Sentences with phrase «agency practices in»

The CFPB has issued a number of RFIs on separate agency practices in order to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the agency.

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In a surprise ruling, the U.S. International Trade Commission, a government agency, on Friday rejected Boeing's complaint that it was harmed by Bombardier's trade practices.

Often lauded for his independence, Comey had come under intense scrutiny in past months for his role in the agency's investigation into the email practices of Trump's opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, including a pair of letters he sent to Congress on the matter in the final days of the campaign.

«Together with safe sex practice, early diagnosis, and access to treatment, we expect that PrEP will significantly reduce HIV transmission rates in New Zealand,» Sarah Fitt, the chief executive of New Zealand's public pharmaceutical management agency Pharmac, told Stuff.

It's not exactly clear what that looks like in practice yet, but agencies agree that hyper - targeting, emotional branding and unobtrusive presentation are key to recapturing consumers» attention before ad blocking becomes the norm.

The Obama administration Justice Department, for instance, has opened 23 investigations of law enforcement agencies, including police departments in Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri, for unconstitutional practices and has reached court - enforceable consent decrees with many of them.

Catherine Allen, vice president at SHIFT Communication a public relations agency with offices in Boston, San Francisco, and New York, suggested offering guidelines or best practices.

Ostensibly I was assisting with a paper he was writing (The agencies method for coalition formation in experimental games) but in practice I was his bit of American familiarity in a sea of Barcelonan otherworldliness.

No spec work: The practice of marketers asking prospective agencies to provide creative for free (or next to nothing) as part of the pitch process has long been a sore spot in the industry, yet the «spec work» practice persists.

«State attorneys general told five of the nation's largest banks on Tuesday they face a potential liability of at least $ 17 billion in civil lawsuits if a settlement isn't reached to address improper foreclosure practices» a «figure [that] doesn't cover additional billions of dollars in potential claims from federal agencies,» the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

In October 2008, the Ontario Registrar of Collection Agencies, Brian Pitkin, wrote a letter advising against the practice of sending draft legal documents, calling it «deceitful and misleading.»

Today, the FTC is confirming that it has an open non-public investigation into these practices,» the agency said in a statement.

«This pattern or practice of discrimination denies job opportunities to individuals who are searching for and interested in jobs, reduces the number of older workers who apply for jobs with the offending employers and employment agencies, and depresses the number of older workers who are hired,» the complaint reads.

He has also come out forcefully against the National Security Agency's mass surveillance practices — all ideas that tend to fly in the face of standard Republican thinking.

In practice, TIEAs allow the Canada Revenue Agency to crack down on citizens hiding money offshore by requesting information from foreign tax authorities.

These are the practices that Eliot Spitzer's office took the lead in investigating when Pres. Bush's deregulatory appointees blocked the SEC and other government agencies from protecting the public interest.

For an understanding of the agency - based model in practice, there is no better place to look than an activist campaign.

In 1982 and 1984, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC issued new merger guidelines outlining the framework that officials would use when reviewing horizontal deals.135 The 1984 version included guidelines specific to vertical deals.136 Part of a sweeping effort to overhaul antitrust enforcement, the new guidelines narrowed the circumstances in which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealIn 1982 and 1984, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FTC issued new merger guidelines outlining the framework that officials would use when reviewing horizontal deals.135 The 1984 version included guidelines specific to vertical deals.136 Part of a sweeping effort to overhaul antitrust enforcement, the new guidelines narrowed the circumstances in which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealin which the agencies would challenge vertical mergers.137 Although the guidelines acknowledged that vertical mergers could sometimes give rise to competitive concerns, in practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical dealin practice the change constituted a de facto approval of vertical deals.

The hip - hop mogul, whose given name is Shawn Carter, is the target of a Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement subpoena after failing to testify as part of an agency investigation of accounting practices at Iconix Brand Group Inc., which paid $ 200 million to acquire assets from his Rocawear apparel brand in 2007.

Chris built a social business consulting practice at a social media agency based in Manhattan, where he served clients including IBM, Ford, Kohler, 3M and Walmart.

In the first instance, a market - maker matches a buyer and a seller of an asset, a practice known as agency trading.

What this means in practice is that we have kept maturities of our investments very short, particularly for low - risk issuers such as governments and agencies, while we seek out opportunities to increase portfolio yield with what we think is well - priced corporate debt.

The draft proposal from the Office of the Superintendent of Real Estate prohibits the practice of dual agency, except in «remote locations that are under - served by licensees.»

In response to the news reports, the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) moved up its review of the financial sector to April, during which it plans to focus on sales practices and whether Canada's banks are following guidelines regarding express consent and disclosure.

That could finally be the impetus for the agency to rein in deceptive and misleading marketing practices that have gone unchecked for decades.

The hip - hop mogul is the target of a SEC enforcement subpoena after failing to testify as part of an agency investigation of accounting practices at Iconix Brand Group Inc., which paid $ 200 M to acquire assets from his Rocawear apparel brand in 2007.

Article spinning (the practice in which articles are rewritten multiple times using software) to get many «unique» articles for the price of one is a common practice used by such agencies.

I have first - hand knowledge that at least one agency with which Oberammergau co-operates has been misrepresenting to its customers the so - called «hotel» space it has for sale, and has been engaged in other unethical practices.

Another element of the curriculum, two years of supervised practice in clinical and social - agency settings, was already in place.

Some concern abilities and capacities normally acquired by reflective participation in practices that comprise other quite different institutions, such as hospitals, congregations, agencies providing assistance to the disadvantaged, and the like.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, If you believe in Jesus, you are practicing a religion.

But aren't the selective «lifeboat» procedures in fact being practiced even now by the United States, and by other governments and international agencies?

Their sending agency, rightly so, would not allow them to go to Africa if they had not faithfully practiced simplicity for years in preparation for their calling.

Stereotypes are in place because they are 75 % accurate and are an excellent way for government agencies to practice profiling to nab the bad guys.

The efficacy of a civilized society, regardless of its apparent authority in the affairs of individuals, is in reality nothing but the cooperative agency of many persons functioning, either officially or informally, to carry on the daily exercise of accepted practice.

A community change agency is any group, organization, or task force that has arisen anywhere in the area to redress a wrong, attack an injustice, heal a hurt, remedy a lack, stop an aggression, protest a practice, demonstrate a need.

This must be guarded against both by informed citizens who detect the signs and refuse to be duped and by government agencies such as the F.B.I. that are skilled in detecting illicit practices.

Finally, the answers made to these two types of questions will interconnect in complex ways with answers made to the question of how the school as community is related to church communities: Is the school itself an ordered Christian congregation; is it an expanded version of the academic aspect of the work of ministerial leadership in a settled congregation; is it an agency for the extension education of practicing clergy?

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

Investing in Eagle Product Inspection equipment can help manufacturers comply with Good Manufacturing Practice, in particular 21 CFR Parts 210 and 211, GAMP ¬ ¬ - 4 and 21 CFR Part 11, which are enforced by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US and the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) in Europe.

There is already a nationwide foundation in place that includes charitable organizations, faith - based organizations, businesses, grocery stores, restaurants, food producers, local, state and federal government agencies and other stakeholders that are committed to addressing this issue through prevention, donation, composting and other practices.

Peter Laufer: Yes, except in the environment that we have and the type capitalism we practice the regulatory agency in question which is the USDA, the United States Department of Agriculture; the National Organic Program, the NOP, is serving business at least as much as it's servicing the rest of us and maybe more and it's the position of the USDA that if companies like Trader Joe's or others decide that the origin of their products is a proprietary business tool, then they are successfully able to hide behind that claim and not tell you where something you're going to buy and eat came from.

The SWP program builds on the impressive work in sustainable practices by many regional winegrowing and vintner associations, private companies, individual viticulturists and winemakers, researchers, government agencies, and innovative regulators involved in the California wine community.

They do have a new GM who broke with the practice of the old GM during Free Agency in March, but I don't see the new GM being willing to overpay to get up to # 9 in the vast majority of scenarios.

He leads trainings in schools, agencies, and in the community on mindfulness based practices.

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The School Nutrition Services Dietetic Practice Group has over 1200 members working in school districts, federal and state agencies, business and industry, and colleges and universities.

In recent years, the word «transparency» has been thrown around in political arenas, bureaucratic agencies, and business model practiceIn recent years, the word «transparency» has been thrown around in political arenas, bureaucratic agencies, and business model practicein political arenas, bureaucratic agencies, and business model practices.

But even if you can not change agency practice you can transform your own personal practice, in terms of making real efforts to identify and engage positively with the men in the lives of the women and children you work with.

We participated in the steering group of the Family Rights Group Fathers Matter 2 project — which aimed to gather evidence on how social care agencies engage with dads, and develop models of good practice (for more details click here).