Sentences with phrase «served public groups»

On top of their already affordable rates for their served public groups, California Casualty offers multi policy discounts, rate reductions, good student discounts, good driver discounts, and driver training discounts.

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The set of circumstances in which outsiders should be reluctant to judge the behaviour of a powerful occupational group is pretty strictly limited to circumstances in which the members of that group do a good job of monitoring their own behaviour and enforcing standards that serve the public well.
He has more than 25 years of experience in journalism, including serving as the longtime business editor for the Oakland Tribune and sister papers of the Bay Area News Group, as well as covering public entertainment companies for Hollywood trade papers Daily Variety and Variety.
Finally, we're recruiting individuals with strong backgrounds in banking, public administration, economics or community development to serve on an advisory committee for our group.
He previously served as Director of Aptina Imaging (acquired by ON Semiconductor), CCC Information Services (acquired by Advent International), Decision Insight Information Group (acquired by CoreLogic), IMS Health (public), Intergraph (acquired by Hexagon AB), and Symbility Solutions (public).
Ying has been on the boards of public, private and not - for - profit organizations, and currently serves as director on the boards of WIMTACH and Ogden Pond Technology Group.
Although bearing the same gay stigma in the public mind as does the disease, these groups typically are broadly based, receive public as well as private foundation funds, and seek to serve without discrimination all who are affected by AIDS.
From 1969 until 1977 many of these groups found themselves members of the Advisory Committee of National Organizations (ACNO) of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and ACNO served as a forum and a stimulus for their activities.
A national group called American Atheists is suing the museum to stop the display of the cross, arguing that a religious symbol has no place in a memorial that's backed by public funds and that is supposed to serve as a monument to victims of many different religions - and to those who had no religion at all.
Whether they do it consciously or not, groups like the Anti-Defamation League seem to argue from the presumption that any public money passing through religious agency hands is somehow rendered «baptized» and therefore unable to serve the common good.
In that year, the FCC released a programming statement in which they concluded, under a good deal of pressure from particular groups) that no public - interest basis was to be served by distinguishing between sustaining - time programs (those broadcast on free air - time) and commercially sponsored programs in evaluating a station's performance in the public interest.
Even former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, one of the most articulate Christian political leaders, seemed uncomfortable as he fielded questions from moderator Tim Russert that hinted there is something nefarious about religious groups receiving government funds for programs that serve the public.
«Just as Catholics for a Free Choice and other such groups suggest to the general public that not all Catholics agree with positions adopted by their bishops on birth control, abortion and in - vitro fertilization, so will the Religious Right serve to suggest that not all Catholics accept the positions of church leaders in social justice matters,» writes Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.
Oeneo, an international group serving producers of wines and spirits, is supporting the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux, which will open to the public in June 2016.
She serves on the Steering Committee of Guidelines International Network's Patient and Public Involvement Working Group and works with the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group to involve consumers in refereeing the group's protocols and revGroup and works with the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group to involve consumers in refereeing the group's protocols and revGroup to involve consumers in refereeing the group's protocols and revgroup's protocols and reviews.
Nina Hansen, vice president of operations for the Enosburg Falls - based Abbey Group, which runs the food service programs at 70 Vermont public and private schools, as well as schools in New York and New Hampshire, said these unpaid bills are a problem in many districts, but none of the schools her company serves would stop a student from eating because of it.
Several examples of the work of IBFAN groups were mentioned: the collaboration in Argentina of the Buenos Aires provincial breastfeeding program; in Albania the Group for the Protection and Promotion of Breastfeeding serves as a centre for child feeding expertise; in Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Mauritius, Pakistan and Uruguay the groups place particular emphasis on Code implementation, related marketing research and public information activities; national surveys in Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon and Senegal to monitor International Code implementation show numerous violations even where national measures are adopted.
Watchdog groups sent a letter to JCOPE calling on the commission to revise its rules so authority heads (like MTA Chairman Joe Lhota) must get the approval of their boards by a public vote before they serve on private sector boards or take an outside job, in addition to getting approval from JCOPE.
On this week's Capitol Connection, our Alan Chartock asks Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group about one of the six ballot questions New Yorkers will vote on next Tuesday — specifically, question as to whether certain judges in New York should be allowed to serve up to ten years after the age of 70...
But there's also a ton of untapped opportunities where the right group to create a great site or feature that also serves the public good.
«It's particularly brazen and disturbing that Assemblyman Blake today announced that he will now serve private interests as a political consultant as well as attempting to serve the public interest,» said Susan Lerner, executive director of the good government group Common Cause NY.
«I've had a wonderful opportunity to serve the public in city and state government for almost 15 years and I've served the community,» said Tabone, a Bayside resident and attorney for John Catsimitidis» Manhattan - based Red Apple Group with a long career of civic involvement.
White served as an SNP Parliamentary group whip in the first parliamentary session and sat on the parliament's Public Petitions Committee and Equal Opportunities Committee.
About 79 % of persons appointed to various positions by our Presidents are people they have no knowledge about their competence, incompetence and general attitude, they are fixed there through manipulations by the various lobbyist groups in our parties, friends, cronies, family members, party executives etc to serve their parochial interests and these are the people who spearhead corruption in our public institutions.
«Bill Stachowski has dedicated his career in public service to serving the people of Western New York,» said Andrew Roffe, the founder and president of The Roffe Group in a statement.
Michael Blake, a Bronx assemblyman viewed as a rising star in the Democratic Party, drew scathing reactions from good government groups and reformers after he announced on Friday he was going to work for Hilltop Public Solutions, a campaign and public relations firm closely tied to Mr. de Blasio, while serving in the AssPublic Solutions, a campaign and public relations firm closely tied to Mr. de Blasio, while serving in the Asspublic relations firm closely tied to Mr. de Blasio, while serving in the Assembly.
Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., joined by Rome Mayor James Brown and Utica Mayor David Roefaro, today announced that Oneida County served as lead partner for a group of local public sector partners that participated in an innovative reverse energy auction on Thursday August 6th.
«The tax legislation, in its current form most recently passed by the US senate, would be a disaster for New York State's public education system and the 2.6 million children it serves,» the groups wrote in the letter.
Blair Horner, of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said that the law has served as a distraction in a year when Albany has been rocked by the conviction of two former legislative leaders and a federal investigation into Cuomo's economic development projects.
Prior to that, she served as the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York (EANY) and a senior environmental associate with the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG).
Those critics condemned comments Trump reportedly made about various racial and ethnic groups, noting that the Buffalo Public Schools serve a diverse group of students who might take offense to his statements.
Charter schools, which receive public financing but are run by nonprofit groups, flourished under Mr. Bloomberg, and there are currently 183 in New York City, serving about 70,000 children, or 6 percent of students citywide.
Joining her is 26 - year - old East Village resident Natasha Dillon, a founder of the gay - rights activist group Queer Rising, who previously served on the board as a public member.
The symposium will conclude with a discussion of the global religion and environmental care landscape and how scientists can helpfully inform and serve alongside faith?based public groups in efforts to promote environmental care.
The Minority Student Caucus (MSC) at the University of North Carolina, for example, a student - led group that serves minority students in the School of Public Health, has been organizing an Annual Minority Health Conference since 1977.
«Using multiple tools for measuring reading ease, we found that IPCC reports are designed for grownups, but they are not harder to read than other science documents, including those written for the public by professional writers,» said co-author Chris Field, who served as the co-chair of the second IPCC Working Group.
Formerly a project director Florida Atlantic University's Center for Environmental Studies, Hammer has consulted with Union of Concerned Scientists and now serves Florida field manager for the Moms Clean Air Force, a group seeking to «further the public's awareness of climate change on children's health,» the White House says in a blog post.
Dr. Pandya also serves as medical director for the DFW Vitiligo Support Group, whose mission is to educate those with vitiligo about the diagnosis and treatment of vitiligo, to provide support for those affected by vitiligo, and to increase awareness of this disorder in the general public.
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The Mars Society is pleased to announce that Michael Stoltz, who currently serves as the group's Director of Media & Public Relations, has been appointed Vice President for Development.
This may be a public service project, it can serve as a demonstration of how to create and maintain a great web site or it may be done just for fun because a group of people wanted to expand their dating opportunities.
One faction of the group, including the more experienced activists who serve as its liaisons with the French government and leading research scientists, encourages a subdued and mournful mood in the group's public actions to draw attention to the AIDS pandemic: candlelight vigils, «Silence = Death» posters, public die - ins.
During the past ten years, AWFJ has also hosted screenings of films by and about women, presented and served on panels at film festivals and other events, expanded our membership base to include women film journalists in Canada and the UK, mentored young women film journalists and offered them publishing opportunities, forged alliances with other groups concerned about disparities pertaining to women and film and raised awareness within the industry and in the public arena about the need for change.
She has chaired and served on various Harvard library committees such as the Research, Teaching, and Learning Shares, Learning Opportunities Advisory Group, and the Public Services Standing Committee.
The group of Harvard faculty, graduate students, and school leaders from the Boston Public Schools who designed Data Wise envisioned the process of learning to use data constructively as one that could also serve as a toe - hold for the overwhelming and amorphous task of instructional improvement.
It would be misleading to trumpet the benefit cut to the long - serving group as a travesty while ignoring the fact that it would enable the state government to increase the benefits to those who serve the public for «only» 20 years.
Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.
While at Clear Channel Radio (now iHeart Media), Cam also served as Public Service Director and started the group's first visual services department serving as Creative Director for the Nashville location.
Chartering empowers thousands of African American families to create a vibrant new public - school sector in Harlem; it liberates a group of Minnesota teachers to start and run their own schools; and it provides a Teach for America alum the freedom to start a network of college - prep charters serving Mexican immigrants in Texas.
Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other major publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public service ad campaign that ran in Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.
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