Sentences with phrase «agencies give raises»

One of the new items in the New York state budget is money to help non-profit agencies give raises to employees who work with the disabled.

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U.S. lawmakers have raised concerns that Moscow might use the firm's products to attack American computer networks, a particularly sensitive issue given allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia hacked and leaked emails of Democratic Party political groups to interfere in the 2016 presidential election campaign.

The country's tax agency gave no date for the 25 percent increase to take effect and said that will depend on what President Donald Trump does about U.S. plans to raise duties on a similar amount of Chinese goods.

It's safe to say that the Detroit Red Wings» fans are not happy with their General Manager Ken Holland after the first day of Free Agency, especially after re-signing Kyle Quincey and giving him a raise.

«Between in or around 2010 and in and around September 2015, I gave and raised tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to an elected New York City official in exchange for efforts by that official... and other City officials to obtain action from a New York City agency that would benefit myself and restaurants I owned.»

Torres and his allies also noted that CCRB is an independent agency and claimed that the Law Department's representation of CCRB raises conflict of interest concerns, given that the Law Department also represents the NYPD and officers in lawsuits.

[4] EU citizens also have the right to address the European Parliament, European Ombudsman, and EU agencies directly in their own language, [5] given the issue raised is within its competence.

However, even though it can raise the stipends for National Research Service Awards, which are given to individual postdocs, the agency does not have complete control over the salaries of postdocs who are paid directly from their advisor's grants — that is often up to the advisor.

But he hopes the Biden moonshot will help persuade Congress to build on the 6.6 % raise it gave to NIH this year, its largest boost in 12 years, and continue steady increases for the agency.

«Last month a House of Representatives panel approved a spending bill that would give [NIH] a $ 1.1 billion raise next year, with some of the new money coming from zeroing out funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery.

The report urges Spain to raise the government's «contribution to science and innovation» — currently at 0.61 % — «to 0.7 % of the gross domestic product (GDP) and argues for the creation of a national funding agency that gives out merit - based grants, more autonomy for the universities, and a major overhaul of Spain's national research centers.

In a recent blog post, Will Richardson raised the point that educators do not «give» agency to students through choice or technology or even blended learning.

Ultimately, in late 2009, Apple and the Publisher Defendants settled on the strategy that worked — replacing the wholesale model with an agency model that gave the Publisher Defendants the power to raise retail e-book prices themselves.

They postulate that the removal of agency pricing will give Amazon a monopoly and that Amazon will then implement its evil plan to raise prices.

Those publishers raised their prices significantly and this gave an enormous boost to non agency publishers and self publishers whose sales exploded.

Another way to raise your score is by improving your credit utilization ratio; all the main credit agencies give it a lot of weight.

The agency's data given online only runs to January this year — the barrier continued to be raised throughout February.

So while our preparations might be to raise awareness about the importance of energy efficiency, sustainable living and the green economy, some agencies» preoccupation is to make funny ads which can give them an award and thus win them the favor of their parent networks (excuse the advertising lingo, I used to work in a magazine about the industry).

Though the money won't come close to allowing legal services agencies to cover unmet needs, it will allow groups to replace old computer and phone systems, give raises to legal services lawyer and replenish reserve funds.

In my view, others are also likely to be grateful because, in agreement with the FtT judge and them, and in disagreement with the Legal Aid Agency decision maker, this appeal is one that raises issues on which it is appropriate for the Upper Tribunal to give guidance.

The legislation raises a plethora of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreign entities.

One of the principal objections raised by the legal profession from the outset has been a concern about the lack of adequate protection for solicitor - client privilege and solicitor - client confidentiality given the potential under the Act and regulations for information held by lawyers to be shared with state agencies.

Other controversies have included Pruitt renting an apartment from an energy lobbyist at below market rates, defying the White House to give staff huge pay raises, and dodging normal congressional review procedures to stack positions at the agency with industry flacks.

Many have questioned the legitimacy of those security concerns, given that large US allies in Europe with similarly sophisticated security agencies have not raised any such fears.

In the second post of her series, Jen addresses some of the concerns raised in the comments to Part One, and then gives practical suggestions for prospective adopters on how to choose an ethical adoption agency.