Sentences with phrase «over the program year»

It is very difficult to have any real cost controls over the program year.

For example, one large study of Head Start children found significant gains over the program year in literacy, math, and social and emotional behavior.

Not exact matches

In 2012, these television services spent $ 1.39 billion on Canadian programming, representing a 9.6 per cent increase over the previous year.

The New York Times reported yesterday that, in October of last year, Uber altered its testing program by putting only one safety monitor in each autonomous car rather than two, over the safety concerns of some employees.

«The new entrants into that over the last several years have helped to raise a lot of the excitement and innovation, and I think that's great for the space program,» Hewson said.

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

The program, Woman Entrepreneurs NYC (WE NYC), will roll out over the next three years and is targeted at underserved women, who might otherwise struggle to find ways to get their businesses off the ground.

Over the years, the Levi Strauss Foundation had funded «worker empowerment» programming in apparel factories.

«Once fully realized, the programs in this announcement will support more than 18,000 highly skilled jobs in the U.S. and thousands of jobs in Saudi Arabia as part of maintaining and modernizing these platforms over the next 30 years,» Lockheed Martin said in a statement on May 20.

As part of the deal, which still needs approval from Congress, Saudi Arabia «expressed its intent» to spend $ 28 billion on defense technologies and programs by Lockheed Martin, which estimated the deal would support 18,000 jobs in the U.S. over 30 years — a figure that falls dramatically below Trump's estimate.

Dowsing Concrete and Axiis Contracting will split an $ 18 million contract for concrete work associated with the Public Transport Authority's bus stop upgrade program over the next five years.

These effects help explain the recent announcement by Starbucks and several major American corporations of a program to offer full - time positions as well as apprenticeships and internships to 100,000 disconnected youth over the next three years.

Over the last several years, Apple has been building out its own local programs.

Candidates can complete the program in a few different ways: full - time on campus in Sydney, Nova Scotia over one year; part - time classes on alternate weekends over two years in Toronto, Kingston, Saskatoon, Edmonton, or Whitehorse; or a one - month residency on campus in Sydney each July for three years.

«Trump's current approach is basically ignoring an entire industry that has grown up over the last 10 years or so and is quite robust,» Liz Delaney, program director at EDF Climate Corps, told Business Insider.

The program, now in its 20th year, ranks companies based on their «entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, rapid revenue growth, and world - class achievements» over the preceding four years, with growth rate being the key consideration for where companies rank on the list.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

He told The Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler that Jet would have to spend about $ 300 million on its outside - merchandise - buying program over the next five years.

Over the past few years a growing number of entrepreneurs have forged a quiet revolution in compensation plans, jettisoning traditional salary structures and carving out bold new incentive programs for their entire organizations.

Over the past 30 years, policymakers from around the United States have spent countless hours and numerous dollars on programs, policies, and incentives to create venture - capital clusters and to stimulate investments in their cities and regions.

Barclays said, given the growth in Netflix's programming over the past year, the number of hours viewed per subscriber should arguably have increased, not held steady.

The five - year program, launched by the federal government in early January, proposes to make over 90 percent of the total U.S. offshore acreage available to oil and gas drilling.

«Over the past several years, NASA has been funding a group of psychologists to develop a software program astronauts could use, while aboard spacecraft, to help them work through depression and conflicts with their fellow space - goers.

Noah, who takes over for former host Jon Stewart after previously appearing on the show as a correspondent, will be the program's first new host since Stewart took over the role in 1999 (though, John Oliver briefly stepped into the role two years ago during a Stewart hiatus before getting his own show on HBO (TWX)-RRB-.

«It's a methodical program that over the years has allowed owners to generate liquidity and diversification,» Nordlicht says.

It is the construction industry's fastest growing high school mentor program, reaching over 8,000 U.S. students in the 2016 - 2017 school year alone.

BEIJING, March 5 - China on Monday unveiled its largest rise in defense spending in three years, setting a target of 8.1 percent growth over 2017, fueling an ambitious military modernisation program amid rising concerns over its security.

The Start - up Visa came two years after the federal government shuttered the Immigrant Investor and Entrepreneur programs over concerns that rich foreigners were simply buying their way into the country.

(AlphaGo is a «deep learning» computer program that prevailed last year over the world champion of the board game Go.)

Bibra Lake - based ZBB Energy Corporation will receive $ 3.1 million over two years in project funding from the Department of the Environment and Water Resources Advanced Electricity Storage Technologies program, the company has announced.

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

Burswood - based Programmed Maintenance Services has won a $ 270 million contract to maintain assets at the University of Wollongong's Student Accommodation project over a 39 - year term.

(Those increases were offset by reductions in minor entitlement programs, including farm subsidies, over a much longer period of 10 years.)

Driving the program are the findings of the No Ceilings report, which showed that over the last 20 years, women have become healthier and more educated, but have not made much progress economically.

Over the years, Amazon has come under plenty of fire for being a tough place to work but it's also got some great programs, particularly around retraining.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

And the other main source of economic growth over the next couple of years will come from government spending, led by the federal government's infrastructure program.

There are concerns that in some cases companies have little incentive to do so when they can access inexpensive labour through the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program, which has expanded dramatically over the past few years.

The decision to take a year - long maternity leave can lower a women's income over her lifetime, even if government and employer programs maintain a steady income during that leave.

«We were getting some headway over there» with arrests last year of suspects accused of using sophisticated software programs to steal from bank accounts in multiple countries, the official said.

The program has been an important one for thousands of minority entrepreneurs over the past few years.

Modern Meadow is just one of 19 futuristic startups that have received donations from the Thiel Foundation over the past two years as part of an unusual program called Breakout Labs.

Airline frequent flier programs have become less rewarding over the last few years by offering fewer upgrades to elite fliers and requiring more miles than ever for award tickets.

Over the years, Microsoft has provided updates to the Office Suite, from additional programs (such as Outlook and Access) to additional features.

According to Panera, the growth in the MyPanera program has allowed the company to significantly increase the efficiency of its marketing, and perhaps not coincidentally, over the past year, the company's stock price has increased almost 30 percent.

Even more surprising, perhaps, MBAs from UC - Irvine's Merage Business School are estimated to rack up $ 2,319,932 over the 20 years, a sum that puts Merage alums at No. 21 on the list, though the school's MBA program is ranked at 47.

The non-profit group that oversees the program, called the Universal Service Administrative Company or USAC, audited only 74 carriers over the past six years out of more than 6,000 that collect fees, the GAO noted.

Over the past 17 years, Thunderbird has experienced a 75 % decrease in enrollment for its full - time MBA program.

Here's some more color on returning cash to shareholders from Butters» note: «Share repurchase programs have become a very popular way of returning capital to shareholders over the years.

In addition to the fund, Stanford provided a $ 3.6 million grant to the accelerator program to be doled out over three years.