Sentences with phrase «year research campaign»

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Activist hedge funds are launching more campaigns against larger companies this year, according to ActivistMonitor, a division of research firm Acuris.

One «disinformation campaign» linked to about 80,000 Facebook posts in two years was run by the Russia - based Internet Research Agency (IRA), and the company estimates that 146 million people might have been served its content on Facebook and Instagram combined.

Following CNN's report, several prominent Trump supporters slammed the special counsel or shifted attention onto Hillary Clinton and reports that her campaign had hired a law firm which retained Fusion GPS last year, the opposition - research firm that funded the so - called Steele dossier containing several salacious allegations about Trump's ties to Russia.

SnowEx — a NASA - led research campaign — will be spending the next five years studying how much snow is on the ground worldwide at any given time.

The ad is part of Research In Motion's «Be Bold» campaign and marks the start of an aggressive marketing blitz for the coming year.

A report by Anzalone Research Group published by Fast Food Forward, the campaign behind the fast food strikes in New York, found that of the 500 fast food workers it surveyed in New York in April 2013, 84 % said that their employer had committed at least one form of wage theft in the past year.

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

This year, the association plans to fund more anti-Airbnb research and roll out a testimonial campaign of people hurt by home sharing, «to provide a counterweight to Airbnb's strategy of presenting a unified, working - class face,» according to the group's documents.

One year after its first «America» label summer promotion experienced a solid launch, but couldn't apparently sustain itself, a repeat of that campaign is off to a gradual, but seemingly more sustainable and successful, trajectory, according to YouGov BrandIndex, the only daily brand consumer perception research service.

In the two years that followed, Mr. Bolton's super PAC spent nearly $ 1.2 million primarily for «survey research,» which is a term that campaigns use for polling, according to campaign finance records.

In fact, we've known most of the details concerning CA's massive data research, and the use of that research in political campaigns, for several years thanks to a 2015 Guardian article, a viral 2016 article in Das Magazin (later published by Vice), and a March 2017 article by the Intercept.

In a TED talk a few years ago, political scientist Erica Chenoweth talked about her research comparing nonviolent and violent campaigns, and she said that while she used to believe that violent resistance was more successful than nonviolent resistance, the data she collected blew her away and changed her mind forever.

The former president of the Family Research Council resigned his leadership of the organization while campaigning for the presidency several years ago.

Following last years» campaign which saw a significant increase in consumer research into the certified organic market and an increase in sales at a retail level, we expect even more success this year.

Now, thanks to your ill - researched smear campaign, it will get another sucker - punch less than a year after massive flooding here wiped out many people's livlihoods.

Big Lots announced that its 2016 «Give Big for Kids» campaign raised $ 3.6 million for pediatric research and care at Nationwide Children's Hospital, a $ 1.4 million increase over last year's campaign donation to the hospital.

The research was publicised yesterday by the Daycare Trust charity, which campaigns for affordable childcare and has called for mothers to be given a year's paid parental leave.

A YouGov poll for The Times on the weekend put the Leave campaign nine points in front (although research was carried out on line and such a methodology proved to be problematic during last year's general election).

State lawmakers raked in campaign cash from Albany - based fundraisers this year, with more to come, according to a compilation of the events by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

A campaign backed by CUNY's faculty union, the Working Families Party, New York Public Interest Research Group and others is calling on the state to provide $ 2 billion for CUNY, with $ 784 million per year going to replace tuition not currently covered by federal aid at the system's two - and four - year colleges.

Adding all two - year public institutions would alleviate concerns of free community college redirecting students away from the four - year schools, which research showed occurred in Tennessee, said Martha Kanter, executive director of the national College Promise Campaign and senior fellow at the Steinhardt Institute.

In the two years that followed, Mr. Bolton's super PAC spent nearly $ 1.2 million primarily for «survey research,» which is a term that campaigns use for polling, according to campaign finance records.

He's been boning up for years doing research for Higgins, serving on his staff for eight years before resigning in early January to campaign full - time.

Meanwhile, the eagle - eyed Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group points out that 1199 / SEIU, the labor group that pledged to help turn the Senate over to full control of the Democrats this year, made contributions to Skelos, Senate Republican Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cathy Young, and Sen. Michael Nozzolio.

Last year, Hall's campaign committee spent $ 3,200 at Churchill Downs on what the campaign categorized as «campaign paraphernalia» and «legislative research,» according to CalNewsroom.com's review of campaign finance reports.

Genting spent nearly $ 900,000 on lobbying and campaign donations in New York last year, according to an analysis by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Campaign finance rules are adopted by the State Board of Elections on a four - year cycle, Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group pointed out, meaning any changes could not take effect until the 2018 legislative elections or the 2022 gubernatorial election.

In an analysis of big money and politics, WXXI News Director Julie Philipp interviews University of Rochester Political Science Professor Lynda Powell about her research and campaign finance reform as we head into another big money political year.

Yet, consumer watchdog groups and others in the state are impatient for the stem cell treatments that they feel they were promised during the Prop. 71 campaign and have misgivings about the amount of money being poured into research in years when California has endured a dire financial crisis.

Professor Kristina Akesson, Clinical and Molecular Osteoporosis Research Unit at Lund University, Chair of the IOF Capture the Fracture Campaign, stated, «This study concludes that in the population sample of elderly women, vitamin D insufficiency sustained over 5 - years was associated with increased 10 - year risk of osteoporotic fracture.»

A $ 15 million boost in graduate research fellowships, to $ 122 million, would advance Obama's campaign promise to triple the number of such 3 - year awards, to 3000 per year, by 2013.

Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland's ice sheet is melting from below.

This is why many people still think that animal research means testing cosmetics and tobacco, despite the fact that these have been banned in the UK for more than 15 years,» said Wendy Jarrett, head of the campaign group Understanding Animal Research and chair of the concordat working group, in a stresearch means testing cosmetics and tobacco, despite the fact that these have been banned in the UK for more than 15 years,» said Wendy Jarrett, head of the campaign group Understanding Animal Research and chair of the concordat working group, in a stResearch and chair of the concordat working group, in a statement.

They will use one of the Autosub Long Range class of unmanned submersibles, the latest type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by the NOC, now known as Boaty McBoatface, following last year's campaign by the Natural Environment Research Council to name the UK's new polar researResearch Council to name the UK's new polar researchresearch ship.

The survey «adds the voices of individual scientists» to the society's campaign to persuade Congress to boost support for research and roll back this year's budget cuts, known as sequestration, says Benjamin Corb, director of public affairs for ASBMB.

«The discovery of this early Angkorian city is a very exciting example of LiDAR's use in the region,» adds Miriam Stark, an anthropologist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, who has recently started to conduct research at Angkor but was not involved in last year's LiDAR campaign.

7/24/2008 Two Specialists Join UC San Diego Kawasaki Disease Team Launching Major Outreach Campaign in Latino and Filipino Communities For more than 30 years, pediatrician Jane Burns, M.D., has dedicated her research to solving the mystery of Kawasaki Disease (KD), a childhood illness characterized by fever, rash, red eyes, red lips, and red hands and feet that can lead to serious h...

Approved campaigns for which research funding has not been obtained will be held for 1 year for the principal investigator to obtain funding; after that time, principal investigators must resubmit their proposals for approval.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Southern Research, a non-profit organization marking its 75th year of operation in 2016, today launched a broad - based philanthropic outreach initiative that includes a significant employee giving campaign.

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Assign some kind of research project or campaign - related activity that requires kids to create a visual and written journal of election year activities during the summer, when political conventions begin to dominate the news cycle.

Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other major publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public service ad campaign that ran in Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.

High school seniors work all year on capstone «Change the World» projects wherein they research a social problem of interest to them and then plan and execute some manner of public response — a fundraising drive, a protest, an awareness campaign, etc..

The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) are responsible for a two - year formative developmental evaluation of the campaign (2016 - 18), while the University of Nottingham will take the lead on the summative impact analysis of the campaign on pupil outcomes (2016 - 21).

Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY $ 150,000 over one year for operational support of the Campaign for Educational Equity to research and analyze policy strategies for developing sustainable financing for high - quality, universal preschool in New York State across diverse program settings.

This meeting, coming on the heels of the news that around 200 libraries closed last year, was to discuss the research and campaigning for more library support.

For one, research supports the view that stocks the subject of activist campaigns can generate significant above market returns, on the filing and, importantly, in the subsequent year.

Now in its ninth year, the campaign focuses on helping families pay for pet cancer treatment and funds innovative research programs.

After years of researching the Korean dog meat trade with the long - term intention of bringing it to an end, she'd recently co-founded the Change For Animals Foundation, a small international animal welfare organization that works to create positive and lasting change for animals throughout the world through research, advocacy, campaigns, and strategic partnerships with other like - minded NGOs.

The theme of this year's AHVM Foundation Be One in a Million fundraising campaign is «Advancing Research and Education in Holistic Veterinary Medicine.»