• The 2018 midterm elections in the US took place on Tuesday. (cardschat.com)
  • Many poker players had some strong opinions about the results of the 2018 midterm elections in the US. (cardschat.com)
  • As voters head to the polls for the 2018 midterm elections, more than 40 percent of them describe themselves as being skeptical that climate change is predominantly caused by human activity . (thedailybeast.com)
  • Witness Republicans' behavior in 2017 and 2018, and certainly the mindset of most Democrats now. (cookpolitical.com)
  • According to a 2017 survey by NGO Latinobarometer, 73 percent of the population is Catholic, 14 percent Protestant, and 11 percent atheist or agnostic. (state.gov)
  • In February 2017, the United States and China began renegotiating the five-year film pact that had limited the annual number of foreign film exports to China to 34 and the share of revenue payable to foreign-rights holders to 25 percent of gross box. (chinafile.com)
  • In a speech across the Atlantic previewing the report of the 2017 Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness, Rachel Reeves MP noted that "[i]n the last few decades loneliness has escalated from personal misfortune into a social epidemic. (senate.gov)
  • Projected spending cuts for the 2017 budget are likely insufficient to contain the deficit, which Standard Chartered projects at $7.8 billion or 12 percent of gross domestic product. (agsiw.org)
  • Differences in preparedness and anxiety levels of FiY1 and non-FiY1 participants in 2020, and the 2017-2019 participants (non-FiY1 controls), were evaluated. (bvsalud.org)
  • Whether spurred by this resilience or continued investor interest in environmental, social, and governance issues, during the first quarter of 2020, $45.6 billion was invested in ESG funds at the same time that $384.7 billion was withdrawn from funds writ large. (saturna.com)
  • According a June 2020 report by the Government Accountability Office, an estimated 41 percent of public school districts need to replace or update their heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in at least half of their facilities, representing about 36,000 schools. (nysut.org)
  • Seeing the unpopularity of rent control, Governor Newsome instead threw democracy under the bus, pressuring state legislators to pass a harsh rent control law that went into effect in 2020. (montereycountylp.org)
  • The GPW 13 will cover the period 2019-2023 and serve as the basis for resource mobilization and the programme budgets for 2020-2021 and 2022-2023 it will also influence the Programme budget 2018-2019 through a mechanism of resource reallocation The costing of the GPW 13 will be addressed in a forthcoming investment case. (who.int)
  • The Slovak economy grew by 3.1 percent in 2021, slowed by three waves of COVID-19, which profoundly affected the hospitality, tourism, retail, sports and recreation, transport, and culture sectors. (state.gov)
  • 2018 to 2021 that, these two, sorry, these two unrelated cases in travelers are similar to the imported cases during 2018 to 2021 that were reported in travelers to the United Kingdom, there were four, Singapore, one, and Israel, one. (cdc.gov)
  • It's growth has been staggering - in the 2006 election SD received three percent of the votes, in 2010 - 5,7 percent, in 2014 - 13 percent, in 2018 - 17.5 percent, and finally in 2022 - 21 percent. (ipsnews.net)
  • An analysis of 680,000 smart TVs across Turkey revealed that in the fall of 2022, 89 percent of TVs that watched a show where Erdogan made an appearance did not tune into any show where an opposition leader was present. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • 2022) include `societal supported spread of infectious diseases' hidden sexuality, emotional dissatisfaction, social context, under the cover of cultures and traditions. (who.int)
  • Long story short, over the course of 2016, I had personally seen a lot of things happen in the context of social media and politics that were just nuts. (theverge.com)
  • The cultural clash was evident in the 2016 Presidential election - 72 percent of King County voters chose Hillary Clinton, while the same percentage of Lincoln County voters choose Donald Trump. (seattleweekly.com)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that between 1999 and 2016, the most recent year for which data are available, suicide rates had increased by almost 30 percent, 1 and some states, such as New Hampshire, Vermont, and Utah, saw their rates increase by over 45 percent. (senate.gov)
  • After Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, many criticized his probability-based projection model that only gave Trump a 30 percent chance. (cardschat.com)
  • The growth rate in 2016 was 6.4 percent--a remarkable turnabout from the nearly 2 percent contraction in 2015. (commondreams.org)
  • The corporate income tax is 21 percent for companies with revenues at or above €100,000. (state.gov)
  • The tax rate for companies with revenues below €100,000 is 15 percent. (state.gov)
  • We calculated age-adjusted incidence rates (per 100,000), total percent change in incidence rates between 1999 and 2018, and trends over this time-period using Joinpoint analysis. (cdc.gov)
  • AI/AN persons in Alaska had the highest CRC incidence rate among US Tribal and racial groups (61.9/100,000 in 2018). (cdc.gov)
  • AI/AN persons in Alaska also had higher rates than those reported for any other country in the world in 2018 except for Hungary, where males had a higher CRC incidence rate than AI/AN males in Alaska (70.6/100,000 and 63.6/100,000 respectively). (cdc.gov)
  • Rates of lung and colorectal cancers decreased significantly between 1999-2018 among NH-AI/AN men, but no significant changes were observed in rates of screening-amenable cancers among NH-AI/AN women. (cdc.gov)
  • It's odd when people acknowledge that changing social norms around smoking influenced their behavior, but don't realize how much tobacco policies helped to alter those social norms in the first place. (no-smoke.org)
  • According to the Social Cognitive Theory of Mass Communication [ 10 ], exposure to social media influences youth's cognition, emotion, and behavior. (jmir.org)
  • That can often be a source of trouble for caregivers, who are often more likely to fall back on law enforcement for help when behavior issues spiral out of control, according to The Chronicle of Social Change. (cwda.org)
  • Specifically, we have added the Amana Developing World Fund to our coverage, included additional performance-based metrics to the policy and programmatic-based metrics outlined in 2019, and revisited last year's case studies to provide an update on performance. (saturna.com)
  • According to Cisco research**, "By the year 2019, 80 percent of all content consumed online will be video. (vaceos.org)
  • Diana Boyer, senior policy analyst at CWDA, said the proposed system would cost the state $15 million to set up for the 2018-2019 fiscal year. (cwda.org)
  • For example, only 49 percent of Americans got an influenza vaccination in 2018-2019. (csis.org)
  • In a courtroom in Zharkent, Kazakhstan, in July 2018, a former kindergarten principal named Sayragul Sauytbay calmly described what Chinese officials continue to deny: a vast new gulag of "de-extremification training centers" has been created for. (chinafile.com)
  • Dr. Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), expressed this concern in August saying this could be the "worst fall" that "we've ever had. (csis.org)
  • Latifundisti maintained political control in the provinces as well, despite being absentee landlords who resided in urban centers and left management of their estates to villici , or hired administrators. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Second, the bill calls for the transfer to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research and combat emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases of all unobligated balances of appropriations made available for the National Nuclear Security Administration for the W87-1 warhead modification program. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • i United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA. (who.int)
  • Activity, COCA, with the Emergency Risk Communication Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • RESPOND investigators aim to enroll 10,000 participants through the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Program of Cancer Registries. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Historians have also noted another major bad result of Nazi Germany's harsh rent control edicts. (montereycountylp.org)
  • You Want Social Democracy. (jacobin.com)
  • But the security and intimacy it evokes can't be achieved by scented candles alone - that requires social democracy. (jacobin.com)
  • That arrangement is social democracy. (jacobin.com)
  • The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) 1 was negotiated under WHO Constitutional mandate,2 becoming the first modern framework convention with specific public health objectives, but also addressing the social, economic and environmental impact of tobacco. (who.int)
  • It guides and informs the global tobacco control agenda and is a legally binding instrument. (who.int)
  • United Nations agencies, funds and programmes together with international organizations that are observers to the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (COP) are expected to work as one, ensuring a consistent and effective separation between its activities and those of the tobacco industry. (who.int)
  • Over the past few decades growing public awareness of the toll taken by smoking has been increased by multiple tobacco control policies, with ordinances and laws preventing secondhand smoke exposure leading the way. (no-smoke.org)
  • We should not lose sight of the fact that raising the age of tobacco use to 21 is only one of many tobacco control strategies. (no-smoke.org)
  • A major impetus for the new HHS tobacco control strategy is that the proportion of tobacco smokers in the U.S. has remained stuck at the 20% level since 2003. (cdc.gov)
  • Providing evidence based, effective cessation support is thus a crucial tobacco control effort (8). (cancercentrum.se)
  • As a privacy and public policy adviser, Dipayan Ghosh once worked to improve Facebook from the inside. (theverge.com)
  • He quit his job at Facebook early last year and became a fellow at New America, a think tank focused on foreign policy, technology, and the economy. (theverge.com)
  • Despite Mark Zuckerberg's claims that his company offers users high levels of transparency and control over their data, the 2018 Index found that Facebook disclosed less about how it handles user data than most of its U.S. peers, none of which earned satisfactory marks overall. (business-humanrights.org)
  • On indicators examining the various ways that companies should disclose how user information is collected, used, shared, and retained, and how much control users are given, the highest-scoring telecommunications company ( AT&T ) received the same low transparency score as Facebook. (business-humanrights.org)
  • Is this the demise of Facebook and social media as we know it? (vaceos.org)
  • For many small and mid-sized businesses, social media outlets like Facebook and LinkedIn are vital to building brand awareness and fostering brand advocates. (vaceos.org)
  • On January 11, the social media giant announced a major policy shift in the algorithm it uses to determine what content we see in our Facebook feeds . (vaceos.org)
  • Many social media marketers quaked in their boots, quickly proclaiming it the "Facebook Apocalypse. (vaceos.org)
  • So, what does the future hold for small businesses that rely on Facebook and social media marketing? (vaceos.org)
  • Although the social media landscape has changed greatly in the last few weeks - thanks to the Facebook scandal, I find that my FOUR biggest lessons and takeaways from the conference remain true. (vaceos.org)
  • Although the future of Facebook remains to be seen - and I can't believe I just wrote that - one thing is sure: where Facebook goes, other social media follows. (vaceos.org)
  • On January 11, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg announced a major policy change, effectively stating that content that Facebook has deemed "more relevant" and/or offering more "meaningful social interactions" will stay at the top of your customers' and prospects' News Feed. (vaceos.org)
  • The policy change is slated to make its way through all its products, including Facebook Groups, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp. (vaceos.org)
  • Research shows that two-thirds of marketers say Facebook is the MOST important social platform they use. (vaceos.org)
  • Plan on developing a larger social media budget, and be prepared to pay to play even more as the supply of Facebook ad space decreases and demand for Facebook advertising increases. (vaceos.org)
  • Google, Facebook and their Chinese equivalents, who are socially, logistically and financially integrated with existing elites, have moved to re-establish discourse control. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Monika Bickert, head of global policy management at Facebook, told the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in a hearing Wednesday that Facebook employs a security team of 10,000 7,500 of whom assess potentially violating content and that by the end of 2018 we will more than double it to over 20,000. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Facebook, she said, along with over a dozen other social media companies has created a blacklist of 50,000 unique digital fingerprints that can prevent content from being posted. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • The Sweden Democrats (SD) won almost 21 percent of the votes and thus became the largest in a bloc of right-wing parties that now have a collective majority in the parliament. (ipsnews.net)
  • FiveThirtyEight gave the Democrats an 88 percent chance of regaining control of the House of Representatives, and a 19 percent shot of taking the Senate. (cardschat.com)
  • But the GOP lost control of the House which means the Democrats can now block some of Donald Trump's proposed policies. (cardschat.com)
  • Mike McDonald, a Canadian who can't even vote in the US elections but has liberal views, sought wagers against the Democrats taking control of the House. (cardschat.com)
  • In hammering out that bill, the Obama White House and Democrats ensured that sequestration would not touch Social Security. (politifact.com)
  • Highly-paid union bureaucrats, who have backed the Social Democrats (SPD) in government for years and only days ago voted for a new grand coalition with the conservative parties, delivered pseudo-radical speeches to workers across the country. (wsws.org)
  • Claims of rising loneliness are often part of a larger narrative about fraying social bonds in America. (senate.gov)
  • Except that 73 percent of the population believes there is a "Deep State" (cue scary music) manipulating policy in America, up from about 48 percent just over a year ago. (lapostexaminer.com)
  • Opponents of the question's inclusion have cited it as prima facie evidence of racism by the Trump administration, claiming it's a plot to disenfranchise foreign-born residents - who make up 13.4 percent of the nation's population. (socialexplorer.com)
  • The outcome matters: Whoever wins over the minds of this upcoming cohort of American voters will, to a large extent, shape the nation's policies on climate change for decades to come. (thedailybeast.com)
  • After the on-camera murder of two TV journalists in Virginia in August, the nation's ongoing debate about gun control is in the news yet again . (jstor.org)
  • Since then, there has been tremendous progress in harnessing better evidence to inform public policy decision making, especially from impact evaluations of programs in low- and middle-income countries. (ciaonet.org)
  • Despite its longstanding history as a surveillance tool widely used to inform both national and local health and educational policies, questions included in the NYC YRBS have not undergone cognitive testing by CDC or any other jurisdiction. (cdc.gov)
  • It is important to inform health systems serving AI/AN persons in Alaska about policies and interventions that can support CRC screening to reduce the burden of this disease. (cdc.gov)
  • PNG] and Samoa) to inform surveillance and control strategies for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). (who.int)
  • According to Cornell Clayton, a public policy professor at Washington State University, this has led to some "cultural Republicans" in Eastern Washington feeling as though their values aren't represented in the Legislature, especially when it comes to social issues like abortion, gun control and "church-state issues. (seattleweekly.com)
  • The Republicans kept control of the Senate, winning some key races along the way (i.e. (cardschat.com)
  • Public policy experts have noted that the Cascade mountains mark an observable difference between Washington's more conservative, rural east side and its more liberal, urban west side. (seattleweekly.com)
  • According to the Washington Office of Financial Management's 2018 population estimates, Eastern Washington's most populous county is Spokane County, which has less than 25 percent of the population of Western Washington's King County. (seattleweekly.com)
  • Two years later, it was seen again in Washington's passage of Initiative 1639 in the 2018 general election. (seattleweekly.com)
  • Iranians are protesting conditions worsened by U.S. policies, but Washington's hawks see only an opportunity for regime change. (commondreams.org)
  • A 2010 presidential commission on the deficit had proposed Social Security cuts that President Barack Obama rejected . (politifact.com)
  • Two weeks later, he took 52 percent of the popular vote in the second round of the presidential election, and his governing People's Alliance secured 323 of the 600 seats in the parliament, allowing a handsome margin over the simple-majority threshold of 301. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • its fiscal policy, however, is struggling. (agsiw.org)
  • As with all fiscal policy, there is some prioritization taking place, in where to make cuts and where to maintain promises. (agsiw.org)
  • It should be noted that "there is a fundamental and irreconcilable conflict between the tobacco industry's interests and public health policy interests" , in line with FCTC Article 5.3 guidelines. (who.int)
  • Public health efforts to de-glamorize tobacco use, expose tobacco industry tactics, increase the costs of tobacco use, reduce youth access to tobacco, reduce sales to minors, and to create smokefree environments as the social norm, have resulted in a dramatic drop in tobacco use, with the corresponding public health benefits. (no-smoke.org)
  • Employers' combined social and health contributions are equivalent to 35 percent of wages. (state.gov)
  • Research suggests that upwards of 80 percent of foster children are experiencing some kind of significant mental health need. (cwda.org)
  • The criminal justice system is absolutely not the place that should be resolving crises that could better be resolved by social workers and behavioral health therapists in a therapeutic environment," Mecca said, adding that criminalizing the result of trauma is not the best outcome because, 'that retraumatizes a child and that stays with them. (cwda.org)
  • The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the acute vulnerabilities in the United States' health security policies and capacities. (csis.org)
  • Of more immediate concern, experts warn that if Americans do not practice appropriate prevention measures such as seeking influenza vaccination, washing their hands, social distancing, and wearing a mask, circulating seasonal influenza and Covid-19 will exacerbate one another, adding further strain to an already overburdened health system. (csis.org)
  • Consequently, communities should be considered integral components of health systems in ongoing efforts aimed at developing more responsive, equitable, and effective health policies for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and health security. (who.int)
  • Suboptimal health service demand (the regional score is 67 out of 100 percent) affects coverage of essential interventions.3 The health service disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic reversed progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC). (who.int)
  • 2018. 'The state of health in the WHO African Region: an analysis of the status of health, health services and health systems in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. (who.int)
  • COVID-19 and indirect health implications in Africa: Impact, mitigation measures, and lessons learned for improved disease control. (who.int)
  • Among participants with twelve months of follow-up, there was a 78 percent reduction in SABA use, an 84 percent reduction in nighttime SABA use, and a 48 percent improvement in symptom-free days from baseline to month 12," report Meredith Barrett, PhD, vice president of research at Propeller Health, San Francisco, California, and associates with the AIR Louisville Collaborative. (medscape.com)
  • AIR Louisville's objectives were to help people control their symptoms, identify hot spots of respiratory disease symptoms and their environmental correlates, use the collected data to guide policy decisions, increase community awareness of air quality and health, and engage diverse local partners to make the collaboration sustainable. (medscape.com)
  • Social determinants of health and associated systems, policies and practices are important drivers of health disparities. (cdc.gov)
  • 2018, prior to its consideration by the Seventy-first World Health Assembly in May 2018. (who.int)
  • In November of 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a new comprehensive control strategy for tobacco smoking reduction. (cdc.gov)
  • c Department of Health and Social Affairs, the Federated States of Micronesia. (who.int)
  • Spectrum-STI is a module government co-authors also searched national (internal) of the Spectrum suite of health policy planning tools, health science databases. (who.int)
  • As the Ranking Digital Rights 2018 Corporate Accountability Index reveals, poor transparency is epidemic across the world's most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies. (business-humanrights.org)
  • SDN, which replaces most network hardware with software-based controls, is providing transparency that administrators never had before, allowing them to steer application traffic to achieve the best performance. (networkworld.com)
  • Many human rights advocates see the increasingly brutal tactics of the police as a means of social control, as the Macri administration attempts to roll back the progressive policies of the preceding Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administrations. (theintercept.com)
  • Meanwhile, gun control advocates tend to appeal to collective values, arguing from the standpoint of public safety. (jstor.org)
  • In Western Washington, King County voted to pass I-1639 by the highest margin, with 76 percent of voters in approval. (seattleweekly.com)
  • Divergences like this one has led some residents like Brown - whose county similarly had 73 percent of voters against Initiative 1639 and 67 percent favoring Donald Trump - to say they are treated "kind of like the red-headed stepchildren just shoved in the corner. (seattleweekly.com)
  • Not just the Alt Right that now controls the White House and GOP, but even Democratic voters and independents. (lapostexaminer.com)
  • This radical fact that nearly 75 percent of Americans believe there is a Deep State controlling or manipulating the levers of power, that is the point. (lapostexaminer.com)
  • The intervention involved analyzing aggregated inhaler use data for participating patients with asthma, determining environmental triggers, using findings to guide policy recommendations, and implementing interventions at a city level. (medscape.com)
  • economic policy intervention used and preferences. (who.int)
  • Researchers developed the intervention based on the rational that the potential of winning a large price would attract a lot of participants, which would create social support systems. (cancercentrum.se)
  • In the wake of Facebook's data abuse scandal, civil society groups across the world are dissatisfied with explanations by the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the U.S. Congress, and with the company's recent changes to some privacy policies and settings. (business-humanrights.org)
  • This includes providing the data storage facilities required by what is known as the Yarovaya law: Since 2018, Russian internet and telecom providers have been obliged to store all data of all users for six months and metadata for three years. (dgap.org)
  • Use new data and interactive maps built by Social Explorer to find out how this change might affect your area in terms of Congressional districts, as well as districts for the upper and lower houses in the state legislature. (socialexplorer.com)
  • Celinska pulled data from the 1972-1998 General Social Survey to look at who supports, and who opposes, gun control. (jstor.org)
  • Data were excluded hierarchically were examined using 2008-2018 WIC-PC data. (cdc.gov)
  • Data were based on reports from European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. (bvsalud.org)
  • Social norms don't simply change in a vacuum, all on their own. (no-smoke.org)
  • Tobacco policies are most effective when used in concert with one another, as the effect on social norms is then synergistic. (no-smoke.org)
  • While woman's nakedness being seen by other men but the some women challenge these social norms by husband with serious sanctions on offenders. (who.int)
  • As you'll recall, last Wednesday, the 5th Circuit surprised lots of people by immediately reinstating Texas's ridiculous content moderation law that basically creates an open season to sue large social media sites for any moderation choices those sites make. (techdirt.com)
  • HB20 prohibits covered social media platforms (many of which are members of Applicants NetChoice and CCIA) from engaging in any viewpoint-based editorial discretion. (techdirt.com)
  • The Jewish community reported continued comments promoting anti-Semitism on some social media sites, including aggressive actions by Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Colombia, an anti-Israel protest movement that used anti-Semitic slogans such as "Jews control the media. (state.gov)
  • A recent study of telecommunications companies across the Arab region by Lebanon-based NGO Social Media Exchange (SMEX), based on the Index methodology found that many companies evaluated did not even publish privacy policies. (business-humanrights.org)
  • Vape tricks are promoted on social media, but the promotion of vape tricks on social media is not well understood. (jmir.org)
  • Restrictions of e-cigarette marketing on social media, such as YouTube, are needed. (jmir.org)
  • Youth exposure to protobacco content on social media is concerning owing to its influence on youth behaviors and perceptions. (jmir.org)
  • Or you're hiding in your childhood bedroom, binge-watching television and scrolling social media, because a rare break from the pressures of daily life feels more like an occasion to zone out than to celebrate and be merry. (jacobin.com)
  • What's the Future of Social Media for Small and Medium-sized Businesses? (vaceos.org)
  • I attended the Social Media Marketing World conference to find out. (vaceos.org)
  • Approximately 5,000 marketing and social media comrades joined me at the three-day event in San Diego, California. (vaceos.org)
  • There were countless workshops on writing, podcasting, corporate social media and how to use video and visual content to get your message across. (vaceos.org)
  • My hope is that these high-level points will help you understand how to use social media as the owner of a small or medium-size business. (vaceos.org)
  • Frightened by the force of social media to organize the masses, Putin reacted quickly. (dgap.org)
  • In addition to banning pages and websites, companies are now required to patrol social messengers and block individual accounts on social media and videos on platforms such as YouTube. (dgap.org)
  • That includes some poker players who sounded off on social media. (cardschat.com)
  • There wasn't much cheering or jeering from the poker community, at least not on social media. (cardschat.com)
  • Social media companies are intertwined with and often work for U.S. intelligence agencies. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • In a deeply polarized society, Erdogan has control over vast amounts of state resources as well as media that clearly provided an edge. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In contrast, his rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, was largely excluded from TRT-or covered unfairly-and did most of his communication through social media-most notably using iconic videos he recorded in his kitchen. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • MPLS networks were built in a narrowband era before the web, social media and hosted applications changed the nature of traffic. (networkworld.com)
  • They were more likely to have mothers who had problems with gambling, reported less parental supervision, and higher social media usage. (bvsalud.org)
  • Saini also floated a political outfit called Lok Tantra Suraksha Manch, which was dedicated to social reformer Jyotiba Phule. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was 2009, and hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had convincingly won the presidency with roughly 63 percent to reformer Mir-Hossein Mousavi's approximately 34 percent. (commondreams.org)
  • President Nicolas Maduro announced that from now on Venezuela 's dirt-cheap fuel will be available only to people with a special government aid card that the opposition has denounced as a tool for controlling people. (worldbulletin.net)
  • This government, based on our Constitution, is to follow the will of the people and make policies and take actions that are in the best interests of them and this country as a whole. (nationofchange.org)
  • A plan to relocate tens of thousands of asylum seekers to other EU countries fell 70 percent short of its target of 39,600 people. (hrw.org)
  • The system has been blamed for hindering modernization, preventing social mobility and the rise of the middle classes, making a few people very rich and bringing dire misery to the many, and finally for destroying the peasantry and unraveling rural society. (encyclopedia.com)
  • There's a parallel debate about how well gun control actually works , but for many people the question seems less about public policy than personal values. (jstor.org)
  • Perhaps not surprisingly, people who own guns are nearly three times as likely as average to oppose a requirement that gun owners get a permit, after controlling for other variables. (jstor.org)
  • METHODS: Using the United States Cancer Statistics AI/AN Incidence Analytic Database, we, calculated incidence rates for colorectal, lung, female breast, and cervical cancers for NH-AI/AN and non-Hispanic White (NHW) people for the years 2014-2018 combined. (cdc.gov)
  • Drawing on city council and school board meetings, resolutions and my own involvement in this sanctuary struggle, I focus on a continuum of three overlapping and interlocking manifestations of white supremacist heteronormative patriarchy: neoliberal diversity discourses, institutionalized policies, and a re-emergence of high-profiled white supremacist activities. (mdpi.com)
  • In foreign policy, Oman has managed to maintain favorable trade and political relations with both Iran and its Gulf Cooperation Council neighbors in a time of increasing tension. (agsiw.org)
  • The party has benefited from many Swedes' worries about immigration and a failed integration policy, which has secluded immigrants, often concentrating them to sparsely populated areas, or desolate suburbs, leaving many of them jobless and aid dependent. (ipsnews.net)
  • A development feared by many Swedes and on social networks SD has resolutely inflated such fears. (ipsnews.net)
  • Jimmie Åkesson, who took over the leadership of SD in 2005, did ten years ago unveil a "zero-tolerance policy against racism and extremism", excluding his party's worst extremists. (ipsnews.net)
  • Such programs were part of the Nazi party's "social justice" and the "social equity" programs to strengthen their socialist/welfare policies. (montereycountylp.org)
  • During debates preceding the elections almost nothing was said about a future threatened by climate change, a disappearing biodiversity, insufficiently controlled nuclear power, the automation of working life, growing mental maladies, and a vast array of other social problems. (ipsnews.net)
  • Since the beginning of September, more than 600 educators have shared stories of extreme heat, describing classrooms that lacked effective climate control systems as "heartbreaking," "inhumane," and "a living hell" during what should have been the energizing start to a new school year. (nysut.org)
  • With the ascension of the Alliance, the Sunshine State has become ground zero for an intensifying ideological battle taking place across the nation-one that has conservative groups wrestling for control over how climate science will be taught to American students. (thedailybeast.com)
  • In a rally organised in Jind, he supported hundred percent reservation, with each caste getting the share in accordance with their population in the state. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Prof. Graham Hallett, "The National Socialist government was socialistic, in the sense that it extended state control over all aspects of the economy. (montereycountylp.org)
  • IG Metall would prefer to end the strike as soon as possible, above all to avoid hindering the formation of a new grand coalition, which will be a government of social attacks, militarism and the strengthening of the repressive state apparatus. (wsws.org)
  • 2. Healthcare systems are highly complex social systems shaped by multiple factors, including professional training, institutional values, leadership competencies and priorities, and the wider socio-cultural and economic context. (who.int)
  • In Eastern Washington, Lincoln County voted against the initiative by the highest margin, with 75 percent disapproving. (seattleweekly.com)
  • In 2018, a California-wide rent control initiative, Prop. 10, lost by almost 60 percent. (montereycountylp.org)
  • With consistent approval ratings of over 80 percent and no viable political opposition, the election will confirm Putin's hold on Russia's political system, which he has dominated for 18 years. (the-american-interest.com)
  • SD is pointing out that Sweden's foreign-born population has doubled in twenty years and has now reached twenty percent. (ipsnews.net)
  • An unknowable but significant number moved onward to other EU countries, but increased identification measures and reinforced border controls by Italy's northern neighbors over the past two years mean that many remain in Italy, either as undocumented migrants or as asylum seekers in the country's burgeoning but still overwhelmed reception system. (hrw.org)
  • In the 2000s, he opposed benefit cuts, protected Social Security from automatic budget cuts, and supported a change that would reduce benefits by about 4.5% over 40 years. (politifact.com)
  • Sanders' current ad in heavy rotation in Florida has a picture of Biden under the words "Biden has advocated cutting Social Security for 40 years. (politifact.com)
  • Problem gamblers at age 20 years had a history of hyperactivity and conduct problems in adolescence, high sensation seeking, and an external locus of control. (bvsalud.org)
  • For seven years, there has been no progress in reducing tobacco smoking in the U.S. And, even though 25 states have enacted comprehensive tobacco smoking control laws, 25 states have none. (cdc.gov)
  • In March the MOI introduced a new policy, titled "Comprehensive Public Policy of Religious Freedom and Worship," establishing a Religious Freedom Directorate in the MOI and providing technical assistance to corresponding entities at the regional level. (state.gov)
  • The MOI started developing protective tools for religious groups as part of its ongoing implementation of the new public policy. (state.gov)
  • Embassy officials discussed with the MOI the new public policy on religious freedom and worship, including support for victims of conflict and other vulnerable populations at the national and local levels. (state.gov)
  • 3 Some scholars have even recently advanced the argument that it should be a public policy priority. (senate.gov)
  • The International Monetary Fund (IMF) now estimates that 30 percent of emerging market countries and 60 percent of low-income countries could face trouble paying down their debts or will soon. (ciaonet.org)
  • The U.S. government estimates the total population at 48.1 million (July 2018 estimate). (state.gov)
  • The Roman Catholic Church estimates 75 percent of the population is Catholic. (state.gov)
  • In fact, the NIHR is a structure which is expected to strengthen evidence - informed policy making in the country. (who.int)
  • The Hong Kong government has reverted to being bureaucrats with no say in their policies. (china-briefing.com)
  • Of those, 89 percent say they use it for exposure, 81 percent use it for traffic generation, and 66 percent plan on increasing organic activities. (vaceos.org)
  • Almost every day, I receive an email from Google Alerts about a new article on China's "social credit system. (chinafile.com)
  • In the election held on the centennial of the Turkish Republic, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan got 49.5 percent in the first-round vote on May 14 despite polls suggesting he would get around 46 percent. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Inflation is forecast by the IMF to hit a million percent this year. (worldbulletin.net)
  • By October 2018, more than 4 million websites had been permanently blocked according to the watchdog Roskomsvoboda, an NGO founded in 2012 to counter internet censorship. (dgap.org)
  • The $26.5 million study is called RESPOND, or Research on Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry: Defining the Roles of Genetics, Tumor Markers, and Social Stress. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The 2011 Budget Control Act set deficit reduction targets. (politifact.com)
  • That the protests have resulted at least in part from U.S. policies to squeeze Iran is immaterial to Trump and his supporters in Congress. (commondreams.org)
  • This study examined incidence rates of three gastrointestinal cancers among non-Hispanic AI/AN (NH-AI/AN) and non-Hispanic White (NHW) populations by geographic region and social vulnerability index (SVI) score. (cdc.gov)
  • Results indicated that higher social vulnerability may drive elevated cancer incidence among NH-AI/AN populations. (cdc.gov)
  • Exploring social vulnerability can aid in designing more effective interventions to address root causes of cancer disparities among AI/AN populations. (cdc.gov)
  • His impending victory will also cap a series of political shifts across some of the world's most geopolitically consequential states, in which autocrats are tightening their control to the detriment of internal and international stability. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Both Putin and Xi, while operating in vastly different political systems, have decided that grooming eventual candidates is too dangerous to their own political ambitions and could jeopardize their control. (the-american-interest.com)
  • He said the new subsidy policy will work with the fatherland card system, which the Venezuelan opposition has denounced as a tool of political and social control. (worldbulletin.net)
  • Now that rent control is the law of California's political landscape, the city of Monterey is again considering a rental registry in order to spy on landlords and as a way to generate revenue. (montereycountylp.org)
  • The most shocking point about this poll is that this belief in an old and discredited conspiracy theory is spread over the entire political and social spectrum. (lapostexaminer.com)
  • Historically, latifundia were owned by members of the aristocracy, conferring upon them considerable social and political power and providing them with the income needed to support a lavish lifestyle. (encyclopedia.com)
  • What kind of social and political dimensions did the Fy og Bi films have? (lu.se)
  • What has not been studied extensively are the political, social, and ideological dimensions of their films, which this thesis will explore in depth. (lu.se)
  • The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 32.9 percent from April to June in the wake of Covid-19-the largest decline since 1945. (csis.org)
  • Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister and leader of Forza Italia (FI), took the opportunity to repeat an old theme of his: undocumented migrants in Italy are all "ready to commit crimes," creating a "social bomb about to explode. (hrw.org)
  • Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Northern League (NL), qualified his condemnation of the shooting saying , "it's clear that out-of-control immigration, an invasion…leads to social conflict. (hrw.org)
  • Here the concept of "community" is broadened to capture the continuum of connections and ongoing social interactions throughout the life course. (who.int)
  • IG Metall sent its top representatives to the most important strike pickets so as not to lose control of the situation. (wsws.org)
  • The COP and MOP have adopted several decisions, guidelines and policy recommendations that provide necessary background for all sectors of governments to position themselves in regard to tobacco agriculture, tobacco trade, and tobacco's social, economic and environmental impacts, and consumption. (who.int)
  • A 2018 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper Heat and Learning concluded that every one-degree increase in school-year temperature leads to a one percent learning loss. (nysut.org)
  • Ozili P. COVID-19 in Africa: socio- economic impact, policy response and opportunities. (who.int)
  • The late University of Chicago psychologist John Cacioppo and his co-author Louise Hawkley defined it as "perceived social isolation. (senate.gov)
  • The author is been less about the policy of the work, and more about the recommendations guides of a then programmed report( by the other ideology or another). (literary-liaisons.com)
  • He writes: "New Jersey's smoking rate, at 12 percent of adults over 18, is already among the lowest in the nation, and has dropped nicely over the last decade. (no-smoke.org)
  • However, ten percent of adults' still smoke daily (4). (cancercentrum.se)
  • eleven percent of adults use snus on a daily basis (4). (cancercentrum.se)
  • Oppressive heat also impacts social and emotional skills that are key to healthy schools. (nysut.org)
  • Although the Census Bureau hasn't taken a position on the merits of the new question, an August 2018 report concluded that the presence of a citizenship question "would lead to lower self-response rates in households potentially containing noncitizens, resulting in higher fieldwork costs and a lower-quality population count. (socialexplorer.com)
  • These policies have played a huge role in reducing smoking rates and other tobacco use, changing not only how society views tobacco use, but the view of the tobacco industry itself. (no-smoke.org)
  • and military autocracies, in which one or a group of high-ranking military officials holds centralized power and exerts significant influence on policy. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Recent high-profile cases of shootings and explosions in public places are connected with showdowns between criminal gangs fighting for a drug and weapons market often controlled by ethnic clans. (ipsnews.net)
  • It should also be noted that there is insignificant public support for rent control in California. (montereycountylp.org)
  • The future of humanity is the struggle between humans that control machines and machines that control humans, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, said in a statement issued in support of the event. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Those on the right support the Second Amendment, and those on the left are calling for either its repeal, or tighter gun control. (yesmagazine.org)
  • Policy)Google DoubleClickGoogle takes ad eating support and is an variance upturn. (scheinerman.net)
  • Moreover, large price increases in staples like eggs and gas have hit the poorer segments of society hard, and the population is bracing for more of the same in 2018. (commondreams.org)
  • Exploiting and pandering to these sentiments, in rhetoric and in policy, present a serious long-term threat to the fabric of Italian society. (hrw.org)
  • There are legitimate concerns around mismanagement, corruption, and inadequate integration measures that both impede newcomers from contributing to society and nurture social tensions. (hrw.org)
  • The films represent the changing social values, especially in relation to the ideological institution of marriage, at the same time as the dominant capitalist society with its own internal logic of ownership rules are respected. (lu.se)
  • It currently covers more than 90 percent of the global population. (who.int)
  • We compared 2018 American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) CRC incidence rates in Alaska to other Tribal, racial, and international population rates. (cdc.gov)