Sentences with phrase «big issues for president»

Cyber-spying, trade, North Korea, US military maneuvers — there's no shortage of big issues for President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping to tackle tonight and tomorrow during their informal summit in Southern California.

Not exact matches

«What this has done is really allowed for more pools of money to be available to entrepreneurs, so that's the really big news about all of this,» says Geri Stengel, founder and president of Ventureneer, a digital media and market research company that, among other issues, specializes in crowdfunding.

Days after refusing to issue a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, U.S. President Barack Obama threw his support behind the other big eco-controversy in America — hydraulic fracturing.

Steve Braccini, the Austin - based president of Pro Fasteners, wrestled with a thorny issue snagging many managers: how to fairly compensate salespeople for bigger, long - term deals.

«We see this as a big issue for China Airlines,» Steve Chang, senior vice president of the Taiwanese firm told reporters on Wednesday, adding the airline was trying to consult with the American Institute in the country over the issue.

The biggest problem with how people voted for President is that social issues took too much of a precedent.

Thirteen years later President Jefferson went back to plagiarizing the Virginia Declaration of Rights for the Bill of Rights, editing it for brevity, and moving another big issue around standing armies (that of quartering) to the third amendment.

Syracuse University Professor Anthony D'Angelo says Scaramucci's lack of experience in communications could be a big issue, and «signals that President Trump appears to value loyalty and a certain star power over actual credentials for a communications job.»

The big issue for the left - leaning WFP, unsurprisingly, is the fact that the agreement lacks any taxes on the rich — something the president mentioned as a priority, but was a non-starter for the Republicans, who pretty much opposed taxes on anything and anyone, period.

«After many years of frustration resulting from the inaction and lack of a sense of urgency on the part of city agencies on the sidewalk issue, we turned to the State to ask for help, and to their credit they responded in a big way,» Borough President James Oddo said in a statement.

The reasons for the recall were unclear, though on Citi FM's news analysis programme, «The Big Issue» on August 27, the NPP MP for Ayawaso West Wugon, Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko, revealed that MPs were being recalled to consider the Minority's motion for investigations into President Mahama's Ford gift saga.

In line with this view, Gary Hart, the retired U.S. Senator and one - time presidential hopeful, argued that although a big part of success as president is picking smart people for key positions, «it takes a pretty keen mind, honed by study, travel, experience, and exposure to competing ideas, to form good judgment and to know whom to trust on complex substantive issues.»

Recently, Emoryâ $ ™ s Jeff Koplan, MD, vice president for global health and past CDC director, participated in a Breakthroughs panel sponsored by Big Think, Pfizer and Discover to discuss the latest issues in pandemic and genomic science, fields that have not only made big headlines recently but also promise to be two of the most pressing topics in global science and medicine in coming yeaBig Think, Pfizer and Discover to discuss the latest issues in pandemic and genomic science, fields that have not only made big headlines recently but also promise to be two of the most pressing topics in global science and medicine in coming yeabig headlines recently but also promise to be two of the most pressing topics in global science and medicine in coming years.

In my view, the big parts also need a total makeover — and would be a terrific vehicle for school choice akin to Florida's McKay Scholarship Program — but everyone in Washington seems allergic to touching special ed, an issue that would challenge even the most politically sure - footed of Presidents.

It's pretty obvious what Jeb Bush is doing here: He's using the «education issue» as a way to appear more «moderate» for his future presidential run, in the same way his father claimed he would be «The Education President» when he ran in 1988 and his big brother did with the awful «No Child Left Behind» law of 2001.

Jim DiPeso, the vice president for policy and communication for the group Republicans for Environmental Protection, has taken issue with Randy Olson's assertion here that the biggest communication challenge with climate change is that it's boring — or «bo - ho - ho - ring,» as Olson put it.

Whoever wins won't be in office in time to have a direct impact on the Paris talks, and President Obama might make climate change a big issue in his final days in office and push for action.

Fredrick D. Palmer, executive vice president for legal and external affairs at Peabody Energy of St. Louis, one of the world's largest coal producers, said it was not really necessary to lobby the Bush administration on the issue, because Big Coal's interests and the administration's views were in sync from the start.

Apparently President Obama is embracing this Report, and the issue of climate change, in a big way, see this WaPo article For President Obama A Renewed Focus On Climate.

Picture: soy and corn plantations and algae in Chubut, Argentina.Leaving the most radical speeches behind, we thought worth mentioning some excerpts from a document by Engineer Enrique Mario Martinez, president of the Argentine National Institute for Industrial Technology (a well known investigation institution), who highlights issues like the low yield of corn - based biodiesel, the different impacts in the environment between biodiesel and bioethanol, and the big oil companies interests in biodiesel mixed with petrol.

Tom Kelly, president of Executive Recruiting Solutions, says many job seekers» biggest problem is not being sure of what they want to do, adding that it's particularly an issue for those changing careers.

«A lot of home inspectors don't focus on the landscape, yet it can have a big adverse impact on a home,» says Jeremy Johnson, president of CRI Home Inspections in Riverside, Calif. «Landscapes are a huge issue both financially for a home owner and structurally for the house.»