Sentences with phrase «also established policies»

He said the city also established policies like eliminating arrests for low - level marijuana possession, saying that arrests in many cases are a last resort.

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It also offers specific policy recommendations including providing tax credits to promote venture capital investments in minority businesses, as well as tax credits for new low - income entrepreneurs, and encouraging the use by credit rating agencies of alternative data such as rent and utility payments in establishing credit histories.

An emerging focus for startups, established institutions, and policy makers is to facilitate access to new payments providers in a way that boosts competition while also creating greater choice and convenience for the end user.

But he was also charged with putting together a strategic plan that would encompass establishing new policies and procedures, salary schedules, compensation committees, employee reviews, and more.

Comments received by the Department and media reports also indicate that many financial institutions already had completed or largely completed work to establish policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the Impartial Conduct Standards earlier this year (e.g., drafting and implementing training for staff, drafting client correspondence and explanations of revised product and service offerings, negotiating changes to agreements with product manufacturers as part of their approach to compliance with the PTEs, changing employee and agent compensation structures, and designing conflict - free product offerings), and the Department believes that financial institutions may use this compliance infrastructure to ensure that they meet the Impartial Conduct Standards after taking the additional Start Printed Page 16910sixty days for an orderly transition between June 9, 2017, and January 1, 2018.

The deal will also establish a side agreement between the United States and South Korea that is intended to deter «competitive devaluation» of both countries» currencies — which can artificially lower the cost of imports bought by consumers — and to create more transparency on issues of monetary policy.

When hiring a new employee, the goal is to find a great performer who will also follow your established policies and procedures, be able to get along with his or her co-workers, and will be loyal to your company.

The Finance Minister should, for both political and policy reasons, establish a new process involving an independent «commission of tax and policy experts» to address not only income tax reform, but also, equally important, the structure (income taxes and GST) of the tax system itself.

You also need to work with legal to establish or update your enterprise social media policy and ethics.

An independent Puerto Rico could also establish a tax and regulatory framework that is suitable to its status as a middle - income country, rather than subjecting businesses to policies designed for the much richer United States.

If corporations profit from what people decide to buy, and if they adjust their production and advertising policies according to buyers «preferences and the interests of stockholders, then they also are amenable to what the public refuses to buy or what their stockholders establish as policy, and should be expected to adjust their production and advertising plans to take into account buyer and stockholder preferences.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

We consistently design and manufacture quality products but are also committed to customers by establishing clear policy, good planning and implementation, good resource management, efficient process control, measurement, and analysis.

He also established and leads the George Institute's internationally reputed Food Policy Division that houses a WHO Collaborating Centre in salt reduction, where he conducts innovative food policy research and advPolicy Division that houses a WHO Collaborating Centre in salt reduction, where he conducts innovative food policy research and advpolicy research and advocacy.

The policy also requires the commissioners to establish a course of instruction relating to the recognition, treatment and monitoring of pupils who receive a concussion, and to develop an informational pamphlet relating to concussions.

The Department has also produced Healthy School Nutrition Environment - Establishing a Local School Wellness Policy, which not only provides background information on federal and state requirements but also the necessary components and steps necessary to create and implement a pPolicy, which not only provides background information on federal and state requirements but also the necessary components and steps necessary to create and implement a policypolicy.

Additional Accountability Requirements: Code 20 -26-9 (also known as Act 111, 2006) requires each school board to establish a coordinated school health advisory council and adopt a local wellness policy that takes the advisory council's recommendations into consideration.

The law also establishes the Hospital Infant Feeding Act, which requires all general acute care hospitals and special hospitals that have perinatal units to have an infant - feeding policy and to clearly post that policy in the perinatal unit or on the hospital or health system website.

It can also be extended to one day for the purpose of training personnel in hospital settings where the ATLFF is established as the policy - based tongue - tie screening and assessment procedure.

He is also one of the few senior Labour figures to attempt fresh thinking, commissioning a review of the Treasury, establishing a group of formidable economic advisers, framing policies around what he calls an entrepreneurial state.

Flanagan also said he'd like to work with Cuomo to establish a uniform policy for sexual assault on college campuses.

He also called on employers of labour to establish systems hat accommodate on - the - job training programmes and internships to complement the efforts of government's educational policies.

The California Assembly also has launched public hearings to improve its sexual harassment policies and plans to establish a hotline for victims.

It also aims to improve recycling policies State - wide and provide cleaner water by establishing and promoting stricter standards for testing drinking water from private wells.

Goldman said that scientific integrity policies established in 24 federal agencies during the George W. Bush administration will be helpful in navigating the next four years, and the Union of Concerned Scientists has also built a secure website for federal scientists to report scientific integrity abuses.

The document also suggests that universities establish procedures, where they do not already exist, to ensure that postdoctoral fellows are fully integrated into university policies.

A periodically administered survey of the postdoc population can provide accurate information that would help policy - makers establish priorities and also set a baseline against which changes in science postdocs» conditions can be measured.

A 2025 target, some argue, has the advantage of establishing concrete near - term policies while also keeping pressure on countries by getting them back to the negotiating table in just another five years.

Suresh said the discussions should not only help long - established funders to fine - tune their practices, but also help developing nations by providing model practices and policies.

Unilever was also a player in palm oil trader Wilmar's recent agreement to adopt a no - deforestation policy, which prohibits its suppliers from establishing plantations on lands with large amounts of carbon — like peat soils — or lands with a high conservation value (ClimateWire, Dec. 8, 2013).

Thus were established, after World War II, the NOAO and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)-- also among the first National Science Foundation (NSF) entities to be federally funded — with the aim of giving all U.S. astronomers access to top facilities.6 These observatories quickly adopted a so - called open skies policy (OSP), which guaranteed any researcher, U.S. or international, equal and free access to the federally funded NOAO / NRAO telescopes.

The bill also includes a controversial directive instructing EPA, together with the energy and agriculture departments, to «establish clear policies that reflect the carbon neutrality of biomass.»

The firm also would establish a $ 2 million settlement fund, with about $ 500,000 set aside for gay, lesbian and bisexual Californians who can show they were harmed by eHarmony's policies.

References to «you» in this Privacy Policy shall also include any Authorized Users (as defined in our Terms of Use, found here: https://www.cinemax.com/terms-of-use.html) established by you, if available.

Also in 2010, Representative Phillip Owens, the chair of the House Education and Public Works Committee introduced a bill aimed at establishing a more sustainable funding policy for CSD, and despite being stalled by opponents representing traditional districts, the 2011 - 12 state budget included a funding increase for CSD schools.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is also expected to announce four other measures concerning educational policy, including the protection of spending per - pupil, a guarantee ensuring all teachers in state - funded schools will be qualified by September 2016, the establishing of a Royal College of Teachers and a National Leadership Institute to promote high quality leadership in schools in deprived areas.

Schools also need to develop policies against hazing and to establish chain - of - command procedures to follow when hazing occurs.

In city after city, communities have also complained about processes that have been fast - tracked, or that circumvent established policies around school closings.

It also expresses the intent of the Legislature» to require charter schools to establish conflict - of - interest policies - required under the Political Reform Act of 1974 - similar to those currently in place for school districts.

It is also ending the requirement, which it says is «bureaucratic», for local authorities to establish admissions forums - local bodies which scrutinise admissions policies and practices.

District policy also indicated that learners should «evaluate different texts» and «establish and justify personal opinions of various literary forms,» but teachers were offered no explicit guidelines about helping students articulate ideas about text.

The state department also said it will make charter schools and their management companies to adhere to anti-nepotism and conflict - of - interest policies established for public school districts.

It also will establish an additional venue for undermining school choice as well as another issue - the administrative costs to the state - on which to attack the policy.

The report also contains some softer proposals — supporting student creativity, engaging parents and the community, promoting partnerships with post-secondary institutions and encouraging career exploration — as well as some changes to the way state education policy is established and carried out.

Federal policy also has reflected much of this change, with the U.S. Department of Education providing options for states to seek waivers from some of the dated NCLB requirements (in light of delays in Congressional reauthorization of that law), in an effort to promote innovation toward satisfaction of the rigorous kinds of standards established by the common core state standards.

And perhaps we'll also see Google quickly open its Ebooks store to the rest of the world: Until now, its policy has been to only sell ebooks in countries where it had established local partnerships.

Also, if you take withdrawals before the surrender period established by the policy ends you may have to pay a penalty for early withdrawal.

Lenders also are establishing policies on risk, and are offering clear guidelines on what they will or won't accept in terms of TIC borrowers.

The Housing Act of 1949 was significant and broad in its creation of a new federal role, but it was also instrumental in in establishing housing as a central policy focus.

This coordination, led by Drs. Mwangi and Lankester, is not only critical for rabies elimination but also will establish policies that can be broadly applied to transboundary diseases.