Sentences with phrase «which national figures»

Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.

Not exact matches

The Conservatives are in a full identity crisis now, and will have to figure out if they want to play tough with the U.S. and go back to the Sir John A. MacDonald days of a National Policy — essentially copying Trump's Buy American stance with a Buy Canadian — or if they want to follow the pro-free trade Mulroney - Harper path, which is more likely but offers less differentiation from the Liberals.

If you add up the GDP figures issued by the provinces, the sum is 10 % higher than the figure ultimately issued by the national government, which in itself is tweaked to hit politicized targets.

Its chief rival, the National Post — which endured eight years of ever - deeper cost cuts after being sold to the now - bankrupt Canwest Global Communications empire in 2001 — has racked up nine - figure losses since being launched in 1998.

A new analysis done exclusively for Poets & Quants by PayScale, which collects salary data from individuals through online pay comparison tools, shows that the MBA — even from schools that lack global or national caché, delivers hefty seven - figure income over a 20 - year period.

«The room, board, books and laundry figures are based upon the rates which prevailed during the past academic year, and can be accepted as applicable for the year 1950 - 1951 unless national economic changes require their alteration,» according to the bulletin.

«But the truth is, most of them probably see Secretary [of Defense James] Mattis, General McMaster, and Secretary [of State Rex] Tillerson as figures in which basically they see the same basic national security policies that they would have seen under Bush - or even Reagan for that matter.»

Amino examined insurance claims data from across the U.S. to figure out which injuries were disproportionately concentrated in states compared to the national average.

When former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden made the fateful decision to share sensitive documents with reporters revealing secret and mass gathering of the metadata associated with the phone calls made by tens of millions of Americans, he had to figure out which news outfit to trust.

Although largely a local media figure, Allman's remarks drew national attention both because of how out - of - line they were and because they exemplified a broader pattern in conservative media of personally attacking Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, and other survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 people.

«disposable personal income», as reported by the BEA, is a total national figure for personal income after taxes, so comparing how individuals might spend that income in different parts of the country is not even considered by this report... the phrase may be poorly chosen, as might the phrase «personal income» itself, which includes not just wages and salaries, but also passive income from dividends, interest and rent, proprietor's income, and transfer payments such as social security... take all those forms of payments going to individuals, subtract out what's paid nationally in personal income taxes, and you have a national figure for «disposable personal income»

He was active in the National Association for the Advancement of colored people (NAACP) and was a leading figure in the international council of Atlanta which played a significant part in keeping peace between the races.

Neither John DiIulio, who now heads the White House Office of Faith - Based and Community Initiatives, nor Stephen Goldsmith, the former Indianapolis mayor who will lead the Corporation for National Service, has ever argued for total privatization of community development and social services, though both strongly advocate a new mix of public and private in which congregations figure more prominently.

The club said it pays permanent employees the Voluntary Living Wage, which is higher than the statutory national figure.

Unemployment, which is already high, would hit 11 % — double the national figure.

With legendary figures from Arsenal, Barcelona and the French national team, this insane lineup leaves no room for the likes of Dennis Bergkamp, Robert Pires, Marcel Desailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Samuel Eto'o, which gives you some idea of the calibre of player the Frenchman played with...

«We are thrilled that the National Solo Dance Series will also be included in this showcase, which is a US Figure Skating sanctioned event, and only a few competitions in each region are allowed to host the dance event so it is really quite an honor,» added Soroka.

«I figured she had trained all year, just like I had,» he told Post-Dispatch reporter Kathleen Nelson before a ceremony last summer at which he received a National Sportsmanship Award.

Commenting on the provisional Project Merlin figures which have been issued today showing that the banks loaned # 37.4 billion to small firms — just short of their commitment to lend # 38 billion, John Walker, National Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses, said: «While it looks like the banks are on course to meet their full year lending commitment, targets do not address the underlying problems in the banking sector where only a handful of banks control the majority of the market.

They can't comment on the individual cases raised, but point out that a crucial question will be whether the councils concerned have the five year land supply to meet their housing need - which councils are require to have under the National Planning Policy Framework which together with its presumption in favour of sustainable development the National Trust, of which Jenkins is Chairman, apparently supported, along with the CPRE (claims my source, who also disputes Hastings's figures on the amount of land built on in any way).

Commenting on the provisional Project Merlin figures which have been issued today showing that the banks loaned # 37.4 billion to small firms — just short of their commitment to lend # 38 billion, John Walker, National Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses, said.

But, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Fianna Fail too would be rather disenchanted with these poll figures, with these leaving the party on a share of the national vote that would not be dramatically higher than that which the party won in 2011.

This seems to be on the back of opinion polls which may not have changed if you allow for their inbuilt margin of error and which certainly ignore the fact that Northern marginal seats are running ahead of the national figures.

Ethnic cleansing, genocide, mass murder, state - sponsored terror, unprecedented corruption, monumental incompetence, the persecution of opposition figures and their families, the violation of court orders, the intimidation of the National Assembly, the Judiciary and the Fourth Estate of the realm which is the media, the targetting and cold - blooded murder of Christians, Igbo (IPOB) youths and Shiite Muslims, the gradual and incremental Islamisation of the nation, the humiliation of the Church and Christian clerics, the covert support for and encouragement of murderous Islamist and jihadist terror groups like the Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram and so on and so forth are now the cornerstone and hallmark of President Buhari's govermmemt.

Originally a judge from the eastern Libyan town of al - Bayida, his national profile made him an attractive figure in a country which is used to being dominated by the cult of personality around a long - lasting dictator.

Full details of the national research, from which the local figures have been calculated, can be found here: http://cpag.org.uk/sites/default/files/Cost%20of%20child%20poverty%20research%20update%20%282013%29.pdf

As shown in Figure 3, for more than two decades Medicaid spending in New York and nationwide rose at a pace well above the general cost indicator for state and local governments; the near doubling of the price index between 1991 and 2011 was more than matched by the greater than quadrupling of national Medicaid costs and an approximately 350 percent increase in New York's Medicaid expenses.7 (The more rapid growth in other states likely reflected their expansion of eligibility, which New York had already implemented.)

Today's figures confirm a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO), which finds that in a sample of 115 young people and adults given Asbos, more than half (55 per cent) breached the conditions of their order.

Announcing the GDP figures in Accra, the Government Statistician, Dr. Philomena Nyarko, said the growth in the economy continues to be driven by the services sector which contributed 60.1 percent to the national average.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

(CNN)-- The National Republican Campaign Committee, which is tasked with electing party members to the House of Representatives, outraised their Democratic competitors in April by a small margin, according to figures released Friday.

These figures are contained in the 2017 budget, which was submitted to a joint session of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 14, 2016.

Party figures point to the National Infrastructure Commission - an arms - length body which would take a «strategic» approach to Wales» infrastructure and have access to new financial resources - as a significant achievement and something that was not in Labour's manifesto.

Still, for those getting rather bored with the voting intention figures, we can look ahead to several potentially significant events — many commentators have suggested Gordon Brown is putting great weight in the G20 summit this week to give his premiership a boost, beyond that is the budget, which could work either way, and past that we have the local and european elections, which often lead to realignments in the national opinion polls.

One immediate reform is the establishment of a National Security Council to bring together the main figures in the foreign policy, defence and security fields, rather like the American one, which met for the first time on Wednesday evening.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have called for assurances that thousands EU nationals living in Wales are guaranteed the right to remain in Britain, as figures have revealed the extent to which NHS services rely on EU nationals.

«The other issues for example is the fraud and the corruption that is associated with large sums of money given out by the past National Security Adviser which went to several political figures and again these were huge sums of money, over $ 2bn and the sheer size and the enormity of what we are talking about, must not be diminished in any way or trivialised in anyway by any suggestion that it is partisan.

The meeting which held up to the early hours of Saturday was based on negotiation to persuade the former VP to lead an interim government of national unity that the president has been attempting to sell to diverse political figures in recent weeks, Sahara reporters had reported.

The final analysis of ITV / ComRes poll figures, which represent a national voting intention rather than just those who watched the debate, places Labour on 28 per cent, Lib Dems on 24 per cent and the Tories on 35 per cent.

Uroghide who relied on figures, which showed that over N44 billion of SWV has been released to the Military Pensions Board between 2015 — 2017 by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation, wondered how it came about without approval of the National Assembly.

The best solutions to date for figuring out their career outcomes include trawling the Internet to track postdocs from labs with funding from National Institutes of Health T32 institutional training grants, which require that all lab personnel be listed, and manually curating a postdoc outcome database using piecemeal data from a variety of sources, both of which are very labor intensive and potentially error prone.

In the course of his work, which had a profound influence on both the National Science Foundation and the presidential science advisory system, he met with virtually every leading science and technology policy figure of the day.

Whereas the chiefly single - celled prokaryotes barely figure in the CBD, fungi at least get a mention in the updated Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, which is part of the convention: «Parties may choose on a national basis to include other taxa, including algae, lichens and fungi.»

In Mexico, figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) indicate that in 2010 there was a population of 32.5 million children from 0 to 14 years old that, in relative terms, represent 29 percent of the total population of which at least three in 10 children have Stunted Growth syndrome, some cases are solved by correcting lifestyle habits as healthy eating, sleeping and physical activity, but others require specialized care.

Officials at the National Science Foundation, which runs the program, told the National Science Board yesterday that they are trying to figure out how to compensate for the anticipated loss of the two ships.

The proportion - which is expected to reach 20 percent when 2009's figures are tallied - marks a five - point increase from 2007 and «indicates such incredible success,» said Sam Rashkin, national director of the program's section for homes.

The Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, which houses 57 chimpanzees for behavioral research, says it is trying to figure out whether it needs permits for any of its work.

For more than 10 years, from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, the figure had hovered around 20, out of about 280, or about 7.1 % — a period during which the national pool of female science Ph.D. s grew steadily.

While the more serious - minded «Moneyball» focused on the true story of how sabermetrics changed the way baseball teams assess players, the fictional «Draft Day» ultimately is about the way in which character can prevail over combine figures during one of the biggest events on the National Football League's calendar.

As recent events in Charlottesville, Va., have demonstrated, when a public figure starts to joke about such things, it allows those with far scarier convictions to relax their own filters, and suddenly, the national discourse has swung into ugly and entirely inappropriate territory — which Dayton and Faris don't shy away from depicting, and which should give the film added resonance this fall (though it almost certainly would've been a full - on zeitgeist phenomenon had the country elected its first woman president).

And because the standards have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, cross state and national efforts, which could not have happened when each state developed its own standards, are now possible (see Figure 1).