Sentences with phrase «other big initiatives»

Two other big initiatives fared better: a proteomics effort to identify proteins in blood and other biomarkers that might work as early warning signs of cancer, and the most recent: a human Cancer Genome Atlas.

But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

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On Tuesday night, the Internet lit up with big news: Facebook, along with a partnership of six other companies, launched a new global initiative called Internet.org.

For example, ConAgra's Banquet frozen meal line is changing several recipes to use real cheese and real butter and other big food companies such as Kraft Heinz, Campbell Soup, General Mills, Kellogg, Unilever and Hershey are among others with initiatives in various stages to reformulate some classics.

In other words, many businesses, that don't need a lot of money to create a big impact, can use a micro loan to fuel growth initiatives or get their businesses off the ground.

While the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other federal initiatives have tried to rein in overdraft fees charged to bank customers, the fees remain big business, especially for big banks.

The other two of the Big Four, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, also have blockchain initiatives.

The State Department should begin by supporting three initiatives: the development of an academic sub-discipline of international religious freedom studies, the engagement of big business, and the building of partnerships with other, like - minded governments.

The initiative is being led by the Brazilian Vegetarian Society, in partnership with organisations that include São Paulo's Municipal Secretary of Green and Environment, Vegetarian Magazine, Greenpeace and others — a real breakthrough from a city in one of the world's biggest meat - exporting countries.

«The fact that three of the top four biggest selling soft drinks in Australia are now zero or low kilojoule shows that companies are taking significant action through innovation, reformulation and other initiatives to provide consumers with variety and choices consistent with healthy lifestyles.

«The fact that three of the four biggest selling soft drinks in Australia are now zero or low kilojoule shows that companies are taking significant action through innovation, reformulation and other initiatives to provide consumers with variety and choices consistent with healthy lifestyles,» Mr Parker concluded.

«The fact that three of the four biggest selling soft drinks in Australia are now zero or low kilojoule shows that manufacturers and the beverages industry are already taking significant action through innovation, reformulation and other initiatives, to provide consumers with variety and choices consistent with a healthy lifestyle.»

Over the course of 2008 - 09, 42 fathers, grandfathers and other male carers in County Durham joined in with a local initiative to get family men more involved in their children's learning — during the children's transition from St Helen Auckland Children's Centre and local nurseries to starting «big school» at St Helen Auckland Primary School.

I hope those Fabian members and other Next Left readers who are not already part of the Avaaz network will look at getting involved in this campaign and the other initiatives and campaigns: the case for sustained and positive civic pressure over time is massively important in between the big summits which hit the headlines.

Despite statewide fly - arounds announcing big government grants, projects and other initiatives, Cuomo's standing with New Yorkers has dropped to its lowest level in nearly two years, a new poll has found.

Changes that lawmakers want to economic development programs were made ripe following allegations by federal prosecutors that the Buffalo Billion and a couple of other big upstate initiatives were part of a massive, alleged pay - to - play, bid - rigging scandal.

Few other initiatives would do more to reconnect Cameron with his party grassroots and could also be a launchpad for a big membership drive.

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Beyond these Cures - authorized ventures, several other cross-agency initiatives would see at least some reduction in the request, including, for instance, the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) and Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) programs.

The next big round of ballot initiatives to legalize cannabis in states other than Washington and Colorado could happen as soon as three years from now, in the 2016 presidential election.

The programme also deserves separate funding on a par with other «big science» initiatives such as space programmes, he said.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

But other, less - heralded attributes helped just as much, including provisions in the state's 1995 legislation that greatly expanded Vallas's power over teachers and schools; school construction and other appealing initiatives undertaken in part to soften the accountability focus; and characteristics in Vallas that aren't necessarily the trademark of the latest fashion, the big - city superintendent who rides in from another walk of life.

The new Minister will of course want to get to grips with some of the big policy issues such as the curriculum and professional development but the stark reality is that unless we deal with this concern the success of all other initiatives is put at risk.

Also, my hope is to see teachers from New Hampshire not only take initiative in actively participating in PACE, but also communicate with other teachers to create a bigger impact for student learning.

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Other bloggers and journalists have joined Amazon's own press office this week in making a big deal of Amazon's «brand new» initiative called «Kindle Singles,» and I think it's a big deal, too.

As I explained then, the goal of this and other initiatives we have underway is to help our authors sell more while introducing buyers to a bigger and better world of content.

It's a PIPELINE: EXTRA as Augie comments on today's big digital comics news, namely DC's digital initiative, which features a sliding price point, day - and - date comics and other aspects Augie gives a thumbs up to.

ESPN, the world's leading sports network, recently launched a big initiative to cover eSports in both news and broadcasts, including games like Hearthstone, Dota 2, League of Legends, and tons of others.

Versions of this basic idea — banding big name artists and newcomers together to spread interest in the arts — are being developed in other cultural initiatives as well.

Our biggest challenge was navigating Edel Assanti's initial growth phases, from a pop - up initiative to a project space and finally to a fully functional gallery, while simultaneously each having full - time jobs at other galleries.

Shackelford said business has been brisk, in large part because of federal programs that substantially cut homeowner's costs through tax credits and other initiatives, like the National Home Energy Efficiency Program, that pays much of the cost of labor sealing air leaks that are a big source of the energy losses in American homes.

She's launched notable initiatives to fight climate pollutants other than CO2 and spread clean cookstoves to developing countries, but on the bigger issues, progress has been halting at best.

According to Lopes, of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, and other initiatives have helped overcome the biggest challenge — getting countries to understand the importance of these seeds.

For this reason (and others), I strongly believe that criminal - justice - reform - minded «big donors» — yes, I am talking to you Koch brothers and Mr. Soros — should think very seriously about devoting resources to this initiative campaign where a little extra campaign investment could go a very long way in fostering reform in a lot more places than just Oklahoma.

In the big picture, if the overall workflow of a legal team is constrained by something other than effective project management, then LPM initiatives will fail to improve the team's overall business results and the effort will falter.

One of this year's big policy initiatives for National Biotechnology Week is to expand Canada's Flow - Through Shares program from mining and wind power to include biotech and other cleantech companies.

One awful example of this has been the relentless effort by LA - based Mercury Insurance, as well as other big companies like State Farm, to undermine the most effective (actually, the only real) insurance regulatory law in the nation, known as «Prop. 103,» passed by voter initiative in 1988.

The other big chunk of the main event is Google Lens, the company's initiative to make the camera smarter than ever.

Leading and helping others requires you to take initiative, adapt to directions and focus on the big picture behind a situation.

On the other hand, Professor Diane Finegood, CEO of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, led an initiative that provided private spaces for Big Food to talk to public health and was surprised by the results.

The big ticket item in the Budget, which overshadowed most of the other initiatives, was the announcement of the 2 year continuation of the freeze on Medicare rebates — saving the Government around $ 925 million.

But now, as developers rush to build new, market - rate apartments in cities big and small, some local officials are considering inclusionary zoning for the first time, while others seek to add teeth to existing programs, said Erika Poethig, director of urban policy initiatives at the Urban Institute.