Throughout New York, Acorn has long been a voice for progressive development and has worked cooperatively with private developers and government to win support of large-scale urban renewal plans that adhere to a set of reasonable principles regarding sustainability and community benefit.
Later that year, dozens of America's largest international development contractors banded together to form the Council of International Development Companies (CIDC) to serve as a unified, public voice for private development contractors on Capitol Hill.
The partnership has become a key voice for the development of Downtown Brooklyn, inserting itself, critics say, into the debate over a plan to build a Nets area and high-rises at the Atlantic Yards.
As Under Secretary of the Treasury during the first Obama administration, she was a leading voice for global development policies to reduce poverty and inequality and expand opportunity around the world.
Support was voiced for the development of a nuclear weapons convention - banning nuclear weapons in the same vein as the chemical and biological weapons conventions have done for other weapons of mass destruction.
An organic chemist by training, he became a leading international voice for solar energy development.
"If I could demonstrate to the people in Dudley that I can be a positive voice for community cohesion, for development, for campaigning against the evils and the terrorism and the child-grooming and all the rest of it, then that would help me a lot in the forthcoming election.
There are recent voices claiming for a service-led strategy for development.
The present findings underline the potential for development of semantic deficits of voice recognition (and other aspects of person recognition) despite intact pre-semantic perceptual mechanisms; however, deficits of voice perception may have contributed to the development of voice recognition impairment in the Alzheimer's disease group.
Two states, Kentucky and Oregon, are seeking to cultivate positive images -- among residents as well as visitors -- with ambitious advertising campaigns meant to speak with one voice for governmental departments like agriculture, business development, commerce, education and tourism.
