Sentences with phrase «as policy design»

But when it comes to permanent life insurance, some other factors weigh heavily on your premium, such as policy design.

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A company that designs tests that it uses only in its own labs, as Theranos does, doesn't need to get them approved, but the FDA is considering changing its policy.
The chain is famous for League's strict anti-texting policy, as well as the stars who show up to premiere films at the Austin location and the special posters designed for many of the screenings, which may pair cult classics with themed foods.
It can result in unintended consequences, such as the possible stigmatization of female directors whom the policy is designed to promote.
«Depending on plan design, consumers who purchase short - term, limited - duration insurance policies and then develop chronic conditions could face financial hardship as a result, until they are able to enroll in PPACA - compliant plans that would provide coverage for such conditions,» the administration's report said.
As president of 2 Hounds Design, a $ 3 million manufacturer of fashionable products for dogs, based in Monroe, North Carolina, she expects to benefit from any made - in - the - USA policies Trump implements.
Apparently a lot of people who've incorporated are sensitive about having this gap between personal and small - business tax rates called a «loophole,» but what the heck: It's a loophole, in the sense that it was never designed as a goal of public policy.
Of course, just which matters ought to be left to judgment on a case - by - case basis, and which ought to be categorically determined as a matter of policy, is a hard problem for those who design institutions of all kinds.
The basic elements of TQM, as expounded by the American Society for Quality Control, are 1) policy, planning, and administration; 2) product design and design change control; 3) control of purchased material; 4) production quality control; 5) user contact and field performance; 6) corrective action; and 7) employee selection, training, and motivation.
Most traditional company policies are designed to impose constraints on employees under the theory that workers are untrustworthy cogs who will do as little as possible if not carefully managed.
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.
But not even monetary policy was designed to deal with changes in the relative prices of commodities, such as oil.
As I see it, there are two key steps that are essential in the design of an appropriate monetary policy strategy.
The policies are categorised as loan insurance products and are designed to protect policyholders who lose their jobs from credit card repayments, for example.
Connelly said she has begun to think of the policies as akin to a conservatively - designed «structured product.»
As with any policy designed to deal with one aspect of a complex issue, there were side effects.
He joined the RBA as a junior economist in 1980 and in the 1990s he held senior policy advising positions in the economics and markets areas, and was closely involved in designing and establishing Australia's highly successful monetary policy framework in the early 1990s.
A couple of weeks ago, the NDP suggested removing the GST from heating bills, and I bemoaned the idea as just another example of a policy designed to fit a communications strategy instead of the other way around.
The day's trading was driven by uncertainty over how to interpret the Federal Reserve's recent policy statement as well as worries over talks in Beijing designed to avert a full - blown U.S. - China trade war.
Temporary departures from the target inflation rate of this nature are acceptable, as Australia's flexible inflation targeting policy is specifically designed to cater for volatility in the CPI.
Dan, The fiscal stimulus is an exogenous policy tool designed as an alternative to or a substitute for the endogenous adjustment of the market price.
Entrepreneurs will find all the information they need to design their stock option plans and policies: ready - to - use allocation models, advice from fellow startup founders who've been through it, plus our own perspective as investors.
It's common for retailers to require their suppliers to have a product liability policy explained in the first scenario above because if a product fails as a result of a manufacturing flaw or design flaw, they want to make sure there is a layer of protection between the manufacturer or importer and themselves and that their supplier will be able to handle the financial responsibilities of a product failure including paying any fines or legal defense costs.
New EI policies, designed to hurt rather than help; new appeal mechanisms, rigged against claimants; and employee cuts everywhere, made without rhyme or reason across the public service, as the Parliamentary Budget Office has just reported.
An indemnity design is typically more advantageous than reimbursement because funds from the policy can be accessed for any need, without receipt, once the insured is certified as qualifying for coverage.
For example, the government could take advantage of the cultural competency of these returnees by utilizing them as consultants when designing policy aimed at attracting tourists.
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.
With a wave of anti-immigrant, anti-free trade sentiment sweeping through Europe, and uncertainty in the U.S. with regard to its H - 1B visa program, Hussen said the federal government's response is simply business as usual — carrying on with policies already implemented or in progress that are designed to make it easier for Canadian companies to get the skilled people they need to grow.
Travel Market Report today released the second edition of its Ocean Cruise Report Card for Travel Agents, the third in a series of supplier policy report cards designed as a useful resource for travel professionals.
Hobby Lobby has done nothing wrong here and its management should be free to design policies as it sees fit.
To this end they dismantle national boundaries as well as social policies designed to redistribute wealth or insure that the poorest are cared for.
That, however, is not so easy to do when for centuries the church has followed policies (not unwittingly, as the Fuller professors state, but systematically and by unholy design) that sought to de-Judaize the Jews and submerge them in various brands of Christendom.
The «White Australia Policyas it was known colloquially, was a conglomeration of policies designed to limit access to Australian citizenship to individuals of non-British descent, Indigenous Australians and migrants from countries other than the UK and Ireland.
They argued that since there was a fairly high positive correlation, it was acceptable to use GNP figures as a guide to policies designed to improve the economy.
Such a policy, as the survey's website says, will by design and intention «dramatically increase... response rates.»
The First Minister hailed the policy, designed to cut alcohol - related harm, as «bold and brave» as it was finally brought in across the country.
He has also worked for Bodegas Chivite, a Spanish wine group, as Director of Environment affairs and Innovation where was mainly responsible for the design and implementation of a long - term research policy in the wine group.
The campaign — held the same month as Earth Day — is designed to inform and engage policy leaders, media, wine trade and consumers about the California wine community's major commitment to environmental and community stewardship.
As a guest at Burj Al Arab Jumeirah, our policies are designed to enhance your stay and ensure maximum comfort and convenience throughout.
Throughout the school year, each team works with a Challenge Success coach to design and implement positive changes in areas such as curriculum and assessment, homework policies, the daily school schedule, and health and wellness programs.
«As the cornerstone of any comprehensive policy designed to improve the health and well - being of childbearing women and their children, breastfeeding can save lives and improve long - term health of the entire community,» the document states.
As the cornerstone of any comprehensive policy designed to improve the health and well - being of childbearing women and their children, breastfeeding can save lives and improve long - term health of the entire community.
The body of the JACEI report explains the policy and Instructions were actually weakened (paragraph 4.1): «However Nestlé's Operating Instructions were revised in 2010 and now permit the advertising of formula milk designed for babies older than one year even when the brand name is the same as that for infant formula.
Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.
Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.
These common sense policy investments are designed, and in many cases already proven, to support parents as they undertake one of the most daunting and delicate jobs of their lives: raising their children.
Advocacy: Policy makers, school officials and parents will rely on SNA as the authority for designing and funding school meal programs.
Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.
The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).
Moreover, EVEL does not engage with on - going reforms in the other nations of the UK nor within England, appearing designed to operate in parallel, rather than in tandem, with other policies such as devolution to England's cities and regions and the wider Northern Powerhouse agenda.
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