Sentences with phrase «public shootings in»

From 1966 to the Valentine's Day that my school proved to be less than bulletproof, nearly 1,100 people have been killed in mass public shootings in the U.S..

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You're not going to please everyone but in today's B2C world where people can easily complain about anything they want and make their complaints public to the world you want to shoot for an 80 % approval rating - or four stars on Yelp, whichever makes more sense.

What makes this book so radical — and thought - provoking — is its ingenious composition: fifty dart - like essays that shoot to the heart of an equal number of components of public health in the current age.

Apple on Monday urged the creation of a government panel on encryption, the latest salvo in a standoff over a locked iPhone linked to the San Bernardino shooting that has escalated into a public relations battle between the technology company and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In America, where there have been six mass shootings in the first two months of 2018, finding new ways to prevent gun deaths has not only become a public crisis, but a potent business opportunitIn America, where there have been six mass shootings in the first two months of 2018, finding new ways to prevent gun deaths has not only become a public crisis, but a potent business opportunitin the first two months of 2018, finding new ways to prevent gun deaths has not only become a public crisis, but a potent business opportunity.

Even if you don't get a flu vaccine before October, as is considered ideal, public health officials recommend that everyone — including pregnant women in any trimester — aged 6 months and older, as well as those with compromised immune systems such as small children and the elderly, get their seasonal flu shots in order to protect both themselves and those around them.

Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and several other institutions, soon shot back saying the stock market performed better under Obama than under Trump at the same point in their presidency.

The outcry after the shooting has sparked public pressure on corporations who offer discounts to the NRA as well as asset managers who invest in gun manufacturers.

The world's largest asset manager says it plans to speak with gun makers following public outcry sparked by the school shooting in Florida.

While he doesn't believe MEC has any control over that debate, the organization can help advance the public conversation around the Feb. 14 shooting that resulted in 17 deaths at a high school in Parkland, Fla., he said.

Elliott owned only 4 % of Hess's stock — not enough to necessitate an activist warning - shot 13D filing with the SEC — in January 2013 when the fund went public with a proxy campaign to replace five of the board's directors.

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

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At the time, investors and the general public cheered the move; the stock (seas) shot up 9.5 % that day in mid-March.

Democrats pushing for gun curbs after the latest mass shooting in the United States are co-opting a Republican mantra to build public support and defang opposition: It's time to get tough on national security.

Lawmakers are trying to answer the public calls for legislative fixes to gun violence in the wake of Texas, Nevada and Florida shootings.

But when you can make 7 % via P2P Lending, 9 % — 12 % via real estate crowdsourcing, 8 % — 18 % via venture debt, 6 % — 12 % in SF real estate unlevered, and 20 % + a year building an online business, suddenly, shooting for a ~ 5 % annual return in public equities (my estimate for a realistic return) doesn't feel that great anymore.

The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in public places, including schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among students and at least one parent who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.

In his first public statement, the former sheriff's deputy, criticized for not entering the high school to stop the shooting, defended his actions.

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Data in the public domain like tweets and social media video is increasingly relied on to make sense of the immediate aftermath of tragedies like mass shootings.

Really, the only time Tesla tested its self - driving cars on public roads was in October and November, when it was shooting marketing videos — embedded below — and frequently had to stop the cars during the shoot.

After the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting, several prominent companies ended their businesses relationships with the National Rifle Association — and some are facing backlash in public opinion, according to a new poll.

BlackRock went public with the questions that it is asking gun makers and sellers in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., an unusual step by the world's largest asset manager.

Sustained national media attention on the shooting, emotional confrontations between politicians and survivors and their families, as well as a public - opinion shift in favor of stricter gun laws could spur Congress to do something to tighten access to guns.

It took the public's call for action after the Parkland shooting to shame Scott and the Florida Legislature into passing the state's first new gun restrictions in decades.

The bill would allow schools to use the money for mass shooting drills, which have become common in public schools since the Columbine school massacre.

Recent rumors about Peltz taking an interest in Legg Mason made serious waves in the market, for example, while Bloomberg has listed Peltz among several big shots who were raising public money to make mortgage investments earlier in June.

The sad truth is that most public schools in the United States already do some sort of mass shooting drill.

After the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, at least six public opinion polls suggested that Americans were becoming more receptive to gun control.

A chemistry teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of a shooting in February that left 17 dead, was arrested this week after he accidentally left a loaded gun in a public bathroom.

What remained to be unraveled Thursday was what drove the shooter to bring his rage to a school in what would become the nation's second deadliest public school shooting with a toll of at least 17 deaths.

Public Defender Howard Finkelstein said guilt is not an issue in the case of Cruz, who was taken into custody shortly after Wednesday's shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

There, just off the National Mall in Washington, the victims of Nazism will be on view for the American public, stripped, herded into ditches, shot, buried, and then the tape will repeat and they will be herded into the ditches again, shot again, buried again.

and I think they should be castrated like cattle so things like this won't happen again or like in the golden era taken to a public arena and hung, shot or stoned to death, that would eradicate the problem with pedaphila

Many people feel that carrying them around in public actually hurts their cause, like shooting themselves in the foot.

Also, they were not my former pastor that I was choosing to take pot shots at in a public forum... Andrew was making threatening remarks.

A public defender discovered the footage, which was shot in the field in January.

DeKalb County Public Safety Director Cedrid Alexander told reporters it was «likely mental illness played some role in Hill's behavior,» and that the officer who shot him has been placed on leave.

Joseph Bottum's essay on Cioran is terrific (despite the unnecessary and, I fear, politically motivated shot at Sartre, which, even if true as far as the U.S. public is concerned, is simply false with regard to readers in France or Germany).

Nevertheless, especially in public, how many civilians are capable of surviving a shoot - out against a moreorless trained person, or against e.g. gangs - shootout?

if a nazi, god - hating, fascist loud mouth, like sambo anvil face dodo, enters congress to eliminate all christian influence, which she has stated on public forums time and again she plans on doing, a xtard will be prosecuted if he asks god out loud to have mercy on her as she's shooting all the christian children and adults in the place?»

Robbie Parker, also Mormon, was the first parent of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to come forward in a public press conference.

While LaBeouf was shooting the film The Peanut Butter Falcon — which also stars Zachary Gottsagen, an actor with Down syndrome, for whom the movie was written — he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly in public.

hmmmm ok so the media feels this one kid's life is so much more deserving of being in the public eye, than say; an elderly woman shot in the head by a stray bullet from a drive by?

Both parties involved never discussed the details of the true negotiations but occasionally took cheap shots at each in public.

On the Harlem playgrounds, where one - on - one is usually more important than the team and where reputations are made or lost on the swoosh of a reverse, two - hand dunk or the volleyball block of a jump shot, Manigault ranked above such stars as Lew Alcindor and Connie Hawkins, who were also playing in the school yards and public courts of Harlem at that time.

That night, for a game against Reno, Huffaker, the public defender, took over the PA duties, announced the 24 - second countdowns in lieu of a shot clock (which Speed kept) and then used the mike to introduce buxom cheerleaders, infant ball boys, puzzled journalists and practically everybody else in the «crowd» who was breathing.

He captured the Public Links championship of the United States last week by hitting some marvelous iron shots and one - putting 12 greens to bring down little Gene Towry, a laconic 28 - year - old student in electrical engineering at SMU.

Just like McGregor now, Hillary Clinton's odds skyrocketed in the final weeks and days before November 8th thanks to an influx of public betting, which created great value for bettors to go against the grain and take a shot on Trump at an inflated number.