Sentences with phrase «from public works»

From public works projects to housing regulations, you'll hear several topics of interest at town hall meetings.

The case results from Public Works and Government Services Canada officials contacting the Competition Bureau in 2005 to voice concerns about certain bidding processes, spurring the bureau to begin an investigation.

The Coronado School opened in 1937 in Albuquerque, N.M., one of many schools built during the Depression with federal funding from the Public Works Administration.

The investigator said, «That the buildings highlighted above are reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities purchase with the stolen funds from the Public Works Corporation, Lagos State.

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But now that the season has changed and we're shifting toward six straight months of cooler weather, I've got a new addition to my after - work uniform: the All Day Every Day Pant from Public Rec.

A Snap employee told the Times that the company was looking at ways to educate employees on financial management before the IPO, such as bringing in professors from Stanford to talk about how employees» lives can change after working for a company that goes public.

Ali, moreover, points out that planners, because they work so often with members of the public, need to be versed not just in the technical elements of the job; they must also possess exemplary communications skills, and have to be able to respond to criticism or skepticism from residents.

The site scanned public comments from Chrome OS developers, and found that a device codenamed «Eve» is in the works.

Away from public meetings, she adds, more planners also find themselves working with new forms of real - time urban data and analytics techniques to assist with their work.

A 60 per cent replacement rate means that someone who earned $ 40,000 on average while working would receive $ 24,000 in retirement income from public sources.

While LGBT inclusion has been a winning stance for companies from a marketing standpoint — several major companies made a public showing of support for LGBT rights during the Sochi Olympics earlier this year — the survey results suggest that companies have some work to do to make employees feel welcomed within their workplaces.

Because the outdoor gear retailer discourages staff from working more than 50 hours a week and tends to attract active, fit employees, «my hunch is sleep deprivation isn't as much an issue here,» says public affairs manager Tim Southam.

King also said in a response to an open letter from NYC public advocate Laetitia James, «We welcome the opportunity to work with anyone that can help us reduce potential discrimination in the Airbnb community.»

The device, still a work - in - progress, sparked an onslaught of privacy and safety concerns everywhere from public restrooms to movie theaters and strip clubs.

So before taking any action against employees who refuse to work, consider guidance from public authorities and whatever other employers in the same geographic area are doing.

To qualify, you'll still need to have a loan from the Direct program, have had made all of your payments in full and on time, and have worked 10 years in a public service job with a qualifying employer.

Before I started working from home, I got into the habit of taking taxis, Ubers, and Vias to work, due to my profound dislike of public transportation.

The source said the pay cap was brought in to «deal with the mess we inherited from Labour» and acknowledged the «hard work and sacrifice» made by public sector workers, saying jobs had been protected and the deficit reduced by three quarters.

Although Wojcicki endured a humiliating and public divorce from Brin, the two are now friendly, and the outdoorsy entrepreneur, who eschews makeup and rides her bike to work every day, admits that she sometimes allows her kids to wear their clothes to bed «to save time in the morning.»

This category covers everyone from the director of Elections Canada to provincial public works directors.

«Cohen's directorate appeared to cross over from public relations and «corporate responsibility» work into active corporate intervention in foreign affairs at a level that is normally reserved for states,» Assange said, referring to an e-mail leaked by WikiLeaks claiming to discuss Cohen's activities as Google Ideas chief.

The plan, outlined in a document titled «A Vision for Change», aims to ensure all transgender people in Britain can live full authentic lives at home, at work and in public, free from discrimination or abuse.

In fact, it remains the communication method many entrepreneurs choose for everything from checking in with staff working remotely to communicating with suppliers overseas to updating investors (most public companies still choose to deliver quarterly results this way).

While it's highly unlikely that someone from a major competitor will be sidled up next to you on a plane or train, remember that you may be working with sensitive information in a public space.

At the height of the Clayoquot standoff, MacMillan Bloedel employed public relations campaigns, marshalled exhaustive research from its foresters and scientists, and fought its opponents in court — and none of it was working.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

Ebola has infected 28,000 people and killed 11,000 of those in the last 20 months, according to a statement from Gavi, a global public - private partnership that works to get new vaccines to those who need them.

«Horowitz will call this an effort to be «transparent,» but the response from the public will be the same — that it is a response to political pressure,» said Frank Montoya Jr., a former FBI special agent who retired in 2016 and worked closely with the former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

ECB executive board member Benoit Coeure said the bank was working hard to prevent public expectations about inflation from becoming entrenched «on either side» — neither too high nor too low.

The partners had the help of leaks from staffers inside the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the entity created by Congress more than a decade ago to make sure auditors are doing work that meets regulatory standards.

Meanwhile, the decision to end Yahoo's work - from - home policy was a bit of a public - relations nightmare for the brand.

He has been a well - liked person and he clearly mishandled this from a public relations point of view, and clearly he's got to work out his personal issues.

This wouldn't just be effective from a public health standpoint — every dollar invested in funding more depression and anxiety treatment options leads to a four dollar return in better work productivity, according to the WHO.

From Allsteel's perspective, an ideal office is a place where you can work in private or in public, by yourself or in a group.

The company now offers products for every exterior surface of a building, working on projects ranging from bungalows to shopping centres to flashy Mercedes - Benz dealerships to public buildings like the National Library and Archives of Canada.

They are operating on a fraction of the budget of the big public - sector fusion experiments (see my briefing from last August), yet the consensus among scientists who've reviewed its design for «magnetized target fusion» is that, to borrow a phrase from Captain James T. Kirk, it just might work.

«We have been working closely with the local planning authority and meeting with the public in the surrounding communities on the proposal, and we are partnering with local organisations to provide public benefits from the mast, including community radio, wireless broadband access and education initiatives.»

The nitrate work print of the film — which was never shown in public — was given by Cinemazero to one of Italy's major film archives, the Cineteca del Friuli in nearby Gemona, before being transferred to the George Eastman House in order to be preserved with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Trump signed the Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility executive order on Tuesday, directing federal agencies to expand work requirements for those who receive benefits from government assistance programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, and public housing.

He's started companies, held elected office, and piled up accolades for his public work starting from a very young age.

With the Quebec government clamping down on building inspections across the province, Atwill - Morin has swung from primarily doing restoration of public buildings to working on private real estate.

Still, Johnson notes that the work of restoring Lululemon's image as a retailer that fits every body remains, and it may be that only a blatant public apology from company executives (aside from Wilson) will do the trick.

The work by Uber doesn't involve any public trials of vehicles on the road — at least not yet — but it will give Uber access to talent and tech coming from one of the bright spots on the global AI and autonomous driving scene.

From 2004 — 2009, Mr. Kogler worked as a multi-strategy analyst focused on public securities at EnTrust Capital Partners, an investment management firm with over $ 6 billion in assets under management.

The three cases cover deals inked in different circumstances and with different parties, but they are all trying to shield Trump and stop potentially damaging information — alleged affairs in the case of Daniels and McDougal, and an alleged toxic work environment in another — from being made public.

The ordinance seeks to establish regulation and a permitting process that would enable the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency or Department of Public Works to take action against scooters from companies that don't have an official permit from the city.

The input received from reporting issuers, directors, and the investor relations people that work for Canadian companies shows the idea obviously hit a nerve with many Canadian public companies of all sizes, says Tuzyk.

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Her own story and refusal to shrink from the public eye challenges preconceptions about sex work: namely, the assumption that those in the sex industry forfeit their right to autonomy and human dignity.

The sporting - goods retailer is working with three lobbyists from the Glover Park, a legislative and public affairs firm, who have worked with both Democrats and Republicans.