Sentences with phrase «year effort undertaken»

A five - year effort undertaken by K - Mart illustrates Wiener's point.

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Rather than go stale, A&W has in recent years targeted millennial consumers instead of its traditional Baby Boomer crowd, undertaken an ambitious urban expansion and noisily advertised its efforts to improve food quality.

«Within the last year, the OPM has undertaken an aggressive effort to update its cybersecurity posture, adding numerous tools and capabilities to its networks,» the statement read.

Its work mirrors other efforts being undertaken elsewhere, including Australia, which began pushing for such standards late last year.

The Board regularly undertakes a thorough review of succession planning over the course of the year, led by the efforts of the Talent and Compensation Committee.

A year after the Department of Justice banned putting juvenile inmates in federal prisons into solitary confinement, a small network of inmate advocates has undertaken an effort to end the practice in some of upstate New York's county jails.

She did not address the quixotic nature of her quest — an effort a number of similarly unknown and underfunded Republicans have undertaken in recent years, only to be soundly defeated at the polls by Schumer.

The Empire State Pride Agenda, the Human Rights Campaign, Freedom to Marry and Marriage Equality New York — will form a single organization called New Yorkers United for Marriage which will shortly undertake a coordinated effort to sway three Democrats and 12 Republicans who voted against marriage equality last year in an effort to pass it by early summer, the NYT reports:

The external pressures are still present, and the efforts undertaken by the professions are part of an ongoing process that will likely continue for at least another 28 years.

The $ 7.8 billion plan, the most expensive restoration effort ever undertaken, calls for a 20 - year overhaul of southern Florida's water management system, with the cost split between the state and the federal government.

As for whether the world's recent extreme weather was made worse by human influence, that answer likely won't be available for years — and only if a research effort similar to the one that analyzed the 2000 U.K. floods is undertaken.

«Thus, every effort should be undertaken to achieve normal growth of lung function including non-smoking during teenage years, treatment of asthma in childhood and reducing exposure to agents such as passive smoking,» Professor Peter Lange concludes.

In the biggest effort ever undertaken, a group of scientists in December published the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 study, which estimated disease burdens — death as well as years of life affected by disability — for 291 diseases and injuries in 20 age groups in 21 global regions.

During the next two years, as Nevada challenges or confronts DOE, Congress, and, perhaps, the NRC concerning various aspects of the Yucca Mountain program, it will be equally important to undertake efforts to assure that the issue of radioactive waste shipments, including the routes such shipments will use and the cities and communities that will be impacted, is given wide exposure nationally.

As our two - year arts@newman pilot program comes to a close (read more about it), we are entering the process of evaluating and reporting on our efforts, posing questions for future growth, and reflecting on the incredible journey we have undertaken.

Over the past five years, they have undertaken a comprehensive effort to provide teachers with professional development and access to resources to encourage student self - determination, with an emphasis on student involvement in the IEP process.

What Bill Gates May Wrought in Education Philanthropy: Two years ago, your editor detailed the successes and failures of the school reform efforts undertaken by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Over the next few years, Philadelphia's OST system will undertake a focused effort to improve reading outcomes for K - 3rd grade participants.

While some charter schools are founded by for - profit corporations, theirs was an independent, personal effort, undertaken after two years spent «visiting different school models and building out the blueprint for the design of the school.»

Five other universities — N.C. Central University among them — are «still in discussions about partnerships» with low - performing school districts, he said, summarizing progress on an effort the N.C. General Assembly ordered the system to undertake last year, he said.

«Greenwich has grappled with this issue for years,» Mr. Pryor said, «undertaking, for example, efforts regarding magnet schools and facility upgrades, with limited effect to date.»

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The restructuring efforts undertaken by Iberia in recent years, under what the carrier terms Plan de Futuro, are now yielding their fruits.

The last drew a round of applause, and Mr. Clinton took the opportunity to endorse — perhaps controversially — the effort undertaken by President Bush and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last year: To heavily promote the production and use of ethanol made from sugar cane throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

During the last 20 years, Madagascar has undertaken significant and exemplary efforts to stop environmental degradation, effectively manage natural resources and preserve its unique biodiversity in the pursuit of sustainable development.

As Jim Yardley wrote over the weekend, the Vatican had been working on this papal letter for more than a year, with five translations undertaken in recent months and a choreographed rollout planned on Thursday, led by Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, who oversaw the drafting effort.

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

While SLS workers continued to asssist individuals in court (2 866 cases that year), an effort was undertaken to get a Legal Education project off the ground.

Over the last three years, California has undertaken an effort to «research and analyze innovative proposals for the justice system of the future.»

John - Paul Boyd, executive director of the CRILF and one of the report's authors, explains, «It's really only in the last five or six years that efforts have been undertaken to collect actual empirical information about the courts and other dispute resolution processes,» adding that, «part of the whole access to justice inquiry has to involve the accessibility of different dispute resolution processes and their relative costs.»

This effort will draw upon work already undertaken by major national organizations to develop and test these standards by the spring of 2001, followed by initiation of a formal accreditation process before the end of next year.

Earlier this year, Kuroda speculated that blockchain could reshape some financial processes, and in May called on other central banks to pursue research efforts like the ones currently being undertaken by the Bank of Japan.

Over the years, New Jersey has undertaken multiple efforts to improve the quality of infant - toddler child care.

Among the several lobbying efforts undertaken this year, OREA says its Government Relations Committee focused on:

The entrepreneur who undertook the project, Chris Parkin, was later awarded the title of Wellingtonian of the Year in recognition of his efforts.