Sentences with phrase «year an experiment called»

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Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

A 1957 CIA memo called its drug experiments unethical and illegal» six years before they were halted.

Before the mayor had even finished testifying in the four - hour hearing before a joint Senate and Assembly panel, Mr. Cuomo had said he opposed Mr. de Blasio's push for permanent control over schools, calling the arrangement an «experiment» and saying it should be renewed in three - year spurts.

In the year of the Lambeth cannabis experiment, a needle exchange programme called Mainliners was also set up in the borough.

He now calls it an experiment worthy of just a three year - extension, but it wasn't that long ago that Cuomo hailed mayoral control of the NYC schools as the ultimate form of accountability.

Because we had the so - call experiment of two years with the Senate Democrats who attempted to really hurt this industry.»

He calls it an experiment worthy of just a three year - extension — but it wasn't that long ago that Gov. Cuomo hailed mayoral control of schools as the ultimate form of accountability.

But in 2015, de Blasio won only a one - year extension from the Legislature — which was driven by skeptical Senate Republicans — and Cuomo, who called it «an experiment.»

Almost 150 years before anyone recorded their ultrasound calls, Lazzaro Spallanzani's cunning yet gruesome experiments revealed how bats navigate in darkness

These questions are part of NASA's $ 100 million dollar, 10 year project called Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, also known as ABoVE.

The experiment's result reinforces what scientists call the lithium problem, a discrepancy between the amounts of the element thought to have been produced 13.8 billion years ago and the amounts observed in ancient stars.

Earlier in the year, when the Chinese team's experiment was still a rumor, 18 researchers co-authored a letter in Science that called for the community to address the ethical questions and potential hazards of using CRISPR in humans.

Now an upgraded, more sensitive experiment called XENON100, also at Gran Sasso, reports that after four full years of data, they see no evidence for a seasonal modulation (arxiv.org/abs/1701.00769).

Starting next year a global project called Neptune, for North East Pacific Time - series Undersea Networked Experiments, will lay wire - and - fiber - optic cable over a 200,000 - square - mile region of the seismically active Juan de Fuca tectonic plate off the northwest coast of the United States.

Founded 19 years ago, it's a grand experiment to test whether large herbivores — elk, moose, reindeer, horses, and bison — can, by grazing, bring back a grass - dominated ecosystem called the mammoth steppe.

Their idea emerged from test - tube experiments that Munn did years ago, when he showed that some macrophages could stop T cells in their tracks by starving them of a building block called tryptophan.

More than 15 years ago, Ehman began experimenting with mechanically produced seismic waves — called shear waves — that could travel through human tissue.

The two - year project called VORTEX2 is the largest field experiment in history.

The beer used in the experiment was developed by Upland Brewing, whose previous attempts to brew a variety of sour beer, called «Cauldron,» failed two years in a row due to complications during the bottling phase, resulting in the loss of 1,600 gallons of beer.

These concerns led to the launch last year of the Reproducibility Initiative, a joint project of the Science Exchange, which calls itself «the online marketplace for outsourcing science experiments» and the Center for Open Science.

They compared that stream gauge data with information gathered over more than a dozen years by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites, which can show what's called «basin wetness.»

This year, she's teaming up with a crowdsourced eclipse project called the Citizen Continental - America Telescope Eclipse experiment.

In an important experiment published one year later, Jim Rothman, a Lasker Prize winner in 2002 honored for his work on fusion in non-neuronal cells, provided the experimental support for Scheller's idea by demonstrating that Scheller's VAMP, or as Rothman called it the v - SNARE, interacted with Scheller's syntaxin or t - SNARE, together with a second t - SNARE, to initiate fusion.

The following year, based on experiments in the giant squid axon, British biophysicists Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley described how ion flow across the cell membrane generates the electrical spikes — called action potentials — that constitute these signals.

For many years, Rosenberg's group has been experimenting with a form of immunotherapy called adoptive T cell transfer.

For some years an asthma drug called amlexanox has been studied for its ability to inhibit TBK1, and a previous experiment showed that when administered to obese mice, it caused weight loss and increased the animals» sensitivity to insulin, helping improve their diabetes and fatty liver disease.

Even though we don't make New Year resolutions in our family, we DO set what we call «Experiments and Challenges.»

After years of feeling miserable in my clothes, battling sugar, carb, and caffeine cravings, and experimenting with various so - called healthy diets, I have finally found a weight loss program that works!

The latest salvo in Macro-Nutrient Land is the Calorie Restriction Diet, inspired by animal experiments in which mice, guppies, water fleas, yeast, spiders, Labrador retrievers, a microscopic water invertebrate called the rotifer, and rhesus monkeys are said to live longer on diets that restrict caloric intake.13 Researchers are encouraged by the longevity of a single monkey who has reached 38 years on a diet in which the portion of monkey chow — dried compressed pellets of wheat, corn, soybean, alfalfa, fish and brewer's yeast — has been cut by 30 percent compared to controls.

More than 6,000 papers have been published on these so - called beta glucans, but almost all the data about preventing infections had come from petri dish or lab animal studies, until a few years ago when a series of experiments on athletes showed beneficial effects — but that was in marathon runners.

The best one, after years of experimenting with the pill form, that worked for me the best was liquid acidophilus and the brand that I like the most is called LifeTime, and the flavor I personally like the most is blueberry.

Many have been trying to adapt this for years, and we finally have a take on it - literally called The Stanford Prison Experiment.

What does not exist are experiments with results like this: «A randomized trial found that a home visit prior to the beginning of a school year, combined with phone calls to parents within 5 hours of an infraction, results in a 15 percent drop in the same misbehavior on the next day.»

Four years after Josh's first pop - up experiment, we're formalizing this approach through an initiative we call the Tiny Fellowship.

Westwood's plan calls for dividing the school into multi-age, multi-grade «families» to create a sense of belonging in a large school, implementing a community building component called Township 2000 that mimics a small city, and experimenting with new teaching and assessment strategies that promise to raise standardized test scores, within a year, by 3 % for average students and double that for low achievers.

Since NYC has been seen as the leader of the so called «reform» movement, the fact that our City Council took action will be regarded nationally as a critical moment — turning around a 12 year failed experiment, said Dani Gonzalez, Co-chair of Time Out From Testing.

Watch as over the next ten years the experiment fails and the government will claim they need to call in the private sector to sort out the mess.

In a bold experiment to differentiate its tablets from the competition, Amazon has launched a new service called Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, which is geared toward kids between 3 and 8 years old, allowing them to access a wide assortment of books, games, apps, and video content after parents ante up a monthly fee.

Well, almost 10 years into this so - called experiment in mediocrity, e-books are still here and more and more indie authors are earning more than pocket change for their work — and the blinders are still, at least as far as most of those in traditional publishing are concerned, firmly in place.

I've spent the past 10 years reading books, reading blogs, saving, investing, calculating, hating, dreaming... I even started an arbitrage company as an experiment to see if I could make it into what Tim Ferris would call a muse i.e. passive income (I couldn't).

Set aboard a space station called Talos I in the year 2032, you play a character involved in experiments meant to change humanity, but things GO →

Something I tried one year as an experiment was so successful I now do it annually, and I call it the Secret Sale.

My friends and family had been calling me a Renaissance Woman for years, and I experimented with using that as my official job title, even printing up business cards.

This experiment was called «Indigenous Exhibition,» and it must have been a success, because a version for sculptors occurred later in the same year.

About 150 years ago, a physicist called John Tyndall used laboratory experiments to demonstrate the greenhouse properties of CO ₂ gas.

Yet the 27 - year - old Kamaoa Wind Farm remains a relic of the boom and inglorious bust of America's so - called «wind rush», the world's first major experiment in wind energy.

I'm helping out in a 1st year physics lab at uni, where the students do an experiment called Melde's experiment.

A year later, HAR began an experiment to provide customers even more information through a separate system called REALTOR ® Match, in which performance metrics let consumers search for agents based on the number of transactions and listings in a designated ZIP code or neighborhood.