Sentences with phrase «piloting failed programs»

The people piloting failed programs didn't send in cleanup crews.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

In the pilot program backers can pay a small fee in exchange for a guaranteed refund if the product fails to arrive within three months of its estimated delivery date.

A 2010 & ndashl2011 pilot program at the USDA, for example, performed 5,022 analyses on 26 strawberry samples and failed to detect pesticide residues in 5,012 of the 5,022 analyzed.

The governor was immediately condemned by government reform groups who said the pilot program was cynically designed to fail.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

Antonacci announced over the summer that he would attempt to take advantage of a pilot program for public funding of campaigns, but that effort ran aground after he failed to run the prerequisite $ 200,000 in small donations ($ 10 to $ 175) from 2,000 donors.

The LLC loophole has become a major flashpoint in the battle for campaign finance reform because other efforts at reform failed in this year's budget negotiations and a pilot public financing program for last year's comptroller race never got off the ground.

«We are considering expanding the existing pilot programs into surrounding areas and link up those regional carbon markets; if that fails, the central government will then design a nationwide emissions trading scheme and allocate allowances to each region,» said Xu, the government official involved in the national carbon market buildup.

A 2010 & ndashl2011 pilot program at the USDA, for example, performed 5,022 analyses on 26 strawberry samples and failed to detect pesticide residues in 5,012 of the 5,022 analyzed.

And she's not right to fail to note that the Common Core would have been — at least at this point in time — a sort of ambitious pilot program involving a smallish number of states that were serious about the implementation challenges, until the feds blundered into the middle of it with «incentives» that turned it into a sort of national piñata.

Second, in what is sometimes referred to as the «Brennan strategy,» named for the architect of the Cleveland voucher program, voucher advocates need to structure their proposals as limited pilot programs targeted at low - income families with children in failing schools.

Even though K12, Inc. is notorious for churning students through its programs and failing to demonstrate academic progress, both of the companies» virtual charter programs are likely to get the green light since the legislation compels the State Board of Education to get the pilot program up and running this fall.

Eight years in development, including 10 pilot studies, and applying standards based on valid research on effective teaching, the evaluations in the report provide convincing evidence that a large majority of our nation's teacher preparation programs are miserably failing our aspiring teachers and our children.

Two years ago, Louisiana enacted the Student Scholarship for Educational Excellence Program, a pilot voucher program in New Orleans designed to offer students an alternative to attending a failing public Program, a pilot voucher program in New Orleans designed to offer students an alternative to attending a failing public program in New Orleans designed to offer students an alternative to attending a failing public school.

The Los Angeles teachers union would have to agree to a new evaluation system and has tried to block the pilot program in court, arguing that the district failed to negotiate it.

In Virginia, lawmakers in both chambers voted through a bill to launch a community solar pilot program, but failed to support two other community solar proposals.

These existing programs will remain available as an option to employers either deterred by the Pilot's requirements, or that fail to meet the eligibility criteria to participate in the Pilot.

DELTA AIRLINES, Bethany Beach, DE Jan 2004 — Mar 2012 Co-Pilot • Trained 12 groups of co-pilots in handling balanced fueling and engine monitoring duties as part of the co-pilot training program • Safely landed an aircraft the landing gear of which had failed, without hurting a single passenger or crew member • Performed pre-flight checks on engines and hydraulics and alerted pilots of any discrepancies • Ascertained that all cargo had been loaded safely and that the weight of the aircraft is balanced appropriately • Operated controls to steer aircraft during shift exchange times and ensured that autopilot was properly working • Assisted the pilot by making in - flight announcements and providing instructions to crewmembers • Ascertained that noise regulations were followed during landing and take - off

An ambitious evaluation in 1999 of a statewide home visiting program in Hawaii failed to demonstrate any substantial improvements in either maternal or child development and health outcomes.18 Although these findings contradicted previous smaller studies and evaluations of earlier pilot programs, the comprehensiveness of this evaluation led to further examination of the evidence base for home visiting.

Two Democratic lawmakers are claiming that the Federal Housing Finance Agency failed to roll out a nationwide mortgage reduction principal plan for underwater home owners even though a pilot program the agency did two years ago showed that it could significantly trim taxpayers» costs.