Sentences with phrase «critical time of change»

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

While unsuccessful, the surprise Nazi German offensive and the uncoordinated initial Allied response offers several critical business lessons during this time of unprecedented political change and tepid economic growth.

And, because the required skill sets will change dramatically over time as a business grows, it is also critical that the management be sufficiently flexible that it can adapt to the new requirements of the firm.

The changing of the seasons is as good a time as any to remind employees that products like supplemental life, critical illness and accident insurance coverage have the ability to protect their financial security to and through retirement.

In a word, the character of our student clientele and the changes within scholarship alike make our adherence to the classical paradigm of the historical - critical method problematic, and invite us to think of new ways in which to engage our students in critical reflection on materials they may be meeting for the very first time.

The treatment of the Christian year, centered on the Easter vigil, is especially incisive, although one misses a critical examination of changes in the Christian calendar brought about by the multi-year lectionary and, in Roman Catholic usage, «Sundays in ordinary time.»

So far as I understand the matter, the conditions of reasonableness in our situation are secular, even if not secularistic, conditions, i.e., they demand the unqualified acceptance both of the method and world - picture of modern science and critical history and of the reality and significance of this world of time and change, which is the context of our lives as secular men.

Copies of the same writing have critical differences that provide clear evidence that, over time, text has been changed and added and, consequently, we have to assume text has been deleted.

Biblically literate women looked to scripture to justify their changing situation, especially in the churches.25 Gabriele Dietrich emphasizes three points which are important in our context from the Jesus Movement26: firstly, the Jesus Movement was critical of the existing patriarchal family structure and created new forms of community; secondly, it was egalitarian in terms of class with a bias in favor of the poor; and, thirdly, it provided for a participation of women which was far reaching and unusual under the conditions of the time.27

The revolutionary social, economic, and intellectual developments in post-Civil War America stimulated within Protestantism attempts to develop a new prophetic ministry which would exercise critical judgment on the injustices which accompanied the radical changes of the period and would point the way to a new application of the gospel to the social needs of the time.

It therefore calls the members of the Church of South India at this critical time to a serious and prayerful consideration of the implications of this belief for their worship, work and witness in a changing India.»

Rarely have you seen a journalist come out in the past years to be critical of Arsene, but things are starting to change for the first time and long term supporters of Wenger seem to think it's best for him to go for his own good.

The beginning of this transition is marked by the «nine year change,» a time when the child's individuality becomes more pronounced and when a child first begins to view everything in his / her surroundings with a «critical eye.»

To reduce a baby's exposure, mothers can change their diets during pregnancy and breastfeeding, limiting the exposure to these chemicals during the critical times of growth and development.

The 2015 general election campaign will come at the same time as the next round of international UN negotiations on climate change, which campaigners say will be a critical moment in determining the planet's future.

Businesses will be faced with too many changes simultaneously and the Government should consider relaxing the MTD timetable to reduce the impact on businesses at this critical time; · Argues for a «light» regulatory touch to ease the many SMEs who have never prepared documents for a Customs exit or entry clearance; · Urges the Government to follow through on the Autumn Budget 2017 promise that it will recognise the importance of postponed accounting arrangements; 3 · Emphasises the need for HMRC to get the substantial extra resources they need to cope with Brexit.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

While the Rockland County Times certainly can not claim credit for our President's «change of heart» on this vital issue, the many weeks of articles that the Rockland County Times devoted to explaining the critical nature of this project, which will bring many thousands of high - paying jobs into the New York - New Jersey Metropolitan Area as well as provide a much - needed «ONE - SEAT» train ride from Rockland County directly into Penn station, might have had some small influence on this favorable outcome!

The analysis shows that the critical timing of the sea ice break - up and sea ice freeze - up is changing in all areas in a direction that is harmful for polar bears.

«Examining developmental changes in the brain over a critical period of reading appears to be a unique sensitive measure of variation and may add insight to our understanding of reading development in ways that brain data from one time point, and behavioral and environmental measures, can not,» said Chelsea Myers, BS, lead author and lab manager in UCSF's Laboratory for Educational NeuroScience.

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are widely used to study protein motions at an atomic level of detail, but they have been limited to time scales shorter than those of many biologically critical conformational changes.

«When we look at this critical assembly protein, CGL71, it's as if we are looking back in time to the era when photosynthetic apparatus had to gradually adjust to the changing atmospheric conditions of our planet,» Grossman said.

The team used precisely dated cave records and marine sediments from the Mediterranean region to reconstruct the sequence through time of changes in all critical climate parameters.

«It is at the point of implantation that the stem cells go through this change and «mature», which is also a highly critical time for the embryo,» says Dr Lanner.

Laboratory studies conducted in the University's School of Medical Sciences have confirmed that changes in brain water channels over time play a critical role in traumatic brain injury.

The study is one of the first to characterize the timing of exposure to such stress and the emergence of the physiologic changes leading to cardio - metabolic disease and to document these relationships during this critical developmental period.

The news of the increase in U.S. human - caused GHG emissions comes at a critical moment in the global battle against climate change, particularly after the International Energy Agency announced last month that global carbon emissions related to energy consumption have stabilized for the first time in a growing economy.

The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides policy makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as well as a good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

«In this period of critical neural vulnerability, exposure to things like THC can change the trajectory of how the brain develops over time.»

A critical aspect of caffeine exposure includes the importance of measuring exposure to caffeine during the relevant time window and the need to capture changing intake patterns throughout pregnancy.

Everything changed this year, when Patty Jenkins» Wonder Woman received widespread critical acclaim and overwhelming audience support, becoming one of the best - reviewed superhero movies of all time and the highest - grossing superhero origin movie in history.

Cannes is a notoriously tricky (and often well - nigh impossible) contest to predict: partly because the voting body is an ever - changing template, but largely because there's been no time ahead of the festival for any kind of critical or popular consensus to build around the mostly unseen films on the shortlist.

Since then, we've helped thousands of teachers, leaders and data analysts in more than 100 districts and charter management organizations across more than 30 states save time, gain critical insight and leverage all their data to drive action and change students» lives.

While created with good intentions, these laws ignore the critical importance of teachers and make little sense at a time when most workers want the flexibility to change jobs several times during their careers.

This morning the New York Times published an opinion piece by a business journalism professor from New York City critical of changes undertaken in the New Orleans public school system in the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina.

Now, I am not a fan of Facebook or Google (I've even harped on how I thought Google + was not worth the time but I've changed my mind), but they are critical for promotion.

Butcher sees these attitudes changing at last, though, thanks to the massive commercial and critical success of books like Raina Telgemeier's Smile (three years on the New York Times graphic novel best - seller list!)

With the ever - changing tax laws and the temporary nature of most tax credits and deductions, timing is critical when it comes to claiming anything on your income tax return.

From reviewing the amount of coverage to changing beneficiaries, marriage or divorce is a critical time to reevaluate your life insurance needs.

Our mission is to drive action, solutions, and positive change on the critical issues of our time.

The world of video games is changing and future anthropologists may point to this very podcast episode as a critical point in time.

O - Powers are time specific bonuses introduced in Pokemon X and Y which when activated grant players abilities like a higher change of critical...

And I realized that the genome had been programmed for the first time in 1995, and the things that people were doing with genetics were changing our species, changing the whole identity of who we are, of all living things, and to me it seemed like the most crucial thing — that and planetary pollution were the most critical things that we have to deal with, even though neither one was in the presidential issues that were discussed.

Compare this to the New York Times piece on the current show to see just how much critical appreciation of photography has changed in the past 40 years.

Including abstinence from solid food, alcohol and cigarettes, in addition to the change in his sleeping patterns, these bring to critical light the temporal, immaterial, and physiological labor of artists at a time when commodification of art production is keenly felt in Hong Kong.

This small - scale exhibition does not document the events of this year nor does it aim to predict the ones of next years, it rather sets to confront the deep and rapid changes brought to our culture by the historic developments, claiming that art's specific language possesses unique possibilities that allow us to identify the most intimate representations and aspirations of our times and to offer us the critical instruments for making sense of our reality and for approaching our common future.

Promoting critical thinking regarding this new social scenario, where the perception of sound, image, time, space and reality is changing as we scroll or swipe

«Pacific Standard Time» changed that - I was in 8 or 9 museum shows, had 3 solo shows and restaged some of my early performance work in dry ice and fireworks to an entirely different critical reception.

At a time when mass migration due to the effects of climate change has become a critical concern, artist, and designer Andres L. Hernandez, and artist and dancer Zachary Fabri guide workshop participants through exercises focusing on drawing as an interpretative act of movement.