Sentences with phrase «over the spending practices»

Those two provisions alone give unions a huge amount of control over the spending practices and working conditions in their state's public schools.

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When you think about conventional management thinking and practices in a dog - eat - dog, transactional business world, not enough leaders spend the time to do what Watson had to learn over his many years at Chevron: Getting results through the people and relationship side of the business.

We've spent some time in recent posts going over many of the similarities that exist between the methodology and practices of the great Investors.

Rather than spending the majority of our income on buildings, salaries, and church programs, so that only what is left over goes to help the poor and needy, maybe churches could reverse this practice, so that a majority of the money that a church receives goes toward feeding the hungry, helping the poor, and serving those who are outcast and rejected in society.

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

Add up how much time your children spend in school, sleeping, in daycare, with babysitters, at sports practices, in music lessons, etc. and look at how much or little time is left over.

Mark Lavigne, with the state Association of Counties, says a panel assembled by Cuomo to reform Medicaid spending and practices has recommended that the state eventually take over the counties» 25 % share of the total costs.

In practice the most significant discussions look set to be over the content of the Budget and the severity of spending cuts.

The 2014 Farm Bill, signed by President Barack Obama in February, authorizes $ 1.3 billion in spending over five years to help farmers adopt conservation practices in regions of the country facing significant environmental challenges.

Sugarman said critics tend to focus exclusively on her work with Cuomo that began in the attorney general's office and carried over to the governor's office, but not the 20 years she spent as the chief of the homicide and trial division in the Bronx district attorney's office or the 10 years in private practice after that.

Guilt from not spending enough time on personal life often conflicts with guilt from not working enough, she says, but «I try to be disciplined about both commitments, and I've learned over the years the importance of saying «no,» asking for help when I need it, and practicing self - care.»

When she's not in the kitchen, you might find her chasing after her Golden Retriever, spending time with her husband, making questionable puns, filling her house up with plants, trying to practice yoga, nerding our over nutrition books and doodling pictures of polar bears onto the backs of her grocery receipts.

She spent the next 12 years living very happily on her own building her life coaching practice focusing on enabling women over 50 build strong and loving relationships, writing her autobiography and developing friendships that are caring, generous and open - hearted.

Having practiced adult medicine for over 30 years with the last 5 focusing on adding nutrition and exercise prescriptions to my practice and spending the last 4 years giving educational talks to physicians and lay persons I have come to the belief that a properly done whole foods plant based diet with supplemental B12 is the best diet to avoid many of the chronic diseases afflicting us.»

She spent her days practicing on a beautiful platform over the ocean, under teachers Arne Espejel, Dave Ridgeway, Kristin Berg and S. Mitchell Gold.

Giovanni have practiced meditation daily (for the past 16 years, totaling over 7,000 hours at this point), read hundreds of books, tried several different practices, spent time on retreats with masters and instructors around the world, and nearly became a monk a couple of times.

As educators who have spent over 20 years researching, observing and studying classroom practice, we are even more convinced that many of the past practices in classroom observation relied on snapshot observations made by supervisors with little professional or academic learning.

Think about that for a moment — over 90 % of training time is spent practicing the skills and behaviors.

Indeed, anyone who has spent much time in the company of school reformers in the past decade has seen this practice turn almost comical, as when charter - school operators try to one - up one another over who can claim the most disadvantaged student population.

While it may be tempting to spend the summer at the beach or by the pool, it's important that emerging readers practice their reading skills over the...

While it may be tempting to spend all summer at the beach or by the pool, it's important that emerging readers practice their reading skills over the...

So over the break, we assigned all students to spend an hour a week on TenMarks, a math practice program with individual learning pathways based on diagnostic assessment, and tips for students who struggle.

Originally from Philadelphia, she has spent over 12 years studying and designing effective practices in schools and school systems.

It gave us the flexibility with more time in the day, but you still need staff dedication, time spent poring over data, attention to practice, and giving students the interventions they need to really succeed.»

As part of the innovateNJ community of school districts that shares best practices, Springfield Public Schools spent last year analyzing test score data over a four - year period to see which students struggled and what types of questions they had trouble with, said Sharon Nagy - Johnson, director of instructional technology.

Prior to the school opening in the fall of 2014, Ellen spent a year learning best practices from schools all over the country and designing the school through the Fisher Fellowship program.

Imbuing the Winter Sporting program with its laid - back attitude and general theme of «fun first, speed second» is the team of instructors, a jovial crew seemingly as happy to be loosed for a sideways day on the lake as the rest of us, who make play of learning, practicing, and retaining the peculiar sensitivities and sometimes counterintuitive skills developed during the hours spent sliding an AMG over the well - groomed ice.

It is important to teach budgeting and money management to our children so they can practice responsible spending and saving money before they get themselves in over their head.

Public sector DB plans: Taxes may rise, spending cuts enacted, forced contributions to retiree plans negotiated, plans terminated for a 457 plan, partial plan termination, job cuts, funny accounting practices (worse than the private sphere), brinksmanship over debts, etc..

Rachel McFarlane is the practice manager at Animal Eye Clinic and has worked in veterinary medicine for over 13 years, the last 11 of which were spent in specialty medicine.

Early in his career, Roussel worked in two veterinary practices over a five - year period and pictured himself spending his life as a rural veterinary practitioner.

I spent four years traveling all over Colorado while practicing equine dentistry and equine reproductive medicine.

Inf act, over the past week I spent so much time practicing skills that my hair has turned a bit green because of the chlorine.

Campers learn and practice Leave No Trace principles while they spend two nights backpacking: the first night at Rob Hill Campground, and then hiking over the Golden Gate Bridge to spend the second night at Kirby Cove Campground.

Stuff like horse - riding skill will naturally tick over as you quest, but I'd encourage you to go and spend some time in the practice pits early on to hone your martial skills in a non-perma-death environment.

Given all the time you'll be spent looking over the map of Freeburg, you'll undoubtedly ring them in with practice.

Multiplayer is of course present, and those keen to jump straight in with their friends may well find this as the most enticing choice, however after spending many hours learning the terrain, I advise anyone looking to jump into Spintires: MudRunner to get some practice in the single player options before heading online — if only to avoid looking like a complete tool as your vehicle topples over again and again.

>> Be me >> Spend 50 + minutes costumizing first character >> Start the game >> Take 20 attempts to beat first boss >> Proceed to practice and get better >> 60 hours in, got about halfway through the game >> Forget about it for a few months >> Decide to keep playing on new PC >> Steam did not clone the my character nd the save file is gone >> Have to start all over again 10/10 would die again.

With some customers spending what might be over $ 10,000 in a single month, the Japanese government sought to crack down on the practice under the guise of consumer protection advocacy.

In practice, you could be spending over 100 hours just to drive one car.

Born and raised in South Korea, Il Lee has spent most of his adult life as an artist in New York City — his home since 1977 and where he developed his signature process and style using ballpoint pen, a medium important to his practice over the decades.

Over the course of her five - decade - long career, most of which was spent as artist - in - residence with the City of New York Department of Sanitation, Ukeles mapped out a practice that seems to place her somewhere between the late - 20th - century strategy of institutional critique and the current vogue for social - practice art.

He spent most of his adult life as an artist in New York City — his home since 1977 — where he developed his signature process and style using ballpoint pen, a medium important to his practice over the decades.

The American sculptor Andrea Zittel has spent over three decades developing, refining, and expanding a multifaceted practice grounded in the details and actions of how life is lived.

It first opened its doors in 1939 and since then, over 1,000 artists from a diverse range of disciplines have spent time at Montalvo developing and honing their practices and producing culturally significant works of art.

As an old Middlebury man, I had the distinct pleasure of spending more than a few weekends over at Cobb Hill with Prof. Meadows and friends tilling the soil and practicing what many simply prefer to preach.

Jim Laurie has been studying Holistic Management and visiting with practitioners for over 20 years, and in 2011, Seth Itzkan spent six weeks at the Africa Center of Holistic Management in Zimbabwe, where he saw first hand the use of this practice toward the restoration of grasslands and the return of surface water in rural Africa.

The «man - made hysteria» associated with the global - warming fraud is a real threat to mankind in the sense that it a) has the potential to, and in fact is, turning millions of gullible individuals into fanatical, anti-human ideologues, b) diverting precious time, money and resources that could be more usefully spent elsewhere into the ridiculous and unscientific attempts by environmental extremists to «control the climate» via enforced — through government legislation and burdensome taxes — behaviour modification of supposedly free citizens, and c) giving the practice of science a bad reputation amongst the general populace, which in turn has been a major contributing factor to the general decline in the understanding of basic scientific concepts, and reality in general, that we have been witnessing over the last 40 years or so (ex.

A relatively significant portion of my practice involves defending personal injury claims, which means that I spend a great deal of time poring over medical records.

Prior to joining FindLaw, Sean spent over a decade at West — also part of Thomson Reuters — where he helped large law firms integrate practice - of - law solutions into their workflow.