Sentences with phrase «past decade public»

Behavioral issues also Linked to soda consumption, over past decade public vending slowly moving towards offering water and other options.

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Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

As a professional speaker and presentation coach for the past two decades, I agree with this public speaking wisdom, and I would add one more tip:

And for investors, private deals offer real income and asset appreciation that, over the past decade at least, has been elusive in the public markets, argues Jim Sand, CEO of Fast Track Capital, a registered exempt - market dealer based in St. Albert, Alta.

«Public - sector spending — a strong, steady contributor to the economy over the past decade — is now being curtailed as federal and provincial governments try to bring deficits under control,» the Conference Board of Canada noted in a recent forecast.

In the United States, which has muddled along in the middle for the past decade, government officials have attempted to introduce marketplace competition into public schools.

Still, Skyrocketing college costs, cuts to public funding for higher education, stagnant incomes and the growth in the college - going population are largely to blame for the uptick in outstanding student loans over the past decade.

Over the past few decades, stock exchanges have made more and more decisions designed to improve their business results at the expense of supporting long - term investors and public companies.

There have been very few initial public offerings in the tech sector in Canada in the past decade — in fact, the IPO market has been practically unseen.

Over the past decade, it has funded the right's assault on labor unions, climate scientists, public schools, economic regulations, and the very premise of activist government.

Today's National Post gave front page coverage to a «study» from the Frontier Centre claiming that wages of public servants have far outstripped those of private sector workers over the past decade.

According to Goolam Ballim, group economist at Johannesburg - based Standard Bank, improvements in public finances over the past decade mean less revenues now go into debt servicing and capital repayment, opening the way for more national investment in infrastructure.

Flatt has also served on more than 20 public company boards over the past two decades.

The decision to not release detailed documents could signal a desire for the government to shift away from the public quarterly budget updates, which are meaningless in terms of fiscal planning due to the province's dependence on fluctuating natural resource commodity prices and have become little more than public relations exercises for the government over the past two decades.

Over the years, military experts and prime ministers have told the Israeli public that there is simply no effective way to stop the katyusha missiles fired on the north, and over the past decade they have repeated the slogan regarding the kassam rockets in the south.

It appears that the extensive changes in the economy over the past decade — including a structural fall in the inflation rate, productivity - enhancing changes in the labour market, corporatisation and privatisation of public - sector enterprises and substantial falls in the barriers to international trade — have led to an improvement in Australia's underlying rate of productivity growth.

They have argued, with some reason, that Jewish organizations actually foster anti-Semitism in the general American public by «crying wolf» at any tiny incident in what in past decades has been a remarkably tolerant culture.

The past decade has seen a rapid transformation in public opinion and legal norms around sexuality, same - sex marriage, transgender rights, and religion in the public square — changes that have caused anxiety for a great number of traditional religious believers, including Christians, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews.

Indeed, it is simply remarkable that those people responsible for educational and social policy during the past three decades can not make the obvious connection between the deplorable state of education, the multiple tragedies of the inner cities, and the virtual elimination of religiously informed values from American public life.

Despite a public culture committed to diversity and tolerance, anti-Catholicism has grown measurably worse among academics and intellectuals over the past decade — driven in equal parts by sexual abuse scandals, gay rights, resurgent atheism, and lingering historical prejudice.

Give his public presence over the past decade, Silverman is arguably the highest profile atheist currently running an atheist organization.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

Despite years of vehement public opposition to the field and feed test of Golden Rice in the past decade — a genetically engineered rice promoted for commercialization in Asia, the Department of Agriculture — Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), PhilRice has filed renewed application this year toopen field test the genetically modified crop in the municipality of San Mateo in Isabela and Muñoz in Nueva Ecija.

The controversy over carrageenan has existed between food industry representatives and public health researchers for decades, but it has flared up again over the past few years with its use in organic food.

It was conducted by public institutions in coffee - growing countries that have seen their funding gradually erode over the past four decades, or by private companies.

Over the past decade, it has become far easier for casual sports bettors to access information which means merely betting against the public isn't as profitable as it once was.

In regards to the total, the under has gone 31 - 25 over the past decade while betting against the public has been similarly profitable.

Brady and Bellichick have been nearly unbeatable at home for the last decade, including going 8 - 4 against the spread the past two years which in the eyes of the public have been «down years».

Road teams, double digit underdogs and betting against the public have all been profitable trends over the past decade, so the Titans do appear to be offering some value to bettors this weekend.

Yesterday we published an article previewing some of the top trends from the past decade of bowl games, and once again betting against the public has proven to be a winning betting strategy.

Roland Fryer, a celebrated young professor of economics at Harvard University, has spent the past decade testing out a variety of incentive schemes in experiments with public school students in Houston, New York, Chicago, and other American cities that have school systems with high poverty rates.

Over this past decade when I was breastfeeding my babies in Italy, I hardly ever saw another mother breastfeeding in public.

What happened to his wife during those two hours, McCrea and several other notable concussion researchers say, is a microcosm of what has happened in American living rooms throughout the past decade as public perception and media discourse have altered the conversation surrounding concussion.

Over the past decade, the idea of a gay man choosing to be a father seems to have progressed from somewhat of a curiosity into a more familiar scenario, as concepts about family and parenting skills evolve.These days, there are a number of resources and a body of parenting advice available to support gay dads, as well as some public figures making... read more

For the past two decades, she has hosted an annual broadcast for healthcare and public health professionals called Breastfeeding Grand Rounds, focusing each year on a different breastfeeding issue with both clinical and public health significance Dr. Applegate holds a BA in biochemistry from Smith College, an MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

By deferring that decision, public outrage has been stored up for the past three decades and has burst out in one huge explosion of anger.

This brief uses data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement5 to examine the importance of public pensions to black retirement security, and why the twin threats to public pensions — cuts to state pension benefits and the decline in public employment over the past two decades — particularly threaten the retirement security of African American workers.

My district and the American public are ready to move on past these never - ending Clinton for president campaigns that have gone on for decades.»

Yet while they'll profess admiration for individual public servants, mainstream politicians have over the past three decades relentlessly promoted a narrative which has taught us to believe that publicly - owned services such as the NHS aren't quite good enough.

According to President Buhari, in spite of sustained economic growth on the continent for the past two decades, «public confidence has been eroded by a focus on short - term priorities and payoffs, propelled by corruption, which too often leaves projects uncompleted and promises unfulfilled.»

Legislator John Mills, Chairman of the Erie County Legislature, was proud to be joined by Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System Director Mary Jean Jakubowski and Angola Public Library Director Jennifer Page, Eden Public Library Director Donna - Jo Webster, Concord Public Library Director Bridgette Heintz, Town of Collins Public Library Director Abigail Barten - McGowan, Orchard Park Public Library Director Peggy Errington and Boston Free Library Director Lydia Herren to announce that with overwhelming community support his Hot Dog Roast Fundraisers have raised a grand total of $ 67,077 over the past decade.

In New York, average costs for tuition, fees, room and board at both private and public four - year institutions rose by more than 50 percent over the past decade.

Over the past three decades, I have served Ulster County by focusing my work on public health and the environment.

Bartoletti says the current climate of corruption, which has resulted in the indictment, resignation or imprisonment of 35 Senators and Assembly members in the past decade, including several in 2013, has raised public awareness.

He was emotional reflecting on several decades of past public service in the city.

That puts New York first for the number of public corruption cases, followed by Pennsylvania, where 24 cases have been filed over the past decade.

As a recent IBO post showed, the number of paraprofessionals, or teaching assistants, in the city's public schools has grown considerably over the past decade.

«Despite the claims of some,» Diaz said Thursday, «we know that our public schools have, at best, remained stagnant over the past decade.»

The government also pointed to the 14 New York State legislators convicted of on federal public corruption charges — including Skelos» three immediate predecessors — over the past decade, claiming a «dire need» to deter such conduct.

They said there's real concern that continued bad press will jeopardize federal funding for public housing, which has been decimated in the past decade.