Sentences with phrase «powerful report by»

«College and Career Readiness: The Importance of Early Learning» by Chrys Dougherty This short but powerful report by an ACT principal research scientist shows the importance of a knowledge - rich, well - rounded curriculum through which all students master basic skills while also building an academic foundation in the early grades.

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What we in the West definitely don't know is the current location of Bo or Wang, what repercussions will be felt by Bo's powerful allies in politics, business and the military (the Financial Times reported May 14 that Bo's mentor and standing committee member Zhou Yongkang had been relieved of his duties as head of China's police, courts and spy apparatus), and who is going to lead China for the next 10 years, let alone what their policy leanings may be.

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.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

But on October 5, the New York Times released an extensive report alleging that Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax and one of the entertainment industry's most powerful executives, has spent the past three decades using his position to sexually harass women by dangling the promise of future success.

With its speculated $ 200 million funding round and reported 160 million unique visitors last month, the site has built a powerful content platform enviable by every writer, PR pro and journalist.

McDougal also says that the women who have come forward to report abuse by powerful men helped inspire her to talk about her situation, to the extent that she has.

«When you look at how much money somebody could make by turning a rental unit — particularly something that's rent - controlled, where the city is trying to keep rent low — into what is essentially a hotel room, you see there's a powerful incentive there,» said Ed Lazere, executive director of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, which helped oversee the report.

The section report on «The Church Witnesses to the Kingdom» began by saying that the title was a frightening claim but a powerful reality.

The term «international information and communication order» is a misnomer reflecting the power reality of the present communication process nationally and internationally, although the McBride report has clearly shown that this «order» is dominated by the powerful, that is, the Western media powers.

As reported by the Mirror, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal remain keen on the Kenya international, and either north London giant may be primed to make a move for the powerful ex-Celtic man during the January transfer window.

A lengthy, well - researched, and powerful article in the Spring 2015 issue of the NCAA's Champion magazine, not only reports the belief of many top concussion experts that the media narrative about sports - related concussion trace has been dominated by media reports on the work of Dr. Ann McKee, which was the centerpiece of PBS Frontline's League of Denial, but Dr. McKee's, however belated, mea culpa that «There's no question [that her autopsies finding evidence of CTE in the brains of most of the former athletes were] a very biased study,» that they involved «a certain level of... sensationalism», that there were «times when it's overblown» and went «a little too far.»

That social mobilization for human rights can have an impact even where such powerful actors are concerned is exemplified by the adoption of a resolution by the Human Rights Council in June 2014 to move towards the elaboration of a binding treaty to prevent human rights violations by transnational corporations Click here for full WABA Press Release See Right To Food and Nutrition Watch 2014 Press Release Download the Watch 2014 report For more information also see: rtfn - watch.

Media reports yet to be dispelled by the administration had claimed that the government was afraid to confront the powerful beneficiaries of the scam which had landed other suspects in the United States, Germany and others in jail.

Labour's all - powerful director of communications Seumas Milne is reported to have changed Lewis» speech on the autocue as he waited to deliver it, notifying the MP by post-it note as he sat on the stage waiting to walk to the podium.

The New York Times and The New Yorker magazine won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for their reporting on sexual harassment that ushered in a reckoning about the treatment of women by powerful men in the uppermost ranks of Hollywood, politics, media and technology.

You can not undo what has been done, but you can accomplish something very powerful and positive by creating a capital campaign that would help to fund some of the proposals put forward by the Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents to address gun violence and school safety, as reported in your 12/31/12 edition.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's efforts over the years to consolidate power in the executive branch have been widely reported — and criticized by state lawmakers and good government watchdogs, who say the executive branch in New York is inherently powerful enough.

Kink, who led the Democrats» policy office, will head the Strong Economy for All Coalition, which, according to a recent Times report, will soon open with a $ 5 million budget, backed by SEIU / 1199, the powerful health care workers» union, and the UFT, the New York City teachers union.

According to a 2013 report by the Center for Investigative Reporting, California State Assembly Speaker John Perez «gave lawmakers who raised the most money the best assignments in the new Legislature — posts on the speaker's leadership team and seats on the powerful «juice committees.»»

The report said the Assembly's leadership shielded Mr. Lopez, a Brooklyn Democrat who was one of the chamber's most powerful members, from public scrutiny amid allegations against him by his staff of sexual harassment.

With a constant flow of high quality reports to consider the PAC is a powerful committee, and is always chaired by a leading opposition MP, usually with past ministerial experience.

Bill Magnarelli: «After having read the JCOPE report and having discussed this matter fully in our Democratic Conference, it is clear that mistakes were made in the handling of sexual harassment charges initially brought by two young women Assembly staff employees against a powerful Assembly Chairman.

The allegations, which Schneiderman contests but which led him to resign, emerged Monday in an article in The New Yorker, a publication he hailed just last month for reporting on Weinstein and starting a «critical national reckoning» on sexual misconduct by powerful men.

Now, researchers report that by creating a fuel cell that can run at a midrange temperature, they've made an inexpensive, powerful version that could boost the prospects for plentiful green energy.

If confirmed by other researchers, the planet would not just be an astronomical novelty; Its detection, reported on the e-print server at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (see astro - ph / 9908038), would also be a triumph for a new and potentially powerful technique for finding planets around other stars.

The industrialist and founder of the prize that bears his name would no doubt be pleased by a feat of organic chemistry reported in this week's Angewandte Chemie International Edition: the synthesis of what may be the most powerful nonnuclear explosives ever made.

The recent earthquake swarm, beginning on March 24 and climaxed by a 4.9 magnitude tremor on Saturday, has produced no reports of injuries or severe damage but has rattled nerves in a region where Idaho's most powerful known quake, measured at 6.9, killed two children in 1983.

Most scientists believe that molecular breeding and advanced genetic modification will eventually form a powerful tandem, said David Baulcombe, a professor of botany at the University of Cambridge and the chairman of a recent report issued by the United Kingdom's Royal Society on the future of agriculture.

Summary: Extremely powerful genes that govern the shape of an embryo from the earliest stages of development have been tinkered with by nature over the course of evolution to create the enormously wide range of animal forms, scientists report in the August 14, 1997 issue of Nature.

Extremely powerful genes that govern the shape of an embryo from the earliest stages of development have been tinkered with by nature over the course of evolution to create the enormously wide range of animal forms, scientists report in the August 14, 1997 issue of Nature.

August 14, 1997 Evolution re-sculpted animal limbs by genetic switches once thought too drastic for survival Extremely powerful genes that govern the shape of an embryo from the earliest stages of development have been tinkered with by nature over the course of evolution to create the enormously wide range of animal forms, scientists report in the August 14, 1997 issue of Nature.

Research reported at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) International Conference on Food, Nutrition and Cancer, by Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues at Cornell University shows that whole grains, such as rice, contain many powerful phytonutrients whose activity has gone unrecognized because research methods have overlooked them.

Research reported at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) International Conference on Food, Nutrition and Cancer, by Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues at Cornell University shows that whole grains, such as buckwheat, contain many powerful phytonutrients whose activity has gone unrecognized because research methods have overlooked them.

Further investigation revealed that the researchers failed to report that the MSG was frequently vomited before it could be absorbed, that the monkeys were under anesthesia with a powerful glutamate receptor antagonist (phencyclidine), and that the areas of the brain shown in micrographs were areas of the hypothalamus known to be unaffected by glutamate.

Research reported at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) International Conference on Food, Nutrition and Cancer, by Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues at Cornell University shows that whole grains, such as rye, contain many powerful phytonutrients whose activity has gone unrecognized because research methods have overlooked them.

Research reported at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) International Conference on Food, Nutrition and Cancer, by Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.D., and his colleagues at Cornell University shows that whole grains, such as millet, contain many powerful phytonutrients whose activity has gone unrecognized because research methods have overlooked them.

In a story that Nov. 30, and previously moved on Nov. 10, Nov. 17, Nov. 22 and Nov. 24, about powerful men who have been accused of sexual misconduct, The Associated Press reported erroneously that celebrity chef John Besh had been accused by 25 women...

Last week, we reported on a contest being held by actor and conservation advocate Edward Norton, in which a lucky Radiohead fan could win a chance to hang out with him at one of the band's concerts, trading awkward small talk and catching occasional whiffs of his powerful Norton musk.

By using these organization features along with TalentLMS powerful content creation and re-use functionality, reporting, user administration and course management tools, you get perfect control of your training program and easy automation of all kinds of manual tasks.

The now useless and defunct academic report card has been effectively replaced by a much more powerful metric tool that puts the evolution of education literally at your fingertips.

Blumenfeld - Jones, who is taken by a film on homeless youths, Street Rat, writes, «I am obliged to report that I have, up to this point in the relatively short history of the genre, not been privy to a completely unblemished work of arts - based research, one sufficiently powerful, by itself, to redirect the educational conversation....»

Nevertheless, powerful interest groups were able to use the climate of urgency created by the report to get their own preferred policies enacted, even when the policies were not recommended by Risk.

The Effect of Student - Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations» or last November's powerful «See Our Truth» report by the Education Trust.

The report is released today and follows an investigation by the powerful Public Accounts Committee, which last year questioned the value for money offered by teacher training schemes and incentives.

The report, published by the OECD and written by Eric Hanushek from Stanford University and Ludger Woessmann from Munich University, argues that the standard of education is a «powerful predictor of the wealth that countries will produce in the long run».

The report describes how the incredibly successful campaign behind charters — that relied on branding public schools as «failures» and pitched the private sector as the only source for solutions — was supported by «a powerful political, legal, and marketing infrastructure.»

The Experts» Verdict... As reported by Edmunds: Plentiful standard and optional features; quiet and comfortable ride; superior tech interface; powerful V6; available third - row seat; lengthy warranty.

Apart from building powerful sports cars, Porsche cars are renowned for razor - sharp handling which is something Porsche hopes to boost further in the next generation 911 Turbo by adding four - wheel steering according to recent reports.

* As reported by The Manufacturer Summary: The 2014 Ford F - 150, with its 4 high - tech engines, including the revolutionary EcoBoost, has the toughest, most powerful, and fuel efficient truck lineup in the class.