Sentences with phrase «major business groups»

An initiative sponsored by the Nevada State Education Association, the state's teachers» union, to raise taxes on businesses by some $ 700 million has drawn a thumbs - down from the state's AFL - CIO, which this weekend voted to join major business groups in opposing the so - called Education Initiative...

Look for the Boston Foundation - led coalition, which includes major business groups, to be the more aggressive of the two.

Major business groups have taken up the quest for better teaching and are pushing for higher standards for teachers, better preparation and professional development, and higher pay linked to performance.

The shadow chancellor argued that major business groups such as the CBI and the British Chambers of Commerce, the City, banks and trade unions all want to see investment in areas such as skills.

Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City, which represents major business groups, called the Assembly's proposal a sure way of driving out the wealthy and the jobs they create.

Not exact matches

MICHELLE Milton is one of a small group of aficionados in demand from big business worldwide to bring a touch of class to product launches or major events.

As a Boston Consulting Group publication reported, «Grocery retailer Tesco has worked with its Dunnhumby business unit to build a big - data business that analyzes millions of customer transactions and sells the resulting insights about shopping behavior (but not customer - level data) to major manufacturers, including Unilever, Nestlé, and Heinz.»

Indeed, IE lives within the Windows division — Microsoft's core business, and a major source of revenue (about $ 19 billion a year) and profit (about $ 12 billion a year), while Microsoft Advertising is part of the Online group, which is on track to lose more than $ 2 billion this year.

«Commerce is going to be really big with us, and we want to show we can compete head - to - head with major commerce competitors,» said Squarespace's founder and CEO Anthony Casalena, a group that includes Weebly, Wix, Shopify and GoDaddy, all of which offer specialized commerce features for small businesses.

The same way that major brands don't use the same advertising campaigns across all regions, making sure that your and your company's mission is resonating with a diverse group of people is important for building a successful business.

Mnuchin stressed that the change for small business owners — a group that under the current definition could include doctors, lawyers and even major real estate companies — would be done to ensure that wealthier Americans could not exploit the change to pay less in taxes.

THE Internet has played a major role in helping the Bunbury - based Lamac Group win the annual Telstra Small Business of the Year Award.

He has led campaigns uniting business, labor, and environmental groups, testified before Congress, and been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and other major news business, labor, and environmental groups, testified before Congress, and been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and other major news Business Week, and other major news outlets.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the group had slashed the products of the cloud computing segment by half, paving way for the business to be a major driver of growth.

Opposition, however, especially from several provincial governments and from oil and mining companies and small business groups, was so vociferous, as it had been to the report, that the Trudeau government retreated from any major reform.

«When the nation's leading business group can form an explicit alliance with one of our two major parties and then together solicit unlimited donations from anonymous donors, it is clear that our post-Citizens United world has become the equivalent of the Wild West,» the report concludes.

When the nation's leading business group can form an explicit alliance with one of our two major parties and solicit unlimited donations from anonymous donors, individual voters and small businesses should be worried that their voices will be shut out.

To the extent you treat your church like a business, behave less like a major corporation and more like a networking group for small start - ups.

Responding to these concerns, the staff of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches has proposed that after the year 2000, the WCC and all the world communions hold their major world assemblies in the same place at the same time, doing their major theological study together but allowing time for each of the groups to have its own business meetings.

«This study represents a major milestone for the UC - II ® brand, and it validates our efforts to develop new paradigms for joint health products for the aging population, while also addressing the needs of an expanding group of younger, active, health - conscious consumers,» said Dr. James Lugo, Chief Scientific Officer of the Consumer Health & Nutrition Business Unit of Lonza.

Former Foster's Group chief executive Trevor O'Hoy became chairman of Maggie Beer Products last year and has overseen a review of the business, with an eye to capturing more of the younger market while still having a major focus on the core products.

As a result, major food businesses and corporate interest groups (including The Consumer Goods Forum) have made commitments targeting food waste.

With an annual manufacturing capacity in excess of 35,000 tonnes Newmarket is a major supplier of cheese to Kerry Group's branded cheese business.

The company established its own bottling and distribution network in 2006, when it acquired full ownership of Dr Pepper / Seven Up Bottling Group, the largest independent bottler in the U.S. Subsequently, it acquired several other major independent bottling and distributing businesses, including All - American Bottling Co., 7UP Bottling Co. of San Francisco and Southeast - Atlantic Beverage Corp., Dr Pepper / 7 - Up Bottling Co. of the West (Reno, NV), and Davis Bottling Co. (PA), among others.

Champions 12.3 — which includes CEOs of major food companies Nestlé, Tesco and Unilever, along with government ministers, executives of research and intergovernmental institutions, foundations, farm organizations, and civil society groups — will work to create political, business and social momentum to reduce food loss and waste around the world.

She has worked closely on business strategy and major transformational change programs, delivering strong results at both a divisional and group level.

Bad times in the oil business eliminated another major group of sponsors.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Mr. Lally's past practice has included successfully representing President George W. Bush before the Miami - Dade and Orange County Boards of Election at the 2000 Florida Recounts; handling numerous complex corporate reorganizations involving multi-jurisdictional assets; recovering priceless stolen art from an international auction house; restructuring of clients» business affairs to reduce their tax and liability exposure; successfully litigating major elections cases and appeals; representing media groups in domestic and international litigation; handling complex domestic relations, divorce, and custody matters; serving as general counsel to numerous corporations in the health care, media, manufacturing, and hospitality industries; and representing parties in multi-national litigation.

Publish news of your business, community or sports group, personnel appointments, major event and more by submitting a news release to The UK News.

Lee has been Samsung's de facto leader since his father fell ill, but his lawyers and ex-members of the former elite Future Strategy Office (FSO), which dictated the vast group's overall direction and major business decisions, sought to portray him as naive and inexperienced.

Under the slogan We're in this together, the Climate Group brought together eight major firms, including Tesco, British Gas and B&Q, to promote practical ways businesses, communities and the government can reduce carbon emissions.

The issue was used with devastating effect against Democratic candidates in several upstate districts, but it is relatively inoffensive to major G.O.P. donors and business groups.

Dottie Gallagher - Cohen, president of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, the region's major business organization, is among those opposed to what the advocacy groups are proposing.

In a five - hour clean - up exercise, the group de-silted major drains and cleared emerging refuse dump sites in the town of Elmina while vehicular movement and business activities were restricted till the end of the exercise at 10:30 am.

«While the major part of her business is teaching women the fundamentals of makeup application (she offers fun group classes with different themes at her Dollface Beauty School), Jenny Patinkin also travels to clients» homes for party - prep makeup.

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During work with a major UK banking group, early research unearthed that a key driver for the business was to increase the speed to competency of new starters.

The National Business Consortium for the Gifted and Talented, as the group called itself, proposed to carry out an ambitious scheme incorporating one of the new President's major themes — the enlistment of the national business community in «partnerships» with those championing important social causes, in this case the advancement of programs for gifted schoolcBusiness Consortium for the Gifted and Talented, as the group called itself, proposed to carry out an ambitious scheme incorporating one of the new President's major themes — the enlistment of the national business community in «partnerships» with those championing important social causes, in this case the advancement of programs for gifted schoolcbusiness community in «partnerships» with those championing important social causes, in this case the advancement of programs for gifted schoolchildren.

A new report by the Alberta Chamber of Resources, a business group, and the provincial education ministry outlines the major findings from the study and proposes recommendations for businesses, educators, and policymakers.

The event, organised by Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), will see major national and global companies working with other businesses, universities, schools and members of the public to look at a range of issues, including flooding, the environment and social inclusion.

Although Students For Education Reform has yet to file their IRS forms for this past tax year, in their first three years of business the group collected at least $ 6 million from corporate education reform groups, including a major start up grant form Democrats For Education Reform, an anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-charter group that have run attack ads against the Chicago Teachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and students.

The major groups involved in developing the standards include a nonprofit called Achieve, which was founded by a group of business leaders and governors in 1996 (long before Common Core).

But these days, the business major at FSU is reciting his own poetry and hanging with an a cappella group, not the track team.

In October 2015, the Public School Forum embarked on its sixteenth biennial «study group,» continuing the organization's practice of bringing together leaders from education, business, government, and academia to distill collective knowledge on major, timely education issues.

Its major interests include ownership of 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Albany Times Union; as well as interests in an additional 43 daily and 74 non-daily newspapers owned by MediaNews Group, which include the Denver Post and Salt Lake Tribune; nearly 200 magazines around the world, including Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan and O, The Oprah Magazine; 29 television stations, which reach a combined 18 % of U.S. viewers; ownership in leading cable networks, including Lifetime, A&E, History and ESPN; as well as business publishing, including a minority joint venture interest in Fitch Ratings; Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.

Hachette Book Group, fresh off an anti-trust lawsuit by the government, was the first of five major publishing houses required to re-negotiate pricing issues surrounding the ebook business.

Amazon, which recently added publishing to its businesses, just made a major, attention - getting step by hiring Larry Kirshbaum, former long - time CEO of TimeWarner Book Group (now Hachette Books), one of publishing's «Big Six» companies, to head up their publishing operations in New York.

Peltz's investment arm, Trian Fund Management LP, owns large stakes in a variety of major American businesses including upscale jeweler Tiffany's & Co., food company H.J. Heinz Co. and fast - food chain Wendy's / Arby's Group Inc., of which Peltz serves as chairman.

Shop around «A funeral is a major business transaction,» says Nicole Renwick, executive director of the Memorial Society of British Columbia, a consumer advocacy group for the bereaved.