Sentences with phrase «years of progress made»

President Reagan's criticisms of the nation's schools and his proposals for improving the quality of education are misleading the American public and threatening to reverse 20 years of progress made possible by federal support of education, according to a report by 19 education and civil - rights leaders.

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«We served more customers more often, achieved our best comparable sales performance in six years, gained share in markets around the world and made tremendous progress with growth platforms such as delivery, mobile order and pay and Experience of the Future.»

But that said, in one area in particular, the progress made over the past several years has been nothing short of spectacular.

On the evening of Oct. 18, 2011, exactly 82 years after the Supreme Court ruled that women were indeed persons, a flock of corporate elite descended on Toronto's Fairmont Hotel to celebrate the progress women have made, and investigate the work still to be done.

Sobolewski, who has been in the police about 14 years, said progress was being made but it was a difficult as traffickers often target the most vulnerable people who are lured with false promises of well - paid jobs.

Driving the program are the findings of the No Ceilings report, which showed that over the last 20 years, women have become healthier and more educated, but have not made much progress economically.

McDonald's (MCD), which is suffering through one of its worst years in more than a decade, hinted at its investor meeting last week that it's looking to make progress in this department by simplifying ingredients.

When we established AI+R nearly two years ago, our primary goal was to accelerate the adoption of AI innovations from research into product, and the changes we are making today reflect our strong progress.

«Since we announced our plan to separate in October, we've made significant progress and remain on track to complete the separation by the end of the fiscal year 2015.»

«The investigation has been going on for a year and during that course of time I have been focused on running Barclays, I think we've made great progress and I look forward to running Barclays for a number of years to come,» Staley told CNBC Thursday morning.

«Instead of spending months or even years on a hunch that may turn out to be wrong, you're able to answer your questions really quickly — to stop debating in the abstract, and start making progress.»

While the major stock exchanges, securities regulators and police have made significant progress in the past dozen years purging the old - style boiler rooms and pump - and - dump schemes from the public markets, the marketing of suspect securities continues to thrive in the private domain.

The social media site has been transparent with their numbers and made «modest progress» over the past year, increasing the share of female employees to 40 % from 42 %.

JUNIOR hydrocarbon explorer Nido Petroleum Limited has made considerable progress with its project in China and expects to produce oil in the first quarter of this year.

«We've made a lot of progress in the last 10 years on transparency, but there's still some real problem areas,» said Bob Williams, the president of watchdog group State Budget Solutions.

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

Aug 7 (Reuters)-- Shares of OnDeck Capital Inc rose as much as 17 percent on Monday after the online lender said it had made progress on a plan to cut costs and improve the credit profile of its borrowers, and expects to reach double - digit loan growth again by next year.

Years of debate went by and no progress was made towards fixing Bitcoin.

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What made him shift his focus to climate issues was the state of global climate: «I think it's really important for us to understand how serious the stakes are now given we've made no progress on this for the last 20 years.

Fining employers which fail to make progress over several years would align the interests of women and investors.

The Committee was so concerned about issues of violence against Indigenous women and the violation of Indigenous Peoples» land rights that it called on Canada to report back within one year on progress made to implement its recommendations on these issues.

Bitcoin had made progress over the years to the point of retailers starting to offer it as a payment option.

2015 should be a great year and some serious progress should be made by the end of the upcoming year.

Over the past five years, the more worrisome government - issued debt in Europe has made significant progress in managing the normal mechanism of higher - perceived risk equaling higher yields.

``... the work I have done with her has enabled me to make more progress in my trading than my 15 years of experience did on their own.»

If you're spending many months or years on an idea and not making any real progress, you're either dealing with fears, lacking a roadmap to follow, or a combination of these.

«This year's budget makes remarkable progress on reducing the debt - to - GDP ratio, and announced focused investment in areas that are important to the long - term economic success of the province, while holding steady on already very competitive business and personal tax rates.»

Each year, I do think we make progress, but as increased attention is placed on ensuring the effective implementation of local (or host country) rules and regulations, we need to ensure we don't lose sight of the need to continue to work effectively across jurisdictions in supervising the largest firms.

As the year progresses, more off lease vehicles will come back driving down the price of used and further reducing residuals on leased vehicles making new leases more expensive.

Public expectations for the pace of emissions reduction may disappoint some, but there are few who foresee a future where Canada is not making real progress in this area, at least over the coming 20 years.»

[485][216] A Gallup poll, taken in the final days of Obama's term, showed that 68 % of Americans believed that the U.S. had made progress in the situation for gays and lesbians during Obama's eight years in office.

Within the digital foreign money realm, occasions that occurred a number of years in the past could as properly have been eons in the past when it comes to the progress that has been made because the introduction of Bitcoin in 2007.

Net losses were down by about 60 % from year - ago levels, and even though production was down slightly from the third quarter of 2016, Whiting managed to make considerable progress even with sales of assets that had contributed substantially to production in last year's results.

The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) has said «significant progress» is being made in its plan to develop its Southport Marine Terminal Complex, the first major expansion of the Port of Philadelphia in over 50 years.

Within the digital forex realm, occasions that occurred a number of years in the past could as effectively have been eons in the past when it comes to the progress that has been made because the introduction of Bitcoin in 2007.

A rising rate on the 10 - year partly reflects the desire to make progress on monetary policy normalization, which has been impeded by a series of unrelated surprises over the course of the year.

The on - again, off - again deal has been in the works for years without having made progress, but the realities of needing to address the huge costs of upgrading to new 5G network standards poses a substantial competitive obstacle that could make a combination more rewarding.

Also, the labour market in Europe continues to make only very slow progress with unemployment falling from a peak of 12.1 % in April 2013 to 10.3 % in January 2016, contrasting sharply with the steeper declines seen in the US and the UK over the past five years.

«We also made significant progress toward improving our margin on the sale of vacation ownership products, or what we call development margin, and are well on our way toward our targeted development margin of over 12 percent for the year.

If this scenario of a third bear market were to play out, the 35 year old investor born in 1965 would have seen the S&P 500 make very little progress during their peak earning years.

«I'm positive and optimistic in terms of the progress we've made over the last few years to continue to improve the business.

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

«It's been a transformational year all around given the two big transactions... and some of the progress the company has made in terms of addressing some of their cost issues and efficiency issues.»

«An incredible amount of progress has been made in the space industry over the past eight years, but much of this still hasn't hit the radar of many mainstream investors.»

«We've made a lot of progress in the last year,» Meyers said.

The ratio of the HUI (NYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index) to gold resides at 2014 levels when gold was in full bear market retreat as opposed to the current two - year bull market that is alive and well and making progress.

However, when we begin to look at the history of shaving, we can see that this is another area where humans have made a great deal of progress — with the most important developments coming in the last 100 years or so.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

«Those of you who have attended these meetings in previous years will recall that my address typically includes a detailed discussion of the financial result and an update on the progress we have made to remediate and transform our business,» Mr Neal said at the insurer's annual general meeting in May.