for the first time since 2006.