Sentences with phrase «other backers say»

Business groups and other backers say the standards better prepare high school graduates for the workforce.

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«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

Graham and other Congressional backers say MOX is the best way to keep plutonium out of the hands of terrorists.

Didi said the round could expand by $ 500 million more with input from other existing backers and new investors, too.

It was clear even before Kraft Heinz came right out and said as much Tuesday that liberal Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and conservative Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and their respective backers had little reason to bash each other for not doing enough to keep Oscar Mayer's Madison plant open with taxpayer - backed financial assistance.

I have spoken to at least one of Mermel's backers, Rochester's Bill Reilich, who says his support won't last if the party's gubernatorial nominee — assuming there is one — picks someone other than Mermel as his running mate.

Perry and other backers of the bill said it would fill a void that exists in the oversight of district attorneys and the prosecutors who work in their office.

, who was a key backer of the public insurance option during the health - care debate, said he thinks the P Street Project can help provide resources and political cover for other liberal lawmakers.

Union members and other backers of Democratic governor candidate Kathleen Falk say their get out the vote effort will spur her on to victory in the May 8 primary.

Trump's backers appear to have mounted the most organized primary campaign effort in the state, with supporters of other prominent candidates including Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and Jeb Bush, either barely visible or nonexistent, GOP insiders said.

The councilman and other backers of the three - year bill, such as co-sponsor Margaret Chin (D - Manhattan), say the fee would reduce 60 to 90 percent of the more than 9.3 billion plastic bags New Yorkers throw away annually by promoting the use of reusable bags.

This is unconstitutional,» said former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, a backer in the suit filed against the county and its police and other public - employee unions.

Madison (AP)-- Union members and other backers of Democratic governor candidate Kathleen Falk say their get out the vote effort will spur her on to victory in the May 8 primary.

Backers have said Buffalo is the nation's largest city without ride - hailing, an absence that visitors from other areas, attending such recent events as the NCAA basketball tournament in Buffalo, that was especially noticed.

Both sides had a handful of backers from other nations, but many of the delegates — a mixture of government represenatives and technical experts — were simply not prepared for the proposal, and said they needed more information before deciding.

Backers of the ban say it is needed to protect marine mammals and other creatures that can be harmed by the noise created by so - called air guns.

The latter group — based in Portland, Ore., but with a presence in 10 states — and its network of local volunteers, plus its connections to other community groups, proved especially pivotal in drumming up backers for the proposal, Mr. Carroll said.

But Womick and others say they've come around since backers agreed to limit it just to kids, like Chavez, who no longer face the threat of deportation.

That means that backers will have more creative say over each project than in some other Kickstarters.

Please let us know what your favorite is in the poll below; the winner will be Star Citizen's third starter... and the others will go back in the vault for future reference (I can already see backers writing in to ask if we might ever see the runner ups again; we don't have space on the schedule for multiple new starters at the moment, but never say never!)

Some in the industry say Bloomberg and other backers of the campaign are responsible for lost jobs and higher electric bills.

The new format's backers said that since new Blu - ray releases supporting UltraViolet began to roll off replication lines late last year, roughly 750,000 consumers have signed up for the program, which puts a DRM - steeped digital version of the movie they just bought on physical disc in the cloud and available for viewing on other devices.

Other backers in the ride - hailing startup's latest financing round included a venture capital fund jointly run by Indian industrialist Ratan Tata and the University of California's investment arm, as well as several U.S. institutional investors, people familiar with the deal said, asking not to be identified talking about a private deal.

Some backers of the idea say that because the Petro is backed by oil production, that makes it less volatile than the other cryptocurrencies currently trading on the markets.

Gather Online's other backers include a collection of 10 investment bankers and angel inventors, as well as a South African hedge fund CEO who Price said has invested through a blind trust and wished to remain «anonymous».

That said, as a bit of extra incentive to encourage current and new backers to pledge toward these two new special edition smartwatches, all Pebble Time Round backers will get their campaign rewards prior to other backers.

Rather, backers say, it's a common - sense way of constructing single family homes, duplexes, apartment buildings, other dwellings and even whole neighborhoods that conserves energy, water and provides a healthy environment in which to live.

Koretz and other backers also says that worries about aggressive Africanized bees, a concern raised by some biologists and critics, were overblown because such bees had long since interbred.