Sentences with phrase «against industries with»

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On this week's episode of Balancing The Ledger, Fortune's new show covering the future of finance, my colleague Jen Wieczner and I chatted with David Pakman, a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock, about the hardline approach tech giants are taking against the nascent cryptocurrency industry.

How many times have we argued with someone knowing they were really right, yet we just won't give in due to that darn ego,» says Donald Burns, a 33 - year veteran of the restaurant industry who warns against shutting out other perspectives.

And most of all, the industry needs to work with the FAA, rather than rail against it — otherwise, little progress will occur.

I compared my vision to the story of Red Bull in the Shark Tank: While I'm competing with industry giants (they were up against huge companies like Pepsi and Coke), success means that you have opened a new market (remember when there wasn't a section of energy drinks in every gas station and grocery store!?!).

As much as his approach puts him at odds with conventional economic wisdom, Keller can also seem at odds with himself — a registered Republican who calls for more regulation of industry; a plastics maker who speaks out against U.S. reliance on fossil fuels; a nonunion employer whose wages and benefits are a model for the region.

For example, I was recently working with an executive recruiter who did 90 % of his business in a single industry, where despite some success he was struggling to get a foothold against larger competitors.

Like many industries, it has also found itself engulfed by the #MeToo movement, with major allegations lodged against high profile chefs like Mario Batali, John Besh and Charlie Hallowell.

Hegarty came out swinging against what he views as an over-reliance on data in the industry right now, saying, «I've spent my life dealing with people who've got all the data in the world and yet they can't invent anything.»

Apple, with the support of the entire tech industry behind it, successfully swayed public opinion in March in its legal battle against the Department of Justice.

«Our teams are developing next - generation technology solutions in partnership with leading industry players like TD, deepening defences against emerging cyber threats not just in Canada but around the world,» Ghorbani said.

To protect yourself against accepting too little or asking for far too much, you can turn to sites like Glassdoor and Salary.com to determine the average compensation range for someone with your level of experience and skills and in your industry or company (or a comparable one, in terms of number of employees, revenue size, and location).

Malik this week also filed an arbitration claim against the bank with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and he separately plans to file a discrimination complaint against the company in New York state court, according to the report.

The week ended with sexual harassment allegations against venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck which has continued to spiral deeper into the industry this week around the permissive role others played in allowing the behavior over many years.

But economists and members of his own party have rejected his stance, warning that it could backfire against American consumers and manufacturers and end up hurting the US — and relations with allies — more than it would protect the steel and aluminum industries.

This puts the Hyperloop in direct competition with the airline industry, which will probably push back against the train's concept.

«The DOL has created a new private right of action,» said Fleckner, who led Goodwin's successful defense of an excessive fee claim against John Hancock in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in 2014, and was a signatory to an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court on behalf of the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association in Tibble v. Edison.

The Washington Attorney General is seeking at least $ 14 million from the food industry, alleging a trade association broke public disclosure laws by shielding the names of companies that contributed to a campaign against an initiative that would have required food makers to label products with GMOs.

Wall Street has started to rethink its close ties with gun makers, especially since the shooting in Parkland, Fla., in February that left 17 people dead and touched off a series of protests and boycotts against companies linked to the firearms industry.

Christina Kalogera, director of the Greek National Tourism Organization's U.K. and Ireland office, told CNBC that Greece was hopeful that 2015 would be a good year for the tourism industry, particularly with the euro weakening against the dollar and sterling.

We've been working closely with our partners and exchanges to improve security protocols by utilizing NEM's built - in security features and adoption of industry standard best practices to help protect against future attacks.

Choose your own peer group based on underlying factors like portfolio construction and industry focus, and benchmark your fund against funds with similar strategies.

The Case for Banning Payday Lending: Snapshots from Four Key States (June 2013) This report outlines the battles against the payday lending industry in states with strong usury cap protections, such as New York and North Carolina, and in states like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle of debt.

The company has partnered with ride - hailing competitors in other countries — like China — in hopes of competing against Uber in its quest to upend the global transportation industry.

From an investment standpoint, it's hard to argue against this moniker — the Launchers & Landers subsector ended the year with the most investment, representing 72 % of capital allocation, and outpaced the Satellite sector as the most - funded segment within the Entrepreneurial Space Industry.

Gibraltar Industries Inc (NASDAQ: ROCK) reported an adjusted EPS and sales beat before the open Thursday, but released mixed first - quarter guidance, with a 23 - to -28-cent adjusted EPS expected versus a 30 - cent consensus estimate, and sales of $ 213 - 220 million against a $ 215.4 - million estimate...

With the home improvement industry sentiment garnering positive sentiment heading into 2018, Lowe's Companies, Inc (NYSE: LOW) shares are looking more attractive against key competitors and the overall market, according to a new analyst report.

With Merck, Pfizer, and many other smaller players all competing against Johnson & Johnson in the pharma industry, will J&J's strategy prove to be the best one for investors?

Blockchain innovators are hitting the bottle with applications for the wine industry, as better tracking means happier consumers and stronger protection against counterfeiting.

During their time in Santo Domingo, they were deeply impressed by IJM's work — namely, the organization's cooperation with local officials and churches to better engage in the fight against the nation's booming sex trafficking industry.

Their willingness to compete against other religious broadcasters in the open market blended nicely with the spirit of free enterprise and gave the television industry an unexpected financial blessing by enabling it to sell time for religious broadcasts rather than provide time without charge.

Large met with national distributors, and right away the company's ultra-premium tequila was competitive against many of the biggest names in the industry.

Our product lines include: Autobag ® - The original, and still the industry benchmark against which all other bag packaging solutions are measured SidePouch ® - Innovative bagging systems with the flexibility to run regular poly bags and specialty bags, such as stand - up pouches, zipper closures, and more AirPouch ® - World class protective packaging systems and on - demand materials AutoSleeve — The most recognized name in stretch sleeve packaging

The challenges for the pouch in this industry are manifold, primarily encompassing consumer quality expectations and etiquette in wine, technical compatibility with product content (for example in beer) and even in some cases government policy being against economy products and packaging in an effort to reduce alcohol consumption, such as in Turkey.

While the bar is still set way too low — with fully conscious slaughter continuing — these reforms still represented the strongest action ever taken against an industry that had for too long been a law until itself.

In a statement about the decision, the OTA, which will continue with its lawsuit, said the comment period showed the rule is «overwhelmingly supported» by the organic industry and the public — 72,000 comments for the rule to 50 against, to be exact.

Harvey agrees with Keely that the industry is facing numerous headwinds including drought, weaker - than - anticipated sales in China, sanctions against Russia and increased supply in Europe, particularly Ireland and the Netherlands, as quotas are removed.

Pack differentiation has certainly been a key driver for the packaging industry; we have all witnessed the success of the Coca - Cola campaign with its personalised packaging to win market share against competitors.

Quarantine (export): An overseas country has an official requirement to have the export of cotton seed fumigated with methyl bromide to protect against the introduction of a specific fungus in order to protect their cotton industry.

With the explosion of consumer interest and NPD in plant based dairy, the industry now has to deliver against greater expectations of nutrition, quality, taste and innovation.

With the large - scale EIT Food project, since 2016 the pan-European food industry has been on the way to reinforce its importance and economic power worldwide and standing out against international competition by linking and introducing innovative technologies.

France's largest dairy processor, Lactalis, wants the industry to introduce fixed prices for dairy products in order to cope with unstable markets and insulate against cuts to EU export subsidies.

Danny is passionate about ensuring that South Australian growers have a strong, effective voice with government to guard against red tape and increasing compliance costs for industry.

«There's widespread support in the industry for the rebate to be removed from NZ producers, but every time we raise this with decision makers in Canberra we run up against the argument of whether removing that entitlement will have broader ramifications on our trading agreements, not just with New Zealand but with other countries as well.

WFP works with global leaders in almost every industry to create shared value that can be measured against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

According to Wikipedia, the forerunner to the CCF was called the «Guest Choice Network» and was formed «to unite the restaurant and hospitality industries in a campaign to defend their consumers and marketing programs against attacks from anti-smoking, anti-drinking, anti-meat, etc. activists...» It was funded by $ 2.95 million from, you guessed it, Phillip Morris, along with contributions from an unholy alliance of slot machine manufacturers, beer companies, meat processors and cigar makers.

Jewel Food stores will participate in the Food Industry Crusade Against Hunger campaign between now and Christmas with customer donation boxes located at the service desks and checkout terminals in all of Jewel's 180 stores in the Chicago and Northwest Indiana area.

With your baby's chin resting against her chest, her airway can constrict and she can literally suffocate — what is known in the industry as positional asphyxia.

FPEEG, the All - Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systems.

«In his prior political offices, Eliot Spitzer brought junk lawsuits which seldom held up in court against New York's leading industries for his own political gain, to the detriment of the citizens of New York; he misused the powers of his offices to «steamroll» legitimate political opposition, and acted with calculated hypocrisy, signing tougher penalties into law for the very crimes he was committing.

Spitzer is clearly furious with his successor for dropping his compensation case against former NYSE Chairman Dick Grasso — one of the former AG's key cases in his quest to clean up the financial industry.