Sentences with phrase «aggressive targeting of»

While most lawyers would admit that they could get on board with a balanced, understanding and evidence - based approach to reforms, it is the government's aggressive targeting of whiplash claimants which has lost all sense of comparison or reality.
The American Lung Association supports the aggressive targeting of these sources for cleanup.
Chancellor Merkel also said that Germany would still attempt to meet its aggressive target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 40 % below 1990 levels by 2020 despite the phaseout of its nuclear plants.

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«There is a recognition that too many of these targets were too aggressive and maybe having too much impact on the economy,» a government adviser told the Financial Times.
In the Fresno experiment — the largest one of its kind in the US so far — the Debug Project is targeting the Aedes aegypti mosquito, an aggressive invasive species that can transmit nasty diseases like dengue, Zika, and chikungunya.
The retailer has also signaled to the likes of Best Buy (bby), Target (tgt) and Amazon that it will be aggressive on pricing to protect that improvement in fortunes.
Last month, the BOJ adopted a 2 percent inflation target and pledged to carry out an open - ended asset purchase program from next year, bowing to pressure from Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to adopt an aggressive monetary policy to end years of deflation.
«We view the 2,500 target in March, in particular, as extremely aggressive due to management's acknowledgment of needing to get the robotic equipment in Germany disassembled, shipped to the US, and then reassembled and programmed in order to hit roughly 2,000 to 2,500 units per week,» Cowen analyst Jeffrey Osborne said in a note Thursday.
It also opened Stumpf up to tough lines of attack from senators — that he was laying the blame on struggling employees who were trying to make aggressive sales targets to get by.
Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, who has made high drug prices a recurring target in her campaign, vowed to prevent price hikes like Mylan's through an «aggressive new set of enforcement tools» last week.
Retailers have been grappling with a number of new competitors in Canada over the past year, including the arrival of Target and a more aggressive rollout of Walmart supercentres.
Analysts said the use of the word «symmetric» suggests that the Fed may allow inflation to run above its 2 percent target, a stance that would limit the need for the central bank to embark on a more aggressive path of monetary tightening in response to recent rises in inflation.
But a new report in the Wall Street Journal says that Zenefits «is falling short of its aggressive revenue targets» and has begun to «curb expenses» as its promise outruns its actual progress.
The company was ultimately felled by its inability to respond as quickly and deftly to the rise of online retailers like Amazon.com (AMZN) and aggressive incursions by mass merchants like Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT).
And of course, fulling anticipating aggressive shipping policies by rivals that are now basics expected by shoppers, Target will again offer free shipping with no order minimum from November 1 through Dec. 23.
China sales have underperformed aggressive targets set by the company, and Chief Executive Elon Musk is prepared to fire overseas executives if they fail to turn around operations in the country, Reuters reported last month, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.
If you are concerned that your allocation is not aggressive enough to make you a Samurai, just pick a target fund with a longer time horizon (e.g., 2050 instead of 2040).
As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.
It was found the collection tactics were inherently aggressive, inflexible, and targeted debtors with severe action regardless of their financial situation.
Tesla sold about 120 cars in China last month, one of the sources told Reuters, well below the company's aggressive targets.
Analysts interpreted its comments on inflation as a signal it may allow prices rises beyond its target, a stance that would limit the need for it to embark on a more aggressive path of tightening.
However, even this strategy has skeptics.324 While established brick - and - mortar retailers like Target have tried to lure online consumers through discounts and low delivery costs, 325 Amazon remains the major online seller of baby products.326 Although Amazon established its dominance in this market through aggressive price cutting and selling steeply at a loss, its actions have not triggered predatory pricing claims.
There are 11 different levels of target allocation starting from Capital Preservation to Aggressive.
Economic data has also come back on the radar of investors who are contending with the potential for inflation to hit the Fed's 2 % target range, raising the risk of the central bank leaning toward a more aggressive hiking trajectory.
They plan to complete 20 to 25 remodels in the first quarter after which we will read the results, and assuming that same - restaurant guest count growth target of 3 % to 4 % is achieved then we'll begin an aggressive rollout in the second half of fiscal 2013 with plans to complete this system by the end of fiscal 2015.
The big forward - looking news from the quarter was that Tesla maintained its aggressive target for achieving a Model 3 production rate of 2,500 units per week by the end of this quarter.
There is no telling how aggressive the E.U. and Asia may become if these tariffs are the beginning of larger moves towards protectionism, with the auto industry making a perfect target for retaliatory strikes.
Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of «zombie» firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a competitive market), capital misallocation and stalling technological diffusion... As the zombie firm problem may partly stem from bank forbearance, complementary reforms to insolvency regimes are essential to ensure that a more aggressive policy to resolve non-performing loans is effective.
But during the last few years, the ranks of such patent trolls have grown — and they're using ever - aggressive tactics to target more businesses not usually linked to patent scuffles...
Usually the brief is to keep the ingredients list the same although if customers have set very aggressive sugar reduction targets, we may have to work with things like stevia or monkfruit if they want to go below 18g or take out all of the added sugar altogether, which would take you down to about 12g sugar [which is naturally occurring in the milk].
«For a company the size of ours that started with 133 stores at the beginning of 2013, doing 48 contracts was a pretty aggressive target,» says Michael McFall, president of the East Lansing, Mich. - based gourmet coffee retailer.
Near the session's end he was interrupted by an aggressive p.r. rep for Target, one of the event's sponsors, who asked that Earl give the kids some putting tips, to be filmed by her camera crew.
I can imagine managers like Mark Hughes capitalising on the aggressive nature of some players, telling them to target certain players, but do they actually incite violent play in their team?
Nestle © is the target of an international boycott because of its aggressive marketing of baby foods.
Aside from the concerns over L'Oreal's record on animal testing and other ethical issues, the cosmetic giant is part - owned by Nestlé, the target of a boycott over its aggressive marketing of baby milks.
Nestlé is the target of a boycott over its aggressive marketing of baby milk.
Since then the aggressive practices it uses elsewhere have become more evident, particularly targeting of health workers.
And there is simply no realistic risk that feeding children school meals compliant with even the most aggressive of targets (430 mg per meal in, K - 5; 470 mg, 6 - 8; 470 mg; 500 mg, 9 - 12, for school year 2022/23) is going to push them substantially below what the IOM continues to say is a safe level: http://www.iom.edu/Global/News%20Announcements/~/media/442A08B899F44DF9AAD083D86164C75B.ashx
«In terms of the food security of the first food, the global breastfeeding movement continues to call for greater vigilance around the more aggressive marketing of baby and toddler foods, using new promotional avenues on the internet, especially social networking, via mothers» clubs, educational foundations targeting students, and as business interest NGOs etc..
During an interview with Larry King that will air tonight on RT America, Spitzer said he has «no regrets» about his targeting of the financial industry during his state attorney general days, save one: He wishes he had been even more aggressive that he was in taking bad actors to task.
That would include «aggressive trolling», where a sustained series of targeted messages are sent.
By making Bill 371 a law that unfairly targets pregnancy centers part of her centerpiece during her tenure in City Council, Christine Quinn has established herself as one of the most aggressive anti-Christian anti-freedom of speech public officials in NYC.
As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.
The Howard Dean campaign's creative use of viral marketing, aggressive email list building, targeted communications and donor cultivation has been widely acclaimed as trailblazing.
Government - watchdog groups expressed optimism that the conviction would serve as a spur for a more aggressive round of action, perhaps targeting legislators» income or the so - called L.L.C. loophole, which allows large unfettered contributions to political campaigns.
A Rochester bar owner who says his restaurant was the one identified by authorities as the target of a would - be terrorist, Emanuel Lutchman, says the man arrested in the plot is an aggressive panhandler.
He pointed to an aggressive get - out - the - vote effort the party is launching which will include a combination of targeted digital advertising and door knocking.
Garner's death was captured on a video that went viral and prompted demonstrations against NYPD tactics and aggressive police policies, including Commissioner Bill Bratton's vaunted «Broken Windows» policy of targeting minor criminal offenses to curtail serious crimes.
Schneiderman has emerged as notably aggressive in prosecuting alleged election law violations during recent months, with many of his targets connected to Pigeon.
While neighborhood residents and preservationists are up in arms over the planned construction of a soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, an aggressive lobbyist effort by Major League Soccer is working the system by targeting everyone from local Community Boards right up to Mayor Bloomberg himself.
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