Sentences with phrase «such big grants»

Since the food and drug companies are providing such big grants to the doctors and dieticians, nobody wants to hear the advice to eat less.

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So was Grant, who explains in the TEDx talk below, how he had to repeat similar experiments at a fundraising call center a half dozen times before he was convinced that such a little thing could make such a big difference.

In Peru, for example, more than 80 % of the advertising carried by Peruvian newspapers, radio, and television is channeled through big American advertising firms, such as J. Walter Thompson, McKann Erickson, Grant Advertising, and Katts Acciones, Inc...

OPEN DIVISION (Small): Sacred Heart Prep - Atherton vs. Central Catholic - Modesto «'' Just a hunch, but we think the Gators would rather have had another matchup with a bigger school such as Clayton Valley or Grant.

Grant Jacobs, a New Zealander who did his Ph.D. at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K., agrees that such details can make a big difference.

From the beginning, he notes, they were convinced that — in addition to individual grants — the technological challenges facing neuroscience today require coordinated «big science» investments in technology, such as the national telescopes and particle accelerators that revolutionized astronomy and physics.

Competitive grants are catching on at two agencies — the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency — that haven't been big investors in such awards in the past.

According to Susan Wolfinbarger, project director of the Geospatial Technologies Project, the grant will allow them to look at geospatial information more broadly, using other tools such as geotagged social - media information, big data, and recently developed open source tools.

«It's amazing that something we now take for granted, cooking, was such a transformational technology which gave us the big brains that have made us the only species to study ourselves and to generate knowledge that transcends what was observed firsthand; to tamper with itself, fixing imperfections with the likes of glasses, implants and surgery and thus changing the odds of natural selection; and to modify its environment so extensively (for better and for worse), extending its habitat to improbable locations.»

Grant grew up in a family where sports were a big part of life and, as such, he has seen his fair share of injuries.

It wasn't long before the shoes gained celebrity appeal, though: famous Hollywood actors such as Cary Grant and Fred Astaire were big fans of black and white shoes, particularly brogues.

During the fun conversation Bonneville joked about how Grant has changed since making Notting Hill, when they knew the sequel would be such a special film, what it was like filming the big train chase sequence in the 3rd act, and more.

It's not really all that dramatic, but after the studio made such a big deal out of the character's appearance in «Iron Man», Jackson basically wanted to make sure that he was going to be taken care of financially on a long term basis, and that the studio weren't taking it for granted that he would just show up whenever they wanted him to show up.

The scandal at the center of the story may seem a little trite (and as an interview with Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov reveals, it's probably the biggest difference between the film version and the Beau Williamson stage play that it's based on), but you can hardly fault «The Ides of March» for relying on such a tried and trusted premise when real - life politics are just as dirty.

The biggest push for the use of such methods has come from the Obama administration, which insisted that states competing for grants under its $ 4.3 billion Race to the Top program find ways to link student performance to teacher evaluations.

«Education is such a big thing for me, and I want to see these students be successful,» said Carol May, a career college specialist whose position was created through a federal School Improvement Grant.

Granted, choosing a Javelin for such a project may seem like a weird choice with much more popular muscle cars around, but it's great to see that big companies like Ringbrothers is trying something different for a change.

Granted I do read some of the big names because they are good but thanks to Amazon and their Kindle books of the day I have discovered new authors such as yourself that the bookstores would never been able to keep on their shelves because of profitability.

One of the biggest reasons why parent PLUS loans are becoming such a problem is that the algorithm used by the government to grant these loans doesn't consider how much of a monthly payment you can comfortably make.

Selected from a big list of possibles, each amp grants additional properties such as fire to your melee attacks, spewing explosions when you bounce on things, or additional damage when you dodge roll as examples.

Although in the early 1960s the painterly / performative action was still a male domain (with a few notable exceptions such as Carolee Schneemann), by the 1970s, as «A Bigger Splash» clearly demonstrated, many influential women artists — including Marina Abramović, Lynda Benglis, Valie Export, Joan Jonas, Ana Mendieta and Cindy Sherman — were active in the field, rupturing the idea of the male gaze as something universally taken for granted.

And that support goes a long way — many Creative Capital artists go on to win other big prizes such as the Macarthur Genius Grants (of which 7 recipients have been CC alumni).

The game includes a much bigger world and grants Kat new powers, such as the Lunar and Jupiter style.

These medium - sized firms, such as Grant Thornton, BDO, RSM Tenon, Buzzacott, Mazars and Smith & Williamson, sit just below the Big Four.

Don't rely on word - of - mouth and take the research of school districts for granted before taking a leap and making such a big life decision.