Sentences with phrase «release about our nation»

Each quarter the credit reporting company puts out a press release about our nation's personal debt levels.

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«If the president and Congress are serious about rebuilding the nation's aging infrastructure, it is vital to avoid artificially pushing up the cost of materials that go into these projects,» Stephen Sandherr, chief executive of the Association of General Contractors, said in a press release.
«There is no place for the Confederate battle flag in the iconography of the nation's most visible faith community,» explained Dean Gary Hall in a news release about the windows that include small Confederate flags as part of their interpretation of Lee and Jackson.
The release of Les Misérables on DVD will remind a nation of one of its new favourite films, but it also presents Christians with a rare opportunity a resource of exceptional quality that will provoke conversations about faith.
The United Nations Children's Fund released a report today with the findings that about 2 billion of the world's children are breathing toxic air regularly.
We are so quick to point out the obvious lies about Jews and Israel that come out in Egypt — the Sinai Governors claims that the Mossad released a shark into the Red Sea to kill Egyptians, or, as I once read in a newspaper whilst on holiday in Cairo, the tale of the magnetic belt buckles that Jews were selling cheap in Egypt that would sterilize men on contact — yet we so rarely examine our own misconceptions about the nature of our history with the Egyptian nation.
In September of 1985 the whole nation was spellbound when Benjamin Weir was released by his terrorist captors and came home to tell about it.
You really can't say enough about Rick Rude — hell, SB Nation's wrestling newsletter is named after one of his moves, the Rude Awakening — so watch the video WWE released to announce his induction, and take a moment to be disappointed that he's no longer with us.
Reus was happy to put speculation about a move to England or Spain on the back - burner and his new deal — which crucially does not include a release claus and will net him ten million euros a year — has re-energised the whole Yellow - and - Black nation and in this most difficult of seasons.
PFLAG, the nation's largest LGBT family and ally organization, recently released a heartfelt video about coming out — but there's a twist.
More recently, a group of experts at the United Nations raised similar concerns about the timing of the referendum in a press release.
State GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who spent a lot of time after the November elections crowing about how the GOP has gained more House seats in New York (6) than any other state in the nation, just released the following statement in response to former Rep. Chris Lee's resignation yesterday:
Cuomo, meanwhile, released a bill that would ban employers from asking about a job applicant's prior salary amount, to try to correct what the governor says is a «persistent gender wage gap» in New York and the nation.
«We will develop the most stringent monitoring and enforcement program in the nation,» Mr. Bellone said in a press release about a larger plan to better protect the public from sex offenders living in Suffolk County.
About two weeks ago, Top Kay, the official fetish priest of Lilwin who also doubles as part - time musician on the label of Boss Nation Music owned by Lilwin released a song to insult and make serious allegations against some major stars in the industry because they danced to the «One Corner» by Patapaa.
Malaysia's former deputy leader, pardoned and released from jail, talks exclusively about his hopes for his nation
His comments come a month after President Obama announced the early release of about 6,000 non-violent offenders — the largest one - time release of federal prisoners in the nation's history.
A United Nations report released Sunday said that governments must act faster to keep global warming in check and that a radical shift from fossil fuels to low - carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power would shave only about 0.06 of a percentage point a year off world economic growth.
The concept is considered pivotal for coal's survival in a carbon - constrained world, since the fossil fuel releases about a third of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.
The Global Research Council (GRC), comprised of the leaders of publicly funded science agencies from about 50 nations, also released its first work product, a common set of principles that frame how funders should review and choose the most worthy research projects.
Based on satellite monitoring and models that estimate the carbon released from burning vegetation (plus or minus 50 percent), the group reckons that U.S. fires produce 290 million metric tons of carbon per year, equal to about 5 percent of the nation's annual emissions from fossil fuels.
Ecologists implanted tiny, battery - powered tags smaller than a pencil eraser into more than 8,159 fish migrating down the Columbia, the nation's fourth - largest river, and released those fish at one of four sites anywhere from about 140 to 245 miles upstream from the ocean.
The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.
Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson released a statement about the decision, saying: «The public provided some truly inspirational and creative names, and while it was a difficult decision I'm delighted that our state - of - the - art polar research ship will be named after one of the nation's most cherished broadcasters and natural scientists.»
More New Releases: «Paddington 2,» about the beloved British bear's (voice of Ben Whishaw) search for a stolen present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday that he worked so hard to buy, co-starring Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, and Julie Walters; and «Backstabbing for Beginners,» about a young program coordinator at the United Nations who stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves, starring Theo James, Jacqueline Bisset, and Ben Kingsley.
«Beasts of No Nation» Cary Joji Fukunaga's gritty drama about African child soldiers has drawn raves, but most overcome its limited theatrical release by Netflix.
A worried nation releases one long breath, and fluttering hearts calm themselves as, at long last, the Producer's Guild Of America — the guild that America really cares about, as opposed to, say, actors, directors, or writers — has released its nominations for 2014 awards.
The new «average cohort» accountability metric was implemented at about the time their paper was published, and Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University have released an annual report using it (the «Grad Nation» report).
Lumos today released a report about aid from governments — either directly to a country or through international agencies such as the United Nations.
The National Research Council, perhaps the most prestigious, non-partisan source of information in the nation, just released a study about the effects of high - stakes testing.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Speaking about OECD's release today of the Teaching and Learning International Study (TALIS), Ron Thorpe, president and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, praised the results of the study: «Teachers across the nation have confirmed that professional development is too often disconnected from what teachers do every day in the classroom.
In fact, just last week, Dropout Nation's Rishawn Biddle wrote about the recent release of the National Education Association's 2010 - 2011 LM - 2 filing, a required Department of Labor annual report.
Yesterday, CREDO released a national study on charter schools which suggests that about 3,000 of the nation's 4,700 charter schools are worse than the schools they are designed to replace.
A study released yesterday by Mathematica Policy Research (and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education) titled «Teachers with High «Value Added» Can Boost Test Scores in Low - Performing Schools» implies that, yet again, value - added estimates are the key statistical indicators we as a nation should be using, above all else, to make pragmatic and policy decisions about America's public school teachers.
Residential Schools for First Nations children are a chapter of our history we've been hearing a lot about in the past week, since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission - or TRC - released its final report.
In one of the first rulings in the nation on the public's right to access information about the effectiveness of public school teachers, a judge in Los Angeles upheld that teacher performance ratings are a matter of «keen public interest» and should be released.
The Council of the Great City Schools just released a study of the nation's 66 largest school districts that revealed that students spend approximately 20 - 25 hours per school year taking these standardized tests, which amounts to 2.3 % of classroom time for the average 8th grader who will take about 112 of them between PreK and 12th grade, approximately 8 per year.
Take, for example, some of the early blog - to - book hits, like Pamela Slim's Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur, which was released in 2009 by Penguin / Portfolio and contains about 70 percent new content and 30 percent blog posts.
Title: High Hopes Series: Standalone Author: Sue Lilley Publisher: Sue Lilley Cover Artist: Humble Nations Release Date: April 19, 2016 Romance Genre (s): Contemporary Words: 60,000 View on Goodreads Author Interview 1) Can you tell us a little about High Hopes?
Aside from being filled with pretty pictures, the release tells about how an alien race has started to take over the planet, starting with attacking the nation's capitol where the game takes place or at least starts.
Poised as we are on the brink of Brexit, it seems cannily appropriate for Creative Assembly to release a game all about the era in which England became a nation.
The Fort McKay First Nation just downstream from Suncor said it has tried to get details from the Alberta government about which chemicals were released, but the data «hasn't materialized,» said Daniel Stuckless, manager of environmental and regulatory affairs for Fort Mackay.
The United Nations (UN) Environment program has released its eighth annual Emissions Gap Report, which ominously found that greenhouse gas emissions are set to overshoot the Paris climate deal by about 30 percent.
The United Nations - sponsored International Panel on Climate Change is about to release its 2013 report, but details already are leaking out.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a seminal report recommending that development of the Orion Khulna coal plant in Bangladesh — which the Export - Import Bank of the United States (U.S. Ex-Im Bank) is reportedly considering financing — should be halted due to concerns about the negative impacts the project poses to the World Heritage Sundarbans forest.
Considering all of the reports that have come out about climate change, the amount of reductions needed, the best means of doing so, and the costs of inaction on every nation's economy and environment I do find it slightly odd that another report has been released on the subject (which says essentially similar things to previous reports), nonetheless the US Climate Action Partnership has just released its Blueprint for Legislative Action.
In the interim, the initial report of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission had been released, a conversation was starting on campuses about how to take the report's recommendations and bring them in to legal education, and Canadians were talking about the issue of the rights of First Nations people and their role in this country.
Finally, after the nation was assured by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that the TSA pat - downs are «same - gender» (i.e., male TSA employees do not perform searches on women travelers), the «Americans For Truth About Homosexuality» issued a press release «question [ing] the propriety of «same - gender» TSA «pat - downs» — if the TSA agents doing the «patting down» are homosexual, lesbian or bisexual.»
The Truth and Reconciliation Committee report, released last year, made it clear all students needed to learn about the legacy of residential schools, as well as the true history of the relationship between Canada and First Nations people.
On May 26, the Sacred Trust, acting on behalf of the Tsleil - Waututh First Nation, released an 89 - page Independent Assessment Report, about the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline.
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