Sentences with phrase «business policy rather»

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«Business cycles do not succumb to age alone but rather to a confluence of factors like falling corporate profit margins, slowing productivity growth, and a sharp rise in real policy rates into positive territory.»

In a recent study done by Joseph Rosenberg for the non-partisan, Tax Policy Center, it was determined that the top one percent and the top 0.1 percent get a majority of their income from businesses they own and investments rather than a monthly paycheck.

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.

Never mind that the same policies already exist within state laws including Romney's and Gingrich's home states.The policy doesn't apply to churches, but rather then BUSINESSES operated by the churches.

Until we change our game style, formation, players that are not good enough, spending policy so that we buy in all the positions we need, not just one, buy players with characters, driven by success with lots of titles behind them, change our ambition to titles, not fourth, reduce immense ticket prices, stop being a business rather than a football club, introduce younger members to the board or unbelievably somehow change the manager, I will not be convinced.

Having professionals run the business also ensures that editorial policies are not petty, but rather steeped in a good understanding of how to affect the society better.

A new governor will appoint people who are more attuned to the needs of the state — more interested in preserving the environment rather than selling it to developers, more interested in finding alternatives to the ever - expanding road building, more interested in serving the little guy rather than big business, and less interested in legislating social policy than planning economic development.

Teachout spoke to the mostly multi-aged crowd, sprinkled with children, students, adults and senior citizens, saying that she has a vision for New York that will make public higher education affordable; a New York that «should be leading the way in renewable resources» and environmental policies; a New York that bans fracking and all fracking byproducts; and a New York that «supports small local businesses and farms, rather than giving tax breaks to corporate campaign donors.»

The FSB believes that rather than pooling enterprise funding, it should have looked at the Small Business Administration which could co-ordinate small businessBusiness Administration which could co-ordinate small businessbusiness policy.

Helpfully he had come armed with suggestions for how this might be done: extending the kinds of business models that the ownership commission reported upon the day after the jobs summit; ecosystem policy, rather than industrial policy; a twenty - first century social contract, which would allow individuals to mitigate the risk in their lives; and a state - backed infrastructure bank.

Dr Antonakakis, a Senior Lecturer in Portsmouth Business School and an Assistant Professor in Vienna University of Economics and Business, said: «Despite its legal obligation to assess the health effects of EU policies, the Directorate - General for Health and Consumer Protection of the European Commission has been rather passive in terms of assessing the impact of the troika's push for austerity, and has rather limited EU commentary to advise how health ministries should cut their budgets.

The CBI urges policy makers, businesses and providers to collaborate and design a stable national framework for skills - based on the Government regulating for quality, rather than designing qualifications as has happened in the past.

Some, for example, are incorporating parent / carer codes of conduct into school policies to set expectations around the use of social media.Others ask parents and carers to refrain from discussing the business of school or children attending school in any public forum, while many request that complaints are made via official school channels rather than social networking sites.

Many scholars consider such market - based reform trends to be threats to the democratic culture that schools were once championed for creating., Scholars suggest that rather than building a democratic culture, such policies support business interests in lieu of citizenship.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

To treat the policy like a business, it is essential that the policy loans be repaid (with interest / or at a minimum the interest must be paid) and it is advisable that premiums continue to be paid through the duration of the policy period (rather than allowing the cash value to pay the premiums).

Rather than risk the investment you have made in your home or business, you may want to consider purchasing an earthquake insurance policy for the peace of mind it can afford you.

If you have a home office, you can get affordable business coverage to cover the equipment that you use for the business, rather than putting it under your basic home policy.

Rather than seeing unbalanced government budgets as wrong, Keynes advocated so - called countercyclical fiscal policies that act against the direction of the business cycle.

Akin to some business research, most of the concepts and methodologies regarding policy design in the design community come from design consultancies, which seek business promotion rather than solid research.

Even the generally conservative (when it comes to sexual politics or postcolonial consciousness) Pompidou (Paris) put on its one survey show of women, «Elles» in 2012, although it is hard to see this as anything other than tokenism when feminism is side - lined from «business as usual» rather than integrated centrally into ongoing institutional strategy and policy.

The best way to achieve this is to elect a few dedicated Greens who can articulate the real needs rather than the greenwashing of business as usual policies that come from Speaker Pelosi.

Worried about self - preservation, and acting in its own best interest — rather than that of consumers specifically, and America in general — industry groups have sprung up to defend the favored - status energy policies and attack anyone who disagrees with the incentive - payment business model.

The proposal switches the emphasis of Australia's emissions reduction policies to paying businesses to curb emissions, rather than taxing their pollution.

Worried about self - preservation, and acting in its own best interest — rather than that of consumers specifically, and America in general — solar industry groups have sprung up to defend the favored - status energy policies and attack anyone who disagrees with the incentive - payment business model.

> If I had a big policy job, in my capacity as an office holder, I would be guided by the reports of institutions such as IPCC rather than any personal views (a point I've made on a number of occasions); and that I believed that policy decisions could be made without requiring «statistical significance» (such decisions are made in business all the time, and, in all my years in business, I never heard the words «statistical significance» pass anyone's lips as a preamble to a business decision.

It would be a policy change, for instance, to implement my proposal that businesses be allowed to invest a fixed percentage of their taxes due in research, with some stake in any resulting IP (rather than handing it over to the government to do what it wanted to with it).

After documenting the largely successful efforts of companies like ExxonMobil to paralyze the policy process, confuse the American people and cynically ««reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,»» as one strategy paper put it, he concludes that «what began as a normal business response by the fossil fuel lobby — denial and delay — has now attained the status of a crime against humanity.»

It comes on the back of criticism of the Government's green agenda and fiscal policy levied by the Environment Audit Committee that claims environment taxes are so confusing businesses see them as a revenue - raising exercise, rather than being concerned about the green implications.

However, G4S's aim to project an image of neutrality was determined to be a legitimate business aim, as long as it only applied the policy to customer facing staff rather than its staff within all other departments or roles.

It seems to me that, since some social network sites are business - related or allow employees to connect with clients / customers and potential clients or customers, and therefore may hold some benefit that employers have not yet discovered, it makes sense to put a policy in place rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater by outright banning sites.

Respecting the good faith element, the Agency also accepted that the carriers acted honestly and in good faith in adopting the policy to set fares on a per seat basis, and that the carriers were motivated by business reasons rather than an intention to discriminate.

This specific topic doesn't arise out of any personal interest or business opportunity, but rather yet another policy issue I find of interest.

Policy should seek to protect and promote the open internet rather than distort it to protect existing business models or technologies.

But it may not be heat from the blaze that stops Trump politically — but rather a cooling to Trump and his policies from moderate Republicans and the business world.

Through the standards, requirements, and implementation specifications, we are proposing a framework for developing and documenting privacy policies and procedures rather than adopting a rigid, prescriptive approach to accommodate entities of different sizes, type of activities, and business practices.

An equipment manufacturers group also pointed out that it would be logical for covered entities and their business partners to know what privacy policies are required in purchasing security systems, and that «the policies on privacy are implemented through the security standards rather than having already finalized security standards drive policy.»

In cases like these that have the potential to become more complicated later on down the road, many times the «business» will elect to take out a permanent cash value life insurance policy, such as indexed universal life, on the individuals in question rather than try to make predictions on which term length would be most appropriate.

It is important to keep in mind that when purchasing business protection insurance, most policies should be permanent in nature rather than term.

In fact, certain types of businesses might require you get a commercial policy, rather than a standard rental policy.

The insurer voids your policy after learning that the auto is owned by your neighbor rather than your business.

Rather, it is something that may or may not be included in other insurance policies that you carry, such as home, auto and business insurance.

Rather, it is something that may or may not be automatically included in the insurance policies you already have, such as homeowners insurance or business insurance.

Rather than tax your business more than necessary to try and come up with life insurance premiums, you can choose a modified whole life policy that allows you more breathing room in your budget as you wait for your cash flow to improve.

Rather than risk the investment you have made in your home or business, you may want to consider purchasing an earthquake insurance policy for the peace of mind it can afford you.

These agents can also customize coverage to you, rather than selling you a «one size fits all» business policy.