"As one of the smallest programs among those surveyed and ranked by the U.S. News & World Report, being ranked in the top 10 for the second consecutive year is particularly significant since it testifies that last year's ranking was not just a one-time recognition but firmly based on broad acknowledgement of our program's recent success by peers," Kim said.
In a striking acknowledgement that these programs don't hold up under scrutiny, lobbyists for the programs got Congress to ban the Education Department from setting up control-group evaluations of TRIO and GEAR UP.
Today's announcement is an acknowledgement that the programs themselves are made up of multiple services within an app, such as combining Google Maps for location with Twilio for communication and Braintree for payments.
There is, however, no consensus on the specific components of stewardship programs or acknowledgement of resources which need to be applied to support the program.
And regulatory enforcement actions and lawsuits in the wake of cyberattacks declare any exploited security vulnerability to be de facto "unreasonable," without a meaningful assessment of the company's overall security program or acknowledgement that the company has been the victim of a crime.
The briefing was limited, as the administration was preparing for the public acknowledgement of the CIA program by President Bush hours later that same day.
Fusion represented Univision's first major push into English-language programming, an acknowledgement that the privately held Spanish-language media company needed to reach beyond its loyal audience of immigrants to stay relevant for younger audiences.
"This is an important statement -- first because it includes an unambiguous acknowledgement of the targeted killing program and second because it includes the administration's clearest explanation thus far of the program's purported legal basis," the American Civil Liberties Union's deputy legal director, Jameel Jaffer, stated in an email to The Huffington Post.
The book is being reissued by Norton and the playwright has included an acknowledgement to her in the program and in any published edition of the play.
Obama's public acknowledgement of his armed drone program, and willingness to subject it to tighter scrutiny and oversight, won't satisfy his most persistent critics.
This year the society offers a more modest acknowledgement: two performances of a program simply called the Wadsworth Concerts, which features Mr. Wadsworth at the piano in the Poulenc Sextet for Winds and Piano; the Poulenc Sonata for Flute and Piano (with the flutist Paula Robison); and Poulenc songs (with the sweet-voiced soprano Lisa Saffer).
