Sentences with phrase «cost effective reform»

While there are many dedicated people trying hard to make it work and there have been many reform efforts, the system continues to lack coherent leadership, institutional structures that can design and implement change, and appropriate coordination to ensure consistent and cost effective reform.

Not exact matches

Italy's borrowing costs have come down in recent months, helped by the promise of European Central Bank support but the election result confirmed fears that it would not produce a government strong enough to implement effective reforms.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

«Implementation of these reforms, along with ongoing evaluation of export processes and identification of further opportunities for improvement may assist the Department of Agriculture to develop a more efficient and cost effective system for ensuring welfare of exported livestock,» the report said.

Lunch Money is Adamick's effort to dispel «the myth that school food reform is cost prohibitive» by providing «effective money - saving and revenue - generating tools for use in any school kitchen or cafeteria... [including] examples, diagrams, charts, and worksheets that unlock the financial secrets to scratch - cooking in the school food environment and prove that a penny saved is much more than a penny earned.»

Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals, schools and other vital public services to drive up the quality in a more cost effective way.

He said, «The Reforms will result in a cost effective, more efficient and result oriented Civil Service.

He stressed that effective implementation of the reforms in the public sector would reduce cost of governance, eliminate wastages, blocking of wastage among others.

And don't forget implementing one of the most comprehensive welfare reform packages in the country and, likely, the finest and most cost - effective health care program for uninsured youngsters in the entire country.

«As we see healthcare and healthcare reform dramatically shaping the way Joslin will be delivering excellence in cost - effective diabetes care going forward, we are fortunate to learn and benefit from Dr. Amenta's leadership and innovative thinking.»

Despite persuasive evidence suggesting that a high - quality curriculum is a more cost - effective means of improving student outcomes than many more - popular ed - reform measures, such as merit pay for teachers or reducing class size, states have largely ignored curriculum reform.

Mayes and de Freitas (2004) state that the use of technology can be used to achieve better learning outcomes, more effective assessments or a more cost effective way of bringing learning environments to students; and that reforming practice requires transformation of the understanding of the principles.

Consequently, we set forth three recommendations by which adequacy - driven reform and cost modeling strategies can become more effective.

While large - scale education reform initiatives may succeed in the long term, a more targeted and cost - effective strategy offers potential for real impact in the near term.

However, curriculum reform is both cost - effective and worthwhile and should become a more central part of the effort to improve the nation's schools.

But without effective and meaningful reform, the cost of innovation that never takes place in education is incalculable.

«For Cost Effective School Reform, Go to the Principal's Office.»

Since pushing for welfare reforms often involves working directly with food and clothing industry companies, this work can give the public the impression that these companies treat their animals well when this is not the case, especially when animal advocates are incentivized to make the reforms seem like drastic improvements when animals still suffer substantially.213 Critics would also argue that, empirically, welfare reforms such as banning battery cages reduce only a very small portion of the harm of animal agriculture — if any — so they are not the most cost - effective use of time.214, 215, 216

Since pushing for welfare reforms often involves working directly with food industry companies, this work can give the public the impression that these companies treat their animals well when this is not the case, especially when animal advocates are incentivized to make the reforms seem like drastic improvements when animals still suffer substantially.192 Critics would also argue that, empirically, welfare reforms such as banning battery cages reduce only a very small portion of the harm of animal agriculture, if any, so they are not the most cost - effective use of time.193, 194, 195

Policy recommendations are made regarding the required reform of current market and regulatory frameworks to accommodate high shares of such energy sources in a timely, cost - effective, and secure fashion.

The third need is for reformed markets to allow proper price signals to be created for investment in the most cost - effective, low emission energy sources, instead of allowing some industries — like LNG — to exclude inconvenient costs (like carbon pollution and environmental degradation from investment calculations.

A flexibility supply curve from NREL researchers shows that the most cost - effective options for increasing reliability are grid operating reforms because there is already more than enough flexibility on the system, Goggin explained.

«We now urge the Commission to bring forward, by the end of the year at the latest, proposals to perform a proper structural reform of the EU ETS, as well as giving investors a clear signal on Europe's low carbon ambition beyond 2020, in order to stimulate low carbon investments and the most cost - effective emission reductions.»

They're part of the so - called Four Pillars of family law reform that Bentley has touted as a cost - effective route to speeding up the justice system while making it less expensive for families.

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Proponents of tort reform know it is effective to go after your pocketbook by saying that lawsuits cost taxpayers millions of dollars every year.

For example, Utah implemented civil discovery reforms in 2011 and their reforms have already led to a fairer and more cost - effective process.

With reforms in the insurance sector, term insurance plans have become a very cost - effective instrument of getting large insurance coverage.