Sentences with phrase «u.s. open government»

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On Tuesday, Delta cheered an understanding reached between the U.S. and Qatari governments that would open the books of state - controlled Qatar Airways, one of the three Middle East carriers that Delta, along with American and United, have repeatedly complained receive unfair government subsidies.

This «why not pay to keep the plant open» argument has been frequently used to rationalize government spending in automotive, most notably the U.S. Chrysler bailout of 1979.

Almost from the get - go, Appnovation's customers were predominantly from the U.S., where the use of open source software is much more established, especially in the public sector (Canadian governments have been slow to adopt these technologies).

In the late 2000s, explains Leung, the U.S. federal government began standardizing its extensive network of websites using an open - source software platform known as Drupal.

Before the hotel was open to the public, it was the official guesthouse for the Shanghai government and foreign dignitaries, including former U.S. president Richard Nixon.

BC's provincial government has made a concerted effort to make it easy for U.S. tech companies to open offices in Canada, providing financial incentives and working with the federal government to expedite visas for skilled foreign workers.

The U.S. government has also opened a probe into alleged coordination by AT&T, Verizon and a telecommunications standards organization to hinder consumers from easily switching wireless carriers, a person briefed on the matter said last week.

The U.S. government claimed more than a dozen times in court filings that it could open the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone only with Apple's (aapl) help.

The two sides were set to face off in court on Tuesday, but late on Monday a federal judge in Riverside, California, agreed to the government's request to postpone the hearing after U.S. prosecutors said that a «third party» had presented a possible method for opening an encrypted iPhone.

Just take a look at Open Data 500, a review of U.S. companies using government data to innovate and solve problems.

Data.gov is the home of the U.S. government's open data site, offering hundreds of thousands of data sets.

Instead of relying on the slow - growing U.S., the Canadian government is enhancing trade with emerging markets, thereby opening up countries with hundreds of millions (or even billions) of people.

Some 40 percent of U.S. coal production comes from government land, much of it found in wide - open western states such as Montana and Wyoming.

Zuckerberg said he was open to additional government regulation and happy to testify before the U.S. Congress if he was the right person.

In ads, AT&T will stress it supports an open internet, just not the U.S. government's current rules for enforcing it.

It's incredibly encouraging that the U.S. government appears up to the task with Superintendent Ben Lawsky of the New York State Department of Financial Services leading the way by maintaining an open dialogue and recently, drafting the first proposal of BitLicense, a set of rules that aim to bring clarity to how government officials and businesses deal with cryptocurrencies.

A long - awaited U.S. report on resolving big financial institutions recommends beefing up the bankruptcy code while keeping the door open to government intervention in emergencies.

Similarly, the administration wants its trade partners to open up more of their government contracts to U.S. companies.

Registering to do business with the U.S. Government opens a new world of opportunities for your company.

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On September 8, the U.S. government's General Services Administration (GSA)'s program «Emerging Citizen Technology» hosted a workshop titled «Emerging Technology and Open Data for a More Open Governmegovernment's General Services Administration (GSA)'s program «Emerging Citizen Technology» hosted a workshop titled «Emerging Technology and Open Data for a More Open GovernmentGovernment.»

When he opened a crusade in his home town of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the fall of 1971, schoolchildren, government workers and store clerks got a holiday, as the governor of the state, U.S. senators from North and South Carolina and the secretary of the treasury showed up to pay tribute.

In addition to urging U.S. negotiators to remain focused on opening up the Japanese and Canadian dairy markets, members of both organizations also stressed the importance of addressing the lingering impacts of New Zealand government dairy policies that have intentionally advantaged a single national champion at the expense of other competitors.

President Donald Trump unleashed a tweetstorm of criticism of Democrats involved in tense negotiations on a spending bill to keep the government open, accusing them of trying to close national parks and jeopardize the safety of U.S. troops over demands to provide Americans with health care.

The case would bring out into the open many of the U.S. government's current assumptions and arguments about the legitimacy of drone attacks.

Release of the master plan comes as the federal government, even as it forges ahead on offshore wind leases, also has released plans to open nearly the entire U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling.

Low - income neighborhoods in the borough suffer from a lack of banks, and it is up to the federal government to coax more lending institutions into opening offices in underserved areas, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D - Forest Hills) said in Forest Hills Monday.

The action came amid investigations into foreign spying by government workers and open questions over U.S. surveillance in Germany, a spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

A day after the Israeli Army killed dozens of Palestinian protesters, and the U.S. government opened an embassy in Jerusalem, Israeli Consul General Dani Dayan sat down with Errol Louis.

Confidence in government has been shaken enough as it is by the U.S. Supreme Court's horrendous Citizens United decision, which opened the floodgates of special - interest money into politics and government at every level.

Washington (CNN)-- The U.S. government must keep all options open when it comes time to prosecute the perpetrator of Monday's bomb attacks in Boston, a Democratic lawmaker said Tuesday.

«My fellowship work has opened my eyes to the critical role that government plays in supporting critical research infrastructure, like academic research programs, that maintain U.S. leadership in scientific R&D,» Trinastic said.

Unless you're a native of a country on the U.S. government's list of terrorist states, you may even find the process a bit more user - friendly than it was before the attacks, because, as part of the government's effort to prove that the terrorists failed to shut down the U.S. economy, INS remains open for business, adjudicating the vast majority of immigration visas as fast, if not faster, than before 11 September.

A U.S. database that contains reports from grant recipients to the government on how they are putting research to use in commerce — known as iEdison, maintained by the National Institutes of Health — should be opened up for confidential inspection by qualified researchers.

While giving his testimony, Atran called on the U.S. government to engage social scientists more directly in open, peer - reviewed studies of terrorism, rather than relying on clandestine intelligence and antiterrorism technology.

Other nations, such as Norway, have already begun fishing in newly opened Arctic waters — meaning the U.S. - controlled zone could be a very small refuge unless the government can persuade the seven other nations with Arctic Ocean claims to follow suit.

Townes» appointment as director of research for the U.S. government's Institute of Defense Analysis in 1959 slowed his efforts to build an optical device, opening the door for Theodore Maiman to demonstrate the first laser — light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation — in 1960.

I'd been mostly digging the opening act, which shows how and why Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) brings together a group of «bad guys» / «metahumans» — Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), El Diablo (Jay Hernandez), Boomerang (Jai Courtney), Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje) and Enchantress (Cara Delevingne)-- to act on the U.S. government's behalf, should there ever be another Superman - like figure who isn't so friendly.

September 30, 2013 • As the U.S. government braces for a shutdown, the Senate voted Monday to reject amendments to a stopgap spending bill passed by the House of Representatives that would have delayed the healthcare law for a year and repeal a tax on medical devices, and returned a «clean» continuing resolution that would keep the government open until Nov. 15 — and leave Obamacare intact — to the House.

The free and open labor and product markets of the U.S. along with the generally limited intrusion of the government and respect for individual property rights have promoted an innovative society and have attracted the brightest from abroad.

In order to implement a commitment U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) made in its third Open Government Plan, we are requesting each DOT Operating Administration (OA) to submit a plan establishing a system under which it makes appropriate proactive releases of DOT information and data.

about U.S. Department of Transportation Celebrates the United States's Entry into the Open Government Partnership

I am pleased to present the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) 2016 Open Government Plan.

The plan also addresses the July 14, 2016, memorandum from the U.S. Chief Information Officer and the U.S. Chief Technology Officer, which provided additional guidance for Open Government Plan updates.

Open market operations: Refers to the Federal Reserve's buying or selling U.S. government securities.

Some Treasury securities, such as U.S. savings bonds, are not traded on the open market but only purchased and redeemed from the government.

Temporary open market operations generally take the form of «repurchase agreements» whereby the Fed takes collateral in the form of Treasury securities or U.S. government backed agency securities, and provides funds to banks for periods typically ranging from 1 day to 2 weeks.

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, U.S. Federal law requires financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person (individual or business) who opens an account.

The federal government — specifically, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-- is supposed to regulate online pet sellers through the Retail Pet Store Rule, but by its own account, USDA has licensed only a handful of the thousands of breeders that sell dogs online, leaving a field wide open for abuse.

U.S. Travel Association CEO Roger Dow was pleased that the U.S. government has «rejected calls from the Big 3 domestic airlines and their union allies to tamper with open skies aviation agreements.»