Sentences with phrase «as public focus»
Otherwise, the problem continues to grow as soon as public focus shifts.
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Prince William recently ended his job as an ambulance helicopter pilot in order to focus more on royal duties as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip ease out of public life.
An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.
«The focus of our legal appeal will be on the FCC's decision to reclassify broadband Internet access service as a public utility service,» Jon Banks, senior vice president of U.S. Telecom said in a statement.
Adolfo Rodriguez, managing partner of the A / R Financial Group, has been focusing more and more on Social Security maximization over the past six years, conducting seminars for the public and for other advisors, as a service to their own clients.
It can also be a jumping off point for a shift in focus, such as a graphic designer moving from publishing to public relations.
As California slashes billions from its higher education budget, the state's premier public business schools have quietly focused its efforts on raising private dollars.
«Our infrastructure remains our primary focus as public cloud is still too expensive for many of the primary markets we are in,» Benioff tells Fortune via email.
Everyone is focused on the public scorecards that show how well they are doing building connections with customers: Facebook likes, Twitter followers, and Google +1's are all trumpeted as statistics that reflect a business's reach and popularity.
As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.»
Travis Kalanick, co-founder and CEO of ride - hailing service Uber, said Wednesday he's going to take as long as possible to go public — responding to critics and stressing he's focused on product and innovation, not liquidity.
What's different now is that, on August 31, the company said it will build servers targeting the public and private clouds, as well as telecom - focused data centers.
Instead, Singapore is focusing on public transit — S$ 20 billion ($ 14.7 billion) for new railway infrastructure and $ 2.9 billion on upgrading existing train lines, as well as another $ 2.9 billion on bus contract subsidies over the next five years, according to LTA.
We remain focused on the recent launch of Firefox Quantum and our commitment to protecting the internet as a global public resource, especially at a time when user rights like net neutrality and privacy are under attack.»
I truly believe that it's time, after almost a decade of prosperity in the public markets and the global economy, that we put pressure on the entrepreneurial community as a whole to start focusing on making money versus raising money.
As talk about the economy has largely focused on tax cuts, the U.S. budget deficit and the potential for trade tariffs, one of the biggest things investors and the general public seem to be missing is the increased spending soon to be pumped into the U.S. economy by the government.
I've worked for a number of different agencies whose sole focus was going public or being acquired, otherwise known as the «exit strategy».
From 2004 — 2009, Mr. Kogler worked as a multi-strategy analyst focused on public securities at EnTrust Capital Partners, an investment management firm with over $ 6 billion in assets under management.
The focus of my presentation was the emergence of homelessness in Canada as a pressing public policy area in the 1980s.
We focused on the core elements of a political data science program, as we explained at public events, in media interviews, and on our website.
As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy requireAs the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy requireas one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?
With their initial public offering being planned in 2019, it makes immense sense to cut a deal with Ola as well, to stem the losses, and focus on their home market.
In late 2011, Marriott Vacations Worldwide was established as an independent, public company focusing primarily on vacation ownership experiences.
Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»
Kalanick's at times frat - like behavior over the company's eight - year history has come into focus in the past months, as Uber battles a public relations disaster that has led some customers to delete the app.
In late 2011, Marriott Vacations Worldwide was established as a separate, public company focusing primarily on vacation ownership experiences.
Focused on public - private partnerships and how we measure their levels of success, the briefing hosted a national gathering of informal STEM experts with on - the - ground knowledge and expertise, as well as professionals who have been examining the national trends and levels of success of informal STEM programs for students.
Through a Spin - Off in late 2011, Marriott Vacations Worldwide was established as a separate, public company focusing primarily on vacation ownership experiences.
MARCH 6, 2006: A Tyee contributor since 2004, Tom Sandborn takes on role as Tyee labour beat reporter, with a focus as well on public health issues.
He is now a Senior Analyst / Associate Portfolio Manager with the firm, focusing on private company investments, as well as public company analysis.
His Royal Highness, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, Chairman of PIF, commented as follows: «The Public Investment Fund is focused on achieving attractive long - term financial returns from its investments at home and abroad, as well as supporting the Kingdom's Vision 2030 strategy to develop a diversified economy.
But sources say that laser - focus on public demonstrations led to the rushed launch of Uber's self - driving pilot in San Francisco, as well as a haphazard demo of Otto's autonomous trucks performing a beer delivery in Colorado.
«With their own sizable investment portfolios, most public companies could use their power as shareholders to urge public companies and asset managers to take a relentlessly long - term focus... That may mean using performance benchmarks over three -, five - and even 10 - year periods, in addition to shorter period benchmarks.»
In recognizing the catalysts behind the public's persistence to save and reluctance to spend, additional analysis by policymakers should focus on the efficacy of further rate cuts on spending and investment, as well as potential «roundabout» benefits of a more normal rates regime to affirm support toward the public's saving objectives, with the end goal of boosting public's risk sentiment and perceptions of future economic stability.
In trying to provide investors with information that «is not in the current stock price» and therefore giving them an «edge», many Wall Street, and independent investment research providers have begun focusing on such areas as «forensic» accounting, «channel checking», public policy analysis, «lie detection» on conference calls, data mining and «expert» networking.
As Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, his focus on uncovering Tory scandals sometimes makes him appear on the verge of paranoia, but he is relentless and hardworking.
As such, the most effective approach to building public support is to craft a trade agenda that aligns with the economic interests of the general public and the long - term economic prosperity of Canada as a whole, rather than focusing on the narrow interests of some business groupAs such, the most effective approach to building public support is to craft a trade agenda that aligns with the economic interests of the general public and the long - term economic prosperity of Canada as a whole, rather than focusing on the narrow interests of some business groupas a whole, rather than focusing on the narrow interests of some business groups.
They reduced Airtanker contracts by 5.1 million dollars and cut funding for FireSmart grants that funded projects focused on fire preparedness planning, public education and fire mitigation projects such as creating buffers between buildings and forests.»
John also served as the VP and Head of Corporate Development for an early - stage renewable energy and feed company based in Florida as well as a Director in Business Development at Valens Capital, a billion dollar hedge fund focused on providing flexible, custom - tailored and cost - effective debt and equity growth financing solutions to small - cap public and private companies.
Through a spin - off in late 2011, Marriott Vacations Worldwide was established as a separate, public company focusing primarily on vacation ownership experiences.
As for the U.S., I'd actually be quite comfortable with a reasonable amount of «helicopter money» provided that the accompanying fiscal stimulus package was focused, not on consumption, but on productive investment at the public, private and individual level (infrastructure, investment and R&D tax credits, workforce training, education, and so forth).
The Long Term Equities group focused on investments, both public and private, with steady cash flow and growth potential that can hold their value and act as a hedge against inflation.
Anthony has served on a variety of charitable boards focused on university fundraising and entrepreneur advisory boards, as well as several public company boards.
The events of the past month, most notably the implosion of XIV, has focused public interest on volatility as an asset class.
They can focus on building their user base, grow as a private company, and go public on their own terms.
Powell has in the past expressed a view that Fed communication «should do more to emphasize the uncertainty that surrounds all economic forecasts, should downplay short - term tactical questions such as the timing of the next rate increase, and should focus the public's attention instead on the considerations that go into making policy across the range of plausible paths for the economy.»
The president did not address the issue in his public remarks, focusing instead on the power of prayer as a centerpiece of American life.
Instead, «you want to create the large permissionless open public networks, and support that as your main focus, because that is where the developer energy is and technology interest is.»
«The demands on our time to respond and trying to engage us as a public forum was pulling us from focus on the operation of a transit agency and that is our business,» Hunter said in an e-mail message to CNN.
FOR ONCE, a person of public faith who doesn't seek to prescribe to me or judge me, but instead turns her focus inward to find out exactly why she believes as she does, and then writes about the experience so I and others can weigh the merits and decide for ourselves.