Sentences with phrase «public figures find»

In our celebrity - obsessed world, public figures find it very difficult to have truly private lives.

I cite Palin and Rangel because we all know their names, but lots of public figures find truth - telling similarly difficult.

Total invasion... because you are a public figure I find that we can't really sue the media and the press and I found that really disturbing... They just write whatever they want without checking the facts.»

Not exact matches

Tim interviews an eclectic mix of public figures from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Tony Robbins, picking their brains in order to find out exactly what makes them tick, and thus what makes them so successful.

If you can't name him right away, check Google... for reliability use Google to find out a report made public by the Johns Hopkins Universiity Blloomberg School of Public Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you be aware that we too in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded in San Francisco, Rome and other places in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own concluspublic by the Johns Hopkins Universiity Blloomberg School of Public Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you be aware that we too in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded in San Francisco, Rome and other places in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own conclusPublic Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you be aware that we too in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded in San Francisco, Rome and other places in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own conclusion...

On the one hand, I feel sick to my stomach to find out that yet more highly esteemed Christian public figures have major skeletons in their closets.

While his philosophical views would seem to underwrite a notion of privacy and seclusion, there is no more public figure to be found in contemporary English - language philosophy.

The team identified subjects by finding Twitter users who followed the feeds of five prominent public figures.

The other wish I have for him is «he finds self discipline «and remembers he is a public figure.

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

When we look back at the historical data summarised in Figure 1 below, we find the period since the mid-1980s has been one in which successive governments have opted for small, year - to - year reductions in the growth of overall public spending, rather than greater reductions over a shorter period.

Lord Hague said an «age of greater transparency» would require more and more openness by public figures and that politics would be diminished if all were found to be squeaky clean.

We find it very bizarre that the Hon. Attorney - General, Ms Gloria Akufo, who assured the entire citizenry of her commitment to fairness and strict adherence to ethical principles at her vetting not too long ago, will claim that she exercised the said constitutional discretion on grounds merely that there was a lack of evidence to prosecute the case in question when indeed, the Siting Judge, Court Clerks, Court Bailiffs, Court Warrant Officers (CWOs), Journalists as well as notable public figures in whose presence the said court was physically attacked and the accused persons freed, are alive and available to be interviewed and evidence taken from same.

«In new figures released today, IFS researchers estimate that total public spending on education in the UK will fall by over 13 % in real terms between 2010/11 and 2014/15,» the IFS said of their findings.

The findings follow a series of public rows between Gove and leading figures in the education establishment.

«The audit has no findings related to current business practices and finances and uses outdated facts and alarmist, unrealistic figures, instead of setting out constructive ways public housing can be preserved and maintained for generations to come,» an agency spokesperson said.

Karen Hinton — married to State Operations Director Howard Glaser, one of the governor's oldest friends and a key figure in Cuomo's high - stakes efforts to legalize casino gambling, bring a new power utility to Long Island, and finalize a decision on hydrofracking for natural gas — is a «managing director» at Mercury Public Affairs, which was founded by several former aides and advisers to Republican former Gov. George Pataki.

The figures come after a Sunday newspaper claimed that a Department of Health - commissioned study by the pollsters Ipsos MORI found that more people that ever believe the NHS is doing a good job, but that ministers have chosen to «sit on» the findings rather than make them public.

Public figures including Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized Palin's comments, saying, that the mosque is «a great message for the world that, unlike in other places where they might actually ban people from wearing burquas or building a building, that's not what America was founded on nor is it what America should become.»

• Brian Paddick, a former deputy assistant commissioner with the Met who is seeking a judicial review of the alleged failure of his former force to tell him his name had been found on a list of public figures whose phones may have been targeted, called for Coulson to be interviewed by police.

Snow's cartographic detective work made him a founding figure in several fields of research: epidemiology, public health, even information design.

Recent research by David Hart, director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and Zoltan Acs director of George Mason's Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, finds a considerably lower figure.

TW: Are there any women — whether personal acquaintances or public figures — who you find inspiring right now?

He was the veteran of increasingly outdated show business traditions trying to stay relevant; he frequently found himself bracketed by the bigotry of white America and the distaste of black America; he was the most public black figure to embrace Judaism, thereby yoking his identity to another persecuted minority.

These two public figures couldn't have been much different from each other, but the script (Joey and Hanala Sagal, and Cary Elwes) finds a way to have these two icons hold a conversation... bonding over their mutual hatred of The Beatles.

· Finding the Wonder Woman Within — Feel the power of Wonder Woman as award - winning poets and inspiring public figures reveal the impact and importance of DC's greatest heroine.

If The King's Speech risks being too cute by half in its depiction of how this royal without a voice comes to find one in his nation's hour of need, Hooper and screenwriter David Seidler neatly avoid that trap by training their sights on a much bigger subject — namely, how the wireless waves of radio affected seismic changes to the nature of politics and society at large, turning public figures into performers, and narrowing the distance between classes.

Many states are moving in the same direction as Louisiana, employing value - added data, but none have yet figured out how to make their findings transparent and accessible to the public.

Using the best available unit of comparison, we find that 63 percent of charter students in these central cities attend school in intensely segregated minority schools, as do 53 percent of traditional public school students (see Figure 1).

Might influential public figures, research findings, or factual knowledge lead at least some portions of the American public to update its thinking?

However, given the importance of public - welfare and health spending indicated by my findings, and the large increase in state spending on Medicaid (an increase of more than $ 1,000 per capita since 1987 based on figures from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), it is safe to conclude that Medicaid has been the single biggest contributor to the decline in higher - education support at the state and local level.

Figure 11 shows that when given a choice of supporting or opposing charter schools, 62 percent of the public says it favors» the formation of charter schools,» nearly identical to what PDK finds (66 percent favoring» the idea of charter schools»).

NEW YORK — Justin Hudson has become somewhat of a heroic figure at Hunter College High School — a New York City public school founded in 1869 for intellectually gifted students.

Similar results are found for Catholic and Lutheran schools taken separately, while evangelical Protestant schools achieve parity with public schools in math and have an advantage in reading (see Figure 1).

«The big debate really is whether students who are receiving vouchers who have never attended public schools, whether they would have attended public schools if it weren't for the voucher or if their parents always intended to send them to private schools, figured they'd find a way to pay for it and now here's a voucher so they're doing it,» Hinnefeld says.

Considered a prominent figure in higher education, Coles served as founding executive director of both the Higher Education Information Center at the Boston Public Library, and the Pathways to College Network, a national alliance directed by TERI of over 30 nonprofit organizations and funders committed to advancing college access and success for underserved students.

A report by a Washington think tank about a California virtual charter run by the company found a series of problems, including dramatically lower test scores than traditional public schools, startling high dropout rates, questionable attendance figures and a host of other problems.

Collectively we promote the use of rigorous research to figure out «what works,» and why, to improve student outcomes and then share those findings with policy - makers, practitioners and the general public.

The highest private school enrollment rate across all grades (44 percent)[3] is found within the Wilson HS boundary neighborhood, which is also where the highest share of public school students attend their in - boundary school (see Figure 5).

A review by Florida TaxWatch found that the per - pupil figure in Florida public schools was $ 10,308 last year; scholarship students receive less than 60 percent of the amount for their public - school counterparts.

An independent statistical analysis found similar figures: 342,000 jobs, or 5.5 percent of K - 12 employment, were funded by the stimulus, the Center on Reinventing Public Education reported in March.

This figure is on the steady rise and the 10,315 public schools across the state are finding it difficult to accommodate so many new enrollments.

These days, you can find the 767B racing at historic events like the Monterey Motorsports Reunion and Goodwood Festival of Speed, among other events, as well fetching upwards of seven - figures at public auction.

Everyone knew the space where his cartoon had always been: in the very center of the first page of opinion columns, that mythic place where Colombians go to hate their public figures or find out why they love them, that great collective couch of a persistently sick country.

Titles on key public figures and events surrounding the capture of Osama Bin Laden found their way to readers» devices within a week of their making headlines, a feature of digital publishing that consumers appreciate.

People involved in every aspect of the pet industry, veterinary medicine and the general public will find facts and figures in this study that interest them.

Bruce as a public figure is often removed from the situations Batman finds himself in, and having real repercussions for what Bruce does and says as Batman certainly shifts the dynamic, but not by much.

There was, for example, her superintendent's son; a Vogue design director, Ron Kajiwara, who as a child was detained in a California internment camp; many children who knocked on her door when they found out she painted «Spanish kids»; and public figures like the actor and playwright Alice Childress.

While Whiteread has never become a public figure in the manner of contemporaries such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, her projects have become the subject of fierce public debate, both in Vienna and in London: House won her the Turner prize in 1993, but was the subject of some local hostility; some found her fourth plinth commission repetitious.

An uncategorizable figure, Caulfield successfully escaped early Pop affiliations to become the graphic poet of private desolation as found in convivial public places such as restaurants and bars.