Not exact matches
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or
other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our
other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and
other customers, and the risk of nonpayment
by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders
by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or
international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or
other security attacks, information technology failures, or
other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and
other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and
agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending
by the U.S. and
other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and
other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and
other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among
other things.
The report from the
International Energy
Agency (IEA), a Paris - based think tank, is a thumping endorsement for the shale sector's resilience in the face of a two - year attempt
by Saudi Arabia and
others to squeeze it.
Rich Barton participated in PAGE kick - off meetings in Washington, D.C., chaired
by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker that also involved President Obama and
other senior - level officials from the U.S. Department of State and U.S.
Agency for
International Development.
But aren't the selective «lifeboat» procedures in fact being practiced even now
by the United States, and
by other governments and
international agencies?
In Batangas, some 100 km from Manila, the Philippines, more than 1,500 houses were demolished in 1994 for the Batangas Port Development Project funded
by Japan and
other international financial
agencies.
They are also dictated to
by the IMF and
other powerful
international agencies which impose them structural adjustment programme (SAP) at the sacrifice of people.
His argument for «building constituencies for change» is a plea to move beyond the intervention mode that passes for «
international cooperation,» beyond the patronizing practices of private aid
agencies driven
by business competition rather than
by civil constituencies and emancipatory agendas shared with
others.
Edwards, on the
other hand, traces a direct line between the erosion of public sector capacity and the imposition of one - size - fits - all policies of structural adjustment driven
by international finance
agencies during the Reagan - Thatcher years.
There is no
international accreditation
by IFOAM or any
other agency for PGS initiatives.
FAO can coordinate, at global level, the initiatives, activities and projects on food losses waste reduction
by partnering with UN
agencies,
other international organizations, and worldwide stakeholders, including the private sector and civil society.
On its Web site, Nalgene's manufacturer, Nalge Nunc
International, refers to research on Bisphenol A
by the FDA, the Environmental Protection
Agency, the American Plastics Council and «
other reliable sources from around the world» to state «we firmly believe in the safety of our products.»
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by Dorit Opher Shapiro www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1329 • The Lost Daughters of China,
by Karin Evans • Baby, We Were Meant for Each
Other,
by Scott Simon • When You Were Born in China: A Memory Book for Children Adopted from China,
by Sara Dorow • The Empty Lap,
by Jill Smolowe • You Can Adopt: An Adoptive Families Guide,
by Susan Caughman and Isolde Motley Website and listserv: • Families with Children from China, fwcc.org • Raising China Children, groups.yahoo.com/group/Raising ChinaChildren 80 www.theadoptionguide.com http://www.theadoptionguide.com/options/adoption-from-china http://www.theadoptionguide.com/options/adoption-from-china http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1329 http://www.fwcc.org http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Raising http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Raising http://www.theadoptionguide.com Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Adoption Guide 2011 Cover Page Slideshow: Adoptive Families» Family Album Full Table of Contents 8 Great Reasons to Adopt Now Moving on from Infertility My First Questions Timeline to Adoption Budgeting for Adoption Homestudy Preparation Worksheet Adoption Options Adoption Decision Matrix Domestic Adoption
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GCAP, which is implemented
by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) with funding from the World Bank and the United States
Agency for
International Development, seeks to amongst
others ensure increased agricultural production to improve incomes of farmers.
The 2015 mid-term evaluation report of LABEX IAST resulted in a very positive assessment
by the
international jury: «This is a high - risk, high - potential project that can lead to transformative research in the long term, Intersection between economics, biology, psychology, and
other fields, perfectly suited for funding
by a public research
agency.
RICE is led
by six organizations with
international mandate and with a large portfolio on rice: three members from the CGIAR — the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI, the lead institute), Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)-- and three other leading international agricultural agencies: Centre de Cooperation lnternationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), L'lnstitut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), and the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Scien
international mandate and with a large portfolio on rice: three members from the CGIAR — the
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI, the lead institute), Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)-- and three other leading international agricultural agencies: Centre de Cooperation lnternationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), L'lnstitut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), and the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Scien
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI, the lead institute), Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), the
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)-- and three other leading international agricultural agencies: Centre de Cooperation lnternationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), L'lnstitut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), and the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Scien
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)-- and three
other leading
international agricultural agencies: Centre de Cooperation lnternationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), L'lnstitut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), and the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Scien
international agricultural
agencies: Centre de Cooperation lnternationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), L'lnstitut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), and the Japan
International Research Center for Agricultural Scien
International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS).
The goal was announced at an
international conference on measles immunization sponsored jointly
by the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and
other medical associations and government
agencies.
For example, an inquiry into the brutalities perpetrated against the 1994 - 1998 Rwandan refugees who had sought a safe haven in the DRC, conducted
by the United Nations» Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and eventually released under the 2010 Mapping Report, 32 revealed that the UNHCR and
other international agencies collaborated with the RPF in the military operation to forcefully repatriate Hutu refugees between 1996 and 2000.
In
other words, NAEP has been identifying gains that are somewhere between two and three times as large as those recorded
by two respected
international testing
agencies that do not have a political stake in showing rising levels of student achievement in any particular country.
Many of the
international initiatives are the result of educational Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) that have been co-signed
by our Commissioner of Education and officials from government
agencies in
other countries.
In
others, they are sold
by commercial bodies licensed
by the
International ISBN
Agency.)
These investments are subject to the risk that a governmental entity may delay or refuse to pay interest or repay principal on its sovereign debt, due, for example, to cash flow problems, insufficient foreign currency reserves, political considerations, the relative size of the governmental entity's debt position in relation to the economy or the failure to put in place economic reforms required
by the
International Monetary Fund or
other multilateral
agencies.
The borrowing in foreign exchange may be from an overseas bank / export credit
agency / supplier of equipment or foreign collaborator, foreign equity holder, NRI, OCB, corporate / institution with a good credit rating from internationally recognised credit rating
agency, or from
international capital market
by way of issue of bonds, floating rate notes or any
other debt instrument
by whatever name called.
PADI and SSI - and hundreds of
other agencies, are all internationally recognized, accepted and governed
by organizations and commissions that set
international diving learning standards.
AVA's innovative commissioning
agency will bring together works made especially for the exhibition
by both the artists that it currently represents — Reece Jones, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Alastair Mackie, Kate MccGwire and Jonathan Wateridge — and
other eading figures of the
international art world including Bertozzi and Casoni, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tim Noble and Sue Webster and Wim Delvoye.
And that goal is at the core of the «energy quest» I've promoted here, the energy challenge that the chemistry Nobelist Richard Smalley described for many years and is embraced
by the
International Energy
Agency, World Bank, United Nations and many
other institutions, at least in theory.
According to a new report published
by the
International Energy
Agency (IEA), TreeHugger has been right to promote the use of compact fluorescent (here, here and here as well) and
other energy - efficient lighting: a global switch to efficient lighting systems would trim the world's electricity bill
by nearly one - tenth.
This was the message of the OECD's
International Energy
Agency when it reviewed Australia's energy economy a few years ago.11 It is also the message of the most comprehensive analysis of Australia's energy efficiency performance, carried out
by the foremost expert in the area, Lee Schipper of the IEA and La wrence Berkeley Laboratories.12 The analysis concluded that, while the story varies from sector to sector, overall Australia's energy efficiency performance is poor compared to
other OECD countries.
The
International Energy
Agency (IEA), an intergovernmental policy advising organization, explains that «access to electricity is particularly crucial to human development» and «can not easily be replaced
by other forms of energy.»
The World Bank, ESMAP and the
International Energy
Agency (IEA) lead the work, supported
by 20
other organizations.
It seems more and more evident that the UN and
other international agencies are under someone's thumb and can not be trusted; I don't believe in giving up one iota of sovereignty to these corrupt organizations led
by morons!
«Killing for Commerce,» released
by the Environmental Investigation
Agency, in conjunction with Humane Society
International and the Natural Resources Defense Council, details how the website Yahoo! Japan facilitates the sale of meat and
other products of endangered whale in Japan.
This includes wind, solar, and
other renewable energy supplies, which the
International Energy
Agency (IEA) anticipates will grow
by 75 percent between 2011 and 2035, a rate higher than the growth in coal, natural gas, or oil over the same period.
The switch to wood is driven
by regulations from the US Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) and
other international organizations.
The letter was conceived and circulated
by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Born Free USA, Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Investigation
Agency, Humane Society
International, The Humane Society of the United States,
International Fund for Animal Welfare, Wildlife Conservation Society, and
other groups.
«The Surui Forest Carbon Project is now recognized as a national and
international reference, and its concepts and methodological construction are used
by Federal Government
agencies such as FUNAI (Fundação Nacional do Índio, the National Indian Foundation) and the Ministry of the Environment and
other project developers in Brazil and globally,» says Mariano Cenamo, Senior Researcher at Idesam.
Response (2 - 10): The IPCC statement cites a report
by Dr. Ali Agoumi, a climate expert from Morocco (Agoumi, 2003) that was published
by the
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and funded
by the government of Canada, the U.S.
Agency for
International Development, and
other public and private institutions.
In
other words, while low - or zero - carbon sources would make up a greater portion of India's energy supply, overall carbon emissions would nearly double: from around 2.1 billion tons in 2014 to more than four billion tons
by 2040, according to the
International Energy
Agency.
To ensure that this issue continues to receive the highest level of attention, I direct: (1) relevant U.S. delegations attending meetings with Icelandic officials and senior Administration officials visiting Iceland to raise U.S. concerns regarding commercial whaling
by Icelandic companies and seek ways to halt such action; (2) Cabinet secretaries to evaluate the appropriateness of visits to Iceland depending on continuation of the current suspension of fin whaling; (3) the Department of State to examine Arctic cooperation projects, and where appropriate, link U.S. cooperation to the Icelandic government changing its whaling policy and abiding
by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (4) the Departments of Commerce and State to consult with
other international actors on efforts to end Icelandic commercial whaling and have Iceland abide
by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (5) the Department of State to inform the Government of Iceland that the United States will continue to monitor the activities of Icelandic companies that engage in commercial whaling; and (6) relevant U.S.
agencies to continue to examine
other options for responding to continued whaling
by Iceland.
Renewable energy projects surpassed all
other sources of new electricity added to the global supply last year, says a new report released this week
by the
International Energy
Agency.
In contrast, environmental specialists employed
by two
other United Nations specialized
agencies, the World Bank and
International Finance Corporation, have developed a widely - cited assessment that at least 51 percent of human - caused greenhouse gas is attributable to livestock.
By the mid-1980s, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and
other international aid
agencies were pouring about $ 200 million into aquaculture projects each year.
The UN report cited research
by the
International Energy
Agency (IEA), energy adviser to 28 countries, and
others which showed growing capital costs especially in the energy sector.
A new report
by a group of
international energy and development experts calls on the United Nations and
other international agencies to plan for far higher energy consumption in sub-Saharan Africa and in
other regions that rely on burning wood and dung for energy.
The table below shows data compiled
by the
International Energy
Agency, which estimates carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of coal, natural gas, oil and
other fuels, including industrial waste and non-renewable municipal waste.
A number of analyses, meta - analyses, and assessments, including those performed
by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the
International Energy
Agency, have concluded that deployment of a diverse portfolio of clean energy technologies makes a transition to a low - carbon - emission energy system both more feasible and less costly than
other pathways.
She has an in - depth knowledge of complex
international cases, instigated against corporates and individuals
by the SFO and
other UK and European government
agencies, as well as the US Department of Justice.
Kathy has also defended an
international dialysis services provider against RICO claims in federal court based on allegedly fraudulent billing activity, represented a pharmaceutical services provider in a billing dispute with a chain of nursing homes, defended home health
agencies in suits brought
by employees pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act, and represented
other providers and associations of providers as plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of matters in federal and state court involving issues ranging from contract interpretation to cash receipts assessments to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
They should also express commitment to work in coordination with like - minded states, UN
agencies,
international organizations, civil society, and
other stakeholders to conclude a legally binding instrument prohibiting the development, production, and use of lethal autonomous weapons systems
by the end of 2019.
Representatives from more than 90 countries as well as UN
agencies, the
International Committee of the Red Cross, and the campaign convened at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) to engage in five days of substantive deliberations with invited experts on ethical, legal, operational, security, technical, and
other challenges raised
by these weapons.
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots supports a continuation of the CCW process and welcomes efforts in
other fora, such as the Human Rights Council, as well as
by international agencies such as the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).