Sentences with phrase «between private interests»

As reported by the New York Times, Clark's government has an «unabashedly cozy relationship between private interests and government officials».
, Clark's government has an «unabashedly cozy relationship between private interests and government officials».

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Pleasing fussy customers like health - care and research facilities has been crucial to that success, as has its participation in public - private partnerships (PPP), which are joint projects between government and private interests.
«The space between private and public is very interesting, somewhere between messaging and public forums,» Denton said, adding he feels that people present a more «interesting and constructive» aspect of themselves when they are speaking in private or semi-private discussions.
In addition, McKinsey & Company estimates that between 3 - 4 % of the limited partnership interests in the private equity and venture capital business trade on an annual basis, or approximately $ 1.2 B. Combining both of these figures, the secondary market for both LP and direct venture capital investments amounted to more than $ 2.45 B and represented 8 % of all venture investments in the industry.
Asked Sunday at SXSW about what he will do post-Gawker, he said, «the space between private and public is very interesting, somewhere between messaging and public forums.»
«The space between private and public is very interesting, somewhere between messaging and public forums,» he said during a Sunday morning panel.
Chinese interest in Vietnam properties exploded this year too — Chinese buyer enquiries for Vietnam properties grew 442 % y - o - y on Juwai.com between January and May 2017, largely driven by its revised Law on Residential Housing (LRH) that now enables private ownership for foreign buyers.
«Some private financial institutions are willing to lower your interest rate between 3 to 5 percent depending if you do a variable or fixed rate student loan and it could really lower monthly payments and total interest that borrower is going to accrue over the lifetime,» Josuweit says.
In his response, Austin made an interesting point: although there is certainly a distinction to be made between investments from private companies and SOEs, there is also one to be made between the different kinds of SOEs.
Close examination of the frescoed parts of the walls reveals some interesting paleo - Christian graffiti, evidence of a Christian presence in the passageway between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD, when clandestine (or at least private) gatherings may have been held here.
Looking backward from midstream reveals something unnoticed in the living: a pattern to events, the strange alternation between predictability and surprise, and most important of all, the private moment that turns out to seem of general interest.
What's interesting about Luke's gospel is that it starts by inviting us into the private lives of men and women and into an intimate conversation between Elizabeth and Mary to guide our own times of waiting.
Against this dualism, between the internal and external, private and public, a dualism which has led to the exploitation and oppression of many human beings, I contend that followers of Christ have no other option but to take an active interest in the earthly, secular things such as politics and economics because Jesus would not permit us the luxury of dwelling in a «spiritual ghetto unrelated and unconcerned with real life issues».
a list of situations in which the development and implementation of policies advocated by the CIP involve interactions between governments and non-State actors (mainly private sector) which may lead to conflicts of interest;
«Vested interests are trying to create a wedge between public and private sector workers, when in reality they have common cause on this.
The second is the career - structure revolution, which has eroded the boundary between public and private with effects (pay levels and differentials, the appropriateness of bonuses, post-employment conflicts of interest) with which we still grapple.
The greatest strength of the Five Stars movement is its network of genuinely motivated citizens who mobilize consensus by championing popular causes like anti-nuclear campaigns, direct political participation, renewable energy reform and the end of conflicts of interest between the public and the private sectors.
Critics, however, say Collins's incessant chatter about Innate Immunotherapeutics has blurred the line between the people's business and the congressman's private business interests.
«If you're a minister you have a duty under the code to ensure that no conflict arises between your public duties and private — financial or non-financial — interests.
It was an early example of the position Rosen and his firm occupy in de Blasio's New York: at the nexus between City Hall and private interests.
The basic fact is that, corruption involves the delegation of power and a conflict between the private and public interest.
While announcing he had reached new settlements in his probe, Cuomo's office admitted an April 5, 2007 meeting that took place between Global Strategy Group's Jon Silvan, a partner from Intermedia (a private equity investment firm seeking pension fund investments) and a Mirram Executive and DiNapoli at his Manhattan office has caught the interest of investigators.
The Cuomo campaign is very sensitive to possibly being labled «anti-union», and so is making a clear distinction between private unions that, as one source explained to me, «represent real working people», and public sector unions whose expensive contracts and pensions and refusals to agree to give - backs has labled them special interest No. 1 in many minds.
«Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise, between their public duties and their private interests, financial or otherwise.»
7.1 «Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or reasonably be perceived to arise, between their public duties and their private interests»
He is perennially re-elected, despite complaints that he doesn't return phone calls and conflicts of interest between his legislative duties and his private work for an outdoor advertising company, because he gets state funds for his 1st Senate District.
Records with the Conflict of Interest Board show that his firm donated between $ 5,000 and $ 19,999 to the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, the private nonprofit that preserves the mansion where de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, live.
But some scientists, such as Thomas Stossel of Harvard Medical School, spoke out against it, saying stringent conflict of interest rules will cause talented staff scientists to quit and will hinder collaboration between government and private - sector scientists.
They also leverage new and existing partnerships with industry in the private sector, blurring the boundary between the UW and the surrounding interests in neural engineering.
First - round bids of between 10m and 15m were submitted earlier this month, primarily by rival online dating businesses, but some private equity firms are also interested.
First - round bids of between # 10M and # 15M were submitted earlier this month, primarily by rival online dating businesses, but some private equity firms are also interested.
Tensions between the human and alien population are running thin so the private company Multi-National United (MNU), who have a commercial interest in harnessing the alien technology for weaponry, are sent in to relocate the aliens.
While they press Beeman's professional doggedness, it would be interesting to further exploit, on an institutional level, the gap between public voice and private reality in this silent war of considerable subterfuge.
It's the dynamic between the intensely public view of Bauman and his own private struggles that makes the film the most interesting.
This privately - held company and nonprofit seems to have a talent for commingling the efforts of private charter interests and public oversight conduits that creates serious conflicts of interest, causing a California state whistleblowing attorney to be ``... opposed to such activities between public officials, private interests, and public charter schools.»
One such policy is a universal Education Savings Account program that offers a portion of current school spending to families interested in choosing between their local public schools, private, religious, online, and home schools.
They are the result of private concurrence between groups that represent narrow interests and candidates competing to represent the public.
Similarly, many private education management organizations (EMOs), who currently oversee between 35 - 40 percent of all charter schools, often don't act in the best interest of the students they are supposed to serve.
Here are two other pieces that make a similar case, which can be summarized like this: if there is a positive spread between the forecast earnings yield of a company, and the interest rate at which we can finance the purchase of the company, then it is rational to take the company private.
Major Canadian banks will charge interest rates between 3 % -4 % on their mortgages while private lenders can charge anything from 7 % -15 %.
Most Canadian banks will charge interest rates of 3 % to 4 % and most private lenders will charge rates between 7 % and 15 %.
To see the differences between the FHA loan program and what MI companies can offer, it's interesting to compare the latest insurance product from the PMI company, a leading and well - regarded private mortgage insurance company.
Major banks will charge an interest that is within the range of three to four while private lenders charges an interest that is between seven to fifteen percent.
Traditional banks charge between 2.7 % and 4 % interest while private lenders go way above that to charge 7 - 8 % interest.
The interest rate would normally be between 3 % -4 % for bank mortgages and 7 % -15 % for a private lender bad credit mortgage.
In reality, most private loan providers offer borrowers a choice between a fixed interest rate and a variable interest rate.
You apply for a new loan with a private lender that pays off the current loans, after which the private lender attaches a different interest rate on your consolidated student loan that reflects a balance between what the federal government charges and the interest charged by the lender.
According to Durbin, «two - thirds of students with private loans are unaware of the dramatic difference between Federal student loans and risky, higher - interest, private student loans.»
After completing the sale, he has made the $ 10,000 upfront, and on top of that, he makes the monthly spread between the 6 % interest paid to the private lender and the 8 % interest he receives from the buyer, which over a 10 - year period would come out to another $ 40,000
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