Sentences with phrase «turn around dozens»

Then their efforts kicked into higher gear in 2014 when P.S. 123 became part of New York City's broad efforts to turn around dozens of low - performing schools by injecting them with a range of health, social - emotional, and academic support services for students and their families.

Not exact matches

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

In addition, you'll want to spread that money out over a dozen or more companies, with the idea that you only need two or three of them to turn around in order to achieve spectacular returns.

You can barely turn your head without finding another half dozen pumpkin recipes, and oh, I know, I've spread my share around.

To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.

Afterinvestigating dozens of centers in hospitals and universities around thecountry, and being turned off by what Brown describes as the «heavilybureaucratic, very expensive overhead layer of costs» often associated withacademic research, the Stowerses decided to build their own institute.

The Anfield side sit in 12th spot after their worst start in 22 years, after just four wins from a dozen fixtures though Rodgers expects Liverpool to turn things around.

Even more improbable, one would have thought, is that a dozen men with no obvious claim to fame should, one fine Saturday morning, declare themselves experts in a subject whose contents they themselves would get to define, and then turn around and expect the whole world to pay for such expertise.

The same deep sky survey, conducted with the Subaru telescope in Hawaii and the Dark Energy Survey Camera in Chile, has also turned up about a dozen other objects around 80 to 90 AU from the sun.

(Unrated) Serendipitous, faith - based drama revolving around a dozen strangers who turn to Christ after their lives unexpectedly intersect in catastrophic fashion.

There are no less than half a dozen MacGuffin's floating around in «Part 1» as Harry and his friends quest for a seemingly endless number of objects in order to destroy ultimate baddie Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), who in turn is questing for an entirely (maybe?)

Nothing is more annoying than wading through a group of enemies — advancing slowly so as to kill them all in one pass — only to turn around and see dozens that were somehow missed.

This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.

Although 46 states applied for the money, only a dozen were awarded funds for innovative proposals to turn schools around and improve educational quality.

A half dozen engineers were standing around the Vantage and looking at its 4.7 - liter V - 8 engine, and they all turned around to look at a 5.9 - liter Aston Martin V - 12 on an engine stand nearby.

You can drive it to the Ring, do a dozen laps and then turn around and do 190mph on the way home.

We might try to be smart alecks and say that the most radical things on the new Highlander are its mid-dash tray with the unique pass - through for a smartphone cable, and the PA system that lets the driver yell at the unruly mob in the back seats without turning around, but that would be ignoring the dozens (hundreds?)

Among the dozens of dusty, yellowing, fragile classics I own are two magic instruction books from the turn of the 20th century and a Collier's Unabridged Edition: The Works of Charles Dickens from around 1888.

When our conversation concludes, I turn around from Mohammed's garage, facing a half - dozen young men in this working - class part of town.

We are all putting up with robo calls, scammers in your face every time you turn around, making sure passwords are changed every six months on dozens of sites, threatening phone calls some individuals have received, checking bank accounts and charge accounts for accuracy, and for many of us work a 40 plus hour week and we are the ones who are supposed to fix mistakes made by these three agencies who answer to no one.

In the park, you can find dozens of hiking trails for all skill levels, a small town, and breathtaking mountain views around every turn.

Nothing is more annoying than wading through a group of enemies — advancing slowly so as to kill them all in one pass — only to turn around and see dozens that were somehow missed.

This may just be a guess, but around the point Pokemon became this huge hit in the late 90's and pretty much owned the turn based strategy genre, spawning dozens of hashed out clones, that could be contributed to why turn - based RPG's started to lose their muster a bit in the last generation and why Square Enix has been so fixated on trying to develop new and interesting combat systems with their latest installments, rather than focusing on what they used to do so well, which was create unique, yet cohesive, quest based stories with endearing characters and gameplay that favors using your mind over your thumbs.

It's a simple design twist that, in turn, adds around a dozen more convoluted turns to your journey.

In hydropower - heavy Quebec, utilities are turning down dozens of requests per day from cryptocurrency miners to set up shop, because there just isn't enough electricity to go around.

Renner and Winters, who were both in the Oscar - winning film «The Hurt Locker,» started flipping a dozen years ago, turning around a $ 600,000 house in the Nichols Canyon area for $ 900,000.

I think of these wonderful ladies I am just starting to find out about (here are just a FEW of the blogs I am loving right now: Daisy Cottage, Jane's Apron, Soule Mama, My Cozy Home plus a dozen more) who do so much for their families and then they turn around and take the time to share their ideas with us!