Sentences with phrase «as federal control»

We can expect the frontier to be a little wilder and lawless as federal control won't have quite the reach it does by the time the original Red Dead Redemption takes place.

Not exact matches

The Aurora distribution center continued to operate normally in the midst of the federal investigation; during this period, it did not have its registration to distribute controlled substances suspended or revoked as the government has done with other distributors.

What had brought federal investigators to the doors of its Colorado distribution center were questions about the company's processes around a small and highly regulated subset of those pharmaceuticals known as controlled substances.

Under federal law, marijuana remains listed as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substance Act.

For controlling inflation, the key question is whether the Federal Reserve has the policy tools to tighten monetary conditions at the appropriate time so as to prevent the emergence of inflationary pressures down the road.

Jim Pishue, president of the Washington Bankers Association, points out that guidelines don't supersede federal law, which categorizes marijuana as a controlled substance that can not be legally sold anywhere in the U.S. And guidance, he noted, can change at any time.

More than an engrossing collection of historical true - crime stories, though, the book functions as an unlikely financial history of the young United States, as it grew «from a patchwork of largely self - governing colonies to a loosely assembled union of states and, finally, to a single nation under firm federal control.»

The news comes just weeks after federal officials drafted an interim final rule to roll back an Obamacare mandate that religious employers cover birth control as part of health insurance plans.

Indeed, federal and state laws recognize voice prints as private biometric data requiring controls.

«Public - sector spending — a strong, steady contributor to the economy over the past decade — is now being curtailed as federal and provincial governments try to bring deficits under control,» the Conference Board of Canada noted in a recent forecast.

Taking place in a California federal court, the case pits Apple against the U.S. government over control of the iPhone, with terrorism and privacy as the backdrop.

State governments have agreed taxes they control, such as payroll and stamp duty, could be targets as part of the federal government's tax reform agenda next year, which many tip will involve an increase in the GST.

The process of branding cannabis businesses is further slowed by marijuana's classification under the federal Controlled Substances Act as a Schedule 1 drug (along with heroin, LSD and other hallucenogens).

WASHINGTON, Nov 16 - The Republican - controlled U.S. Congress was approaching a major test on Thursday of its ability to overhaul the federal tax code, as lawmakers prepared for their first full - scale vote on sweeping tax legislation.

At the federal level, marijuana remains classified as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act, where Schedule I substances are considered to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federal offense.

A number of operational features were required to implement such an overnight reverse repo, or ON RRP, facility: It would need same - day settlement; 16 the operation would need to be run predictably, every day, and as late in the day as possible, to give lenders time to bargain with other counterparties using the outside option of investing with the Federal Reserve; 17 an appropriate spread below IOR would be required to ensure that the facility neither induced large changes in the structure of money markets nor lost the ability to support interest rate control; 18 and the operations would need enough unused capacity that lenders could credibly propose to leave borrowers that did not offer an adequate interest rate.19

Federal reimbursement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, for example, have been trying to shift to a «value - based» payment model, where providers sometimes receive fixed payments to encourage them to control costs.

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

As expected, as their meeting concluded yesterday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and company decided to raise the benchmark interest rate they control by one - quarter of a percentage poinAs expected, as their meeting concluded yesterday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and company decided to raise the benchmark interest rate they control by one - quarter of a percentage poinas their meeting concluded yesterday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and company decided to raise the benchmark interest rate they control by one - quarter of a percentage point.

The federal policy of regulating emitters sector by sector — «command and control,» as business likes to call the approach — also carries hidden costs.

PSAB has recommended that such expenses be included as the federal government has ultimate control over these corporations.

In 1947, contrary to the 1942 plan, federal control was extended to include succession duties as well, but Ontario and Québec opted out, choosing to operate their own corporate income tax procedures.

Keep in mind that the ECB's main objective is price stability, ie to control inflation, as opposed to the Federal Reserve's dual mandate to strive for full employment as well.

If our friends at Deutsche Bank are right in forecasting the US unemployment rate to decline from the current 17 year low of 4.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent by - late 2019, the US Federal Reserve are going to have a delicate balancing act as they lift the cash rate in trying to keep inflationary expectations under control.

The FED has been testing its ON RRP (Overnight Reverse Repurchase Agreement) as a tool to control the effective Federal Funds rate at times of policy tightening / rate hike.

And so I don't see a Cryptocurrency issued by the Bank of China or the Federal Reserve as having any value because the the control of how much of that Cryptocurrency is emitted, is created, is of course still in the hands of the bank and so on.

in addition, the Federal Reserve will be able to employ other tools, such as fixed - rate overnight reverse repurchase agreements, term deposits, or term repurchase agreements, to drain bank reserves and tighten its control over money market rates if this proves necessary.

Specific policies include opting out of the Canada Employment Insurance Program and replacing it with an Alberta Employment Insurance Program; withdrawing from the Canada Pension Plan and creating an Alberta Pension Plan; assuming provincial control over national parks in Alberta; and asserting provincial (as opposed to federal) control over immigration.

In a floor system, banks are kept flush with excess reserves, and monetary control is exercised, not be adjusting the quantity of reserves so as to achieve a particular equilibrium federal funds rate, but by manipulating the interest rate the Fed pays on banks» required and excess reserves holdings, alone or along with the Fed's overnight reverse - repo (ON - RRP) rate.

Unlike centralized banking, like the Federal Reserve System, where governments control the value of a currency like USD through the process of printing fiat money, government has no control over cryptocurrencies as they are fully decentralized.

5oo, ooo priests for 1.2 billion Catholics - There is the answer to why the abusing priests were tolerated.The conclave elected exactly who they wanted to be Pope - Someone who would not rock the boat.I believe Pope Benedict was advised to retire in light of the Federal indictment pending so this would not involve a standing Pope and the possiblity of him being found guilty.I further think this new election of Pope will allow the Church to change it's stance on the very controvertial issues the Church is facing ie.female priests being one, the decisions appearing more acceptable coming from a new head as opposed to reversed stance of standing Pope.This decision to retire, in the Churchs» view I believe is damage control and not neccessarily Pope Benedict's desire.If looked at for what it is - A very slick maneuver indeed.

The federal government now swept past all the barriers that once had put up resistance — as in extending controls on local schools or bringing under the review of federal courts the decisions made on hiring and firing in private businesses, even small colleges.

Many of the states affected by human - caused earthquakes have acknowledged the phenomenon, but, as The New York Times notes, «state regulators around the country have not gone as far in controlling industry practices as environmental groups have asked, and there is little sign that the new federal findings will goad them to go farther.»

Consider as well the so - called «sagebrush rebellions» against federal control of vast areas of the western U.S — a revolt that gave birth to many threats and acts of violence directed at Park Service personnel.

Jefferson was clearly saying that religious issues were in the various state's area of influence and control, not his as leader of the Federal Union.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

Everett Piper — the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, which sued the federal government over the ACA birth control mandate — and Montse Alvarado — executive director of Becket, a leading religious liberty law firm which represented the Little Sisters of the Poor in their contraceptive fight — spoke at the HHS announcement and applauded the new office, as did Jewish and Muslim representatives.

I'm not sure a poll of federal taxpayers and parents would find the time and effort spent by these employees on the journal article — which I personally viewed purely as a form of reputational damage control — to be a worthy use of these funds when other aspects of our meal program are in clear need of improvement.

As the US Federal government pays for a greater and greater fraction of health care, I see it as inevitable that an increasing amount of care is provided by mid-level staff as a means of cost controAs the US Federal government pays for a greater and greater fraction of health care, I see it as inevitable that an increasing amount of care is provided by mid-level staff as a means of cost controas inevitable that an increasing amount of care is provided by mid-level staff as a means of cost controas a means of cost control.

That's thanks to the Clean Water Act, originally enacted in 1948 as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, which was significantly reorganized and expanded in 1972.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the legality of the checkoff programs as «government speech», finding: «the message... is controlled by the Federal Government.»

Federal regulations serve as the baseline for school nutrition programs thus allowing state governments and local school boards an element of local control.

«In addition to the entire federal government, the governments of 25 states are fully controlled by Republicans as opposed to only 5 by Democrats.

As many as two - thirds of all commuter railroads in the United States — including the LIRR — are on pace to miss a December deadline to have lifesaving positive train control technology operational on their systems, according to a new federal reporAs many as two - thirds of all commuter railroads in the United States — including the LIRR — are on pace to miss a December deadline to have lifesaving positive train control technology operational on their systems, according to a new federal reporas two - thirds of all commuter railroads in the United States — including the LIRR — are on pace to miss a December deadline to have lifesaving positive train control technology operational on their systems, according to a new federal report.

Long also blasted the measure as a «political charade» that only boosts Cuomo's political standing by being the first state in the nation to pass gun control legislation, even before the federal government and Obama administration can do something on the issue.

Cuomo couched the unity effort as part of his push back against the federal government, controlled by Republicans, and President Donald Trump's administration.

MIDTOWN — As the federal investigation into his political fundraising activities continues, Mayor Bill de Blasio questioned the political motivations behind the leak of a letter from the State Board of Elections questioning the legality of his effort to raise money to help Democrats take control of the state Senate in 2014.

In Schenectady, he escorted the federal railroad administrator to inspect train tracks that he believes should be eligible for federal funds to install the safety feature known as Positive Train Control.

Of course, even if you can economize a specific policy on scale (e.g. negotiating medical costs visavi Obamacare, in theory), that still runs smack into the other downsides of having a federal policy, both # 1 (you impose Obamacare on ~ 50 % of the country that hates it by force); and # 3 (if Obamacare is a bad policy, there's no way to easily tell because it's not like we have a duplicate USA that doesn't run Obamacare and serves as a control group for an experiment).

In the United States, this system of Government is called a Jeffersonian Democracy, which favors a weak centralized government (without writing tons, a Jeffersonian believes the Local Government should have more control over an individual by law as they are easier for the individual to fight) and as the scope of authority rises in a federal system, the government deals less and less with the individual and more and more with lower governments.