Not exact matches
Topics included: early
reporting on inaccuracies in the articles
of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion
of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke
of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow
of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack
of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number
of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations
of allegations by former members concerning the practices
of Scientology; corruption in the leadership
of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic
of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record
of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and
values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when
out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy
of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots
of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many
of America's public schools; an early exploration
of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study
of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one
of the world's last substantial rain forests.
The paper also got a very painful reminder
of how dangerous it can be to accept what politicians say at face
value, when its
reporting on the lead - up to the Iraq War turned
out to be a tissue
of lies fed to one
of its reporters.
Add to that the fact that five
of six Canadian clubs are currently within $ 800,000
of the salary cap, and our teams are unable to satisfy the criteria set
out in the Fan
Value Index: Overall standing (60 per cent), Payroll (10 per cent), Fan Cost Index as established by Team Marketing
Report (30 per cent).
For the average worker, the lost
value of that untaken paid time off comes
out to $ 604, according to a
report by Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association.
In the meantime, this week brought fresh evidence
of China's rising prowess as the country's two tech giants, Alibaba and Tencent,
reported record quarterly earnings, prompting the New York Times to point
out that the two companies now rank alongside Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon as the world's most highly
valued companies.
Retailers have expressed concerns that the
value of their brand will be washed -
out by advertising on Amazon's site, while others are relunctant to grant the tech behemoth access to information about which items are popular with customers, Re / code
reports.
In fact, according to a 2014 IBISWorld
report on «Business Valuation Firms in the U.S.,» 98 percent
of business owners don't know the
value of their company; those that do tend to be large companies that have the finances and resources available to them to find
out.
Publicly traded companies with male - only executive directors missed
out on # 430bn
of investment returns last year, the accountancy firm Grant Thornton found in its
report, Women in business: the
value of diversity.
The storm was particularly costly for the agriculture industry: «In a matter
of hours, Hurricane Maria wiped
out about 80 percent
of the crop
value in Puerto Rico,» the New York Times
reports.
As questions continue about whether influencers will retain their
value, Viacom trotted
out a veritable Who's Who
of young influencers and creators, Ad Age's Anthony Crupi
reports, with the company's pitch awash with digital natives like JoJo Siwa, Arturo Castro and Liza Koshy.
In each
of our ETF and mutual fund
reports, we also provide the «Accumulated Total Costs vs Benchmark» analysis to show investors, in dollar -
value terms, how much money comes
out of the their pocket to pay for fund management.
Citing Ripple's traction with global banks, including UBS, Santander, CIBC, UniCredit, ReiseBank, ATB Financial and National Bank
of Abu Dhabi, the
report points
out that far from being just hype, Ripple's solution is already cutting the time and internal costs for cross-border payments for banks, while enabling the increasingly crucial use case
of high - volume, low -
value global transactions.
In harder hit areas with high home
values and property tax rates, sentiment skews more negative, and twice as many respondents
report that they now plan to move
out of state.
Reports from CCN point
out that: To explain the Plasma Cash model, Buterin gives the example that if a user deposits some amount
of ether to a crypto exchange or any third party service, a Plasma coin would be created with the same
value of ether and a unique ID that can not be merged or split.In contrast with Plasma, Plasma Cash would only require users to pay attention to the blocks that contain coins they want to keep track
of:
The Mid Cap
Value style ranks eighth
out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in our 1Q18 Style Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds
report.
Canadian negotiators have pointed
out that the North American treaty doesn't capture the
value of high - tech equipment in autos, Reuters
reported.
In this
report, we specifically pointed
out that Valeant's history
of acquisitions had clearly destroyed
value, and it was using non-GAAP metrics to mask free cash flow losses.
This wiped
out earlier gains by the kiwi, although as further
reports come in that suggests there is little damage, the
value of the New Zealand dollar is beginning to rise once again.
With the sugar business accounting for over 13 %
of revenue during the past fiscal year, stripping it
out of certain parts
of the LTIP may seem like an overly sweet deal for executives, as the
value of the company will continue to be based on the final
reported financials, in which that business will be included.
Last week the American Lung Association came
out with a «state
of the air»
report, that says ozone
values are going up in the U.S..
As anyone who paid attention now knows, there turned
out to be no need for external manipulation, because irregularities in internal procedures — what some have said amounted to «rigging» the process — led to the publication
of an interim
report that included highly controversial proposals on Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried, and passages that seemed to call for the Church to find
value in same - sex relationships — perhaps even in homosexuality as such.
A.E. Medlycott points
out that the
value of the
report of Theophilus is its evidence that by the middle
of the fourth century India or its adjacent territories had indigenous, worshipping congregations ministered to by local clergy, with customs such as sitting for the Gospel, that were well adapted to the Indian culture though divergent from accepted western practice.
Responding to
reports that staff who left Oxfam in Haiti later joined other aid agencies, without their knowledge
of the incidents, Christian Aid: «We are committed to living
out our
values of respect and dignity for all, and we will investigate any claims about any individuals involved in the Haiti incident to ascertain the facts, should they relate to Christian Aid and should we receive further information.»
The acquisition follows a difficult few days for Dairy Crest, which saw its share
value plummet by more than 6 per cent at the beginning
of last week, after
reports surfaced that it could lose
out on a new contract to supply Morrisons, the UK's fourth largest multiple retailer, with fresh liquid milk to rival processor Robert Wiseman Dairies.
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That's not to say there isn't any
value at all in these
reports coming
out, but you have to take it all with a grain
of salt.
At the moment
reports are that Zenit
value Arshavin at # 20million but with the Russian threatening to buy himself
out of his contract at the end
of the season I think that
value will be lowered to something around # 12 million, a fair price in my opinion.
However,
valued at around # 65m, the striker may prove
out of Wenger's price range while other
reports suggest Madrid will now be keeping hold
of the striker.
They also found that fathers who tended to
value their caregiving roles more also
reported spending more time caregiving on a work day and that 65 percent
of fathers believed that caregiving should be split evenly between spouses, even if that belief does not necessarily play
out in reality.
Thirty - six percent
of women
reported strongly
valuing exclusive breastfeeding
out of which 46 % exclusively breastfeed to three months.
Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable
of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving
out their share
of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today publishes a
report on the baby - milk industry, reckons that the total
value of baby - milk and baby - food imports is worth almost # 16m a year in Bangladesh alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).
The 455 - page
Report by the Professor Botchwey Committee that probed the National Democratic Congress 2016 election defeat must be
of great
value to the New Patriotic Party because the party is not «immunized» against the issues spelt
out by the committee.
• Key quotes from the NAO
report: o «The source
of many problems has been the absence
of a detailed view
of how Universal Credit is meant to work» [page 33] o «The Department is unable to explain to us why it originally decided to aim for national roll -
out from October 2013» [Para 3.7] o «In early 2013, it (DWP) did not have a convincing strategic plan in place» [3.35] o «It is unlikely that UC will be as simple or cheap to administer as originally intended» [15, summary] o «the Department has not achieved
value for money... wider concerns about the Department's ability to deal with weak programme management, over-optimistic timescales and a lack
of openness about progress.»
Some in the industry also question the
value of exams that are publicly released, given that they often come
out several years after the period
of time the
reports are examining.
A justice committee
report published today showed MPs are running
out of patience with the Ministry
of Justice's lack
of interest in evidence - based policy or
value for money.
Janet Finch - Saunders, the Welsh Conservatives» shadow minister for local government, said: «These
reports are further evidence
of the need for a Wales - wide review
of senior pay in Welsh local authorities, which is
out of control and failing to deliver
value for money for hardworking families.»
The Observer was the first to
report yesterday about a meeting scheduled for Thursday convened by Mr. Freidman at which the mogul was expected to ask several bankers to help draft a plan to bail
out medallion owners whose lenders were getting cold feet as the
value of the medallions plummeted.
With this kind
of review process, if 20 studies
of the effectiveness
of a truly ineffective drug are conducted, and one
of them shows a significant effect with a p -
value of 0.05 because
of chance alone, investigators for the other 19 studies not showing any effect would presumably not be inhibited from writing up and submitting
reports of these for publication
out of fear that they'll be denied publication because
of their nonsignificant results.
Brian Nosek, COS executive director and a professor in the Department
of Psychology at the University
of Virginia in Charlottesville who studies the gap between research
values and practices, also points
out that using the Registered
Report format can offer valuable feedback for junior researchers and help support their career development as they decide what research directions to pursue.
When all the forms
of evidence are combined, they point to a most likely
value for ECS that is close to three degrees C. And as it turns
out, the climate models the IPCC actually used in its Fifth Assessment
Report imply an even higher
value of 3.2 degrees C.
This change moved their
value of G
out of the conventional range into the first block
of the street, as it were, but
of course it had to be
reported.
The
report, Pathways to Exploration — Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program
of Human Space Exploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «
value proposition» — what the public believes it gets
out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).
«It's the highest
value that has been
reported,» said Marcel Schreier, a chemical engineer and lead author on the study
out of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Values have been represented as average percentage positivity
of cells carried
out from three independent experiments performed in duplicates as
reported earlier [13].
The following papers
reported the results
of GenoMEL work carried
out which might be
of value to genetic counselors and therefore people seeking information about their risk
of cancer
Key recommendations for government in the
report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis
of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll
out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children
of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety
of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the
value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.
A stand
out feature
of the
report is the government's plan to abolish Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQs) for all low
value contracts, and to standardise these for contracts above the EU threshold.
The
report succeeds by focusing on average test gains in grades within schools where mean
value - added within a grade has been affected by the movement
of teachers in and
out of the grade.
Thumbnail Outline Students explore the
value of the outline format book
report and practice picking
out the important details and characteristics
of a book that might belong in an outline.
The Free Press
reported: «She said the district got itself
of out an $ 8 million deficit and while test scores were down in 2008, like other districts, the city lost 46 percent
of its taxable
value when the economy tanked, hurting revenue to the school district.»