Sentences with phrase «tank group which»

Involved in 3 major projects during the programme: a window gallery exhibit based on the Charles L. Pickering archive at LCC, a digital think tank group which culminated in an evening of talks and discussion at South London Gallery.

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The Email Privacy Act has received support and backing from groups like EFF but also think tanks like the Center for Democracy and Technology, which called it «common sense» legislation that both sides of the House can agree on.

This comes after a year in which ALEC, with help from groups like the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change, failed in all of their coordinated attempts to roll back renewable portfolio standards (RPSs).

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

I had not previously been aware of the «AEI / Brookings Working Group on Poverty and Opportunity,» which brings together scholars from the best think tank on each side of the isle to propose approaches to poverty that can win trans - partisan support.

A couple of had to make a couple of changes which made the car a bit slower than it had been in its Group C heyday, but this was offset by the massive advantage of being able to run a much bigger fuel tank than any of the cars in the Prototype class.

In passing in the penultimate paragraph of a 1000 word piece, I quote Shiraz Maher saying that an investigation he has done into misogynist, racist, anti-semitic, anti-democratic and anti-enlightenment groups would not have been published by a left - wing think tank, which is true, in my view.

Turkey's military coups 1993 — Claims of a «covert coup» intended to prevent a peace settlement with the Kurdistan Workers» Party (PKK) 1980 — Military coup following armed conflict between right - wing and left - wing groups in the 1970s 1971 — Military coup known as the «coup by memorandum», which the military delivered instead of sending out tanks 1960 — Coup by group of young military officer outside chain of command, against the democratically - elected Democrat Party

The group, which is often described as a «conservative think tank,» broke new ground with SeeThroughNY which publishes online government payrolls, pensions, contracts, and now, the budget.

The company has brought 50 or so tank cars to the line over the past few weeks and put them in storage in the town of Minerva, a move that has drawn the ire of environmental groups and state agencies, which have questioned the legality of storage there.

The Global Sustainability Institute and the Green New Deal Group were among the think - tanks and pressure groups which signed a letter to the Guardian warning the Labour leader not to «play the next election safe».

Ron Deutsch, with the think tank the Fiscal Policy Institute, which is partly financed by unions, says his group and others were encouraged when Cuomo picked up the idea in his State of the State message in January.

And that has to take place at the «movement» level, the level at which opinions start; not with the confection of artfully named «solutions» at the level of the management consultant, the think tank and / or the focus group: «crime» for «grime», «Sure Start» for «Start - rite» and so forth.

NAGB, a think tank group that advises government on ways to grow the country's agriculture sector said by 2018, locally processed rice would be exported to other countries which in turn will create jobs and generate foreign exchange for the federal government.

This legislation, which has the backing of the newspaper industry and has been the subject of numerous editorials, would have immense implications for news outlets, good government groups, think tanks, and other organizations focused on transparency.

Following the release of a report by credit rating agency Moody's, which adjusted Britain's credit rating outlook to negative, several think - tanks and campaign groups have reacted to the news.

Ron Deutsch, with the think tank the Fiscal Policy Institute, which is partly financed by unions says his group and others were encouraged when Governor Cuomo picked up the idea in his State of the State message in January.

New Jersey - based Matrix Development Group will start construction this month on the first of four buildings which will make up the Matrix Global Logistics Park at a former oil tank storage facility off Gulf Avenue in Bloomfield.

In the afternoon I joined a workshop on environmental and climate change policy, which was being run by the Green Alliance think tank for a group of my fellow Conservative candidates.

His group also worked frantically without an electric pump to change the water in their 125 40 - liter tanks of transgenic zebrafish, which otherwise would have died from lack of oxygen.

Last week, a coalition of biomedical research advocacy groups and a Washington, D.C. — based think tank released a report outlining a number of strategies for sustaining the more than $ 30 billion budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which provides about one - half of all U.S. funding for basic research.

The yak - trackers are aided in their group discussion, I caution you, by a helium tank and balloons, which they use not only to pitch their voices higher but also to make farting noises into the microphone.

Gates is a major supporter of the Hope Street Group, a national think tank and consulting firm that formulated the language for the Obama administration's Race to the Top grant program, which is opposed by many teachers and union leaders.

And this is what's reinvigorated the opposition movement, which was frankly before just a fringe of far - right - wing think tanks and groups like this, but now has become reinvigorated by the tea party's interest in this and by interest that has arisen in the anti-testing crowd.

Some of the money goes to ostensibly independent research groups, such as a $ 250,000 grant to the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice (which has migrated to the University of Colorado at Boulder, which received another quarter million in direct funding), a $ 255,000 grant to the Economic Policy Institute, a reliably pro-labor «think tank,» and a $ 50,000 award to Phi Delta Kappa, which publishes a journal highly protective of union interests.

The group's advocacy draws from recent think tank pieces and other sources to argue for «a new definition of public education, which is publicly funded and publicly accountable — and encompasses private schools.»

Inspired by the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, which has access to a broad range of Chicago Public School data, the D.C. group envisioned their think tank serving a similar function as the Congressional Budget Office.

Students from all socioeconomic backgrounds are left footing the bill, which includes a sizable $ 380 million in student loan debt, according to the report from the Washington, D.C. - based think tank Education Reform Now, an affiliate of the advocacy group Democrats for Education Reform.

I am pleased to see a document, such as this, which speaks to something as important as our education system that uses proper scientific citing of bona fide papers on the subject as opposed to emotional arguments meant to sway voters or think - tank «papers» from thinly (or otherwise) veiled lobby groups whose intent is NOT the betterment of our educational system but rather the increase of funneling of tax - payer dollars away from socially responsible infrastructures (like education) and towards already wealthy private corporations.

A study released last week by the Illinois Policy Institute, which has offices in Springfield and Chicago, and the Lexington Institute, a think tank based in Arlington, Va., shows that both Hispanic students and English - language learners in UNO schools score better on state reading and math tests on average than do those same groups in regular Chicago schools.

Jeep offers a nice upgrade package called the Freedom Drive II Off - Road Group, which features larger tires, oil pan and gas tank skid plates, an engine oil cooler and brake and hill descent control along with oversized tires.

After the whole group is safely placed behind the big stalactites or stalgmites or whatever those hanging thingys are called... which begin at 125 feet or so at the top of the opening into the caves, forcing one to go down 25 or so feet lower where there is room for a diver with a tank on their back to squeeze into, down into the opening to the caves.

Standouts include Carrie Mae Weems» holographic narrative about race, sex, and politics portrayed by ghostly characters on a burlesque stage; The Propeller Group's video that draws parallels between funeral practices in Vietnam and New Orleans, along with the collective's sculptures of tricked - out musical instruments, which were also photographed with members of Louisiana marching bands; Glenn Kaino's installation of water tanks that turn military machines into coral reefs; Jean - Michel Basquiat's paintings and works on paper that reference the cultural legacy of the Mississippi Delta and the South; Camille Henrot's video exploration of the universe by way of the storage rooms of the Smithsonian Institution; Tavares Strachan's 100 - foot long neon sign declaring «You belong here» from a barge on the Mississippi River; and Andrea Fraser's monologue, in which she recreated a heated debate by New Orleans city council members during a 1991 vote to racially integrate the Mardi Gras krewes — changing her voice and expression as she dynamically alternated between speakers, both black and white.

«Tim Phillips, The Man Behind The «Americans For Prosperity» Corporate Front Group Factory «The rate at which the Koch Industries funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) churns out front groups to promote its right - wing corporate agenda sets the organization out among similar conservative «think tanks.»

Sadly, in recent years we have become accustomed to a ritual in which the publication of each new result on anthropogenic climate change is greeted by a flurry of activity from industry - funded lobby groups, think tanks and PR professionals, who try to discredit the science and confuse the public about global warming.

For decades, fossil fuel - funded groups, free market think tanks (some of which also qualify as fossil fuel funded groups) and the fossil fuel industry itself have known the importance of the public's understanding of the state of climate science.

The Heartland Institute is a Chicago - based free market think tank launched in 1994, which has accepted millions of dollars from conservative groups and fossil fuel interests.

Among the other groups the Koch brothers donated to were the Heartland Institute, the climate change - skeptical think tank, which received $ 25,000; the Federalist Society, which got $ 260,000; and the Ayn Rand Institute, which took in $ 100,000.

It's an unprecedented approach which I have not seen from any of the think - tanks or advisory groups that work in Bangladesh, and the results are going to be powerful and practical.»

Big Oil and Big Coal funded sympathetic think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute and also outright front groups with names like Friends of Science and the Global Climate Coalition, all of which came up with an endless stream of arguments for why global warming wasn't happening and even if it was, nothing should be done about it.

Like the ideological think tanks and Astroturf groups discussed later in this report, these front groups are not interested in educating the public about the large body of science that supports concern that greenhouse gases are threatening people around the world and the ecological systems on which they depend.

A steering group was set up which included a broad range of stakeholders representing civil society, unions, academics, think tanks, business and finance.

That in turn has prompted a slew of news stories on the case, the general gist of which you can get from the headlines: Media and rights organizations defend National Review, et al. against Michael Mann (The Washington Post) Climate scientist faces broad array of foes in suit vs. National Review (Reuters) Groups rally around think tank, publication being sued for global warming views (Fox News)... and of course:...

In 2004, Greenpeace launched ExxonSecrets.org, which houses a relational database of Exxon funding to these people, think tanks and front groups.

The simmering controversy sheds light on the vast influence of the Koch political machine, which spans from the top conservative think tanks, Republican politicians, a small army of contracted lobbyists, and Tea Party front groups in nearly every state.

He decided to become the lead dog in the witch hunt, going after not just records from ExxonMobil but from groups, such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank (where this writer used to work), for donor records, which are private, and all communications with ExxonMobil.

The goal of this campaign, which began around the time of the first Kyoto Protocol negotiations, was to assemble a group of like - minded «free - market» think tanks and pseudo-science experts that would call into question the scientific research on climate change, create doubt in the minds of the public and politicians, and effectively delay the introduction of clean energy policies in the United States and elsewhere.

Davis spent four and a half years as deputy director at the think tank, which, he says, «has had the same model since day one, to synthesize analyze data as groups or individuals.»

A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists titled «Smoke, Mirrors and Hot Air: how ExxonMobil uses big tobacco to manufacture uncertainty on climate science,» found that in the preceding years, Patrick Michaels had been connected to at least 11 think - tanks and groups that had received money from ExxonMobil, many of which had gone on to sow doubt about human - induced global warming.

Give piles of money to stink tanks, which can be relied upon to develop and pass along the clever anti-bike anti-mass transit talking points to news directors and astroturf groups.