Sentences with phrase «years fighting industry»

After 20 years of research and almost as many years fighting industry groups in court for control of their data, government scientists can finally publish two papers showing that underground miners exposed to diesel fumes have a threefold increased risk for contracting lung cancer.

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Stephanie Oh fought for a few years in her early 20s to break into the music industry in New York City, but last year grew disenchanted with her stagnant career in administration of music - talent management firm.

It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.

This industry hardly even existed a year ago, yet there are already dozens of startups fighting for a piece of the growing market.

«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable CIndustry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Cindustry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

The wireless industry has for years successfully fought regulations that would force mobile phone networks to be hardened so they work during storms, but it may face renewed demands after Hurricane Harvey knocked out seven of 10 cell towers in the hardest - hit counties of Texas.

I fear that that the emerging fight between at least 4 priovinces, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec and New Brunswick against the Ottawa / Ontario single federal securities regulator scheme will damage Ontario's capital markets for years to come and the Toronto financial markets, the Toronto financial services industry and the Ontario economy.

Maria has more than 20 years» experience in the proxy solicitation industry and specialises in the strategic advice and execution of mergers and acquisitions, annual meetings, proxy fights and other extraordinary transactions.

Also last year, Coury took the lead in a bitter takeover fight with Ireland - based Perrigo Co., a manufacturer of over-the-counter medicines, and fought off a takeover attempt from Israel - based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd..

It's time for the premier to publicly reject the Petronas plan to use workers and businesses overseas and use the next year to fight for B.C. workers and an LNG industry built by them, rather than giving up on them in her desperation to get an unsupportable project underway,» he said.

The Chilean food industry fought this legislation for several years.

«The organic industry has been fighting for this rule for years,» said Jesse Laflamme, Owner and CEO of organic egg producer Pete and Gerry's Organics.

«The fresh pizza industry has fought for years for an exemption from statutes that require additional federal inspection of fresh meat pizzas if they are to be served in a school.

Kudos to Food and Water Watch, which explains how the good guys won this time: «Given the enormous power of our opponents, like the big chicken industry and pharmaceutical companies who fought against us for three years, this victory is a real testament to the power of grassroots organizing.»

The pro-business message from the W.F.P. is a boost to the industry, which has been fighting the proposed ban since it emerged as an issue during the Democratic mayoral primary last year.

He was born in Jarrow, into a family with links across the generations to the river and its historic industry and, after 30 years as a shipyard worker himself, he spent much of his subsequent political career unsuccessfully fighting to defend its continued existence.

The fishermen made a statement saying: `... we have waited and hoped for 20 years to escape [the Common Fisheries Policy] and the industry must mobilise to show politicians we won't be sacrificed without a fight.»

Foes of a U.S. nuclear power revival continue to fight the AP1000 and have seized on a statement from NRC last week that cited new issues in the agency's design review — a review that industry officials had assumed was going smoothly toward a final decision this year.

After spending years fighting claims that cell phone use can cause brain tumors, industry reps may be getting some welcome news.

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

The food industry fought tooth and nail to retain partially hydrogenated oils, even though they were killing 50,000 Americans a year.

Charlie Kaufman went from TV scribe to red - hot screenwriter in 1999 with «Being John Malkovich,» and his timing couldn't have been better: That's a year the industry looks back upon as being a flashpoint of American indie cinema, with rule - breaking, ambitious films like «Pi,» «Boys Don't Cry,» «The Blair Witch Project,» «Three Kings» and «Fight Club» in multiplexes.

After a year rocked by the Harvey Weinstein scandal and a tide of sexual misconduct allegations that followed, women in the film industry highlighted gender inequality and the fight against sexual harassment at the Golden Globes.

This brings to mind a collection of other far - left - leaning pop - films that find our way of life — the concept of the American Dream itself — particularly dubious: Nightcrawler's gaze at death incurred by corporate lingo and unregulated industries, A Most Violent Year's lament for the impossibility of moral management, Foxcatcher's conception of America as a land of slaves and slavemasters, Fury's abject refusal to render Americans the «good guys» even when fighting fascism, the entirety of Inherent Vice.

4:30 p.m., Room 24ABC — Masters Of The Web Panel For inside baseball fans, this is the annual gathering of movie bloggers to talk about the state of both the film industry and the web reporting world, and is normally the cause or culmination of years worth of Twitter fights.

Toyota ran away with this year's Canadian Black Book Best Retained Value Awards, winning in eight of the 20 divisions the vehicle valuation company divides the industry's offerings into, including the hard - fought pickup tr -LSB-...]

Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt expects more than a billion mobile devices around the world to be running its Android software within a year, intensifying a battle with Apple that he called a «defining fight» of the industry.

Because I've been making a fool of myself for at least four years in the publishing industry and I figured I didn't need to fight with my fellow authors.

Indie authors have fought for years to be considered «real authors» by both the industry and the readers.

This early postcard shows how the silk industry dominated Paterson during the years the Kopps were fighting Henry Kaufman.

Prior to moving into the mortgage business, Alex was a paralegal in the law industry for many years helping and fighting for his clients who were injured in accidents.

The pet industry experienced both success and failure in fighting harmful legislation this year while building strong foundations for the future.

My years fighting legislation across the nation, funding agencies actively working to empower the industry, spending time with the WPA board to make decisions that will shape the pet industry for years to come and producing events intended to benefit all pet lovers culminate in moments that will stay with me long after I've retired.

Now those proposals are facing widespread opposition from the same groups who fought the dog law last year: the PVMA, the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, which represents pet stores, the Sportsmen's Alliance, Republican members of the House Agriculture Committee and Sen. Michael Brubaker — chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee - whose committee created the board to appease the aforementioned groups in 2008.

If you have been around for at least a few years in the gaming industry, either as a writer or just a fan of video games you know there are two fighting games that everyone mentions when asked if they can name some, one is Street Fighter the other, is Tekken.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

From the Legend of Zelda to Dark Souls, one staple of the video game industry that has remained throughout the years has been the boss fight.

For the second consecutive year, Pratt Institute's tabletop installation at Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) DINING BY DESIGN was one of two out of 44 installations voted Best in Show by The American Society of Interior Designers.

For the second consecutive year, Pratt Institute's tabletop installation at Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) DINING BY DESIGN was one of two out of 44 installations voted Best in Show by The American Society...

Ropeik's piece essentially says industry is still caught in the same mindset that has gripped many climate scientists and campaigners for so many years — just convey the basic science more clearly and fight disinformation campaigns and folks will drop ideological or emotion - based resistance to reality.

For the last several years, the public discourse on this momentous, multi-layered economic and environmental issue has largely been shaped from the edges — by vocal and histrionic campaigners seeking a blanket ban on the process and industry groups and property owners resisting regulation and bitterly fighting any talk of a ban.

One is Lochbaum crediting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and industry with at least a couple of proactive decisions — including the commission insisting on flood protections that had been fought by the owners of the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant north of Omaha, Neb. — and that proved critical in limiting risk from last year's floods.

We've been stigmatizing the fossil fuel industry through divestment for years and fighting for our communities — and we are winning.

«For years Heartland was a minor think tank that defended the tobacco industry by fighting for «smoker's rights» but then moved into climate change and has gradually become arguably the leading denial organization,» Riley Dunlap, a sociologist at Oklahoma State University who monitors climate deniers, told HuffPost.

In all, that means 18 plants — a fifth of what many people used to see as a cornerstone industry of America's energy future and a key ally in the global fight against climate - altering greenhouse emissions — have been closed since 2013 or will be closed over the next seven years.

Ken Ward, Jr., of the Charleston Gazette has been writing about this issue for years, and recently catalogued the industry's repeated efforts to fight safety standards that would control the mining dust that causes black lung.

This zombie - like process is guaranteed to go on for years, even decades, as at every turn the fossil fuel industry fights the new laws and regulations that would be necessary, were agreements like the Paris accord to have any real teeth.

[30] Epstein states his main sources of revenue vary «depending on what [he's] working on,» but in the «last year it's been a combination of public - facing (e.g., getting paid to write the book [The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels]-RRB- and giving speeches, a lot of which are to industry groups,» noting that he'd be willing to «work with anyone fighting for freedom — but not for subsidies.»

In the five years since winning the Prize, Gunnoe's fight has continued to gain momentum, resulting in regional mine closures and stricter regulations for the industry.

Indeed, the industry has been fighting government efforts to reduce CO2 for years.