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Since the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, renewed calls for remedies to firearms violence have led to sweeping consumer boycotts and unprecedented moves by corporate America to distance itself from the powerful gun lobby.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A thousand Syracuse students will go to college each year through an unprecedented move by New York state to spur economic development through free tuition using money from settlements with financial institutions.

SQSS, often dubbed the «non-academic» or fifth indicator, is an unprecedented move by ESSA to place a value on elements of learning that are not traditionally associated with academics.

In an unprecedented move by both parties, Samsung and Barnes & Noble have collaborated to create a tablet made for reading.

Not to mention that three appellate courts had arrived at different findings on the issue in question, and an intervenors list granted by Justice Wagner had excluded all LGBTQ2 groups, only to be varied days later in an unprecedented move by the Chief Justice.

This unprecedented move by the Italian government and financial institutions makes Italy quite favorable for setting up digital currency operations.

«We hail the unprecedented move by PM Modi's vision for a cashless and corruption - free India.

He said, «We hail the unprecedented move by PM Modi's vision for a cashless and corruption free India.

1/24/17: Planned Parenthood Condemns Unprecedented Move by President Trump that Jeopardizes Vulnerable Women, Children and Communities Worldwide

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He also innovated on the supply - chain side, sharing the rich customer data generated by his direct sales with his suppliers — an unprecedented move that enabled Dell to deliver computers almost in real time, keeping costs and inventories low.

The school will decrease tuition by almost 14 % for its full - time MBA, an unprecedented move for a highly ranked business school.

The move was prompted by unprecedented growth of business, ahead of the proposed ICO dates later this year.

The global consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) made an unprecedented move in 2015 by announcing it would help employees pay $ 1,200 per year toward their student loans for up to six years.

The silver market appeared poised for a move to the mid - $ 18s around mid-March and based upon the massive and unprecedented aggregate short position being held by the Large Speculators, there was little doubt that the long series of bottoms in the $ 16.15 - 16.25 range would hold and I therefore went long after writing «Buy Silver with Reckless Abandon» on March 23.

Sports Marketwatch — Early Moves SUPER BOWL XL Edition NFL Playoffs — Super Bowl XL 2/3/2006 11:15 AM EST by Daniel Fabrizio SportsInsights.com Welcome to this week's edition of the Sports Marketwatch where Daniel Fabrizio, founder of SportsInsights.com gives sports fans unprecedented insight into the NFL point spread market.

Sports Marketwatch — Early Moves PLAYOFF Edition NFL Playoffs — AFC / NFC Championship Weekend 1/20/2006 10:01 AM EST by Daniel Fabrizio SportsInsights.com Welcome to this week's edition of the Sports Marketwatch where Daniel Fabrizio, founder of SportsInsights.com gives sports fans unprecedented insight into the NFL point spread market.

Sports Marketwatch — Early Moves Edition NFL Week 17 12/28 / 2007 11:01 AM EST by Daniel Fabrizio SportsInsights.com Welcome to this week's edition of the Sports Marketwatch, where Daniel Fabrizio, founder of SportsInsights.com, gives sports fans unprecedented insight into the NFL point - spread market.

«DONETSK, Ukraine — Spain moved a step closer to an unprecedented treble of consecutive major international honours by beating France 2 - 0 in Donetsk on Saturday to reach the Euro 2012 semi-finals.»

It is estimated the average annual energy demand to operate the snowmaking system will drop by more than 2 million kilowatt hours (kWh) moving forward; an unprecedented improvement only made possible by the single largest snow gun delivery in Mount Snow's history.

Ravitch was appointed by Paterson, an unprecedented move that was later affirmed by the Court of Appeals.

In an unprecedented move UNISON and the NUT have joined forces to take legal action to protect school staff whose continued employment has been refused by the controversial, newly - formed Hawthorne's Free School.

Cuomo included a system of public campaign finance in his executive budget — an unprecedented move that was lauded by good - government groups — as did Democrats who dominate the Assembly.

The limit would be an «unprecedented move» by City Planning, as no other city arena operates with a temporary location, Crain's said.

Velazquez Calls for Community Input on Controversial Baychester Square Development In unprecedented move, Bronx Community Board 10 Executive Member Marjorie Velazquez urges board's inclusion in ULURP zoning process for proposed $ 200 million shopping center development under consideration by neighboring Community -LSB-...]

Whether moved by those pleas or by the steady stream of gruesome casualties, the Army in 2008 launched an unprecedented collaboration between military researchers and academic and industry scientists called the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM).

Developed by Carnegie Mellon roboticist Hagen Schempf, the Explorer - II features a remote - controlled fish - eye camera that allows above - ground operators to see what the machine does; drive - train motors that give operators unprecedented control over the pig's direction (most pigs still move passively according to natural gas flow); and a lightweight electromagnetic coil that detects changes in magnetized pipe walls without weighing the robot down, enabling it to inspect about two miles of pipe a day.

Five papers in the Oct. 13 Science describe some of the first data collected by the satellite, which is giving scientists an unprecedented peek into how carbon moves between land, atmosphere and oceans.

«The unprecedented rainfall from Hurricane Harvey is heavily influenced by blocking area of high pressure preventing the system from moving inland, concentrating the rainfall nearer the coast.

In a wholly unprecedented move, Kevin Spacey is being cut from Ridley Scott's finished film «All the Money in the World» and replaced by Christopher Plummer just over one month before it's supposed to hit theaters.

The unprecedented move was meant to further the conversation about sexual harassment in Hollywood following the #MeToo movement, the fall of accused predators like Harvey Weinstein and the Time's Up campaign, which was launched this month by many of the same women at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday.

Obviously if I had my druthers, the 1997 Academy Awards would've been swept by Starship Troopers, with Casper Van Dien scoring Best Actor and — in an unprecedented move — Jake Busey and Neil Patrick Harris tying for the Best Supporting statuette.)

Although many states moved to adopt the Common Core national standards and tests prior to the 2010 election — an unprecedented surrender of state educational control to Washington — conservative leaders can reclaim control over the content taught in their local schools by resisting the imposition of national standards and tests and preventing their implementation.

The fast - moving adoption of Common Core was an unprecedented disruption to a curriculum and textbook market that's long been dominated by a few major publishers.

One of England's largest academy trusts has been issued with a «final warning» by unions over job cuts in what they claim is an unprecedented move that could lead to a strike by staff.

The move would represent an unprecedented change to the inspection of leading private schools which are currently regulated under a different system administered by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI).

Head Geoff Barton (pictured left) will challenge Chris Kirk (pictured right), an education consultant, for the top job in the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), a move described as «unprecedented» by former general secretary Brian Lightman.

The move by the Connecticut's Democratic State Central Committee to use its funds to beat Democrats in a Democratic primary was unprecedented.

These developments were shaped by the dizzying transformations that were occurring in every aspect of life, from the advent of the automobile and moving pictures to the rapid growth of American cities and the wrenching economic change brought on by the advent of the Great Depression after a decade of unprecedented prosperity.

Her mixed media works mix paints and photographs with unprecedented subtlety and grace — it's hard not to be moved by their pulsing, expansive nature.

Among the highlights of its first eight years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation of water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson based on the story of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.

These developments were shaped by the dizzying transformations then occurring in every aspect of life, from the advent of the automobile and moving pictures to the rapid growth of American cities and the wrenching economic change brought on by the advent of the Great Depression after a decade of unprecedented prosperity.

In September 2008, he took an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's by auction and bypassing his long - standing galleries.

Unprecedented efforts by governments, humanitarian and development agencies to collaborate in order to find ways to move away from reliance on short - term emergency responses to food insecurity to longer - term development - oriented strategies that involve closer partnerships with governments, are also increasing (see food insecurity case study below and SARPN - http://www.sarpn.org/ - for several case studies and examples; see also Table 9.2 for other possible adaptation options).

[1], [2] This unprecedented move follows a decade of rapacious logging by Chinese logging companies in Burma's northern forests.

The study's authors conclude warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean has contributed to the unprecedented melting of Mt. Hunter's glaciers by altering how air moves from the tropics to the poles.

«We welcome this unprecedented and bold move by the Panamanian government.

Emboldened by our passion, our hope and our frustration with politics - as - usual, we will partake in an unprecedented action to call on the Prime Minister and self - appointed Minister of Youth, to reject Kinder Morgan and commit to move away from pipelines and fossil fuels towards clean, renewable and just energy policy.

«Combining GPUs and CPUs is a responsible move toward lowering our carbon footprint, and Titan will enable scientific leadership by providing unprecedented computing power for research in energy, climate change, materials, and other disciplines.»

ISHR's New York Director Eleanor Openshaw said the move is an unprecedented attack on the crucial oversight provided by experts of countries whose citizens face severe and widespread human rights violations.

It did it by both moving existing affairs to the decentralized space and spurring a great number of brand new, unprecedented transactions in the Matrix of crypto.