Sentences with phrase «what grants made»

A symposium of philanthropic leaders To mark the 100th anniversary of the Carnegie Corporation, we asked several philanthropic leaders about the most audacious grants of the past century — and what grants made today will be talked about 100 years hence.

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Star Wharton professor Adam Grant knows something about what it takes to make a book a bestseller.

The deal would be structured something like this: The SP agrees to make an investment in your business — to help you cover what the government subsidies don't — in exchange for getting the government to grant them the rights to conduct more business in their country.

Former CEO Gene Isenberg made over $ 108 million in the last three years, and as he exits the CEO post to become chair of the energy drilling company, Nabors» (NBR) board is granting what Gary Strauss has suitably called a «platinum kiss,» a handsome thank - you estimated to be $ 100 to $ 165 million for his services.

Whether it's starting the process to grant the island statehood (which island residents are now if favor of), or granting the island's government the ability to go through the Chapter 9 bankruptcy process, Congress doesn't seem ready to make policy decisions on Puerto Rico's future based on what is best for Puerto Ricans themselves.

If analyst expectations are low when stock options are granted, and high when they get cashed out, a CEO stands to make a lot of money, independent of what that variation means in terms of actual performance.

That's what I love to do, because I love to make things and share them with the world... and I do not take it for granted for one second.»

Starting the day by showing gratitude for what you might take for granted will make you a happier and more appreciative person.

GRANT Chettleburg didn't know what sort of job he wanted after leaving school but soon made a name for himself in the horticulture industry.

«The truth is, there are only two people who know what happened, and none of us were interested in making a polemic,» Grant says.

In late 2000, after losing out in the race to become chief executive at GE, McNerney jumped to 3M, where he received a pay package worth more than $ 34 million in guaranteed salary, bonus, option grants and restricted stock to make up for what he left behind at GE, according to an analysis by Equilar, a compensation research company in San Mateo.

Erik Dyson, executive director and CEO of All Hands Volunteers, shared, «Taube Philanthropies» generous grant and the funding it will catalyze make it possible for All Hands Volunteers to do what the magnitude of this disaster demands: to run our largest disaster response to date, and to commit to staying in the affected areas through the many, many months ahead it will require to repair and rebuild.

You can request early termination of the waiting period, which would likely be granted here, but early termination is made public, which is not necessarily what you want if you're buying a lot of stock.

What made the backdating possible was that, before 2002, companies sometimes had more than a year to disclose option grants to officers and directors in their public filings.

I want to add to this list my own expressions of thanks to those who made what might have been a difficult undertaking a rewarding one instead: Ruth Hopewell, who gave me the privilege of editing the book and consistently aided me in doing so; the Directors of Auburn Seminary, who granted a generous leave for my work on the project in Atlanta; Jim Waits and Elizabeth Smith, who anticipated everything I would need for the work to be done comfortably and efficiently; Lurline and James Fowler, who provided housing and friendship; Channing Jeschke, Candler's librarian, who made available and helped to arrange Hopewell's books and papers; Brooks Holifield, who worked with me on the last and knottiest problems in the text; and David Kelsey, on whose encouragement and sagacity I relied heavily when my assignment seemed most formidable.

The problem that is raised by Hartshorne's understanding of God's mode of existence, granting his view that God is not (as with Whitehead) a single occasion but a series of occasions, seems to be rather the question of what makes this series necessary and so unending.

Now it is the philosopher's habit, as it is also his job, to make explicit and to thematize what otherwise we take all too much for granted.

While granting that there's a lot of church - pushing going around that's creepy, goofy, and just downright wrong, what is it you think the author of Hebrews is doing when he makes a case for continuing in public worship and association with God's people?

What it took for granted in the way of earlier tradition and interpretation, and what it undertook to do in the way of further interpretation, combined to make it for all later Christian doctrine and devotion one of the most important — in some respects one of the most fateful — books ever writWhat it took for granted in the way of earlier tradition and interpretation, and what it undertook to do in the way of further interpretation, combined to make it for all later Christian doctrine and devotion one of the most important — in some respects one of the most fateful — books ever writwhat it undertook to do in the way of further interpretation, combined to make it for all later Christian doctrine and devotion one of the most important — in some respects one of the most fateful — books ever written.

Or once again, in Leonard Hodgson's way of phrasing it, we are trying to find what the state of things really is, how things really go, in a fashion which makes sense to us, when we grant that men and women who lived at that time, under those conditions, with those presuppositions, spoke about the matter in that way.

Granting the contributions they can make to our public life, perhaps it is still the case that the first task of believers is to learn again what makes them distinct from the larger public sphere, lest, when the opportunity presents itself, they have nothing to say that others could not think of without their help.

He saw that «new occasions» not only «teach new duties» but that they also «make ancient good uncouth» and that our responsibility, granted the relativism that attaches to all our experience and our statement, is to think afresh, on the basis of the general apostolic witness and with due regard for earlier Christian teaching, as well as in the light of our own experience of «newness of life,» so that what we have to say is nove (newly said) and often is also nove (the saying of new things).

We are what our decisions have made us, even when we grant that the area in which those decisions were taken may have been restricted.

Now I want to change the frame of reference to the present and argue that (1) since Whitehead's time, there have been at least three profound interrelated changes in the shape of social life; (2) these changes do not nullify his insights, but they do make them relevant in ways he never would have suspected; and (3) his emphasis on imagination, creativity, and a zest for life must be tempered to stress what he could take for granted, but which I believe we can not.

(From this point of view the addition of the phrase «under God» to the pledge of allegiance in the 195o's was an indication of the erosion of the tradition not because it was an innovation but because it arose from the need to make explicit what, had for generations been taken for granted.)

This adjustment would have made it clearer what Carter — who teaches at the University of Arizona and who has written learnedly on the eras of Grant, Coolidge, and Eisenhower, as well as on such disparate subjects as Antarctica and science fiction — was up to.

It was God who discovered the doctrine of the God - Man, and now Christendom has got the thing turned topsy - turvy and imputes to God consanguinity, so that the concession God has made means pretty much what in these times it means when a king grants a freer constitution — and one knows well enough what that means, «He pretty well had to.»

Quick question on this one though - I made it in a food processor and added a little extra cacao, and suddenly it seized up on me and became thick and kind of gritty, with the coconut oil separating from the mixture... what did I do wrong??? Granted, it still tasted pretty darn delish as the clumps were basically honey and cacao, but still...??? Thanks!

I've been making salad dressing for so long now, I take it for granted that's just what everyone does, but you're so right to point out the advantages.

It takes more than that to make an arsenal player he's got potential I grant you that, easy people let's just nurture the kid into what we can all be proud of, those biggin him up will be quick to knock him if he has a bad game like holding last Friday

I was shocked to see how the team fell apart in the last 20 mins, just could not believe what i was watching, here are my 2pence for thought: — Regardless of decisions that ref made, there is no way a team such as arsenal should throw away 4 goals lead, granted we had 10 men, it just shouldn't happen, there was no fight or true grit in the players.

When you are applying for this grant you realize that these are the types of things you need to know about your kitchens anyway; evaluating your equipment, learning what new equipment is out there, and what will help make you run more efficiently.

And that's what brought USDA Undersecretary Ellen Haas to the Finkl Academy on Wednesday to announce a $ 160,275 grant to Illinois schools to help food - service people make those guidelines work.

The school's Finance Committee oversees the decision - making aspect once the application is received and will send an award letter to families seeking assistance stating what, if any, tuition reduction the families will be granted.

Those of us living on the west and east coasts might take for granted some of what make our beaches so grand.

The grant would allow the district to make the improvements at 57 cents on the dollar, putting the district at a crossroads on what to do, according to a memo by Scholten.

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By Linda Grant Conceptually, I knew what I was getting into when I made the decision to adopt a child on my own without family nearby for support.

I believe that Chef Ann gets outside grant funding, which may make what she's able to accomplish an unattainable goal for other schools.

Lawrence Seaway Flood Relief and Recovery Grant Program is a giant step in helping people rebuild, it is critical that we hear from stakeholders and regulatory bodies to understand what happened, why it happened and what steps we need to take to make sure it never happens again,» said Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chairman Tom O'Mara.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

It also grants others permission to modify and redistribute the Content if they clearly mark what changes have been made, when they were made, and who made them.

«I think what would be the capstone of achievement as congresswoman here in the City of Niagara Falls is $ 16.5 million Tiger II grant that made it possible for us to build the Niagara Falls International Rail Station and Intermodal Center,» said Dyster, D - Niagara Falls.

In July 2013 — three months after the expiration of the fiscal commitments to the Birches at Fishkill — DHCR Commissioner Towns issued a letter making what's called a «Commissioner Determination» granting the Birches at Schoharie both $ 960,000 in annual federal low - income housing credits and $ 716,000 in annual state low income housing credits for 10 years once it's built and operating.

As part of the event at the House of Commons Terrace Pavilion, Minister for Universities, Science and Cities The Rt Hon Greg Clark MP will reflect on how the social sciences have developed since the council was granted its Royal Charter in 1965, when it was known as the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and what a difference the research has made to society.

These polls, detailed though they may be, are just a snapshot and the SNP are taking nothing for granted — hard work and good policies are what win votes and we know the scale of the challenge we face if we are to make gains.

When Mr. Franco took the stand last Thursday, Mr. Master asked whether anyone other than Mr. Silver was empowered to make the final decision about what entities would receive Health Department grants and how much they would receive.

Despite the uproar in New Paltz over granting what critics consider excessive tax breaks for developers, the IDA will continue to offer Pilots, the chairman said, «because the use of Pilots makes us competitive with other counties.»

That's what happened in Buffalo, where failed attempts to negotiate plans for 20 receivership schools led Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to grant Superintendent Kriner Cash power to make certain contractual changes without union consent.

Among the questions asked by the press: whether the city is working with Mexican government officials to encourage any eligible Mexican nationals to register with the city for assistance, whether all victims have been located and identified, what is the biggest remaining challenge at the site, whether there are continuing concerns of gas leaking at the site, whether there is any evidence of illegal gas connections in the basements of the destroyed buildings, what damage or evidence the FDNY will look for, the number of people needing housing assistance, whether any victims asked about the investigation when meeting with the mayor, the number and location of apartments being made available by REBNY to temporarily house victims, what the mayor would say to any employer not granting time off to a victim and whether the mayor is concerned about the pace of gas main replacements.