Sentences with phrase «very small initiative»

«It's a very small initiative and opportunity for Google relative to what they primarily do — selling advertising,» says Pivotal Research analyst Brian Wieser.

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Quinn was also very excited about the small business initiatives the mayor announced in the address and said she had worked «hand and hand» with his office on those programs.

The committee also calls attention to the potential for very cost - effective and scientifically fruitful advances with the advent of long - duration (10 - day) balloon flights and the expected availability after the final 2 years of development of ultralong - duration (up to 100 - day) balloon flights (see the section «The National Virtual Observatory and Other High - Leverage, Small Initiatives» in Chapter 3).

But, I must admit that this month also marked some pretty awesome accomplishments — I won a small grant to push forward a Teaching & Learning initiative I've been trying to get off the ground, I was able to help my two new masters students submit their research proposals without their heads exploding, I got to collaborate with one of my very favorite vintage shops Word from the Bird, and finally started bringing to life a new dress that I've been creating in my head for months (which I'm really excited to make a reality).

This initiative encouraged participants to focus very specifically on a small group of pupils.

I think [Common Core] is essentially a federal initiative at this point, having been created by a small group of people, including very few if any teachers, working in conjunction with the Duncan administration, and it has been at the very least aggressively encouraged for states to adopt, particularly through the Race to the Top funding.»

On the question of school closings, for instance, Michele Cahill, a Carnegie Corporation education specialist who masterminded the small — high schools initiative for Klein, believes that the discussion lately «has gotten very stuck in issues of participation and decision making.»

No matter how one cuts it, I'm incredibly honored to be a very small piece of the initiative and to have the support of innovators like those at CZI.

«Underneath the seasonally weak results that we expected during the quarter, we are pleased both with some small signs that the market might stabilize and also more significant internal progress on our initiatives such that, when the market does stabilize, Sotheby's will be poised to do very well for shareholders,» Smith said during the call.

While many regional groupings have developed initiatives to directly promote mitigation at the regional level — primarily through sharing of information, benchmarking, and cooperation on technology development and diffusion — the impact of these initiatives is very small to date.

(Read here about the eight initiatives where the Nobel laureates believe that very small investments could achieve significant benefits.)

If your boss likes to be very involved of and aware of what everyone is working on, take the initiative by proactively providing them with small but consistent status reports.