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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

Spurred on by the success of U.S. rival Tesla which has received huge pre-orders for its Model 3 car, German rivals such as Volkswagen (vlkay) and Daimler's (dai) Mercedes are accelerating their own electric car programs.

We accelerate business success through our advocacy and public policy initiatives, our four Signature Programs for professional development, and our 100 + events each year, which educate and connect our region's business community.

And it does seem reasonable to think that Icahn accelerated Apple's timing a bit — possibly enough to finish the $ 60 billion program early and have to increase it, which after all is what Icahn wanted.

Creates a platform with the ability to accelerate sales growth: Through their agreements with Marriott International, MVW and ILG will have exclusive access for vacation ownership to the Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and Ritz - Carlton Rewards loyalty programs, which have over 100 million members and which are expected to be combined into a single loyalty program in early 2019.

He also said an accelerated program allows shareholders to see immediate action, which is «important to signal a higher degree of confidence in something shareholders care a great deal about.»

Austin is actively engaged in the Company's 5by20 Global initiative to empower five million women entrepreneurs by 2020 and is a past participant in Coca - Cola's Women in Leadership Program, which is designed to provide key female talent an opportunity for accelerated development.

All the companies selected will participate in the three - month program, which is designed to accelerate their development and growth.

Summary A cloud - based «big - data» advertising platform which enables brands with loyalty programs to leverage members» web / app usage to place ads strategically, and at the same time accelerate customer retention by offering points for active opt - in participation.

This cutback will accelerate the point at which the program moves into supposed «negative equity» — a calculation that ignores the option of restoring pension funding to the government's general budget, where it would be paid out of progressively levied income tax and hence borne mainly by the wealthy, not by lower - income wage earners as a «user fee.»

With Phase One of MaRS Centre, which is scheduled to open in March, 2005, MaRS will offer a full set of programs and services to accelerate commercialization in medical and related sciences.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The company is gaining national attention for its accelerated growth and commitment to community, including Newk's Cares, an ongoing program which has raised more than $ 720,000 for ovarian cancer research and awareness.

If that isn't enough, Adu's accelerated high school program set up by IMG, the Edison Academic Center — through which he will earn his diploma next month — has included community service at a child - care center, which requires another form of superhero work: taking three - year - olds to the bathroom.

And, it's competitors were prepared to pounce: MoveOn.org's SignOn petition site, for example, accelerated the launch of its progressive partners program, which makes it easier for organizations to sync their mass - email / CRM systems with databases of new supporters generated via SignOn petition.

Obama's proposal was influenced by CUNY's Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, which waives tuition and helps students pay for books and transit costs.

The «Accelerate Long Island» program is now in the hands of the Long Island Association, which is in the process of forming a committee to execute the plan Mr. Lesko says will help private sector companies commercialize new technologies.

The West End Lofts project in Dutchess County is funded through HCR's Early Awards program, which is designed to accelerate construction of shovel - ready developments.

The projects announced today are funded via New York State Homes and Community Renewal's (HCR) Early Awards program, which is designed to accelerate construction of shovel - ready developments.

«The microbiome appears to shape a patient's response to cancer immunotherapy, which opens potential pathways to use it to assess a patient's fitness for immunotherapy and to manipulate it to improve treatment,» said Wargo, who is also co-leader of the Melanoma Moon Shot ™, part of MD Anderson's Moon Shots Program ™ to reduce cancer deaths by accelerating development of therapies from scientific discoveries.

The FDA approved the combination of Mekinist and Tafinlar through its accelerated approval program, which allows the agency to approve drugs to treat a serious disease based on clinical data showing the therapy has a proven effect and clinical benefit to patients.

DOE has requested a 15 %, $ 80 million increase for its Advanced Scientific Computing Research program — the largest boost in the Office of Science — to help accelerate the effort, which Moniz said could bear fruit as early as 2022 or 2023.

Sandia's facilities will develop and test innovative infrastructure technologies to accelerate market readiness, drawing upon Sandia's broader hydrogen program, which includes research on storage, delivery, production, systems analysis and safety, codes and standards.

(a) The Regents of the University of California are requested to establish the Cal - BRAIN program to leverage California's vast research assets and the federal BRAIN Initiative's funding opportunities to accelerate the development of brain mapping techniques, including the development of new technologies, which will create new, high - paying jobs in California while advancing patient care and improving lives, in order to achieve the following goals: (1) Maintain California's leadership role in neuroscience innovation.

Included among the numerous recipients of Mr. Sanford's gifts, that total more than one billion dollars, are: the Edith Sanford Foundation for Breast Cancer that was created in 2012 by a gift of $ 100 million in honor of Mr. Sanford's mother who died of breast cancer when he was four years old; the Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System, which renamed itself Sanford Health in 2007, in recognition of a $ 400 million gift; a $ 125 million gift in 2014 to establish Sanford Imagenetics, a program that will integrate genomic medicine into primary care for adults; the University of California San Diego which received a $ 100 million gift for the creation of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center in 2013 to accelerate the translation of stem cell research discoveries by advancing clinical trials and patient therapies; the Burnham Institute for Medical Research that received a $ 50 million gift in 2010, and recognized its appreciation for both this and a 2008 gift of $ 20 million to the Sanford Center for Childhood Disease research at Burnham by then changing its name to Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute; a $ 70 million gift to establish a particle physics laboratory named the Sanford Underground Research Facility; and the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine which received a gift of $ 30 million in 2008 and expressed its gratitude by renaming itself the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.

At the center of the Gladstone Institutes» robust stem cell program is its Stem Cell Core, which is vital to accelerating the rapid advances in stem cell research.

For example, the UK government's program for tackling HIV and AIDS in the developing world, which was published shortly after the Bangkok meeting, makes the unqualified comment that the enterprise «will accelerate research and development of an effective vaccine.»

Frieden says the CDC in partnership with other countries is accelerating its Global Health Security program, which will increase preparedness worldwide.

In June 2016, IHG announced the Crowne Plaza Accelerate program, which includes a $ 200 million investment in the brand, inclusive of this new campaign.

Recent studies of whole - school - reform programs and school management have included only two randomized experiments, both on James Comer's School Development Program, which means that the effects of Catholic schools, Henry Levin's Accelerated Schools program, or Total Quality Management have never been investigated using experimental techProgram, which means that the effects of Catholic schools, Henry Levin's Accelerated Schools program, or Total Quality Management have never been investigated using experimental techprogram, or Total Quality Management have never been investigated using experimental techniques.

The program, which replaces eight weeks of English Language Arts lessons with a regimen of complex science instruction for a group of third - to fifth - graders, was shown to not only enhance scientific aptitude among the group, but also accelerate reading comprehension through the use of complex science texts.

For example, the City University of New York's Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, which provides comprehensive support for at - risk community college students, doubled associate's degree completion rates.

Firstly, a 10 - month accelerated learning program which covers Grades 1 - 3 and prepares for the transition to Grade 4.

Accelerated Reader is a unique reading achievement program which students do not use but which teachers use to assess student progress and assign curriculum that is appropriate to the students» level.

The resurgence of ability grouping comes as New York City grapples with the state of its gifted and talented programs — a form of tracking in some public schools in which certain students, selected through testing, take accelerated classes together.

The organization tracks the reading habits of some 10 million US students at all grade levels through its Accelerated Reader program, in which students record and take quizzes about books they read, both independently and as assigned reading.

As Chief Program Officer and Chief Learning Officer, Fu has led innovative shifts in districts» teacher and school leader development strategies which have produced accelerated growth in student's math and English language arts knowledge.

The program was developed by Renaissance Learning Inc., which has several other programs closely related to the Accelerated Math program.

The program was developed by Renaissance Learning Inc., which has several other programs closely related to the Accelerated Reader program.

Accelerating the pace at which students successfully meet program criteria means we can quicken the time it takes them to complete their degree and enter the workforce.

Individual learning opportunities supporting remediation and acceleration will occur daily through the usage of CompassOdyssey and the Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math programs from Renaissance Learning which provide computer - based, leveled activities for students in reading and mathematics.

High school magnet programs in the arts, some of which are application - and audition - based, give students intensive studio experiences in the visual and performing arts, extensive credits beyond the high school arts requirements, and an accelerated general education curriculum that promotes college and career readiness at a high level.

Meanwhile, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced that he was accelerating his annual gun - buyback program, which will now be held the day after Christmas instead of next May.

Such programs can take many forms, including specialized charter schools; «blended learning» schools in which students take accelerated online courses that supplement traditional, teacher - based instruction; curricular plans that allow students to graduate in fewer than 13 years; and «early college» high schools and «dual enrollment» programs in which they can simultaneously take high - school and college courses.

Some colleges are transforming traditional developmental education into accelerated pathways that are relevant to students» programs of study using the design principles of guided pathways introduced by Bailey, Jaggars, and Jenkins, which allow colleges to cluster hundreds of programs of study into a handful of broad areas (e.g., liberal arts, STEM, business, and health).

The Random House materials remind one of the currently popular computer program, Accelerated Reader, which is similarly designed to manage some assessment and skill activity to accompany trade books that children read on their own.

Sure enough, during the European launch drive program, the five - speed auto in which I spent most time felt a little more languid when accelerating from rest than I remember on the previous model.

Completing the mechanical package are 4 - wheel disc brakes with ABS and the latest Vehicle Stability Management program, which actually sends a signal to the electric - assist power steering and applies a touch of countersteer if the Veloster is pulling in one direction while accelerating on a slippery surface with differing levels of grip side to side.

After my elementary school launched the Accelerated Reader program — in which you take comprehension tests and accumulate points after reading books — the Redwall series became very popular at my school library, especially with a group of boys; they were thick and worth more points than just about anything else.