Sentences with phrase «stakes system in»

Analyses of high - stakes exam systems around the world have demonstrated that they lead to significant achievement gains, but these are not comparable to the moderate - stakes system in Michigan.

Not exact matches

Google also has a high - stakes courtroom battle on its docket, following an appeals court decision last month reviving Oracle's copyright claim against Google's use of the Java language in Android's operating system.

In addition to the 10 % stake owned by Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System, Disney, 21st CenturyFox, and Comcast's NBCUniversal each own a 30 % stake in HulIn addition to the 10 % stake owned by Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System, Disney, 21st CenturyFox, and Comcast's NBCUniversal each own a 30 % stake in Hulin Hulu.

Indeed, he says, if the capitalist system that has driven the American Experiment to success is to continue driving to success, it needs to figure out a way for American workers to share more, and feel a greater stake in, that prosperity.

(It currently holds stakes in high - profile startups such as quantum computing company D - Wave Systems, energy firm General Fusion and e-commerce enterprise BuildDirect.)

• Equistone Partners Europe has agreed to sell its majority stake in EuroAvionics, a Germany - based civil avionics systems manufacturer, to HENSOLDT.

• ArcLight Capital Partners acquired a 30 % stake in the company that owns the Olympic Pipeline, a refined products pipeline system that runs across the states of Washington and Oregon.

• Boyne Capital Partners agreed to acquire a stake in Greenrise Technologies LLC, a Readyville, Tenn. - based green infrastructure firms supplying engineered turnkey systems for green roofs, landscape and growing media, componentry and maintenance services.

iBwave's customers include mobile carriers, equipment giants such as Ericsson and systems integrators, all of which have a stake in improved reception.

Fake SEC filings that said Warren Buffett had new stakes in Kraft Heinz and Phillips 66 shows the SEC's Edgar system is still broken.

As part of the arrangement that saw him relinquish Magna's reins last year, he insisted on receiving a controlling minority stake in Magna E-Car Systems, a nascent venture that's co-ordinating Magna's foray into electric vehicles.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) this morning announced that it will purchase an 8.7 % stake in Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (AXTA) from The Carlyle Group (CG) via a private placement.

• Gridiron Capital has acquired a controlling stake in Rough Country, a Dyersburg, Tenn. - based suspension system manufacturer.

He believes the service will give the middle class a greater stake in a capitalist system that has become skewed towards the rich.

In 2000, his previous startup, Meridian Systems, which manages construction projects, sold a 30 percent stake to equity investor Summit Partners.

www.emeraldmaterials.com The Carlyle Group has «entered into exclusive negotiations» to acquire a 75 % stake in Homair Vacances (Paris: ALHOM), a French mobile home operator, from Montefiore Investment (which would reinvest as a minority shareholder), according to the FT. www.homair.com DRB Systems, a n Akron, Ohio — based provider of software solutions to the car wash industry, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Prairie Capital.

If the video didn't show anything that raises the stakes for RIM's rivals, it looks like it may at least put BlackBerry's operating system in the same universe.

The company developed alternative delivery systems for cannabis — vape pens, patches, listerine strips, and gums — and acquired a stake in Prairie Plant Systems, which had won the single - source Health Canada contract to supply the subsystems for cannabis — vape pens, patches, listerine strips, and gums — and acquired a stake in Prairie Plant Systems, which had won the single - source Health Canada contract to supply the subSystems, which had won the single - source Health Canada contract to supply the substance.

• Equistone will acquire a majority stake in BOAL Group, a Netherlands - based maker of high - performance aluminium greenhouse roof and side - wall systems for glass and poly greenhouses.

French energy giant Engie has bought an 80 % stake in Green Charge Networks, a California - based startup that sells battery systems and software that help building owners store and manage energy.

More recently, Harper has tried to stake out the middle ground in the health care debate, advancing a policy that not only mimics the Liberals» stance, but goes beyond the governing party's plans in terms of expanding the publicly funded system.

In a related development, RIL's retail unit last month picked up a 16 % stake in a US - based firm that provides operating system for its internet - enabled mobile handset JioPhonIn a related development, RIL's retail unit last month picked up a 16 % stake in a US - based firm that provides operating system for its internet - enabled mobile handset JioPhonin a US - based firm that provides operating system for its internet - enabled mobile handset JioPhone.

Chambers had picked up a 10 % stake in Chennai - based Uniphore Software Systems Pvt. Ltd for an undisclosed amount as a part of the speech recognition software firm's Series B funding round in November last year.

Universities have a large stake in the U.S. patent system, so they actively participate in advancing their interests along with (or sometimes in competition with) the private sector.

The clean resolution to the attempted heist was possible due to a new, decentralized, governance model where those with stake in the system cast their decisive votes.

It is another» proof of stake» system working in the background and one of the first to use this system.

EIP 1011, if implemented, would be a first, partial step toward the full move to Casper, introducing a hybrid system that combines proof - of - work and proof - of - stake, an approach discussed in papers unveiled last year.

This is considered a fairer system than POW as it relies on the user having a stake in the platform instead of being able to purchase a strong computer that runs more computations than someone else's.

I'm thinking that, unless Vitalik subtly managed to telepathically hack everyone's brains so buyers would participate in the pre-sale in an organized fashion, it would appear that a lot of Ether — enough Ether to move markets or, if the system migrates to proof - of - stake, enough to play a meaningful role in determining consensus on a block - by - block basis — was sold to not a lot of people.

We need policies to encourage employee stock ownership, and the proposed policies in S. 1212, should address core social issues such as adequate retirement security and making sure working Americans have an ownership stake in our capitalistic system.»

Jeff Ubben's activist investment firm ValueAct Capital has filed a 13D with the SEC regarding their stake in Alliance Data Systems (ADS).

Even though Marin Luther introduced some reform from the roman catholic system, he was very much a roman catholic in that he favored the pope and had people burned at the stake who did not believe in infant baptism!

Given the stakes and the sleaziness involved, it would not be surprising to learn that some who would be most adversely effected by Pell's success in Vatican financial reform may have been generating false accusations now in play in the Australian judicial system.

Homosexuals have «the ability to see with different eyes» and to «risk decisions which straight men and women, because of their greater stake in the dominant social system, can not even consider.»

One influential ambassador noted that there are nations that have a stake in «the international system,» nations that are defiant of that system, and others that can only be called «failed nations.»

Such moves often appear as ad hoc procedure in Whitehead's metaphysics, but the real issue at stake is the coherence and adequacy of the entire system.

In this passage the animistic idea of «unclean spirits» that can invade individual human bodies and distort individual human spirits is not in view; but the idea of demonic systems and structures that exert enormous power in the world, that can invade the body politic and other human corporeities and dehumanize them, is what is at stakIn this passage the animistic idea of «unclean spirits» that can invade individual human bodies and distort individual human spirits is not in view; but the idea of demonic systems and structures that exert enormous power in the world, that can invade the body politic and other human corporeities and dehumanize them, is what is at stakin view; but the idea of demonic systems and structures that exert enormous power in the world, that can invade the body politic and other human corporeities and dehumanize them, is what is at stakin the world, that can invade the body politic and other human corporeities and dehumanize them, is what is at stake.

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

In dealing with a subject so complex, and being played for such large stakes, what guiding principles might we consider in moving toward a more just and equitable worldwide communication systeIn dealing with a subject so complex, and being played for such large stakes, what guiding principles might we consider in moving toward a more just and equitable worldwide communication systein moving toward a more just and equitable worldwide communication system?

Television has a key stake in maintaining the present social system.

Packaging machinery and film supplier Wrapid Packaging Systems has taken a major stake in Scottish firm Paladin.

In our current high stakes system where every test or assignment seems to be a critical step on the pathway to adult success, students frequently feel that they have no room for error.

But in the long term, it's important to remember that school lunch will change for the better when we all have a stake in the system.

Homework has long inspired strong feelings — and creative excuses — in children, but it has more recently become an area of growing concern for parents in a scholastic system increasingly focused on high - pressure, high - stakes standardized testing.

«People have concluded the stakes are too high to mess around with the governance system,» Wylde, who has led the local business sector's support of mayoral control, said in an interview.

These are the stakes in the coming reorganisation of the bourgeois political system.

New York State has agreed to adopt high - stakes testing and controversial teacher evaluation systems tied to Common Core State Standards for a one - time installment of $ 700 millions in federal Race to the Top grant money.

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

Many of those clients have much at stake in the coming waiver process, and Introne will have a key role in deciding which hospitals ultimately receive funding from the waiver, which will be disbursed over a period of five years, and is intended to help hospitals transform their delivery systems.

The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio paid $ 431.9 million to purchase a roughly 20 percent stake in the Coach - anchored 10 Hudson Yards, property records filed with the city Friday show.