Sentences with phrase «by public corporations»

While the principles are used by public corporations and in New York City's budgeting, New York and most other states prefer what is known as cash budgeting.

Not exact matches

But while the potential is sky - high, broad adoption by corporations and public agencies has been hampered by both slow - moving regulators and buyers» reluctance to make big investments in what remains a technological Wild West, where new partnerships and platforms regularly threaten to reshape the landscape.

Canadians were caught off - guard recently when Jian Ghomeshi, the popular host of Canadian Broadcast Corporation's radio show «Q» was fired by the public broadcaster.

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 %).

Using a combination of information available to the public and proprietary information generated by an algorithm, GEI seeks to rank 160 major corporations according to their stock of empathy.

The largest portion of the cash (20 %) should be placed in Canadian public corporations or indexes, followed by 16 % in real estate or rental housing, according to the respondents.

The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 allowed for unlimited political spending by corporations, but Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed his strong support for public disclosure of the money spent.

However, lobbying, advocacy and other political spending by corporations and trade associations can also inhibit good policy - making, hold back progress, undermine critical environmental, social or economic regulations, and offload private costs onto the public.

And by making a corporation the public face of shame for the crisis, the U.S. government can hang on to its record of not having criminally charged one single Wall Street exec for the crisis.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

Led by corporate members, it certifies firms that are at least 51 % owned, managed and controlled by women and connects them with the growing global demand from corporations and the public sector for diverse and innovative suppliers.

Despite offers from public corporations to sell, they refuse because of our initial vow to stand by the professional beauty industry.

The sectoral results for the 2013 survey indicate that Australia's aggregate net foreign currency asset position was held principally by non-bank private financial corporations (other financial corporations), with non-financial corporations and the public sector (including the Future Fund and the Reserve Bank) also holding small net foreign currency asset exposures (Graph 5).

Why DanoneWave took the steps to become the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. with a public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020

With growing interest and support from public markets (including through the incorporation of DanoneWave as the largest public benefit corporation in the U.S. and their public commitment to become a Certified B Corp by 2020 as well as Laureate Education's IPO in early 2017), multi-billion dollar companies are following suit and choosing to operate their businesses with purpose and accountability.

All five companies either went public or were acquired by larger corporations.

In the second, unlike public corporations where the owners of the business are dispersed and relatively powerless, the condottieri is elected by his employees.

IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT) is a growing public company, continuously innovating new products and services to enrich the lives of our customers by providing communications, entertainment and payment services.

Toll Brothers was founded in Pennsylvania in 1967 by brothers Robert and Bruce Toll and went public in 1986 as a Delaware corporation.

They decided to focus on selecting bonds issued by the government of Puerto Rico and its public corporations, which could include infrastructure bonds backed by alcohol taxes and general obligation bonds.

Industrial Engineer He is responsible for increasing the chances of success of the entrepreneurs accelerated by Start - Up Chile, generating bridges and connections between entrepreneurs with investors and corporations (companies and public bodies).

«And by us becoming a public benefit corporation it legally requires us to put the company's impact on society on an equal footing with our own sustainability.

The government, it said, remained on course for a # 10 billion surplus in 2019 - 20, but only by delaying capital investment, promising further cuts in spending on public services, and bringing forward a one - off boost to corporation tax receipts into 2019 - 20.

Bonds are loans taken out by governments, corporations and even public works programs with the promise to pay interest every year.

Treasury stock - It is a type of stock that is reacquired by a corporation or company to be retired or resold to the public and to potential investors.

Public corporations are corporations owned by the government of Puerto Rico.

It's a near certainty with the island likely to record its first default on August 1st (the commonwealth failed to make the necessary deposit to cover debt of its Public Finance Corporation due August 1st), and with the governor's Economic Recovery Working Group expected to make reform recommendations by August 30th.

Global bond funds invest in a wide variety of bonds issued by various public and private entities around the world, including sovereign governments, international agencies, state and local authorities, and private corporations.

It seems like an invitation for US companies to be sued by the US Securities & Exchange Commission for violating Regulation FD,» says Jonathan Macey, a professor of corporate law at Yale University, referring to an SEC rule that requires public corporations to inform the market of material statements — and forbids selective disclosure.

Public Power Corporation chief executive Manolis Panagiotakis referred on Thursday to the prospect of a considerable reduction in the utility's operating costs as well as extensive changes in its organization and function after the completion of its new business plan currently being drafted by consultant McKinsey & Company.

The control of the media by rich corporations prevents the public from understanding what is happening.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created by Congress in l967 to promote the development of the nation «s noncommercial broadcast stations.

The parental state, extending the smothering accomplished by Johan's possessive parents, does to him what the parental corporation does to people we know, or the public schools to children, or the machinery of welfare to modern - day paupers.

This negative reaction to black conservatives by most blacks partly explains the reluctance of the new black conservatives to engage in public debates in the black community, and their contrasting eagerness to do so in the mass media, where a few go so far as to portray themselves as courageous, embattled critics of a black liberal establishment — while their salaries, honorariums and travel expenses are paid by well - endowed conservative foundations and corporations.

Citizens who try to promote public - works projects through their local or federal governments find that their efforts are crowded out by pork - barrel projects benefiting powerful corporations.

True believers in the dominant model tell us that the solution of our problems is to reduce taxes on corporations and the rich, reduce government services to the poor and middle class, improve the climate for business by reducing work place and environmental protections and minimum wage requirements, privatizing public services, and facilitating the investment of capital overseas.

The first sort of irresponsibility is the kind which appears in the «public - bedamned» attitude once explicitly adopted by some great corporations and still somewhat in vogue, as when great manufacturing or financial concerns resist the right of the public to be given an accounting for human and monetary values.

I find the public display of faith by companies and corporations is usually to cover up the things they do that are not in accordance with Christ's teachings.

He has been reproached by sociologists for believing in the omnipotence of the scholarly analyst of the laboratory without ever having used the laboratory, and for explaining events as the function of «technical» expressions which hide reality from him in the same manner that the accounts of corporations are carefully edited and kept from the public by so - called «experts.»

Scientists oriented toward socialism or Marxism (e.g., Bernal, Needham, Haldane) have complained that within capitalism the direction of science has been determined by corporation profits rather than the public welfare.5 The solutions they offer stress political controls, which run the risk of imposing particular ideologies on the structure of science.

«The erosion of public trust in the role of businesses is, I think, quite alarming, particularly if it is fuelled by populist politicians, who seek to impose a greater regulatory burden on corporations that in turn restricts their ability to deliver investment and deliver the employment that Australia needs,» Mr Chaney said.

The Postharvest Education Foundation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation, organized and operated to engage in any lawful activity permitted by Section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Oregon Nonprofit Corpocorporation, organized and operated to engage in any lawful activity permitted by Section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Oregon Nonprofit CorporationCorporation Act.

By promoting itself as a «public benefit corporation,» the international Danone company is advocating «sustainability» in agriculture as the basis for the ingredients in its lineup of yogurt products.

The Partnership at Drugfree.org mission to help parents prevent, intervene in and find treatment for drug and alcohol use by their children depends on donations from individuals, corporations, foundations and the public sector.

April 12 — West Ham's move to London's Olympic Stadium will come under increased public scrutiny following a ruling by the UK's Information Tribunal which rejected in full the London Legacy Development Corporation (LDDC)'s appeal against an earlier Information Commissioner ruling to reveal full details of the secret contract enabling West Ham to move into the publicly owned Olympic Stadium.

You think we get little say in school lunches now, wait until there are no public schools because they have all been sold off and are run by corporations for a profit.

It has been a matter of great concern among public health activists who work on child health and nutrition that the issue of malnutrition was being converted into a marketing opportunity to be addressed through products that big corporations could sell as the answer, instead of being seen as a basic lack of access to food caused by structural inequities in food distribution.

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

Cherry Hills, bounded by Flossmoor Road on the south, 187th Street on the north, Kedzie Avenue on the east and Central Park Avenue on the west, is a public course but is owned by four families as a private corporation.