Sentences with phrase «by agencies like»

That money came primarily from state - funded granting agencies (administered mostly by academics), from university research funds or by agencies like the Met Office.

Many mortgage programs offered by agencies like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae allow buyers to put down as low as 3 % to purchase their dream homes.

Experts advise setting aside anywhere from 10 to 15 percent for transportation — car payments, gas, insurance — though up to 20 percent is recommended by agencies like the Credit Counselling Society.

The Fed also has a goal of buying up to $ 1.25 trillion of mortgage backed securities (MBS) and $ 200 billion of debt issued by agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Bonds are rated by agencies like Moody's and Standard and Poor's from AAA to junk bond as a gauge of the level of counterparty risk.

Because mortgages can be refinanced, bonds that are backed by agencies like GNMA are especially susceptible to changes in interest rates.

Overall, the risk of exposure from mycotoxins in coffee appears to be low, as they are significantly reduced during processing and roasting and brewing and have been found to be well below guidelines set by agencies like the EFSA and / or FDA.

Their concerns have been sparked by two simultaneous developments: increasing public criticism by key Republicans of research funded by agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a congressional power shift that has placed many vocal so - called climate change sceptics and opponents of environmental regulations in positions of power.

The researchers also employed standardized causality assessment methods that are used by agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Adminisration to ensure that meditation likely played a causal role in the experiences they documented.

My pet peeve is the millions in slick ads, «outreach» and «education» spent by agencies like the DOH trying to get people to stop smoking.

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However, the agency takes things to the next level by animating things like shuttle take - offs, planets in rotation and shots from space.

The document reallocates more than $ 54 billion from government entities like the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and even NASA to boost defense spending by the same amount.

Founded by David Tedman, Ryan Holmes and Dario Meli as a design and development agency, Invoke evolved into a startup generation engine, spawning one of the country's most promising tech firms in Hootsuite (of which Holmes is CEO), as well as other buzzy names in the sector, like Foodee, Quietly (of which Meli is CEO) and Memelabs.

Naled is commonly used across the US, particularly after mosquito - breeding disasters like hurricanes or floods, and the chemical is approved by the Environmental Protection Agency for use in insecticide.

By one account, eight of North America's top 10 agencies are now owned by companies like thiBy one account, eight of North America's top 10 agencies are now owned by companies like thiby companies like this.

In addition, airlines are under increased pressure to reduce carbon emissions by new government mandates like the Environmental Protection Agency's new draft rules announced earlier this month.

Those reviews are seen by many government agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as environmentalists, as cornerstones to ensuring the environment is taken into account when new construction projects are ordered.

Now, Lady Spencer is represented by Storm Model Management, the same agency that once represented top models like Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne.

By Wednesday afternoon, the officials, like Trump, were saying he had in fact been considering ousting the FBI director for months because of a lack of confidence in his ability to lead the agency.

Painter recommends that Congress pass a law right now that would require that when a President or his businesses have specific matters pending before a federal agency — like, say, an Internal Revenue Service audit, or a case before the National Labor Relations Board or the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a licensing issue before the Federal Communications Commission — that the matter must be decided by a career civil servant, rather than by a political appointee.

Today, everything from two - by - fours to toilet paper comes with a certification stamp from bodies like the Forest Stewardship Council, a Germany - based endorsement agency started and still largely controlled by environmentalists.

Although the FDA can't dictate prices or reject therapies over pricing concerns (they can only focus on safety and efficacy), the agency can encourage more competition through moves like this (as well as speedier approval pathways) which could spur drug makers to produce products that ultimately lower costs for patients — a goal cited by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb in announcing the list.

His marketing agency KIDinaKORNER, supported by ad giant WPP, works with brands like IBM (ibm) to incorporate music and events into their branding strategies.

Your identity has by now been logged into some vast spy database in a foreign country (probably China), where an intelligence agency is building up a profile around your persona — sourced from personal information available on social media and through breached health insurers, airlines, government offices, and the like.

Since taking office, President Trump has pulled the country out of the Paris climate change accord, proposed cutting the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 26 percent, and placed tariffs on solar panels imported from countries like China and South Korea.

There is now decades of research backed by organizations like the US federal agency the National Institutes of Health that have linked regular meditation to physical changes in the brain.

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In its ruling, the agency also suggested it's looking for a way to encourage the promise of blockchain - based financial innovation — described in papers like this highly - cited one by venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan — while also protecting investors from scammers.

Even though RIM switched advertising agencies last January — its former agency, Leo Burnett, was replaced by 72andSunny and BBDO Worldwide — the «night bikes» commercial treads on familiar territory: hip twenty - somethings make plans via instant messaging, then meet up for shared experiences like concerts, parties and bike rides.

«About 80 percent of those accounts are inactive or are dummy accounts created by various «follow agencies,» another 10 percent are real people who are part of a network of folks who follow others back and are paying for followers themselves... and the remaining 10 percent may, in fact, be real, sentient people who happen to like Newt Gingrich,» a source told Gawker.

The agency has brokered similar agreements in recent years with tech giants like Google, Twitter and Uber for their data mishaps, requiring each of them to undergo regular privacy assessments by a third party, which would then report its findings back to the FTC.

During this one - day summit, you will learn about different resources to grow your businesses, and expand your network by meeting more corporates, agencies, and like - minded women business owners.

He's also creator of «The 90 Day Year» Program, a goal achievement system used by athletes, entrepreneurs and companies like, Shell, Goldman Sachs, Cisco Systems and Government agencies around the world.

In the mad scramble for loan creation during the final phase of the Housing Bubble, the government created an environment of essentially free money by allowing the big agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (or Phony and Fraudie, as I often affectionately refer to them), to securitize loans to the bottom of the barrel risks with crazy terms like no money down and incredibly low «teaser» interest rates.

As such, they must meet complex regulatory requirements set forth by U.S. government agencies like NASA and the Air Force.

Like Equifax and D&B, they also collect information available within the public record, information reported by both lenders and suppliers, as well as information from credit card companies, collection agencies, and other databases.

We do this by conducting clinical trials in which we collect safety and efficacy data about our experimental drugs with the goal of submitting those data to regulatory authorities, like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), so that these experimental drugs can be approved for use by patients.

By the way, it is a lot of fun interviewing experts and well known personalities like Joe, Lee Odden, Scott Brinker not to mention all the enthusiastic practitioners, consultants and even a couple of government agency folks.

Mary Edwards, who leads Accenture's work with federal civilian health agencies, explained to MobiHealthNews during an interview that this type of data increasingly is collected by consumer devices, like Fitbits, and is rarely a part of a clinical or claims record.

Companies like this provision because their numbers are reviewed and revised by the S.E.C. without the public's knowing the agency's focus.

Agencies are battling cutbacks by major advertisers like Unilever and the rise of consultants like Accenture and Deloitte, which are becoming experts in shifting businesses online.

The optimistic longer - term projections that have been issued by the three main reporting agencies as well as from most Wall Street analysts are looking more and more like they may be off the mark as the current fundamentals are in no way suggesting the global oil market is already in a rebalancing pattern.

Because instead of limiting the overall availability of credit like it did in the past, the Fed now limits the credit available to other prospective borrowers by grabbing more for itself, which it then passes on to the U.S. Treasury and to housing agencies whose securities it purchases.

Your FICO score, which is used by credit reporting agencies like Equifax to measure consumer risk, puts the most weight on a borrower's payment history.

Greenlight argues that GM actively undermined its plan in discussions with rating agencies, including modifying the term sheet provided by Greenlight to make the dividend shares appear more like preferred equity with a fixed payment obligation and less like common equity with no fixed payment obligation, as Greenlight suggests it intended.

On top of new fees and taxes levied by state and local agencies on growers opting to join the regulated market, it can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for growers like JD to bring their land up to code.

Recently, however, progressive charities like the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives have been audited by the Canada Revenue Agency for allegedly being «too political.»

«As a teenager [in Brazil], I saw the cool advertising that the brand did, like Subservient Chicken and Whopper Freakout from those years,» he said, referring to the buzzworthy work created by long - time agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

The illegal drug trade on the dark web is growing rapidly, despite authorities shutting down major market sites like AlphaBay, as crime gangs diversify and seek new clients online, a report by two European Union agencies warned on Tuesday.

«A good way to tell is by checking with a rating agency like Standard & Poor's or Moody's.