Sentences with phrase «competitive as a nation»

How are we going to fund the «good education» that can make us competitive as a nation?

That same short - sightedness has helped make us less competitive as a nation versus the rest of the world.

Not exact matches

The nation's leading food and beverage manufacturers — an industry collectively known as Big Food — have been busy reformulating legacy brands to be more competitive in a world in which consumers are gravitating away from highly processed foods and instead favoring fresher alternatives, like vegetables and fruits, that are found along the perimeter of the grocery store.

Last year Site Selection magazine named Georgia the best for business and, more recently, tapped our state as the most competitive in the nation.

The more we process this «raw natural resource» into finished products and services and the more we commercialize them globally, the better will be Canada's position as a competitive Innovation Nation in the world.

• The character and integrity of those with whom you are doing business • Changing technology as it impacts industries (including the banking industry) • Future changes in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare resources

Singapore, which aims at becoming a Smart Nation and building a Smart Financial Center, is looking at financial technology as a way of gaining a competitive edge compared to other countries; while Hong Kong is exploring fintech to keep its position as a global financial center.

But nations agreed to put their shared interests ahead of their competitive ones, and they identified their shared interests as economic.

Imagine, then, their great surprise when defenders of the status quo, who included some of the leading political scientists in the nation, instructed them in no uncertain terms that devices like competitive elections, labeled «procedural democracy,» counted as next to nothing in comparison to «substantive democracy.»

Fast growing economies of China and India, a former powerhouse in Japan, an increasingly affluent South Korea, and the fast - growing Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).61 Each possessing multiple regions and demographics that demand varying tastes, sizes, prices, packaging and branding, as well as differing in standard business practices, routes to market and competitive landscapes.

We've been pretty competitive lately and new management had to rebuild the whole team and structure, as Rosella brought this club to near collapse (I know she loved the team but obviously Sensis were more passionate than acute businessmen, which worked for Roma only short term) Jimmy rubs me the wrong way and he can be as ignorant as only Americans can be (dw I hate all nations including my own but these repeated articles trying to beat him with some stick makes me almost like him.

The Gunners wonderkid made his competitive debut for the men's senior national side during the recent international break, but was impotent as the Super Eagles were dumped out of the running for Cup of Nations 2017 qualifying at the hands of Egypt.

«With the Athletics World Cup being team - orientated it is really important that each event is competitive as the next, and both the medal and placings table from last summer and the World Indoor Championships serve to support the fact that this will be the case based on the eight nations we have on board.»

As I have been writing since the very inception of this blog two years ago, the presence of «a la carte» or «competitive» junk food in our nation's cafeterias will always have the effect of undermining even the best efforts to children well.

Most political handicappers in Washington list the race as a tossup, and predict it will be among the most competitive in the nation.

Freshman Republican Rep. John Katko, whose race is widely viewed as one of the nation's most competitive House contests, is out with his first TV ad of the campaign, which focuses on his ability to «work across the aisle to get things done.»

For example, when WROTB viewed a Seneca Nation proposal for a Rochester area casino as a competitive threat, Wojtaszek said Aronow's work helped thwart the effort.

Those behind the cash from outside the 24th District say they view the Buerkle - Maffei rematch as a wise investment because it is one of the most competitive congressional races in the nation.

The 2012 rematch between Buerkle and Maffei was among the most competitive House races in the nation, and as a result attracted millions of dollars in spending from special - interest groups trying to influence the outcome.

But NY - 27 Representative Chris Collins is not exactly the norm, as his speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention exemplified (he was the only County Executive in the nation to speak at the event), and the NY - 22 congressional race is a competitive race that caught national attention back in 2015.

The anti-Super PAC — Friends of Democracy — is targeting up to 12 of the most competitive House races in the nation with a message against what it views as the corrosive effect of money on politics.

Conversely, foreign postdocs often see the highly competitive U.S. marketplace as providing far more opportunities for advancement than those of their home countries, causing many of the most talented and ambitious to stay in the United States, thus weakening research efforts in both developed and developing nations.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Without bold action by Congress and the administration, our nation's research enterprise will sputter as other countries fuel their competitive edge.

«It has been reported that in a decade our nation will need approximately 60 percent of young adults to be college - educated in order for this country to remain competitive with the rest of the world, and that as much as 85 percent of the new jobs in my metro region will require a bachelor's degree or greater,» he added.

The super-secret espionage agency known as the Impossible Mission Force becomes de-funded in «Rogue Nation» by the grumpy, competitive CIA director played by Alec Baldwin, lightening the load with extraordinarily dry line readings.

Some observers have argued that graduation rates — for the nation as a whole, most demographic groups, and the majority of states — are failing to reach a level necessary to put the United States on a solid footing in a competitive global economy.

The central concept, he says, is that the nation's 40 million K — 12 students should be offered the same high - standard education no matter where they go to school; a child in Mississippi, say, should finish each grade with the same general proficiencies as one in Maine — and ready to compete in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.

More generally, knowing something about programming makes us competitive as individuals, companies and a nation.

If the Coalition can put forward an option that seems competitive in comparison to Labor, it will be painful blow to Shorten's election hopes, as he holds on by his fingernails to convince Australians that Labor is still the party to fix the nation's schools.

On two previous series, Challenge to America in 1994 and Surviving the Bottom Line in 1998, Hedrick Smith Productions examined the performance of schools and students both in America and in such countries as Germany, Japan and China, to see which nations and systems are gaining competitive advantage in education in the 21st century.

American students are falling behind their peers from other countries, threatening the nation's competitive standing as a leader in innovation.

Duncan portrayed the idea of an expanded school schedule as one of critical importance in the nation's fight to remain economically competitive.

Over the last few decades, in the wake of an alarming 1983 report about the state of American education known as «A Nation At Risk,» policymakers sought to increase the accountability of schools and teachers to keep the U.S. competitive with international peers.

That says that we have agreed as a nation that there are ways of thinking and knowledge and skills that every student needs to be competitive in this economy and in the global economy.

The authors describe educating students to high levels of achievement as an issue of both equity and human capital: talented students deserve appropriate resources and attention, and the nation needs to develop these students» abilities to remain competitive in the international arena.

Nadeau held the roundtables in cities that reflected the freight economy, generally defined as a network that fuels the movement of food, energy, fabricated goods and raw materials that keep citizens employed, communities healthy and the nation globally competitive.

As in, if Americans can't make a living in America anymore, I can sure as hell see a number of us leaving to make a living in other countries — still working for American companies, of course, but now able to earn competitive wages in lower - cost of living nations with the other exploited... er, lucky stiffs in India, Pakistan and elsewherAs in, if Americans can't make a living in America anymore, I can sure as hell see a number of us leaving to make a living in other countries — still working for American companies, of course, but now able to earn competitive wages in lower - cost of living nations with the other exploited... er, lucky stiffs in India, Pakistan and elsewheras hell see a number of us leaving to make a living in other countries — still working for American companies, of course, but now able to earn competitive wages in lower - cost of living nations with the other exploited... er, lucky stiffs in India, Pakistan and elsewhere.

Once third world nations see low emissions as an economic asset and as confering a competitive advantage, they'll have incentives to behave responsibily.

If the United States is successful in maintaining the viability of coal as a cost - competitive power source while addressing climate concerns, our leadership position would enable U.S. industries to capture critical export opportunities to the very nations facing the largest challenges from global warming.

Now well - established as a nationwide, and global, leader in solar and renewable energy, California's residential solar PV market shapes up as one of, if not the most competitive in the nation.

We expect that as our nation moves towards the recognition that there should be a price placed on carbon, wind energy will become even more competitive with conventional generation sources.»

It also leaves a large opening for competitive nations like China to fill our role as an international climate leader.

and the tech getting better, the day isn't far off when solar will be truly competitive with dirtier energy (Italy's solar industry is projected to be ready to compete on its own as soon as next year, thanks to that nation's abundant sunlight and reliance on imported fossil fuels).

If our nation's lawyers are going to remain strong and competitive well into the 21st century, it is time that we as a nation make legal technology a top priority.

Despite the perverse tendency of the competitive job market in law teaching to create a whole nation of law faculty who mimic their mentors at the elite schools, there has also been a recent increase in differentiation and specialization among law schools, as they are forced to pay more attention to local employment markets.

We represent over 60 of the nations top life insurance companies and out of all of them, these are always the most competitive term life insurance companies on price as well as very strong financially.