Sentences with phrase «collective challenge for all of»

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

«That's a challenge,» says Justin Molito, director of organizing for the WGA's East Coast branch, who nonetheless is «encouraged and excited» by the burst of activity in the space and has even adopted some of the tactics of collective action that the newer guilds are using.

Out of the individual greed of millions of buyers and sellers, said Dr. Smith, would come a great collective good; for the gladiators who challenged each other on the free market were forced to improve their products, and often lower their prices, in order to defeat their competitors.

The churches keep on raising questions, sometimes legitimate, about the style and structure of action groups and people's movements, without showing any readiness to face the challenge posed by the vision and strategy (justice and collective action) for the Church's ministry and mission.

Explore the data in the most recent report released in November 2016 and learn more about the important successes and unique challenges of manufacturers, retailers and restaurants when it comes to reducing food waste, and how the collective food industry is pushing for further reductions.

«Our challenge is to sustain and spread forces of individual empowerment more equally while enhancing rather than reducing capacity for collective action to tackle shared risks.»

The really interesting, and challenging, work, in my view, will be on how to combine the two, e.g., perhaps the design of individualised choice mechanisms could be a matter for local, collective deliberation.

Instead of thanking the PM for suspending collective responsibility over the referendum — so that she can in effect call her boss useless, a failure in the greatest challenge of his political career, and still keep her job — Patel says that his most senior official is stitching the whole thing up.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- An attorney for the state of Wisconsin argued Wednesday that a lawsuit challenging Gov. Scott Walker's divisive collective bargaining law should be dismissed because it is not ripe given that the...

«I want to serve notice that the Minority will challenge it because we think that it should not be allowed to go, and this is not a charge for only the minority, there is a collective duty on all of us as Ghanaians to get up and oppose this obnoxious policy and make sure the right thing is done.»

Being a part of the collective decision making in Shadow Cabinet, setting a direction for the parliamentary Labour party in Parliament on challenging issues.

Regardless of the targeted organ for cell replacement or regeneration, the shared challenges in cell therapies for diabetes such as transplant procedure and immune rejection will be well - served by the collective expertise within CCTD.

The Spring Style Challenge is a way for us as the Style Collective to share appreciation for all of you who support us.

I am so excited for a week full of new content, the Style Collective Style Challenge on Instagram, and some AMAZING news!

Once T'Challa's true challenge is revealed, «Black Panther» becomes something deeper than the mere formation of one superhero, engaging such subjects as: the legacy of colonialism; collective memory and interior geography; the tension between autonomy and social conscience; and the need for solidarity within an African diaspora at political and cultural odds with itself.

The challenge is to recognize the legitimacy of the global polity as an outer layer of a nested system of affiliation that reaches across regions and places to build processes of democratic global governance for managing our collective affairs on this planet.

As there are no text book answer for many of the educational and social challenges faced by teachers today, Greenfield's focus on the subjective provides scope for classroom teachers to share in the leadership of solution finding through collective inquiry.

Nonchargeable activities: lobbying and ballot initiatives; external public relations; litigation, «unless specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance»; get - out - the - vote activities; contributing to charitable, religious, or ideological causes; supporting political organizations or candidates for public office; organizing or recruiting new members and «defending against challenges to exclusive bargaining representative status»; and «monitoring and opposing activities of groups and individuals whose purpose is to undermine public education.»

Tomorrow is the scheduled announcement of the XQ Challenge Winners — the effort to rethink high school that's been going on for the past several months via the Emerson Collective.

Although ever - increasing external demands to raise student achievement amidst budget cuts are raising stress levels for many educators, school leaders, like company CEOs, may be able to unleash creativity and collective problem - solving by reframing threats as challenges — for example, by converting the fear of school failure into the challenge of helping students succeed.

The case, which will be argued in front of the high court this month, challenges whether public employee unions can charge non-members for fees related to collective bargaining.

For its 10th anniversary, Facing History and Allstate celebrate «Stories Matter,» with Community Conversations focused on the power of stories from news and social media as tools to impact our lives and challenge our collective thinking.

We then brainstormed ideas for collective action to challenge some of these damaging policies and promote a quality education for every child.

Moreover, one might wonder whether the threat conditions we've created for many schools with high - stakes accountability are serving us well, or if it may be time to begin to reframe accountability in terms of a challenge condition that encourages educators to harness their collective ingenuity to create better learning environments for all students.

Other strategies include: (1) establishing and using a time - out or cooling - off place (even an informal time - out activity like having a child take a message, book, or box of chalk to another teacher could give the student the space and time he or she needs to maintain or regain composure); (2) applying role plays, simulations (for example, Barnga, Living in a Global Age, Rafa - Rafa, and Broken Squares) and moral dilemmas to teach students how to resolve conflicts, make collective decisions, appreciate different perspectives, weigh consequences, identify right from wrong, and check impulsive behavior; and (3) suggesting or assigning literature with characters who face similar challenges to that of the disabled student.

The California Teachers Association apparently thinks it scored a major legal victory last week when a federal judge in Santa Ana dismissed a lawsuit challenging the public teachers union's collection of fees from nonmember teachers for both collective bargaining purposes and political activity.

However, with so much talent and diversity, getting everyone to value the collective mission over individual progress can sometimes seem challenging, given the fact that traditionally our system is set up for teachers to plan, execute and reflect on their practices independently instead of as a team.

The authors suggest three strategies to address the challenge: 1) school reform should be expanded to include «multiple pathways» for students instead of a narrow «college - for - all» focus; 2) employers should become more engaged in the development and support of these pathways; and 3) as a society, the U.S. should take collective responsibility for educating young people to ensure that they are well prepared for life after school.

The authors suggest three strategies to address the challenge: 1) school reform should be expanded to include «multiple pathways» for students instead of a narrow «college - for - all» focus; 2) employers should become more engaged in the development and support of these pathways; and 3) as a society, the U.S. should take collective responsibility for educating young people to ensure that they are well - prepared for life after school.

«The individual and collective progress of the 20 Early Learning Challenge States is changing the early childhood landscape for the better,» Linda Smith, deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development at the Administration for Children and Families, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement.

«ISDs / RESAs have an opportunity to better use our collective resources and wisdom as educational leaders, including the strengths that lie in our diversity, to enable our state to substantially improve educational attainment for all of its students — Michigan's best future demands no less of us and we must rise to the challenge»

«There were also many changes to laws that prescribe educator evaluations and collective bargaining which means diminished rights for educators along with stiffer challenges - all part of the outcome to the 2011 Legislative Session.»

Further, a collective sales figure of 45 million Android tablets projected for 2012 point out all other competitors will enjoy moderate success at best with not many rising to challenge the iPad dominance.

It was made for Kurki Collective, as we took the Kurki Games Factory challenge during the month of August (you can view games made in previous months by various Kurki Collective members here)

• Access to local talent, contacts and resources • Collective insight on the many challenges indie devs face • Constructive feedback within a supportive peer group • Professional network with a shared love of game creation • Events are a great forum for presentations and pitching your game

As I approach the one - year anniversary in my role as CEO, I wanted to reflect on what an extraordinary year this has been for the Joan Mitchell Foundation — a year of substantial transition, of tremendous collective effort, of challenges and accomplishments, and of exciting new beginnings in mapping our future.

Artists and artist collectives are encouraged to apply for residencies of two to six weeks to develop projects in process or new works that critically investigate, challenge and extend the typical norms of performance.

«Meant to inspire a sense of community and information exchange around the topic of sex, the YouwishyouwouldhaveknownTube project is an open call for a collective response to the aforementioned challenge.

More challenging (to the point of having to sign a disclaimer before entering) was a labyrinth recreated by the collective Gelitlin from one conceived in 1976 by the Fluxus group to physically unbalance and disorient you with obstacles such as marbles underfoot, soft stairs and virtual doors that reduced some to banging on the walls for help to get out.

For the collective, it suggests that the conventional critical wisdom and market trends are but two possible filters for the work of a generation, subject to challenge and revision by those, like Rubinstein, with the intellectual curiosity, patience, and diligence to look beyond the status qFor the collective, it suggests that the conventional critical wisdom and market trends are but two possible filters for the work of a generation, subject to challenge and revision by those, like Rubinstein, with the intellectual curiosity, patience, and diligence to look beyond the status qfor the work of a generation, subject to challenge and revision by those, like Rubinstein, with the intellectual curiosity, patience, and diligence to look beyond the status quo.

As a co-founder of the legendary collective Hi Red Center in 1963 and the central inspiration for Mono - Ha, Jiro Takamatsu brought significant changes in the evolution of visual art in Japan as an artist, theorist and teacher, challenging the prevailing orthodox methods of painting free of representation and sculptures that emphasized truth to materials and the anti-illusional during the 1960s and 1970s.

[4] The One and Only, within the context of the gallery, challenges Colonialist ideologies, speaking to ownership as Spaulings work is installed in another art gallery despite having an existing gallery space for the collective.

Each artist or collective poses a challenge to the perceived limits that condition our understanding of the world: on the one hand, the limited prospect for action, compassion, and change, while on the other, the limitless drive for resources and capital in all its forms.

The 1970s and 1980s performances of Collective Actions, for instance, challenged the Russian powers that be — Journeys to the Countryside # 11, 1979, documents Andrei Monastyrski and other members of this group wielding squares, while others watched, in the snowy fields of Moscow outskirts.

The main objective of COP21 in December 2015 is to produce a cooperation framework among governments for a steady increase of individual and collective ambitions for addressing the challenge of climate change.

We believe the solution to the planet's biggest challenges lies in the power of collective action — which is why we are gearing up for the 2017 EcoChallenge happening October 11 - 25th.

The challenge, though, clearly became one of finding ways to bring the collective community on board with such initiatives for change.

In her book The Challenge for Africa she explains it by highlighting the dilemma of a woman farmer in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and through her, our collective challenge and oppChallenge for Africa she explains it by highlighting the dilemma of a woman farmer in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and through her, our collective challenge and oppchallenge and opportunity.

It may behoove educators, academic institutions, and policy makers to prepare them for tomorrow's challenges by harnessing the power of computing, collective intelligence and human ingenuity.

By establishing a collective understanding of the industry's challenges there was a strong foundation for effective problem solving which has allowed each organization to contribute to the solutions.