Sentences with phrase «activity of private business»

The problem in Obama's approach has been his failure to appreciate what generates productive wealth, which comes not from bigger government and more spending but from the activity of private business and entrepreneurs.

Not exact matches

Last September, the federal government set aside $ 400 million to create venture - capital funds led by the private sector, and also promised to give the Business Development Bank of Canada another $ 100 million to reinforce its venture - capital activities.

His prior experience includes private equity funding of start - up telecommunications and Internet services companies, as well as strategic and financial planning, mergers and acquisitions, and managing finance and accounting activities for both domestic and international businesses in the telecommunications and Internet services sectors.

Because half of private - sector employment and gross domestic product are accounted for by small businesses, lack of activity among small businesses will keep GDP and employment from growing much.

In his new role, Woolford will manage Cerberus Business Finance's capital markets activities, including the acquisition of performing secondary loans within both the private middle - market and broadly syndicated loan spaces, according to a statement.

This week, the SEC issued an order charging a registered investment adviser, along with its then - chief compliance officer, with breaching their fiduciary duties by failing to disclose a conflict of interest created by the outside business activity of one of the adviser's top - performing portfolio managers and failing to disclose a breach of the adviser's private investment policy by that portfolio manager.

Over the past few years, private - sector businesses have funded relatively more of their activities in the form of debt finance.

The secondary line of business is providing outlets for children through such activities as summer camps, birthday parties, Boy Scouts functions and private classes.

However, his talk examined how the normative assumptions underlying this new focus seem to retain the neoliberal emphasis on the promotion and facilitation of private business activity as the animating goal of law.

Small and medium - sized enterprises (SMEs) make up over 90 % of businesses worldwide, and account for the majority of private - sector activity in both advanced and emerging market economies.

Private business surveys cited uncertainty about future demand and the outcome of the EU negotiations as weighing on activity and investment.»

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created the RZFB program in order to support private business development projects and trade activity in designated economically distressed areas termed «Recovery Zones.»

«The EPSERP will have a major positive impact on the private sector through the substantial reduction in the cost of doing business for all economic sectors, particularly in the formal and informal manufacturing and service activities which are seriously constrained by the power supply gaps.

A highly respected industry leader with more than 20 years of media, marketing, partnership strategy, and business development expertise, Lori McFarling oversees Discovery Education's global marketing initiatives, including public - private partnerships, events, and public affairs activities worldwide.

Across the nation, millions of dollars a year are being siphoned off to subsidize a private group's business that often includes lobbying, political activities and negotiation of the very contract that gives them more perks.

In selecting communities to participate in the program, the statute requires DOT to give priority to those communities where (a) average air fares are higher than the air fares for all communities; (b) a portion of the cost of the activity contemplated by the community is provided from local, non-airport-revenue sources; (c) a public - private partnership has been or will be established to facilitate air carrier service to the public; (d) improved service will bring the material benefits of scheduled air transportation to a broad section of the traveling public, including businesses, educational institutions, and other enterprises whose access to the National air transportation system is limited (e) the assistance will be used in a timely fashion; and, (f) multiple communities cooperate to submit a regional or multistate application to consolidate air service into one regional airport.

This collaboration with Fallbrook will provide us with the opportunity to expand our business activities in the area of private urban mobility The aim of the collaboration is to develop new electromechanical transmission solutions for urban transport on the basis of this continuously variable automatic transmission.

Although the definition of «private activity bonds» is beyond the scope of this article, such bonds will typically include any municipal bond the proceeds of which are used to benefit, or finance a facility for the use of, a private business.

Over the years, John's dream of starting a successful business by the ocean transformed into Caicos Dream Tours - a tour operation which operates 10 vessels and services thousands of guests per year on various snorkeling excursions, beach cruises, private charters and other water sports activities.

Priority shall be given to business competitions that are private sector led, encourage regional and interregional cooperation, and can demonstrate market - driven practices and show the creation of cost - effective green jobs through an annual publication of competition activities and directory of companies.

LEF - which has funds of approximately # 200m generated by last April's sale of the College of Law's education and training business to Montagu Private Equity - was set up to continue the College's charitable activities in the wake of the takeover.

LEF — which has funds of approximately # 200m generated by last April's sale of the College of Law's education and training business to Montagu Private Equity — was set up to continue the College's charitable activities in the wake of the takeover.

Perhaps more notably, the court added that Finkelstein could not be convicted of attempted prostitution because she was not engaged in «sexual activity as a business» and the crime of prostitution was not intended to «criminalize private illicit sexual relations.»

But by permitting owners of businesses to operate open Wi - Fi networks ancillary to their commercial activities, without requiring them to monitor all communications through their networks, users of such networks can use them to access information without having to fear that their private data are being collected.

However in this case, although the defendant was constituted and governed by its own rules, owns and manages its own housing stock and entered into private law contracts with tenants, the nature of its activities and the context within which it operated made it a different situation from an ordinary commercial business.

• whether a right of way to a farm can be used for non-agricultural activities on the farm, such as a livery business, access to a campsite, or even selling off a farm cottage to a private individual;

When they are performing accreditation activities for a covered entity, private accrediting organizations will meet the definition of business associate, and the covered entity must enter into a business associate contract with the accrediting organization in order to disclose protected health information.

For some countries, such as Romania, this has been a radical proposition, not least because the starting point was very much to the very left of the spectrum of socialist economies, with very little to no private business activity and private ownership scaled back to the bare minimum.

Our jobs have been positively affected because of the growing number of clients interested in different kind of business opportunities (Private and Public Partnerships — PPP (s)-- , Bidding Processes, Import & export activities, Merger and Acquisitions, etc.).

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.

The objectives of this corporation shall be: to advance marriage and family therapy as an art, a science and a mental health profession; to assist CAMFT in furthering its objectives on a local level; to serve and represent the common professional and business interests of marriage and family therapists; to set and maintain professional standards for marriage and family therapists; to advocate and work to achieve public and private policies for the advancement of family life; to engage in such other lawful activities as is allowed by law and / or as is set forth in the Articles of Incorporation of this corporation; and, to pursue such other objectives and purposes that are in the best interests of CAMFT, its members and the members of this chapter that are not in conflict with CAMFT's Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws or Ethical Standards for Marriage and Family Therapists.

While attending to the needs of her family — paying private school tuition, shuttling her children to their activities, arranging family dinners at least two nights a week — she's also increased her business in each of the eight years she's been in real estate.

That activity is a positive for the broader private equity market as it brings more liquidity to a segment of the market that has typically been considered a niche business.