Sentences with phrase «u.s. government runs»

In addition, they argued, the curve will likely steepen as the U.S. government runs a bigger deficit and issues more debt, they said.

Bechtel is booking $ 4 billion a year in revenues from a relatively new venture: helping the U.S. government run departments more efficiently.

The latest short - term budget agreement that keeps the U.S. government running for another 6 weeks gives a much - needed boost to planning for the 2020 census.

Not exact matches

The 81 - year - old government - run financial institution, known as the Ex-Im Bank, provides much - needed to support to exporters through guaranteed loans and credit insurance, and by its own reckoning, it has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury over the last 20 years.

Nearly everything is more affordable than in the U.S. Expats report that basic utilities tend to run around $ 20 per month, thanks in part to the mild weather which requires little heating or no air conditioning and the government subsidies on liquid petroleum.

The U.S. has told the British government that it would not repeat accusations that it had helped former U.S. President Barack Obama to spy on President Donald Trump when he was running for the White House.

The basis for the U.S. economic system is private enterprise, because the government has neither the knowledge nor the incentives to make business decisions that in the long run will achieve economic efficiency and growth.

Despite more than paying for itself — by its own reckoning, Ex-Im Bank has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the last two decades through interest on guaranteed loans and credit insurance — the 80 - year - old government - run financial institution is a sunset agency.

The moves by the U.S. franchisees are the latest in a long - running feud between Tim Hortons» parent company and its franchisees, which has now drawn the attention of the Canadian government.

JM: If I was running this country, I would focus a lot of resources on building a corridor between Toronto and Waterloo, the same way the U.S. government made Silicon Valley what it is.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury issues these securities to raise money the federal government uses to run its operations.

Unlike the U.S. federal government, most states and cities have constitutions that prevent them from running budget deficits.

This is the same Jamie Dimon who didn't need a cash infusion when Hank Paulson summoned chief executives of the nine largest U.S. banks to the Treasury in October 2008, handed them an agreement to sell shares to the U.S. government and told them to sign it; the same Jamie Dimon who managed to steer JPMorgan through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and remain profitable; the same Jamie Dimon whom the government tapped to buy Bear Stearns Cos. to prevent potential fallout from its collapse; the same Jamie Dimon who was held up as amodel for how a bank should be run.

One reason Russia requests the reviews before allowing sales to government agencies and state - run companies is to ensure that U.S. intelligence services have not placed spy tools in the software.

And so for example, if you look at U.S. government debt, which is the one almost everyone always talks about, most people aren't sitting there worrying about how much debt does Amazon have, when you look at government debt, interest payments on government debt as a percent of GDP or as a percent of tax revenue, currently because interest rates are relatively low, are very low, are running half, literally half of what they were in the second half of the»80s and the first half of the»90s.

The U.S. territory and the federal government have discussed swapping some of the island's $ 72 bln debt for a new bond paid from a Treasury - run kitty.

YouTube reportedly ran ads linked to Facebook, Amazon and even the U.S. government on extremist channels.

The long - run interest rate is the yield on U.S. government bonds, specifically the constant maturity 10 - year U.S. Treasury note after 1953.

When I ran a global trade and financial company out of Southeast Asia, I was continually dogged by government rules... especially the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

State and federal courts and mediators are dealing with hundreds of Native American land claims, and indigenous tribes in the U.S. and Canada have filed suits demanding reparations for various crimes, such as the abuse of students in parochial and government - run schools.

As for that erosion, recent data from the World Values Survey tells us that only 30 percent of U.S. millennials (i.e., those born after 1980) think it «essential» to live in a democracy; 24 percent of those same millennials think democracy a «bad» or «very bad» way to run a country; and only 19 percent judge it «illegitimate» for the military to take over when the government is incompetent or failing to do its job.

I just know I personally would not send my kid to an all - day government - run pre-K and the state of the U.S. economy and public schools such as they are right now, I don't think adding more responsibilities to them and throwing more money at them is something I'm on board with.

Trump has threatened to veto a massive omnibus spending package if it includes money for the Gateway tunnel project in New York City, complicating the outlook for the $ 1 trillion - plus spending measure, which House Speaker Paul Ryan and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want to pass before government funding runs out on March 23.

Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney, has been very critical of the way government is run in New York State, which is essentially these three men in a room.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has his own grand jury contemplating evidence the mayor and his team ran a corrupt pay - for - play scheme with rich donors to his now - defunct political nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, exchanging government favors for cash.

Four key Republican U.S. senators — Rob Portman, Shelley Moore Capito, Cory Gardner, and Lisa Murkowski — said they would vote against any reform bill that fails to protect Americans who became eligible for coverage under the ACA's expansion of Medicaid, the government - run health program for the poor and disabled.

U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson (R - Kinderhook) voted with the ayes Friday, Sept. 20 as the House of Representatives approved a measure — the «continuing resolution» — that would keep the government running, but defund the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

Chris Randall walks through the halls of Huntsville, Alabama's A&M University proudly carrying the souvenir bag he got from being an undergraduate researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Department of Energy's (DOE) largest science laboratory, and one of the most prestigious government - run labs in the U.S..

The $ 25 million array was built primarily with funding from the Japanese government and is run mainly by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

OPP Director Karl Erb told the board that possible solutions include seeking an exemption for the ships or finding newer vessels that use lighter - grade fuel, although he added that an exemption would run counter to the U.S. government's support for the ban.

The election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president, a candidate who called human - driven climate change a hoax, was followed by Trump naming more and more climate - change doubters to run the government's environment and energy agencies.

Unlike Greece, the U.S. borrows in its own national currency: whereas the Greek government can run out of euros, the U.S. government can not really run out of dollars as long as the Federal Reserve provides them.

Bierbaum served for two decades in both the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. Government, and ran the first Environment Division of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

Sixty - four years after a U.S. - funded scientist ran an experiment that infected his Guatemalan patients with syphilis, the U.S. government today issued a formal apology to the Central American nation.

Another obstacle acknowledged in the report is the limited supply of cannabis for U.S. researchers, who have only one option for getting the drug: a government - run farm at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Feuding between Democratic and Republican leaders has rendered the U.S. government nearly dysfunctional, with the summer 2011 deficit standoff only the most egregious recent example of gridlock run amok.

In the long run, overcoming the challenge of latent TB infection will require substantial investments in TB research by foundations and by the U.S. and other governments from high - and middle - income countries.

Set 18 months where Season 6 of» 24» left off, former government agent Jack Bauer is in a self - imposed exile in the fictitious African country of Sangala where he hopes to escape from a U.S. investigation of him for his past methods, and to run from his past.

Set in Hong Kong, it revolves around a group of psychic American expatriates on the run from a U.S. government agency seeking to harness their superpowers for its own nefarious purposes.

News outlets and reporters swarm around her, probing her decision to run an article exposing the U.S. government for their involvement in the Pentagon Papers.

The Purge: Election Year (R for profanity and disturbing, graphic violence) Third episode in the horror franchise finds a U.S. presidential candidate (Elizabeth Mitchell) and her bodyguard (Frank Grillo) on the run from government operatives during The Purge because of her campaign promise to discontinue the gruesome annual ritual.

The U.S. Government's long - running collaboration with Hollywood dates back to War World II.

«How long before the federal government contracts with Google to run the U.S. census?»

So it's something of a surprise that a higher fraction of Swedish students go to privately run (and mostly for - profit) schools than in the U.S. * The system was put in place in the early 1990s by a center - right (by Swedish standards) government, inspired by the ideas of the godfather of free market economics, Milton Friedman.

«We should question the relevance of comparing so - called U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries, when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run by states and the District of Columbia, not the federal government,» said Carnoy.

It focuses on the relevance of comparing U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run not by the federal government, but by states (plus the District of Columbia).

In response to withering criticism and political pressure, the U.S. Department of Justice is backpedaling on its lawsuit against Louisiana's school choice program, which provides school vouchers to low - income students assigned to government - run schools receiving a D or F rating for performance.

United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger lamented Toyota's move to cease production at NUMMI, Toyota's only union - run facility, after profiting from the U.S. government's «cash - for - clunkers» incentive.

This FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) certification provides confidence to a variety of security - conscious organizations, including U.S. government agencies, companies in regulated industries and other organizations dealing with sensitive information, that data stored on smartphones running BlackBerry 6 can be properly secured and encrypted.

Although the Presidio is a U.S. Army post and the DLIFLC is run by the Army, it's considered a «joint - service» school and is attended by members of all branches of the military service as well as select individuals sponsored by government agencies such as the National Security Administration (NSA).