Not exact matches
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.