Sentences with phrase «spending by billions of dollars»

As a country, we can choose to increase spending by billions of dollars for very modest results — or, for a small fraction of the cost, we can achieve much more by simply letting great educators open up schools.

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By virtually every measure, prohibition of cannabis with high THC commonly known as marijuana and the variant with no recreational drug potential commonly known as hemp has cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars in missed business opportunities and wasted resources spent unsuccessfully fighting the so - called war on drugs.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

President Donald Trump has said he plans to pay for billions of dollars more for the military by cutting spending on domestic agencies and departments.

China is entering week - long Lunar New Year holiday and 6.5 million travelers are expected to be spending that break overseas, splashing billions of dollars over the break, according to a report by country's tourism authority and travel website Ctrip.

Yet, its the auto industry that creates the demand by spending billions of dollars on sexy advertising to push SUVs on consumers.

These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate by 12 % against the dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «spend 5 trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy government bonds, corporate IOUs, real - estate investment trust funds and exchange - traded funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»

A series of cuts known as the sequester slashed spending by tens of billions of dollars early in the year, until a deal to restore some of the reductions this year.

The executives behind Victoria's Secret brand strategies know that by investing in multi-million dollar contracts with it - girl influencers like Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner, they're reaching the next generation of consumers — the 60 million known as Generation Z, a key demographic with a reported spending power of $ 44 billion in the U.S. alone.

Congress expanded Medicare by adding a prescription - drug entitlement that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and federal education spending has gone up as well.

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But where is Christian leadership in the building of a new world view about the sinfulness of multinational structures that are living off the backs of the poor by giving unjust wages and benefits but will spend 165 billion dollars of bail - out welfare for the rich in the S&L's?

A group including some of the nation's top water scientists says billions of dollars intended to improve the health of the Murray - Darling Basin have effectively been poured down the drain by misguided spending on irrigation.

Like humans, pets have medical needs, a fact easily demonstrated by the billions of dollars that Americans spend on veterinary care each year.

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?

Despite the decades of tough talking and billions of dollars spent in waging this war, the global drug problem and the criminal markets that underpin it remain all but untouched by our enforcement efforts.

Garcia, by contrast, has appeared shaky in explaining how he'd pay for millions of dollars in new spending that he says would even Chicago's socioeconomic playing field — let alone how he'd deal with the city's $ 20 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.

The signers of Monday's letter also argue that any of the fund's gains from such companies are zeroed out by the tens of billions of dollars spent each year to combat public health problems associated with fossil fuels.

Here's the Cuomo administration, having prevailed at last in getting a petulantly hesitant Congress to approve billions of dollars in disaster aid, confronted by Mr. Sadowski's accusations that a lot of that money was spent on things that New York didn't really need.

«Jeff Klein and his fellow Senate Democrats raised taxes on New Yorkers by more than $ 14 billion dollars the last two years, cost the state tens of thousands of jobs, took away billions in property tax relief from homeowners and spent taxpayer money like drunken sailors.»

That $ 500,000 call offers only a clue about how lobbyists affect the billions of dollars spent each year by state agencies and their little - known relatives, the state authorities.

It's part of several programmatic changes at the foundation, an independent entity created by the government in 1997 to improve Canada's research infrastructure, as it prepares to spend the last billion dollars of a $ 3.1 billion endowment.

It's a name that has caused considerable embarrassment to Peter Higgs, the physicist (and atheist) who postulated its existence — and by any reckoning the derogatory label might have been more appropriate, given the billions of dollars that have been spent chasing the elusive Higgs particle.

There, billions of dollars have been spent since 1950 to save salmon endangered largely by the environmental impact of hydropower.

Like many government AIDS programs in Africa, Botswana's has been heavily influenced by Western donors, who have spent billions of dollars promoting condoms but have placed little emphasis on advising people to have fewer sexual partners.

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.

The multi-author study, by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control's Partners for Rabies Prevention Group, also shows that annual economic losses because of the disease are around 8.6 billion US dollars, mostly due to premature deaths, but also because of spending on human vaccines, lost income for victims of animal bites and other costs.

That's part of the reason that most drugs that work in animals don't work in people — only 11 % of oncology compounds that show promise in mice are ever approved for humans — despite billions of dollars spent by pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

Across the globe, billions of dollars are spent annually on repairing ecosystems damaged by people.

The NYSCF Array will cut down years of time and billions of dollars currently spent on drug development and clinical trials to ultimately accelerate the approval of new drugs and therapies by regulatory agencies.

And the above figures don't take into account the billions of dollars spent by corporations on health coaching.

All told, Clinton increased education spending by 6 percent ($ 2.7 billion using constant 2007 dollars) over his Republican predecessor, which earned him the praise and political support of the education establishment.

, a new book by HGSE lecturer Katherine Boles (co-authored by Vivian Trn), contends that teaching in America has deteriorated for decades to reach a low point unmatched since the era of the one - room schoolhouse»» despite billions of dollars spent on school reform efforts and millions more spent to recruit bodies to teach in U.S. classsrooms.

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

In an interview last week, Reed E. Hundt, the chairman of the F.C.C., said for the first time that some portion of the billions of dollars that the federal government expects to raise through the unprecedented license auctions should be spent to help meet Vice President Gore's challenge to wire every classroom in the United States by the end of the decade.

In the background, plenty of strings are being tugged and dollars spent, particularly by the $ 6 billion Pew Charitable Trusts, which has made universal pre-kindergarten one of its top priorities, investing $ 50 million in this effort as of 2006.

The impact of this idea is being fiercely felt today with state legislatures spending billions of tax dollars to fund separate, unfair and unequal systems of publicly funded education choices, including private school vouchers championed by Betsy DeVos and Jeb Bush.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

The $ 90.3 million that had previously been directed to the two grant programs was swallowed up by the LCFF, which in its first year gave local educational agencies a total of $ 4.5 billion in additional funding as well greater authority over how the dollars are spent.

If the billions of dollars we spent creating Engage NY had been put into those failing schools, they might be much better by now.

The two proposals come forward as lawmakers consider legislation sponsored by the California PTA that would strengthen requirements that schools engage parents in spending decisions over the use of billions of dollars in state aid to targeted students — English learners, low - income students and foster youth.

To better ensure school districts spend billions of dollars in support of disadvantaged students - as proposed by the governor - lawmakers should adopt compliance requirements similar to the federal Title I program, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst recommended late last week.

The No Child Left Behind Act and other legislation have gone as far as to mandate the use of practices supported by research and billions of dollars are spent on research in the social sciences — yet much of this high - quality research has not made it into the hands of practitioners working to improve our nation's schools.

Considering the billions of dollars spent on these reforms, one would expect at least some payoff by now.

The ink is barely dry on a deal to increase school spending by more than half a billion dollars, but Kansas is already headed for a fresh round of legal arguments.

A review of the research on Head Start and other preschool programs, with a rigorous consideration of the benefits claimed by these programs and an informed cost - benefit analysis, must therefore be undertaken before the federal government spends billions of dollars on a new, untested program.

Before the George W. Bush administration, billions of dollars in education spending were doled out by the federal government with no accountability.

According to some sources, online spending on web and video ads should reach $ 35.5 billion dollars by the end of the year.

By getting into the forefront of this trend, where people are spending millions, billions, and even almost trillions of dollars within these industries, you are going to be able to grow your business.

Going by Wario Land there is a massive misappropriation of funds, with billions of dollars being spent on giant tributes to their princess and helicopters for her boyfriend — a so - called plumber who has never been seen doing anything but take drugs and assault wildlife.