Sentences with phrase «by most public»

There was a time when the term «economic development,» as used by most public officials and business leaders, referred to the practice of luring firms and jobs to a jurisdiction by selling companies on the benefits of that community — such as favorable tax rates — and providing monetary incentives to locate there.
The challenge was not taken seriously by most public lawyers when it was first mooted.
While they do not have public access to all buildings, typically these dogs are granted rights by most public service facilities.
Unfortunately, these same destructive policies, and more, are featured in the Obama administration's «Blueprint» for reauthorization of this law, despite the fact that they are not based on solid research or supported by most public school parents.
The measures of teacher quality that are used by most public school systems to screen candidates and determine compensation — certification, experience, and education level — have been well researched, but there is little definitive empirical evidence that these characteristics, defined in general terms, are associated with higher student achievement.
The two middle schools are small by most public school standards — Crossroads has 175 students and KIPP has 248; however, KIPP classes have 32 students on average.
Reporting of extensively drug - resistant A. baumannii infection is not required by most public health jurisdictions in the United States, and clinical laboratories generally do not test for an organism's underlying genetic resistance mechanisms.
One of the most obvious areas of abuse concerns the resolute insistence by most public companies to have the CEO serve as chairman of the board.

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It also revealed that most of Facebook's users probably had their public profile information scraped by malicious actors who used a tool that the social network has now removed.
The most talked - about media response to Wolf's performance came from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has risen in the public eye by providing often - unflattering insights on the president and his staff.
NBCU invested $ 200 million in Vox in 2015, one of a flurry of investments into digital companies by the Comcast (cmcsa) unit, which has put $ 400 million into BuzzFeed and most recently invested $ 500 million as part of Snap Inc's initial public offering last week.
The most recent research, led by Joseph Allen, who teaches at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, analyzed the performance of knowledge workers, including engineers, programmers, creative marketing professionals and managers.
If you want to steer clear of the most dangerous types of supplements, you can start by avoiding three broad categories, says Austin, who spoke on a recent panel put on by The Forum, an event series organized by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
The most dangerous supplements are the ones that claim to increase performance in three broad categories, S. Bryn Austin said at an event organized by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Wisconsin is poised to strip collective bargaining rights from most of the state's 175,000 public employees in the boldest step by a new Republican governor and Legislature to solve budget problems by confronting organized labor.
In most states in the U.S., a notary public is a state officer who is authorized to witness and attest to the legalities of certain documents by signature and stamping a seal.
In a press release, the UK's most senior counter-terrorism officer — assistant commissioner Mark Rowley — says: «By being more open about the threat and our work to confront it we hope the public will feel better informed and more confident in coming forward.
«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.
At public speaking events in recent years, he's often opened by thanking organizers for inviting a Canadian banker to speak — «In most places right now in the world if you're a banker you don't even go out at nights.»
With celebrity declarations of gayness — such as CNN anchor Anderson Cooper's recent admission — now being greeted with little more than a shrug by most viewers, being gay finally seems to be beginning to lose its stigma with the general cookie - consuming public.
That's not most of the viewing public by any means.
As lawmakers and the public scrutinize dramatic price increases for other old drugs — most recently with the Mylan - owned EpiPen, which saw its cost go up by 500 % in the past nine years — the next flash point may be insulin, a drug both ubiquitous and complicated.
Written by Philip Auerswald, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy is due out in April, but you can get a taste of Auerswald's most optimistic take on the entrepreneurship and global economy with this video of an animated, 10 - minute talk he gave recently to lawmakers.
However, the vast majority of Canadians will not be impacted by these changes as most investors hold shares in public corporations, which are eligible for the current Dividend Tax Credit (which includes a 25 % gross up and a corresponding Dividend Tax Credit of 2/3, or 67 %).
By the time the public comment period had ended for proposed rule changes to net neutrality 10 days ago, the Federal Communications Commission logged close to 800,000 responses, making it the most commented - upon rule change in the agency's history.
Given the resources needed to run the massive data centers required by public cloud providers, most observers say the three key players are Amazon, Microsoft (msft) and Google (goog).
The CEOs of the three most valuable public American companies by market cap — Apple, Google parent Alphabet, and Microsoft — were included in the meeting with Trump, but they weren't the leaders whom he kept by his side.
Facebook says it believes most of its 2.2 billion users had their public profile information scraped by businesses or various malicious actors through this technique at some point.
Most public - company stocks are valued by their price - to - earnings, or P / E ratio, but Twitter has no earnings.
But it should matter that such behavior was confirmed today, beyond any reasonable doubt, by one of the most credible people in public life.
Apple (aapl) just announced record earnings for fiscal 2015, posting nearly one - quarter of a trillion dollars in revenue, and it remains the most valuable public company by far.
Some of the businesses atop Fortune's list of The Giving 20: The Most Generous Companies of the Fortune 500, which was based on data collected by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, were also those viewed least favorably by the public.
Marois, however, will ultimately find herself constrained by the dreadful state of public finances in Quebec, which is Canada's most indebted province.
An analysis by Reuters in February showed that globally, shares of most of the 25 largest technology IPOs have languished in their first 12 months on the public market.
Most commonly referred to as «walks of shame» or «one night stands» by the general public, these type of rides were dubbed by the Uber bros as «Rides of Glory.»
The most dangerous types of supplements are those related to weight loss, muscle building, and sexual performance, according to Harvard Medical School professor S. Bryn Austin, who spoke on a recent panel organized by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Most print and broadcast outlets post stories online, which can be commented on by the general public.
Since most politicians» campaigns are largely funded by wealthy companies and individuals, it would give voters a better sense of who the candidate they are voting for is actually representing if the company's logo, or individual's name, was prominently displayed upon the candidate's clothing at all public appearances and campaign events.
Closed - shop rules imposed by the carpenters» union dictate public tendering policies, and so most future municipal construction contracts can only be bid by approved union firms, dramatically reducing the number of eligible bidders.
«Most medium - sized companies won't have a defined benefit pension plan, like those offered by very large companies or the public sector, so they would want to look at a defined contribution plan,» she explains.
Most entrepreneurs are driven by pursuing achievement, monetary reward and public recognition.
One of the most well - established ways to hear from readers, the NYT public editor pointed out — although not the only one, by any means — is through comments on news stories.
In an interview with press on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said he expects most of Facebook's users who had a specific search function enabled had their public data scraped by a third party.
But with the relative stability of large public companies behind most major marketing clouds, the standardization of plug - ins to those clouds offered by their ISV programs, and the open architectures enabled by middleware, the vendor risk associated with most marketing technologies is increasingly being mitigated and controlled.
Groupon, hardly the first site to offer daily deals but by far the most successful (at least revenue-wise), went public in November 2011 with a nearly $ 13 billion valuation.
Any material issues raised by the most recent Public Company Accounting Oversight Board inspection, peer review, or independent registered public accounting firm internal quality control review or by any inquiry or investigations by governmental or professional authorities within the preceding five years respecting one or more independent audits carried out by the audit firm, and any steps taken to deal with such iPublic Company Accounting Oversight Board inspection, peer review, or independent registered public accounting firm internal quality control review or by any inquiry or investigations by governmental or professional authorities within the preceding five years respecting one or more independent audits carried out by the audit firm, and any steps taken to deal with such ipublic accounting firm internal quality control review or by any inquiry or investigations by governmental or professional authorities within the preceding five years respecting one or more independent audits carried out by the audit firm, and any steps taken to deal with such issues.
Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Unfortunately, the plan presented by his advisers, Peter Navarro and Wilbur Ross, suggests an approach based on tax credits for equity investment and total private sector participation that will not cover the most important projects, not reach many of the most important investors, and involve substantial mis - targeting of public resources.
Land is still its largest component — and some 80 percent of «capital» gains in the U.S. economy are land - price gains Site values are increased by public investment in streets, water and sewer facilities and transportation hubs, in school systems, by zoning restrictions, by the general level of prosperity, and most of all, by whatever bankers will lend.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the state is connected by 313,596 miles of public road, the most of any state.
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