Sentences with phrase «bigger effects on public»

And he hopes to do more experiments to find out whether collaborative projects, such as the Pulitzer Prize — winning «Panama Papers» investigation about thousands of wealthy individuals and public officials investing in offshore businesses for illegal purposes, have bigger effects on public discussion.

Not exact matches

It's this last point that has the biggest effect on private versus public company returns, says Tim McPeak, director of financial institutions at Sageworks, a company that studies financial information of privately held companies.

«However, recent experience suggests that «temporary» problems in the financial sector can have a bigger and more persistent effect on the public finances than the Treasury initially expects.»

Green Party leaders congratulated voters in Kent, Ohio, for passing Issue 43, which called for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood and abolish the legal definition of money as free speech, as well as establishment of an annual «Democracy Day» public hearing for residents to testify on the effect of big contributions from corporations and the wealthy on elections.

«I fear we may have not learned any lessons from this case and will face other and bigger public health scandals in the absence of adequate scientific and medical caution over the effects of new treatments on young people and future generations,» he says.

Monckton has indeed had no effect on the scientific debate, but has left a big footprint in the public mind.

As EdChoice researcher Greg Forster has shown, not only do private school choice programs have a positive effect on students» academic outcomes in public schools, they do taxpayers a big favor at the same time.

After all, the media play a very big role in allowing (in effect) politicians to get away with this sort of thing, and the media are even more responsible for not educating the public sufficiently on the matter.

Given that, if one wants freedom of choice and an efficient market, shouldn't one accept a market solution (tax / credit or analogous system based on public costs, applied strategically to minimize paperwork (don't tax residential utility bills — apply upstream instead), applied approximately fairly to both be fair and encourage an efficient market response (don't ignore any significant category, put all sources of the same emission on equal footing; if cap / trade, allow some exchange between CO2 and CH4, etc, based CO2 (eq); include ocean acidification, etc.), allowing some approximation to that standard so as to not get very high costs in dealing with small details and also to address the biggest, most - well understood effects and sources first (put off dealing with the costs and benifits of sulphate aerosols, etc, until later if necessary — but get at high - latitude black carbon right away)?

Image: Orangutan marooned on deforested oil palm concession in Central Kalimantan (Greenpeace) In another move that shows public pressure can have a positive effect on big companies and their suppliers, the world's largest consumer goods company and

The successful reexamination request for the Test.com patent is the latest big victory for EFF's Patent Busting Project, which combats the chilling effects bad patents have on the public interest and innovation.