Sentences with phrase «agreement reached a year»

Last month, Kelly held out more than a week beyond a deadline set by a master agreement reached a year ago among the city, state and Chicago World «s Fair 1992 Authority.

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Canada's finance ministers reached an historic agreement in Vancouver on Monday: an expansion to the $ 44 billion - per - year Canada Pension Plan.

Republicans and Democrats began this year with ambitious talk of reaching a bipartisan agreement on tax reform, but it has now become clear to most that it will require the investment of more time and political capital than President Obama has remaining.

The company's board put a special provision in Papa's employment agreement that turbocharges his pay the way a videogame might when a player levels up into bonus points mode: If Valeant's stock price reaches a new high of at least $ 270 a share in the next three years, Papa gets double the allotment of performance - based stock.

He has admitted that the U.K. is preparing contingency plans in case it doesn't reach an agreement with the EU within the two - year time limit set on the talks.

«It is possible an agreement will be reached before the end of the year,» the official said in relation to the short - term package.

That deal followed a coup for Under Armour (which is big supporter of CEO Kevin Plank's alma mater, the University of Maryland) when the company last year reached an apparel agreement with the University of Notre Dame — a deal that school said was the largest ever in college sports at the time.

The United States, France, India and 17 other countries will announce they will double the $ 10 billion they collectively spend on clean energy research and development in the next five years, shining a spotlight on role of technology in any climate agreement reached in Paris.

We have definitely seen some suburbs such as Fremantle and Scarborough that have been stable for the past 5 years - so not all suburbs have declined in property values - but we are in agreement that the bottom of the cycle has been reached.

LONDON, April 13 - The United Nations shipping agency reached an agreement on Friday to cut carbon emissions, following years of slow progress.

LONDON, April 13 - The United Nations shipping agency reached an agreement on Friday to cut carbon emissions, delegates said, following years of slow progress.

After initial talks with Summit last year, Halliburton shifted its focus to reaching an agreement with Novomet Oil Services Holdings, a Russian supplier of electric submersible pumps that has operations in about 17 countries.

Last year's third place finisher, satellite imaging company Skybox Imaging, reached an agreement with the search giant last August to be acquired for a whopping $ 500 million.

In December 2015, after 20 years of trying, the world's governments reached a historic agreement to limit greenhouse gases.

Better still for Nevada, the two sides seemed to have reached agreement on the crucial provisions: a generous 20 - year package of 100 % tax abatements, conditioned on specific levels of investment and job creation.

China and the United States have reached a breakthrough in talks on eliminating duties on information technology products, a deal that could pave the way for the first major tariff - cutting agreement at the World Trade Organization in 17 years.

Nearly 40 percent of companies in the XpertHR poll still believe confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements should be a part of sexual harassment settlements — and 1 in 5 said they have reached such a settlement during the last five years.

Singapore has previously said it would be «unrealistic» to expect an agreement on the code to be reached within a year, after talks began late last year.

A Low - Cost iPhone Could Mean A Deal Between Apple And China Mobile (Bloomberg) China Mobile and Apple have been trying to reach an agreement for years, but the high cost of the iPhone and China Mobile's unwillingness to provide a subsidy for the phone meant that a deal never got off the ground.

«I don't see anything meaningful for me for the next 4 - 5 years, but it's clearly a positive they've reached an agreement,» said Edward Guinness, portfolio manager at the Guinness Atkinson Alternative Energy Fund in London.

On April 16 (US time), the US Department of Commerce imposed a seven - year ban after it was found that ZTE had not kept to an agreement it reached with a US court.

It's a logical and smart move: all three have made climate action a priority at home and abroad, and in light of the international climate agreement reached in Paris last year, it makes sense to work together on this crucial issue.

The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, S. 2115, was passed out of the Senate Banking Committee last year after the panel reached a bipartisan agreement on the legislation.

The 16 RCEP countries will present their offers for market opening when they meet in Busan in South Korea on Monday, with an aim to make «best efforts» towards reaching agreement by year - end, a South Korean official close to the negotiations said.

Then lawmakers reached a bipartisan agreement this year to ramp up spending.

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.

And on the eve of the IMF meetings in Washington on Friday, October 8, Premier Wen stopped off in Istanbul to reach agreement with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to use their own currencies in tripling Turkish - Chinese trade to $ 50 billion over the next five years, effectively excluding the U.S. dollar.

The tabloid - newspaper publisher reached an agreement in early August with Karen McDougal, the 1998 Playmate of the Year.

On October 18 of this year, Canada and the EU finally reached agreement in principle on the Canada - EU Trade Agreemenagreement in principle on the Canada - EU Trade AgreementAgreement (CETA).

That same year, Exide reached an agreement with Texas officials to pay $ 20 million for improvements to its engineering systems at the Frisco plant to cut down on lead emissions.

The Canadian Auto Workers union said it reached a tentative agreement on a four - year contract with Ford Motor that it hopes to extend to General Motors and Chrysler.

Scotiabank had reached an agreement to sell its Bank of Nova Scotia Berhad last year for a reported C$ 225 million.

LONDON (Reuters)- Standard Life SL.L has reached agreement to buy Aberdeen Asset Management ADN.L in an 11 billion - pound ($ 13.5 billion) merger that should save 200 million pounds a year in costs, pushing rivals to follow suit as fund managers» margins sag.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Struggling to reach a long - term agreement, House Republicans plan to vote on a one - year extension of temporary tax breaks affecting millions of businesses and individuals.

While the motivation behind Saretsky's departure was never directly addressed, Sims did state earlier this month that management intended to reach a first agreement with unionized pilots within the year.

That situation was beginning to reverse itself when Trump reached an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping last year to lift a 13 - year ban on U.S. beef exports to China.

Exxon has been negotiating the terms for installing the system for the last two years but the two sides are still unable to reach agreement on the terms and costs associated with it.

Uber and Lyft, the ride hailing companies, that rode off into the sunset a year ago when they couldn't reach agreement with local officials, have announced plans to return to Austin on Monday.

Battalions of negotiators for Canada, Mexico and the United States have been working at a breakneck pace trying to reach agreement on a revamped North American free trade pact by the end of the year but so far they have little to show for it.

And then there's Cohen himself, who just last year reached an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over his firm's activities that will keep him from managing money for anyone but himself until 2018.

Alibaba has reached agreements with governments and vendors from many countries, including the U.S., France and South Korea, to increase product offerings for this year's online shopping spree.

Mr. Harper also made sure the provinces were at the negotiating table from day one, and kept them there through seven long years of talks until a deal was reached and the agreement went into a prolonged process of legal scrubbing and translation.

It is inevitable that there will be confusion and uncertainty, perhaps for a number of years, before some agreement can be reached on what should replace that older morality.

The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics can't reach an agreement after a thousand years, and, unlike Mormons, both are Trinitarian churches.

«The deal reached in the Korea - Australia free trade agreement to phase out tariffs and duties on dairy over a 20 year period just takes far too long.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association issued the following statement from Pamela G. Bailey, president and CEO, on the failure of Congress to reach agreement this year on legislation that prevents a costly and confusing 50 - state patchwork of mandatory GMO labeling laws.

Yesterday the Herald revealed that agreement had been reached to start the scheme for three years with a fixed price on carbon - a de facto carbon tax - before it becomes an emissions trading scheme in which the market would set the price.

«In fairness, Senator Milne has developed a very strong interest in rural Australia over the last couple of years to try and reach agreement on positions that are important to our growers,» he said.

The 25 - year - old emerged as the priority for the Catalan giants as they pushed until the end of the summer window to reach an agreement after the Brazilian did his part by handing in a transfer request.

For years it has had an agreement with the Canadian amateur leagues that it would not draft underage juniors, those who had not reached their 20th birthday.