Sentences with phrase «public effort»

A new study revealed the most diverse players in the tech sector as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and minorities.
And there's some recent history that explains the very public effort.
Thanks to big governmental financial and public efforts obesity rates are stabilizing.
This is where private / public efforts enter the picture.
The results come as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and ethnic minorities.
Cuomo in recent weeks has stepped up public efforts on behalf of Democrats running for the state Senate.
His most recent public effort ended in the project Who Cares (Creative Time, 2006), a book built from a series of conversations between Ashford and many other cultural practitioners on public expression, ethics, and beauty.
Consider this blog a modest public effort to explore the essence of Las Vegas and its environs Frequency about 3 posts per month.
Without major public efforts in this field, the global super information highway is not likely to include the two billion people who live on less than $ 300 a year, or the more than 1 billion people who are illiterate and some 500 million children for whom there are no schools.
But since Fowler's accusations of sexism at the company, the ride - hail player has made a more public effort to be more transparent and increase diversity, including donating a $ 1.2 million grant to Girls Who Code — although that move was not without controversy.
Speaking at a press conference at Teamsters Local 237, she continued her recent public efforts at promoting the «Women's Equality Agenda,» with a particular focus today on the pay equity component of that agenda and proposed law.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who successfully convinced the legislature to approve the gambling amendment, is not appearing in the ads, and has so far not made a special public effort to promote the ballot measure.
Finally, the current study highlights several aspects of health that may be influenced by social learning and provides support for public efforts to promote youth health by engaging parents in the effort.42 For example, parents who modeled healthy behavior reported their offspring to have greater social competence and engagement in health - promoting behavior themselves.
As for reaction, RBC in a note said while CPG activism has been talked about for years «this is one of the first public efforts we have seen; Cation is not currently a well know firm but we expect that a view to renew the board would be favorably received by investors.»
In fact, she said, she'd had a similar experience at Google, despite its very public efforts toward racial diversity and gender equity.
80 % of the Brits having eaten a cake in the three months before December 2016 (Mintel, 2016), despite increasing public efforts to reduce sugar and tackle (childhood) obesity.
Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.
Our study highlights the severe challenges facing public efforts to control mosquitoes and to manage and limit insecticide resistance.»
Until now, the company's best public effort was a 9 - qubit computer built in 2015.
New Jersey voters nix stem cell funding; Oregon rejects cigarette tax hike Voters in New Jersey this week rejected a plan to borrow $ 450 million over 10 years to finance what would have been one of the nation's most ambitious public efforts to fund stem cell research.
From the Human Genome Project, we have learned that teamwork really pays off when it comes to scientific discovery,» said Dr. Collins, who noted that over the past five years, the MIT, Washington University and Baylor centers were major participants in the highly successful public effort to sequence, assemble and analyze the genomes of the human and several other organisms commonly used in biomedical research.
However, since public efforts have been made to add iodine to the salt supplies of most industrialized countries, Hashimoto's has become the primary reason for hypothyroidism, responsible for 90 - 97 % of cases of hypothyroidism in the United States.
Laws said that this was the biggest public effort to improve the schools estate in decades, and that the initiative was on track to meet its goal of improving 261 school buildings in very poor condition by the end of 2017.
«There are some people that don't approve of charter schools and see them as something that takes away from the broader public effort.
--------------------------------- ** [GelbspanFiles's note: Whenever there are prominent public efforts to smear skeptic climate scientists, it seems Ross Gelbspan always can be found not far away from it in some manner.
«Clearly, there is a need to rethink public efforts on behalf of dependent and impoverished young families.
Very public efforts 12 months ago to land Michy Batshuayi — among others — failed and the Hammers were left scrabbling around to sign Simone Zaza on loan from Juve...
Google, which has made a more public effort to balance deep insight with deep exploitation, still has to wrestle with what could happen when and if those two streams mix accidentally or maliciously at the expense of its users.
* Lainey Gossip dissed Justin Timberlake for his oh - so - public efforts at volunteering to help Hurricane Sandy victims.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who successfully convinced the legislature to approve the gambling amendment, is not appearing in the ads and has not made a special public effort to promote the ballot measure.
One of the most recent public efforts has been by the city of Los Angeles, which filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and U.S. Bancorp for allegedly failing to maintain some of their repossessed properties.
But, I find those who are often so much against abortion, are also against birth control, and public efforts to expand access for young single women with limited means.
As far as I candetermine, you are the first national magazine to make a public effort toromanticize the vicious and obnoxious hot rodders.
Would Nestlé really try to undermine government and public efforts to normalise breastfeeding with a viral campaign that tells women their breasts are ogled when they go out in public?
For the House GOP's public efforts to elect more women to their conference, these past few months yielded mixed results.
While potential candidates for the Republican nomination were mentioned early in the year, none of them has made a public effort to secure party support.
In some instances, the flow of money to Cuomo increased as he amplified his public efforts on particular issues.
The ad comes as Cuomo makes a concerted and very public effort to insist the tax cap, approved back in June, is working.
Hawkins also cited the failure of Cuomo to make any public effort to push for legislation to raise the minimum wage to the $ 10.10 and indexed to inflation, which he said last month he supports.
Mark - Viverito previously penned a letter to the F.T.C. criticizing Herbalife, which came as activist investor Bill Ackman was organizing a public effort against the company.
You may recall that despite Gov. Cuomo's public efforts to work for a Democratic majority, many of those Senate Democrats didn't trust him.
Her public efforts to remedy «the plight of young scientists,» as she termed the situation during an interview with Science Careers, go back to the 1994 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee she co-chaired that produced The Funding of Young Investigators in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
In fact two projects, a public effort and a private venture, had competed to capture the sequence.
National Human Genome Research Institute Director Francis Collins, one of the leaders behind the public effort to sequence the genome, can now move on to other projects.
Another attendee was Craig Venter, who led a private effort to sequence the human genome in the late 1990s that competed with a public effort led by Collins.
In 2009, the islands also launched a public effort to identify people afflicted with carnitine transporter deficiency (CTD), a disease that can lead to sudden death in young adults and is a hundred times more common among the isolated Faroese population than elsewhere.
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