Sentences with phrase «spending billions»

Even as the debate over the effectiveness of education technology rages, policymakers and educators are spending billions of dollars on hardware, software, and connectivity.

When you look at the incompetence of the public schools and the state tests, where are spending billions of dollars and we get absolutely nothing.

«We're spending billions and billions on medications and medication turnover,» Cantrell says.

With the end of Moore's law in sight, chip manufacturers are spending billions to develop novel computing technologies

«And some politician will ask why we're spending billions of dollars on something that was done so poorly.

«Instead of spending billions on technologies that clean up pollution, we would be using resources to prevent water pollution in the first place.»

With Americans spending billions of dollars each year on nutritional supplements, researchers have analyzed popular eye vitamins to determine whether their formulations and claims are consistent with scientific findings.

He came to defend the president's 2012 budget request for science, a document that called for spending billions more than Hall and other fiscal conservatives feel is prudent.

«The government is spending around $ 4 billion in subsidies to promote the use of fossil fuels — that is to say we are spending billions to promote global warming and acid rain,» says MacNeill.

In a forensic and compelling analysis, she describes how the Soviet Union, the US, South Africa and the Japanese terrorist group Aum Shinrikyo, all fell well short, despite spending billions of dollars over decades.

Instead of a handful of giant telecommunications companies spending billions of dollars to build a network of satellites and cell towers, the Wi - Fi network would grow organically as individual users build out the network node by node.

As it happens, physicists are spending billions of dollars on experiments to probe the nature of parallel universes.

In a bid to resolve this problem, Libya is spending billions of dollars of its oil revenues on the Great Manmade River project, which is pumping ancient «fossil» waters from beneath the Sahara and piping it hundreds of kilometres north to farms on the coast, where aquifers have become exhausted and salty.

The country would be spending billions in loans, tax incentives and price guarantees to lock in a technology that produces more greenhouse gases than gasoline does.

«The United States is still spending billions of dollars on the military base of Diego Garcia.

But Mr Burnham said spending billions on the reorganisation was «unnecessary and dangerous» and would be better put towards essential care.

Mulgrew testified with three other city labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workers.

If the Presidency does not review these «bogus» allocations in its proposed expenditure, it may lose the moral right to advise the National Assembly against spending some billions of naira on purchasing cars for its members despite the fact that the legislators have already collected their car allowances plus other sundry emoluments.

We're already spending billions trying to eradicate poppys, detox and jail so why not use that money in a slightly different way to cut off the supply?

Climate change scepticism is not official party policy, but Wilson has stated: «I think in 20 years» time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all.»

«In addition, the fact that New Yorkers are spending billions of dollars at out of state casinos, when that money could be staying here to generate much needed tax revenue was also a big reason that this resolution came forward.»

Bill Hammond on this year's education reform battle: «What lawmakers should be focused on is not merely shoveling more cash toward schools, but better spending the billions already in the system.»

«Spending billions of pounds to keep track of every website we go to, and what we do on Facebook or Google, is simply wrong.»

All this, despite the fact they are spending billions of tax dollars.

Instead of focusing on adding more to what it inherited, the Akufo - Addo government is spending billions of cedis on propaganda networking to propagate its vague and complicated arguments just to confuse the masses they promised heaven during their campaign.

Labour will have to make savings on top of spending billions just to stand still, according to the Health Foundation

Townsend slammed Schumer for spending billions to save public sector jobs without spurring the economy.

The Presidency via the National Communication Authority are spending billions of cedis of the taxpayer's money on designing and implementing a communication strategy around massive propaganda, half truth and outright falsehood in an attempt to continually deceive the Ghanaian people.

Politicians openly advocate spending billions of pounds on a successor to Trident in the name of shoring up Britain's future power and influence but there are few willing to recommend increased expenditure on attracting and integrating migrants for the same purpose.

James Hon, the co-director of the MinKwon Center for Community Action, an organization that opposes tighter immigration enforcement, said he'd like to see programs like Stringer's, «rather than spending billions of dollars on more detentions and faster deportations for our immigrants as the Trump administration has proposed in his recent budget, not to mention an even greater amount, billions more, for a ridiculous wall.»

Is there any law which prohibits foreigners (non-US citizens) from spending billions of dollars to sway U.S. elections by deliberately placing attack ads against certain political parties?

The President's use of Blomberg's report to measure his as administration's performance is a vindication of my position and corroborated by many Ghanaians that this government is spending billions of the tax payers money on media propaganda and projection.

If Americans paid world prices for drugs, the profits would not be able to justify spending billions of dollars on getting FDA approval for that drug to be sold.

Despite being one of the richest clubs and football and spending billions of pounds building their squad in the Roman Abramovich era, Hiddink admitted that he was a touch envious of PSG's substitutes bench, from which # 55 million rated Cavani emerged to score the winner.

Would you not prefer to see Mourinho exposed as a mercenary that can only win titles by spending billions in the transfer window?

They are trying to make it hard to get but failing misserably and spending billions while failing.

Our military is overreaching and spending billions to police the world as if no - one had ever read the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

We all know about the peacefulness of the so called religion of peace, so to point out horrendous acts perpertrated by its devotees is like kicking in open doors... But spending billions & billions on preventing 1 individual murder by terrorists (on US soil), is that really smart and proportionate?

Didn't stop them from spending billions on it anyways...

And, if we cared about the people in this country — that would mean we would have to stop spending billions on people outside this country first!!!

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

If one is even a moderately fiscally conservative Ontario voter, the prospect of spending billions more in an already heavily indebted province, or rewarding the long - governing Liberals with another term is untenable.

The retailer is spending billions in cash and stock in large part for something — or someone — else: Marc Lore.

Advertisers are spending billions on influencer marketing to reach a more engaged, targeted audience on Instagram.

Under this approach, aggressive investing would be key, even if that involved slashing prices or spending billions on expanding capacity, in order to become consumers» one - stop - shop.

Businesses doing B2B trade between the U.S. and China are already spending billions of dollars in payment processing fees, while traditional wire transfers take several days to complete.

Mall owners, already squeezed by e-commerce and spending billions on property makeovers to draw shoppers, have a new headache: retailers deducting returns for items bought online from their sales figures.

Now it is time to lay pipe, which means dramatically ramping up its daily burn rate, spending billions more before the pipe can start operating in 2020.

At the same time, wireless carriers are spending billions to upgrade their networks to faster 5G technology.

Although he won't flinch at spending billions to buy a ketchup company, he also believes in watching his spending down to the last penny.