Sentences with phrase «close ties with companies»

«In turn, interviews and records show, some arbitrators cultivate close ties with companies to get business.»

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Uber also faces a challenge we talked about earlier: Since they're aiming to disrupt an established industry, a very regulated industry, one with close ties to municipalities, other companies can not only come back at them, they can call in regulations to make it even harder for Uber.

Perth venues The London Court Cafe and Black Tie Co have closed their doors in recent weeks, as the holding company controlling the two brands enters liquidation following a dispute with the Australian Taxation Office.

Obviously, the company has put a ton into Shanghai Disneyland... (and) Disney has had such close ties with the Chinese government and with the Chinese society as a whole to get to this point,» he added.

The close ties with British partners has amounted to something like a guest pass into the EU for American companies.

While much of the venture capital activity in the United States is concentrated in Silicon Valley, in recent years a sector of the economy with closer ties to Washington, D.C., than San Francisco has been upping its investments in start - up technology companies — America's defense industry.

Much of his success came from Libya, where he forged close ties with the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, while expanding the company's footprint in Algeria and the Middle East.

The company says that this new funding comes from an investment bank with close ties to Revel: «We have a close relationship with Roth,» said Revel cofounder and chief executive Lisa Falzone in a statement.

The Kamens claim the main thing that distinguishes their foundation from other brain tumor foundations is their focus on pediatric brain cancer specifically, as well as their close ties with pharmaceutical and biotech companies working in the fields of immunotherapy and target gene therapy.

However, Morningstar's close ties to fund companies such as PIMCO come with a downside (and not just from bedbugs).

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Wall Street has started to rethink its close ties with gun makers, especially since the shooting in Parkland, Fla., in February that left 17 people dead and touched off a series of protests and boycotts against companies linked to the firearms industry.

According to a new white paper commissioned by the Department of Defense, Beijing is encouraging Chinese companies with close government ties to invest in American start - ups specializing in critical technologies like artificial intelligence and robots to advance China's military capacity as well as its economy.

All this, combined with the close ties with Alliance, means Flexado has doubled in 2015 in the Netherlands,» he said, adding that the company is also pushing into new locations outside of its native Dutch borders.

As a payroll processing company with close ties to the Harrisburg region, BCM Payroll Services, Inc. understands the specific needs of businesses in the Chambersburg community.

Under a logic of «public - private partnership», the companies participating in Grow are fostering close ties with governments in order to increase their control over markets and supply chains.

The company also maintains close ties with Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and participates in community projects with him, Mora says.

But some complained that the draft report was riddled with errors and had an industry bias because it was prepared by Sciences International (SI), a private consulting firm with close ties to the chemical industry, and has been funded by more than 50 industrial companies.

Company records of Midway Games Inc., which is in line to receive city assistance to expand its North Side headquarters, show that one of its board members is William C. Bartholomay, former president of the Chicago Park District board and current president of Near North National Group, a Chicago - based insurance brokerage with close ties to powerful Democrats.

ALBANY — Controller Thomas DiNapoli granted private powwows about pension fund business to investment companies with close ties to his political cronies.

The Times unearthed a corporate intelligence company with a close interest in Sri Lanka, a property investor who lobbies for Israel and a venture capitalist keen on strong ties to fund the # 147,000 bill he notched up on travel and hotels, sometimes including first class travel and five - star hotels.

The Clinton Global Initiative, which arranges donations to help solve the world's problems, set up a financial commitment that benefited a for - profit company part - owned by people with ties to the Clintons, including a current and a former Democratic official and a close friend of former President Bill Clinton.

The company had close ties with two men now at the center of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's investigation into the Cuomo administration's economic development efforts: lobbyist Todd Howe and former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco.

«One of my goals is really [to] establish closer ties with top European and / or American companies and convince them that this Brno area is attractive enough [to] start building the biotech sector in South Moravia,» Paruch says.

Coming from Georgiou's lab also helped him, he thinks, because Georgiou's work is known for having a strong therapeutic bent: With 29 issued patents, more than half licensed to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, Georgiou has close ties with indusWith 29 issued patents, more than half licensed to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, Georgiou has close ties with induswith industry.

«There are a lot of companies that are trying to have closer ties with academic labs and many very good, high - quality academic centers now have the same equipment and research abilities.

Technology transfer offices, law firms, venture capital firms, economic development authorities, and biotechnology companies with scarce resources or close ties to universities are all organizations that can offer such an experience.

The company says it doesn't have close enough ties with Free People to be implicated in the trademark infringement case.

With close ties to our sister company Writer's Relief, we combine technical know - how with effective marketing and publishing strategWith close ties to our sister company Writer's Relief, we combine technical know - how with effective marketing and publishing strategwith effective marketing and publishing strategies.

According to an Amazon executive with close ties to Mr. Bezos, who could not be named because of his senior role in the company, Mr. Bezos made a decision after the iPad was introduced to try to lure customers onto the Kindle platform by offering less expensive devices.

Despite Apple and Nike expanding beyond their initial Nike + candidate, the two companies maintain close ties, with Apple CEO Tim Cook serving on Nike's board of directors.

«Further, Zoetis is the only animal health company to have such close ties with leading veterinary institutions in both China and the west.»

An Indian company with close ties to Modi, Adani Enterprises, has plans to build a massive new coal mine in Australia in order to feed India's energy sector.

... A new report by the environmental data company CDP has found that at least 29 companies, some with close ties to Republicans, including ExxonMobil, Walmart and American Electric Power, are incorporating a price on carbon into their long - term financial plans...

The president - elect promises to back out of President Barack Obama's Paris climate agreement, and has picked Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, a strong critic of the Environmental Protection Agency with close ties to energy companies, to run that very same agency.

Even if he were to select a non-partisan science advisor, he or she would be swimming upstream given this: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt's Emails Show Close Ties With Oil and Gas Companies

When students at UCL in London escalate actions on campus highlighting the conflict between the university's research and its investments, and exposing the close connections of university council members to fossil fuel companies; when pressure from scientists, climate activists and museum employees force oil mogul David Koch to step down from the board of New York's American Museum of Natural History; when the City of Cape Town comes under pressure to divest from the companies at the root of the city's water crisis; when Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campaign.

Given that Disney has an impressive collection of content and the company's close ties with Apple, it would make sense for the Cupertino giant to target Disney for a game - changing acquisition.

The information about the company's close ties with the agency came from the trove of documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

In time, the company hopes to establish close ties with manufacturers of surveillance cameras with a view to launching products embedded with chips that are optimized for use with Faceter technology.

Multiple U.S. regulators and intelligence chiefs previously accused the company of posing a security risk due to its close ties to Beijing, with Huawei repeatedly dismissing those allegations.

• Introduce «menu selling» procedure which significantly streamlined customer handling tasks • Decrease interest paid by the customer, resulting in increased customer satisfaction, while keeping revenue at par with earlier financial years • Close a lucrative deal with a multinational company, which resulted in $ 850,000 of revenue each year for the next 7 years • Confer with clients looking for financing and insurance coverage options for their vehicles • Provide customers with information on how to handle financing and insurance coverage by giving them a list of possible options • Make financing arrangements with a view of minimizing impact on the selling gross of the company • Create and maintain relationships between financers and borrowers by placing clear instructions and timelines • Tie customers close to dealerships in a bid to ensure return business opportunities • Create and administer vehicle service contracts, offering mechanical coverage in a bid to generate F&I income • Control paperwork once deals are closed and ensure that all information from the customers» end is complete and accurate • Train and educate sales people to deliver information regarding the benefits of protective proClose a lucrative deal with a multinational company, which resulted in $ 850,000 of revenue each year for the next 7 years • Confer with clients looking for financing and insurance coverage options for their vehicles • Provide customers with information on how to handle financing and insurance coverage by giving them a list of possible options • Make financing arrangements with a view of minimizing impact on the selling gross of the company • Create and maintain relationships between financers and borrowers by placing clear instructions and timelines • Tie customers close to dealerships in a bid to ensure return business opportunities • Create and administer vehicle service contracts, offering mechanical coverage in a bid to generate F&I income • Control paperwork once deals are closed and ensure that all information from the customers» end is complete and accurate • Train and educate sales people to deliver information regarding the benefits of protective proclose to dealerships in a bid to ensure return business opportunities • Create and administer vehicle service contracts, offering mechanical coverage in a bid to generate F&I income • Control paperwork once deals are closed and ensure that all information from the customers» end is complete and accurate • Train and educate sales people to deliver information regarding the benefits of protective products

With so much competing for our attention, we tend to become desensitized to our diffuse professional networks and overlook when weak ties change careers or switch companies and move closer to the edge.

These led to two tentative offers, one of which — from a Chinese insurance company with close ties to the ruling Communist Party — fell through under public scrutiny.