Sentences with phrase «as corporations sought»

As corporations seek more and more profits, all levels of governments are increasing taxes and closing tax loopholes, new technology costs are increasing (cell phones, internet), higher and higher levels of consumer debt (debt servicing) increase... these all erode cash flow for the average family.

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His business supports what are described as «B Corporations,» which is a designation for companies that seek to drive positive social change through their operations.

If we think of the corporation (for - profit or otherwise) as an instrument or technology by means of which people seek to achieve their goals, then it becomes clear that the rights (or «rights») of different kinds of corporate persons depend not on what kind of entity they are, but on the the demonstrable goals of the human beings involved.

Regardless of whether you have a pass - through entity such as an LLC or a corporation, it is important to understand that your entity structure has tax - planning opportunities, and it is always prudent to seek the advice of a tax lawyer or accountant on the best way to pay the lowest legal tax.

WBENC's robust workshops focus on what WBEs need to know to enhance their positions as suppliers: how to hone skills that are sought - after by their clients, leverage existing expertise for greater growth, and build their capacity to meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of major corporations and government entities.

Parent is involved in several lawsuits in which the plaintiffs are seeking unpaid overtime compensation and other damages based on allegations that various employees of Electronic Data Systems Corporation («EDS») or Parent have been misclassified as exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act and / or in violation of the California Labor Code or other state laws.

As interest rates take divergent paths across developed nations and emerging markets, corporations are seeking refuge in derivatives.

Look for European corporations as well as other international borrowers to issue euro - denominated debt as they seek to take advantage of the ECB's printing press.

If situation arises, founders should seek consensus by agreement among their co-founders as to what opportunities they can pursue outside the corporation.

Rather than scrap Nafta's arbitration tribunals, regarded by some free - trade critics as secretive bodies that give private corporations unbridled power to challenge foreign governments outside the court system, the letter proposed to «maintain and seek to improve procedures» for settling disputes.

After Heron Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: HRTX), Bristol - Myers Squibb Co (NYSE: BMY) and Dynavax Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: DVAX) found favor with the FDA, it's Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc (NASDAQ: RARE)'s turn, as the rare disease therapy company seeks FDA approval for its...

The company bills itself as «the most experienced group of targeters in Republican politics,» offering media analytics services to corporations, lobbying groups, and GOP political campaigns seeking to reach specific target demographics.

That is, each corporation must seek to obtain goods at least as cheaply as its competitors.

The US has, for reasons of its own (including fears that the treaty can pose a challenge to such laws as the Helms - Burton law and the D'Amato law which seek to penalize foreign corporations which trade with or invest in Cuba, Iran or Libya), declared that it would not accept the treaty in its present form.

This treaty has been dubbed variously as a «Bill of Rights for Corporations», «a Corporate Rule Treaty» and «a Capitalists» Charter» in view of the far - reaching powers it seeks to confer upon cCorporations», «a Corporate Rule Treaty» and «a Capitalists» Charter» in view of the far - reaching powers it seeks to confer upon corporationscorporations.

Their reputation as canny songwriters & great performers have made The LIPS an actively sought out collaborative entity who have participated in numerous, oddly diverse recorded and live performances that include Yoko Ono, David Lynch, Philip Glass, Bon Iver, Lightning Bolt, Coldplay, Beck, Nick Cave, Erykah Badu, Thievery Corporation, Grace Potter, The Chemical Brothers, Jim James, Miley Cyrus and many, many more.

As a student of midwifery many years ago, the question of whether I would pursue private practice or seek employment within a larger corporation always poked it nose into my studies.

It also is seeking legal status as a not - for - profit corporation.

An alternative would be to abandon federal support, privatize the endowments and corporation, and then seek support on a state by state level as a bunch of state organizations that are part of a national network.

Over the last 40 years, banks — which are profit seeking corporations — have had the freedom to make as many loans as they want and lend based on their own profits and confidence.

There were also complaints that the corporation did not show more coverage of other small countries seeking independence, such as Catalonia.

Grand jury subpoenas for Cohen's bank records along with the recently executed search warrant at his offices will show whether Cohen received additional payments from other corporations seeking to do business with the new administration, as well as whether Cohen made any payments to others.

In response, DiNapoli said the retirement system is already a leader among public pension funds in seeking to push a low carbon economy and getting corporations to address climate change issues, such as through shareholder resolutions aimed at companies like ExxonMobil.

The suit, part of a continuing investigation by Mr. Cuomo into Mr. Espada's political and business activities, seeks to remove Mr. Espada as president of the nonprofit corporation, which runs four health clinics in the Bronx that receive most of their financing from the federal and state governments.

After her lab chief and mentor and the university filed for a patent on uses of the gene, she demanded to be named as an inventor and eventually sued the University of Chicago, the chief, and two spin - off corporations, seeking due credit and a share of profits.

Yet as our dependence on the internet grows, we are more vulnerable to those who seek to disrupt — whether they are hackers exposing the internet's weaknesses, governments intent on keeping their citizens under control, or corporations driven by profits.

The Board of Directors shall seek to obtain such other funds as necessary to fulfill the goals of the corporation in accordance with its charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.

The white paper authors did not seek out real - world cost data, business case financials, or market assessments from potential commercial crew providers, such as United Launch Alliance, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, Blue Origin, or others, nor did they contact the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.

The dispute involved an appeal to the U.S. District Court by Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc., (as assignee of Geron Corporation), which sought to overturn both decisions by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) against Geron in its patent interferences.

She serves as the spiritual life consultant for Canyon Ranch Properties and is a highly sought - after inspirational speaker and teacher who routinely addresses congregations, corporations, women's groups, leadership organizations, and countless other audiences throughout the United States.

Dr. Weinberg is the Founder of the Simple Pure WholeTM Wellness Method and offers innovative online wellness and education programs for individuals looking for sustainable optimal health as well as health care providers seeking to embrace a transformative approach to health care and corporations wanting to integrate a comprehensive approach to corporate wellness!

Dr. Weinberg is the Founder of the Simple Pure WholeTM Wellness Method and offers innovative online wellness and education programs for individuals looking for sustainable optimal health as well as healthcare providers seeking to embrace a transformative approach to health care and corporations wanting to integrate a comprehensive approach to corporate wellness!

Dr. Weinberg is the Founder of the Simple Pure WholeTM Wellness Method and offers innovative online wellness and education programs for individuals looking for sustainable optimal health and natural living as well as health care providers seeking to embrace a transformative approach to health care and corporations wanting to integrate a comprehensive approach to corporate wellness.

When the school district of Philadelphia teamed up with the Microsoft Corporation in 2006 to redesign the American high school, the result was the School of the Future, hailed by National Public Radio as «the next big thing»... While technology was a crucial element at the School of the Future, the redesign sought fundamentally to rethink the models for teaching and learning... What Next?

Choice A: Young Minnesotans with the desire to help children and teach as a career - who complete the required degrees in both education and desired subject areas, pass the state required tests, complete months of student teaching that requires them to plan for and teach full days, are hired without the district paying a private organization thousands of dollars, are paid salary and benefits negotiated through a union, are not sought out by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, and continue their careers paying their own way, without discounts from grad schools, in pursuit of advanced or additional degrees.

This has been a difficult time in our rural community as our local public school corporation has fallen on difficult financial times and has been forced to close three elementary schools in the last three years, increasing classroom sizes drastically and frustrating many parents who are now seeking a choice in their children's education.

QuinStreet Media, Inc. and its affiliated companies, including QuinStreet Properties, Inc., a California corporation, use GTL as the site of a virtual marketplace where interested consumers can be made aware of lenders and mortgage brokers who are seeking the opportunity to do business with people like them living in their area.

New York — Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P., and Professor Ronald J. Gilson, who has been nominated by Pershing Square to serve as an independent director of Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT), expressed disappointment with Target's response to Professor Gilson's letter seeking the use of a universal proxy card, naming both Target's and Pershing Square's nominees, for use in connection with Target's upcoming Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

There are American Express credit and charge cards for individuals, small businesses and corporations, and there are plenty of options for people seeking a card for everyday purchases as well as those designed to reward your loyalty to a specific hotel or airline brand.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

A highly professional and sought - after artist, both here and abroad, O'Maoldomhnaigh is a perfect example of real talent finding a natural following among the public as well as public and private corporations - an outcome that many contemporary artists have yet to achieve.

concerned citizen, # 20, every energy source has external costs, such as pollution, infrastructure requirements, carbon footprint (both construction and operation), payments to hostile nations (foreign oil) and rent - seeking opportunities for corporations and politicians.

The Kyoto Protocol was just ahead, which pitted the Malthusianism intelligensia and rent - seeking corporations (such as Enron and BP) versus fossil - fuel consumerism and a Julian Simon view of the world.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

These recent bipartisan advances reflect not only a stronger coalition of environmental and clean energy advocates, but also major corporations — such as Amazon, Google, and PayPal — seeking investment and cost - saving opportunities from efficiency and clean energy.

In my opinion, if you are a law firm then most people are going to be interested in your Twitter account not because they are seeking information about your firm as a brand / corporation, but because they want to interact with you personally.

The copyright claim was eventually dropped, but the judge did warn that sensory based IP claims could increase, as more businesses and corporations seek out new ways to protect their products.

If you or someone you love has been harmed as a result of this medication, you need to seek the help of Taxotere ® lawyers who understand what it takes to hold even the largest corporations accountable for the harm they inflict on consumers.

-LSB-...] Even those living in poverty, who are eligible for civil legal aid, often are unable to obtain assistance: the Legal Services Corporation estimated that in 2009, half of those seeking assistance from LSC - funded services were turned away -LSB-...] As for pro bono work: American lawyers average about 30 hours of pro bono work per year.

While only 14 % of corporations surveyed by Rochier in Finland and Sweden say they have so far participated in mediation or another alternative dispute resolution process, this percentage may rise as companies continue to seek simplified dispute resolution procedures and flexible solutions.