Sentences with phrase «percent of a given project»

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It's designed to give employees one full day per week (20 percent of their time) to work on a Google - related passion project of their own choosing or creation.

Helping hand Global crafts dealer Priya Haji gives 10 percent of profits to suppliers» communities, which have invested in clean water projects and computer labs.

Seventy - three percent of Millennials say tech has given them a better work - life balance, contributing to a better understanding on projects, for example, or building better friendships outside of work.

In the Russian Far East, Huawei outcompeted Nokia in a 2017 open tender bidding process to lay an internet cable to the Kurile Islands by agreeing to complete the project at a cost that was 9 percent below Rostelecom's stated maximum contract price.122 Though there have been no specific complaints surrounding the Kurile Islands tender, China's investments in Russia at times do not adhere to market principles — an issue of concern for the West given long - standing U.S. and European criticism of unfair Chinese trade and investment practices.

Who Gives A Crap will produce eco-friendly toilet paper and give 50 percent of their profits to WaterAid for sanitation projects around the world.

Gradually, the model for Project 7 came into place: a company that sells everyday natural items like bottled water, mints, gum and T - shirts, and gives 50 percent to seven different nonprofit organizations working in seven critical areas of need.

Founded by Tyler Merrick, Project 7 is a company who gives 50 percent of their profits to seven different nonprofit organizations working in seven critical areas of need.

Whom would we admire more: a generous person who gives 10 percent of her $ 20,000 yearly income anonymously to a campus beautification project or a person who gives 10 percent of his $ 500 million fortune to fund on the same campus a concert hall named after him?

S&P + projects the Pirates 125th and gives them a better than 26 percent chance of winning in just three games.

The Football Outsiders Almanac 2015 projects LSU eighth in the country and gives the Tigers a 31 percent chance of going 10 - 2 or better despite a brutal division.

The S&P + gives A&M the slightest of edges, with a 56 percent win probability and a projected final of Texas A&M 31, Arkansas 28 that would replicate the recent one - score finals in this series.

De Blasio's plan, which was first outlined in early May but has been criticized by Governor Andrew Cuomo, would give choices for struggling, middle and strong housing markets, requiring developers to set aside somewhere between 25 percent and 30 percent of a project for affordable housing.

It was unclear if there would be limits put in place on which condos can receive the abatements, which typically give 25 - year tax breaks in exchange for setting aside 20 percent of each project for affordable apartments.

The company's projects, mostly research facilities and manufacturing plants, received $ 30 million in tax breaks between 2009 and 2014 — almost 40 percent of the value of all abatements the IDA gave out in that time.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

«Seventy percent of them said they are willing to give VAuth a serious try in one of the three configurations we developed — and half of them said they are willing to pay $ 25 more for the technology,» said Huan Feng, who worked on the project as a graduate student and currently works for Facebook.

The League of Conservation Voters gives McMorris Rodgers a 4 percent lifetime score out of a possible 100 in their environmental scorecard because she has voted against bills that would have required the federal government to account for the social cost of carbon in administrative actions and required federally funded projects to be resilient to the impacts of climate change.

Google's Director of People Operations, Shannon Deegan, talks about why the company decided to implement 20 percent time and how it works, giving some examples of products that started as 20 percent time side projects.

From personalized learning, I learned about Genius Hour, an educational trend adopted from developers at Google who are given 20 percent of their time to develop their own «passion projects.»

If you've never heard of 20 percent time or the «Genius Hour» movement, this cute hand - animated video by Chris Kesler, the founder of GeniusHour.com, will give you a good overview of what makes an effective school - based 20 percent time project.

Teachers emphasized time management (setting the number of days and then building in a 20 percent overrun), flexibility (being prepared to give alternative instruction to reinforce subject matter versus knowing when to maintain a deadline), and priming (starting project dialogue and setting expectations early).

It's sometimes called 20 percent time because some corporations (famously Google, at one time) have given employees 20 percent of the workday to follow passion projects.

The disconnect between real life and the high school experience and the absence of any real connection to peers and teachers causes many students on the margins to give up: More than 30 percent of U.S. students who enter high school never finish, according to a recent report by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project, the Urban Institute, Advocates for Children of New York, and the Civil Society Institute.

The idea for 20 % time in schools comes from Google's own 20 % policy, where employees are given twenty percent of their time to work and innovate on something else besides their current project.

Finally, some teachers are exploring 20 - percent projects, named for the Google tradition of giving employees one day a week to pursue their own interests.

Seriously, it would be fascinating to project how much famine and misery will ensue following a given percent expansion of the oceanic dead zone.

The critical question is: Given the current extent of U.S. natural gas production — and the fact that production is projected to expand by more than 50 percent in the coming decades — are we doing everything we can to ensure that emissions are as low as is technologically and economically feasible?

The International Conservation Union, in its latest red list of endangered wildlife, gave polar bears threatened status in May, projecting a decline of 30 percent by midcentury from current populations, mainly due to projected losses of sea ice in a warming world.

In 2006, the European Union (EU), which consists of 27 members, committed to reducing its global warming emissions by at least 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, to consuming 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and to reducing its primary energy use by 20 percent from projected levels through increased energy efficiency.1 The EU has also committed to spending $ 375 billion a year to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.2 The EU is meeting these goals through binding national commitments which vary depending on the unique situation of a given country but which average out to the overall targets.

The projected anomalous temperatures obtained by multiplying the climate sensitivity factor for the removal of sulfate aerosols -LRB-.02) times the net amount of reduction in SO2 aerosols between one year and another later year will give the anomalous temperature for the later year to within less than a tenth of a percent of actuality.

For this reason, a joint research project between Widener University Commonwealth Law School and the University of Auckland recommended in Paris that national climate commitments be stated in tons of emissions over a specific period rather than percent reductions by a given date because waiting to the end of specific period to achieve percent reductions will cause the total tons of ghg emitted to be higher than if reductions are made earlier.

Based on projected world energy requirements, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (1956) has estimated an amount of fossil fuel combustion by the year 2000 that with our assumed partitions would give about a 25 percent increase in atmospheric CO2, compared to the amount present during the 19th Century.

In a front - page New York Times story this summer, The Marshall Project reported that the practice gives prosecutors a strategic advantage, especially because the vast majority of cases never make it that far: More than 98 percent of New York felony arrests that end in conviction occur through a guilty plea, not a trial.

The company already gives its employees 20 percent of their working hours back, so that they can work on their personal projects.

It certainly doesn't sound that way, given the data released on the San Jose State project: According to reports leaked to Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Ed, students enrolled in the Udacity classes passed at rates between 29 and 51 percent, compared to a passing rate of 74 percent among students in traditional, in - person classes.

«Funding is such a core part of overall project management, that at any given point in time, a company should be able to tell you + / - 0.5 percent how much in funding they are holding.

A data offered by Microsoft indicates that the Windows 10 has now reached 48 percent market share and it's likely that the operating system market share will continue to improve given that Windows 7 is projected to reach the end of support in January 2020.

Given tight housing inventories across most of the country in 2002, NAR projects that national median existing - home and new - home prices will rise in 2003, by 4.3 percent and 5.4 percent respectively.

That expansion, which NAR has long advocated and helped push through Congress, should give a boost to the housing market by providing a 40 percent increase in the amount of tax credits that states can allocate to developers of eligible rental projects.

By going in a handful of different directions at once, you're not giving 100 percent to any project at any time.