Last month
we changed our policy so that all reporters only have access to the same customer relationship data available to our clients.
National Australia Bank, the country's biggest agribusiness lender, is moving to
change its policies so that credit assessments put more weight on the sustainability of farmers» business practices.
Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it;
you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.
By
changing policies so, I am afraid that the health insurance company could deny a lot of my claims citing that I have to be on the same policy for X years before they pay for those situations, or cite a «break in coverage» clause and turn down an expensive claim.
One simple way for Bell to comply with the effect of the decision would be to
change its policy so that service is disconnected after 60 days, since any additional grace period alters the legal characterization of its fee from cost recovery to usury.
If you are injured and can't work or need help paying medical bills, you can
change your policy so that the cash value can be converted into regular disability checks.
It changed the policy so streamers could retain all their earnings from the sale of the «Super Hearts» — the animated icons that are bought by fans, then posted as a virtual tip.
However, Apple has
changed its policies so that you now only need software certification, so you should see more companies adding HomeKit support.
In fact, Amazon shut down the first ad network for Alexa skills by
changing its policies so it could no longer operate.
The rule changes also
change policy so that for the first time, Arkansas Medicaid will reimburse providers for dyadic therapies, which treat infants and their caregivers in the context of their relationship.
It proposes to meet this challenge by using a partnership of the community, social partners, statutory and public representative sectors to provide services, influence structures and
change policies so that all local people are included in a self - sustaining community that integrates work and economic activity with personal, social and economic needs.
Not exact matches
Accenture has also worked on ways to get more women into senior leadership positions (they've
changed the interview process
so that candidates of both genders get to know more members in the executive ranks) and to retain them (implementing a one - year no - travel
policy for employees who are new mothers and fathers).
So policy makers focus on «core inflation,» which ignores
changes in prices for fruit, vegetables, gasoline, fuel oil, natural gas, mortgage interest, intercity transportation, tobacco products and indirect taxes.
So while it's a powerful gesture for these retailers to
change their
policies, it may not actually make a significant dent in the access to guns.
As recently as 2015, the IMF arbitrarily
changed a long - standing
policy on loan requirements
so it could help Ukraine.
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Trump's mandate has
so far been marked by several
changes in approach compared to his predecessors, mainly regarding foreign
policy.
Kathleen Harrington, chair of
Policy of Government Relations for the Mayo Clinic, said
so far she likes what she hears from Republicans on
changes to health insurance.
Many in the central bank, including outgoing Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, are sceptical that monetary
policy can impact public sentiment,
so they do not buy into the idea that a
change in
policy would raise inflation expectations.
I asked, «Now that the company is public and has grown
so large, has the
policy changed?»
The Bank of Canada wasn't
so disenchanted that it felt a
policy change was needed:
policy makers left the benchmark interest rate unchanged at the ultra-low setting of 0.5 %.
So Facebook
changed its API
policy to limit notifications and the ability to post to users» walls from Facebook apps.
In a letter made public Friday, Apple made a series of suggested
changes to the
policy that is under development and said it looks forward to working with California and others «
so that rapid technology development may be realized while ensuring the safety of the traveling public.»
The same way that a bank deemed too big to fail might take greater risks — having the knowledge that its most severe mistakes will be underwritten by somebody else —
so, too, can signing your name on a marriage licence offer a sort of insurance
policy that
changes your behaviour.
The Washington Post suggested on Wednesday that it may
change its drug
policy so as to stop testing staff members for marijuana use.
So far Coady's work at Enbridge has been about conducting outreach around specific areas such as water stewardship and updating climate
change policies.
«If choosing a major is solely based on students» wants, some majors will be overcrowded and others will have difficulty enrolling enough students,» Lu reportedly said, adding that other institutions have adopted similar
policies and that among the 400 or
so students who have to leave their majors to fate, the highest achievers can apply to
change their specializations after a year of study.
Policies tend to
change, however,
so be sure to verify with your specific brand to be sure.
«The landscape of e-communications and the «Internet of things»
changes so rapidly that to focus on one specific form of communication, or a specific device, may render a
policy obsolete in a matter of months,» Krugel says.
But then again,
so is demographics, water scarcity, technological
change, creativity,
policy choices, public sentiment, corruption, cultural differences, new forms of energy and a myriad of other factors, all interacting in unpredictable ways.
So you may wish to petition for a
change to corporate
policy.
And, while the protests we are
so nostalgic for sometimes succeeded, they also often fail where
policy change is concerned.
My company had been publishing Chinese language b2b magazines and doing market research in China since 1975,
so we had a ground floor seat from which to witness the dramatic
changes before, during, and after the Open Door
policy was announced in 1979.
Wilkins reminded her audience that there's an art to monetary
policy: since it takes
so long for a
change in
policy to actually affect economic conditions, central bankers must anticipate.
On Nov. 20, the city planning committee agreed to
change the official plan
so that additional drive - thrus could not be located in «special
policy areas,» like the historic downtown, unless the company submits an urban design study that satisfies the overall plan.
Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's
policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not
change,
so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»
Financial conditions affect households» and firms» decisions,
so that the transmission of U.S. monetary
policy to the real economy depends, to a large extent, on how
changes in monetary
policy help deliver the appropriate financial market conditions to support our objectives of price stability and maximum employment.
If, as I have indicated, the U.S. growth and inflation outlooks have not
changed notably, then why have expectations about U.S. monetary
policy shifted
so much?
The challenge for monetary
policy makers is to look at this complex and
changing picture of price
changes and try to gauge the forces that are operating on underlying inflation and
so judge the likely future path of overall inflation.
Instead, she sees forcing a
change in personnel — which, she notes, the Federal Reserve has the power to do to Wells Fargo should it
so choose — as itself a meaningful
policy action, one that would help reform the bank's culture and could deter bad actors throughout the industry.
Monetary
policy doesn't work by restricting or «rationing» the reserve funds available to the banks and
so limiting the supply of credit via balance sheet constraints: it works by way of
changing the price of borrowing, shifting borrowers along their borrowing demand curve.
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But the government doesn't want the story to end that way,
so officials are likely looking for a way to secretly
change the enforcement
policy so that the tariff doesn't apply to iPods.
So it was this afternoon that he yawned his way through three questions from Michael Ignatieff on the government's
policies on climate
change and shrugged away three questions from Jack Layton on the extension of this country's military mission in Afghanistan.
So while
changes in trade
policy can shift imports and exports from one country to another, for example, reducing the American trade deficit with China while increasing its trade deficit with Thailand, they are unlikely to reduce the American trade deficit overall.
I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's
policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any
change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects,
changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps,
changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental
policies, and
so on.
So there's a good chance the FOMC will decide against any
policy changes and continue along it charted course for now (with the funds rate near zero).
He has strongly advocated for a
change in tax
policies so hedge fund managers can't shield their income through lower capital gains income tax rates.
So Paul Volcker, the Fed chairman, dramatically
changed how monetary
policy was conducted.
So long as rate hikes and
policy changes are gradual and well communicated, we believe markets can take the moves in stride.