Sentences with phrase «week abandoned plans»

The Montgomery County, Md., school board last week abandoned plans to charge students for riding school buses after the board's lawyer warned that the policy could violate the state constitution.

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So, Mr. Kenney, who just this week was appointed to the parliamentary committee studying electoral reform, could be abandoning plans to replace Rona Ambrose as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and setting his sights on uniting - the - right and challenging Rachel Notley «s moderate New Democratic Party government in 2019.

Very quickly, a Disney vacation is becoming something you have to plan for weeks ahead of time with military precision rather than something you can spontaneously enjoy with carefree abandon.

New York (CNN)- One week after New York's Department of Education drew controversy with a request to ban 50 words and references from the city's standardized tests — including «dinosaur,» «birthday» and «religion» — the department announced Tuesday that it is abandoning the plan.

«Keep your plans simple and be prepared to abandon them at any time,» says Margi Weeks, a mom in Tarrytown, New York.

He said the figures showed the British government was «on track in reducing the deficit» and added, referring to the situation in Greece: «On a day like this, in a week like this, for the other side to be saying we abandon our credible deficit reduction plan shows how out of touch they are with what is going on in the world today.»

«Some are welcome: a silly promise to put workers on company boards, for instance, was abandoned; a dreadful plan to make firms list their foreign employees lasted less than a week; and hints at curbing the Bank of England's independence were quietly forgotten.

Former New York City councilman Oliver Koppell, who is challenging I.D.C. leader Jeff Klein, told Capital last week that he had no plans to abandon his primary challenge.

However, he decided to abandon this plan last week and allow children up to 19 to continue receiving the perk.

John McDonnell will argue that after seven years of Tory economic mismanagement the Chancellor must change course next week, by abandoning his planned tax giveaways to a wealthy few and instead bringing greater fairness into the tax system.

The government claimed these developments forced it to abandon plans to make police authorities directly elected in the policing and crime bill, which was published last week.

State lawmakers have abandoned the idea of completing a state budget one week ahead of schedule, legislators were due home in their districts late Thursday without agreement on a new spending plan.

But he has faced criticism after some free schools slated to open this week failed over the summer, including the One in a Million free school in Bradford, which abandoned its plans for 2012 last week.

German sources have indicated in recent weeks that Merkel has abandoned plans for the moment to demand a revision of the Lisbon treaty in the face of strong opposition across the EU, particularly from Paris.

Officials this week are trying to right two major technology debacles: a malfunctioning records system and a now - abandoned plan to provide iPads to all students.

That's about the only certainty in a week of seemingly abandoned plans.

This week, highlights include plans for a memorial to lynching victims in Montgomery, Ala.; expansion of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater's New York headquarters; and news that an outdoor installation of whimsically painted abandoned homes in Detroit will be dismantled.

This week at Fast Company, we looked at BP's move into next - generation biofuels, a plan to grow algae quickly and efficiently in abandoned mines, EnerDel's hybrid makeover of the Humvee, and the world's tallest green building.

The Electric Power Development Company of Tokyo announced last week that it is abandoning plans for two new 600 - megawatt coal plants near Kobe.

Research shows that 25 % of people who have made a «New Year's Resolution» have already abandoned their plans by the end of the first week and around 30 % will have slacked by the end of the second week.