Sentences with phrase «agency heads in»

The next US president should merge two huge government research agencies to bring forth a new independent and comprehensive Earth science body — that's the idea put forth in a commentary by former agency heads in Science yesterday (subscription required).

That's also the case for agency heads in the executive branch and positions in the judicial branch.

Not exact matches

Jeanne Hulit, the Small Business Administration's associate administrator in the Office of Capital Access, will take over as interim head of the agency when Karen Mills departs at end of the month.

«Everything seems possible in a 100 years, so it's both useful and important to focus the big vision,» says the head of a digital agency.

Current FCC chairman Ajit Pai, appointed by President Donald Trump to head the agency in January, has been a steady opponent of the current rules and its working to reverse them.

The tension mirrors disputes that have arisen over the refusal by Catholic hospitals and universities to offer contraception in their employee health plans and moves by local governments to stop contracting with religiously affiliated adoption agencies that refuse to place children in households headed by same - sex couples.

Karen G. Mills, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, talks about the agency's 2011 record year in small - business loan guarantees, helping to fill gaps when banks were reluctant to lend.

In an article from Co.create.com, Abigail Posner, Head of Strategic Planning And Agency Development at Google explains our societal fascination with sharing cat memes and videos: «In the language of the visual web, when we share a video or an image, we're not just sharing the object, we're also sharing in the emotional response it creates.&raquIn an article from Co.create.com, Abigail Posner, Head of Strategic Planning And Agency Development at Google explains our societal fascination with sharing cat memes and videos: «In the language of the visual web, when we share a video or an image, we're not just sharing the object, we're also sharing in the emotional response it creates.&raquIn the language of the visual web, when we share a video or an image, we're not just sharing the object, we're also sharing in the emotional response it creates.&raquin the emotional response it creates.»

Under the Dodd - Frank Act, the law that established the agency, the head of the CFPB can be dismissed only for «inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.»

In a statement that would not have seemed out of place on the battlefield, Mattis said, «If current structures inhibit our pursuit of lethality, I expect service secretaries and agency heads to consolidate.

But Thirsk's career headed skyward in 1983, when the Canadian Space Agency recruited him as one of its first six astronauts.

But that's almost exactly what's happening in the congressional investigation of Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt.

Sagawa headed the ministry division that submitted the documents before he was tapped as tax agency chief in July, an appointment critics saw as a reward for his efforts to diffuse the issue with his statements to parliament last year.

Ford, by contrast, issued two voluntary recalls, and did so in such a straightforward manner that the head of the National Highway Transportation Safety Agency commended the company for «stepping forward to resolve [the] issue.»

But Obama fired Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 — and Flynn's security clearance would have been renewed at the DIA level rather than by the upper echelons of the White House.

Industry Minister Tony Clement has set off a firestorm of controversy with the government's decision to ax the mandatory long - form census from Statistics Canada, which caused the head of the national polling agency to resign in protest.

When Karen Mills announced in February that she would not stay on for a second term as head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, she still planned to remain in her post until the government agency named a replacement.

Wang, who heads China's top anti-graft agency and is in charge of public discipline, was the key target of Chinese dissident Guo Wengui's allegations of corruption in the highest party ranks.

One such critic of Obama's Iran policy was Michael Flynn, a lieutenant general who was forced out as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014.

Speaking at the American Institute of CPAs last week, IRS Small Business / Self - Employed division head Faris Fink said the agency will be shifting its auditing focus from corporations to small - business partnerships, which have grown significantly in number over the last six years.

The head of Mexico's federal detectives» agency, Omar Garcia Harfuch, said in May that Lopez was «one of the main instigators of violence» in the Mexican states of Sinaloa and the southern part of Baja California.

Before moving to Texas this summer to head up the Texas Farm Service Agency, Judy Canales served as the Administrator for Rural Business Development and Cooperative Programs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

'' «We were screaming at the wall,» said Tom Susman, who headed the state's public employee insurance agency in the early 2000s and led the push to limit OxyContin prescribing in West Virginia.

Bitcoin began heading below the key $ 10,000 level earlier in March after the Securities and Exchange Commission said it will require digital asset exchanges to register with the agency.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

Turkish Red Crescent Chairman Kerem Kinik told broadcaster NTV that Red Crescent teams in Erbil were preparing to go to the site of the earthquake and that Turkey's national disaster management agency, AFAD, and National Medical Rescue Teams (UMKE) were also preparing to head into Iraq.

Pai, chosen by Trump in January to head the agency, also has said he wants to dismantle other significant regulations as part of a sweeping review he said would remove barriers to business and modernize rules.

Before becoming head of the cybersecurity and data privacy division at law firm Mayer Brown, he served as general counsel for the National Security Agency during the most notorious data breach in history: Edward Snowden's exposing of the agency's surveillance proAgency during the most notorious data breach in history: Edward Snowden's exposing of the agency's surveillance proagency's surveillance programs.

He insisted that the country was headed in the right direction and that no ratings agency would dictate the policies of France, which has Europe's second - biggest economy, behind Germany's.

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From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Weintraub headed the Agency MBS business, and, in 2008, he co-headed U.S. Residential Mortgage and Asset Backed Securities Trading.

He would be another in a string of appointees who have previously attacked the agencies they now head, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who sued the agency as Oklahoma attorney general, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who previously proposed abolishing the department he now heads.

Tarras heads the Public Service Agency, which was involved in the health ministry investigation and firings.

At a briefing on Thursday in Beijing, Mr. Liu, deputy head of the commission's prudential regulation bureau, said that his agency was looking into «systemic risk of some large enterprises,» according to numerous media accounts, and that the risk could spread to other institutions.

Your father, Gelu Diaconu, was the head of the tax administration agency ANAF when Uber launched in Romania.

When even energy - friendly bodies such as the International Energy Agency say the world needs to act now if we're to avoid the worst outcomes of what climate change has to offer the planet, then Canada should realize it can ill afford to stick its head in the sand any longer.

When I headed an international investigative economic team in 2010, we visited Latvia's bank insurance agency and were told that they had anticipated a collapse of the bubble.

The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm attorney Jay Clayton to head the SEC, a change in leadership that could prompt a change in tack by the agency through which investment products come to market.

A uniform fiduciary rule crafted by the agency, however, will be business - model neutral, she said — a term that has had many in the advisory community scratching their heads.

A Washington consultant who was removed from President Trump's transition team for using his business email address for government work played a central role last year in planning a trip to Australia for Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and then took steps to disguise his role, new documents show.

President Donald Trump's appointment of Ajit Pai as head of the Federal Communications Commission is prompting many experts to believe that the agency will change the television station cap rule in the United States.

The fact is that private industry, backed by both agency initiatives and forward - thinking angel investors, will be heading to the Moon in the very near future.

The investigation, headed by the agency's economic offences wing, is looking into the victim's claim of losing just under 7 bitcoins in total last year.

The new pitch «won't be the freedom and the feeling of the wind in the hair and the hand on the wheel, but it will be the freedom of being able to work on the commute, to interact with your family on the commute,» said Ash Farr, head of global strategy at Commonwealth / McCann who oversees the agency's General Motors account.

Anonymous: unfortunately the PCs re-wrote the legislation in favour of the oil companies a few years ago and appointed industry and PC insiders to key regulatory posts — Gerry Protti, formerly of CAPP, is the chairman of the new Alberta Energy Board, Jim Elliis, formerly DM for Environment is Protti's CEO and Lorne Taylor, a former PC MLA is the head of the oilsands emissions monitoring agency.

Prior to joining the Agency, Libby had a distinguished career in corporate affairs and government relations, most recently heading BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam corporate affairs division.

Dinner was to be served, according to the agenda circulated in advance of the meeting of the Senior Advisory Committee, which is chaired by deputy minister of Finance and includes the heads of the Bank of Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, the Canada Deposit Insurance Corp., and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.

(Obama had fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 for mismanagement.)

«If I were concerned about anything from a long - term housing market point of view it's the supply of housing in Toronto and Vancouver,» Evan Siddal, the head of the federal housing agency, the Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation, told Reuters.

Major rescue networks were centered in Genoa under the leadership of the Jesuit Cardinal Pietro Boetto, who worked closely with the Jewish emigration agency DELASEM, and in Milan under the leadership of a Jesuit priest who served as Cardinal Schuster's head of the office of religious assistance.