Sentences with phrase «recent public effort»

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.

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.

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.

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One recent victory for unions was in Ohio, where in November 2011, voters overturned a Republican - led effort to place restrictions on public sector unions, similar to that in Wisconsin.

And there's some recent history that explains the very public effort.

China has made self - driving auto technology a national priority, but the recent U.S. fatality involving an autonomous test car is prompting calls for the Chinese government to slow down those efforts to ensure public safety.

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

It's unlikely all these issues will be remedied within a week, particularly since Kalanick's focus is divided between the company's autonomous efforts and its recent public scandals.

The drug overdose epidemic has become one of the most concerning public health issues of recent time, and in an effort to stem the tide, moreg and more patients and doctors are turning to pot over pills.

The most recent instance of an overt propaganda campaign has been the CIA's public - relations effort to discredit its critics in the congressional inquiries.

The recent Diana cult is also a pastiche of stories and longings and public relations efforts that serves the religious needs of an astounding number of people.

Simultaneously, I want to resist two relatively recent innovations: efforts to banish God from the public square, and efforts to turn public talk of God into public talk of Christ.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

Recent public health efforts have focused extensively on reducing the amount of formula babies are given in the hospital after birth.

The developments at D.C. Central Kitchen converge precisely with the public school system's recent efforts to introduce fresher, healthier foods, as well as the «Healthy Schools Act» approved earlier this year by the D.C. Council, which not only raises nutritional standards for school food but provides bonus funding for every meal that contains a locally grown component.

As well as being the first time in recent memory that meals have been made from scratch in D.C. Public Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indPublic Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indpublic mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indigent.

Third, the publicity afforded to the most recent debate could be viewed as part of a wider effort by the Chinese to indirectly warn North Korea and demonstrate to the outside world, especially the US, that China is open to a more public discussion of policy.

Barber said that public housing residents are tired of living in decrepit conditions and are banding together to fight for improvements through efforts like the recent lawsuit filed by CCOP and At - Risk Community Services.

Once the state's political leaders got past the congratulatory «atta - boys» and backslapping on their most recent effort to reform Albany, the public was left to dig through the details of the legislative agreement.

In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.

«Recent press reports indicate that you are co-chairing what appears to be a well funded, albeit desperate, effort by Washington's liberal establishment to try yet again to sell the public on something they know they don't want and they know is wrong,» Pataki wrote in an open letter to Daschle, which was provided to reporters via press release.

With numerous mass shootings in recent public memory, he urged a number of Republican Senators to support the bill, eventually passing it in a bipartisan effort.

The public release of the disclosure forms comes a day after Cuomo created a special investigative panel to look at the nexus of money and politics, a cleansing effort that the governor said is necessitated by a spate of recent arrests.

He said due to recent concerted efforts, roads and towns hitherto being held by Boko Haram terrorists and laced with mines such as Biu - Buni Yadi - Damaturu and Biu - Sabon Gari - Damboa roads were liberated and cleared of mines and made safe for public usage.

Besides, Governor Ambode commended Ajimobi for his infrastructural renewal efforts in Oyo State, especially the capital projects and public private partnership initiatives that have been undertaken in recent time, saying that the steps aimed at modernizing Ibadan were in the right direction.

In recent years, particle physicists have made strenuous efforts to distance themselves from the Higgs boson's embarrassing «God particle» soubriquet, even as the public has embraced it.

My most recent public safety effort happened in mid-December, in sunny Florida.

As a case study, they consider recent public health efforts in Thailand, using everything from village - wide presentations to children's comics, to elaborate traditional song - and - dance routines to try to stamp out infections caused by the parasitic liver fluke.

Efforts over the last dozen years to have hearing loops installed in public places around the U.S. have gained momentum in recent years with new American manufacturers stepping up to design and market hearing loop amplifiers for a wide variety of installations, from home TV rooms and taxis to auditoriums and airports.

Emmanuela Gakidou, Murray's wife and colleague, was crucial to the effort, helping to hire faculty and overseeing a fellowship program where recent college graduates can earn a master's degree in public health.

Heroic worldwide surveillance efforts have avoided a repeat of the 1918 flu pandemic, but as shown in the recent H1N1 outbreak, viruses can still outwit even the best public health efforts.

In a collaborative research effort between Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Qi and colleagues analyzed the impact of tooth loss in large studies of adults, aged 45 to 69 years, in which participants had reported on the numbers of natural teeth they had, then in a follow - up questionnaire, reported recent tooth loss.

«A recent WHO report on IPV recommended that there is a clear need to scale - up efforts to both prevent IPV from happening in the first place and to provide necessary services for women experiencing IPV,» says senior author Peter A. Muennig, MD, MPH, associate professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

Crumb's recent productions show a healthy contempt for merchandising, indeed for any effort to gain public approval or notice.

A recent episode of Freakonomics Radio looks at an effort to reduce violence and dropout rates among young men in the Chicago Public Schools using a very inexpensive intervention: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

91, discusses Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors, his recent book detailing the efforts of Green Dot Public Schools to transform a troubled Los Angeles high school.

Washington — More detailed warnings of the potential health hazards of smoking, as well as better education efforts, could help discourage children and adolescents from ever taking up the habit, according to medical and public - health experts testifying at recent Congressional hearings here.

The Democratic governor, who has clashed with public school teachers on several issues in recent years, expanded his recent efforts to extend an olive branch.

Reading achievement in D.C. public schools has climbed in the fourth grade in recent years, the federal government reported Wednesday, while progress nationwide has stalled despite huge instructional efforts launched under the No Child Left Behind law.

In her recent column, state Rep. Chris Taylor argues that the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, and presumably other voucher proponents are «all about tearing down our public - school infrastructure so corporate privatization efforts can move in and make a buck.»

In recent years, some districts have attempted to improve charter and district collaboration, but efforts often don't go much beyond public relations.

Despite its less than stellar track record, teacher evaluation has taken center stage in recent efforts to reform public schools in the United States.

However, recent efforts to promote effective citizen oversight of the public - sector services in developing countries have had mixed results.

That's the topic of a commentary I just wrote at BigGovernment.com, tied to recent efforts to prop up public school employment with another $ 23 billion bailout.

In this issue, we highlight how to identify the need and create a vision for your facilities planning efforts, recent groundbreaking ceremonies for school improvement projects, and an upcoming CEFPI tour of the Vantage Program at Minnetonka Public Schools.

In a recent press release, Governor Dannel Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman pontificated about their effort to measure every child, teacher and public school by the score students received on this year's Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test.

According to a recent article in the Nation magazine entitled, 9 Billionaires Are About to Remake New York's Public Schools — Here's Their Story, both the Chair and Vice Chair of the Families for Excellent Schools Board of Directors are among the super elite that are funding the extraordinary effort to undermine public education in the United SPublic Schools — Here's Their Story, both the Chair and Vice Chair of the Families for Excellent Schools Board of Directors are among the super elite that are funding the extraordinary effort to undermine public education in the United Spublic education in the United States.

PAA proposes its «LSC model,» a form of elected parent - majority school governance, as an antidote to recent efforts of corporate school reformers to brand parent triggers, school choice, vouchers and other attacks on public education as «parental empowerment.»

Those who are watching the education reform industry's massive effort to «transform» public education in the United States won't be surprised to learn that the influx of SFER, DFER money into the Denver Board of Education election was just the tip of a much bigger attempt by the Corporate Education Reform Industry to control the outcome of recent Colorado elections.

With the recent news that Chicago Public Schools is planning to close 54 schools, the city is embarking on an unprecedented effort to reallocate resources among its more than 680 schools.