Sentences with phrase «divesting other»

HCP reduced its dividend as part of the spinoff, and spent the next few months divesting other assets and paying down debt.

Of the 348 businesses or product lines that could not, we closed some and divested others.

Not exact matches

The New York Times reports that regulators may want AT&T to divest either Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting unit, which includes CNN and other cable networks, or satellite television provider DirecTV.

Tutu, a Nobel peace prize - winner, joined with other Nobel laureates this week to demand that the $ 350m Nobel foundation fund divest from fossil fuels.

The move rattled investors because the sanctions require that U.S. citizens must divest of any stocks, bonds or other holdings in the targeted firms by May 7.

However, Dell has since divested some of the unit's operations and integrated some others, which it is not including in the sale.

«I had to decide whether to invest in Tesla and basically divest of all my other assets to do that, going to the point of bankruptcy and so forth,» he says.

To achieve maximum success and derive maximum value from your time, you must systematically, aggressively divest yourself of the activities you don't do well and don't do happily, so as to systematically invest your time (and talent, knowledge, know - how and other resources) in those things you do extraordinarily well, enjoy doing and find intellectually stimulating.

ConocoPhillips is the process of divesting $ 5 - 10 billion of assets, and Mulva said those efforts are ongoing along with other 2011 - 12 initiatives previously announced.

Alphabet's self - driving arm, Waymo, has recently sued Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and Alphabet's other investing arm, CapitalG, just this fall led a fundraising round into Lyft, leading many to believe that Alphabet would seek to divest somewhat from Uber, Lyft's main US competitor.

«The Deputy Commissioner made clear that Mr. Trump must divest himself not only of managerial control, but of all ownership interest as well,» Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland and three other Democrats said in the letter, which was made public on Wednesday.

Once the company realized the potential of its mobile communications products, it began to divest and sell those other operations and Nokia became what it is today - a company focused on telecommunications technology.

Dispositions may also involve continued financial involvement in the divested business, such as through continuing equity ownership, guarantees, indemnities or other financial obligations.

Under these arrangements, performance by the divested businesses or other conditions outside of our control could affect our future financial results.

I wonder if Harold Camping will be ready for the possible deluge of lawsuits that might be (maybe should be) filed against him by people that truly believed him and divested themselves of all their worldy possesions or did other inane actions.

On the other hand, many pages are spent divesting the biblical picture of the Second Coming of any taint of supernaturalism.

If any one of them loses contact with the others, it degenerates into a caricature that eventually divests it of its revelatory character, of its transparency to mystery.

Last year, after the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the other three of the city's five pension funds to further divest their holdings in companies that manufacture weapons and ammunition.

The announcement followed pledges by the state's two other top elected officials to divest themselves of political donations tied to Cuomo's graft - riddled «Buffalo Billion» revitalization project.

That announcement followed pledges by the state's two other top elected officials — state AG Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli — to divest themselves of political donations tied to Cuomo's allegedly graft - riddled «Buffalo Billion» revitalization project.

Nadine will be working with Kate Linker on a resolution in support of Letitia James initiative to divest from Walmart, Dick's and other large gun sellers.

The Rockefellers, who made their vast fortune on oil, and other philanthropies and high - wealth individuals on Monday will announce pledges to divest a total of $ 50 billion from fossil fuel investments.

The suggestion to divest the GBT (among other sites) was not an easy one to make, says Daniel Eisenstein, a Harvard University astronomer and chair of the Portfolio Review Committee that issued the recommendation.

While District Attorney Larry Krasner has made significant progress in his mandate to challenge mass incarceration, our coalition recognizes there are other political actors who hold the power to divest from prisons and invest in people.

Schools can not divest themselves of responsibility for the nondiscriminatory administration of school safety measures and student discipline by relying on school resource officers, school district police officers, contract or private security companies, security guards or other contractors, or law enforcement personnel.

In other words, the manager slowly and perhaps partially divests and acquires some positions, while still retaining others, even in fund or portfolio with a high turnover ratio.

In these pages we offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense: and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond the present day.

The company used to have other business lines, including candle manufacturing, but divested these operations in January 2014.

That divesting this feature, however reductive it may seem, won't increase page views or promote others to be as captivated as the core audience.

This May (5 - 13), during Global Divestment Mobilisation (GDM), we along side Fossil Free South Africa, are under the Go Fossil Free banner calling on Cape Town to become a C40 champion by standing with nearly 100 other cities and local governments that have committed to divest from fossil fuels.

As others divest, you will be able to buy low.

Rather than divest personally, in terms of eliminating one's own use of fossil fuels, many divestment proponents urge others to make the sacrifice.

That said, if there's truly no risk of new fossil fuel projects being developed where you live, perhaps you're better off focusing your efforts on demanding 100 % renewable energy for all, ensuring local government or other institutions are divested from fossil fuels, or pursuing some of the other options outlined on this website.

Though not a formal recommendation, three - quarters of the committee members supported the university divesting from coal and tar sand companies but not from other fossil fuel industry members.

Small at First Parish in Cambridge said his congregation will discuss divesting its roughly $ 5 million endowment at its investment meeting next month, and said he has talked with several other Unitarian Universalist churches interested in following suit.

I think the other point — you mentioned that not all the reserves are controlled by private corporations from which we can divest — that is really the other issue that Ben alluded to, which is that for a lot of these companies (you mentioned Exxon specifically), we have data to prove that as little as about 2 years ago, Exxon was actively funding climate change deniers about a mile and a half from where I am sitting here at MIT.

Super funds and banks are becoming under increased pressure to divest thermal coal and other fossil fuel investments and account for their lending and direct equity portfolios.

Notably, Stanford University earlier this year announced it will divest publicly listed coal mining companies from its $ 19bn endowment, citing, like other fiduciaries as of late, the substantial environmental and social injury caused by coal as the justification for its decision.

350Africa, together with partners, is building on the call started by Divest - Invest to establish a local group to ramp up pressure on the City of Cape Town to shift its investments and stand proud with nearly 100 other cities and local governments that have committed to divest from fossil Divest - Invest to establish a local group to ramp up pressure on the City of Cape Town to shift its investments and stand proud with nearly 100 other cities and local governments that have committed to divest from fossil divest from fossil fuels.

Alex Epstein writes a letter published on the Center for Industrial Progress» website titled, «Don't Divest, Educate — An Open Letter to American Universities,» in which he and several other notable climate change deniers, including Peter Ferrara, J. Scott Armstrong, Steve Goreham, S. Fred Singer, David Schnare, Richard Lindzen, and Matt Ridley, proclaim that they are «proud to stand in favor of fossil fuels.»

Since the Church of Sweden became the first church group to divest from oil and coal in 2008, more than two hundred other religious institutions have followed.

Other schools divesting!

With Swarthmore joining Hampshire, Unity, and hopefully many more, the school can help push other colleges and universities to divest.

On the recent Do the Math tour, Bill McKibben, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, author Naomi Klein and other speakers and a team of organizers launched a campaign calling on churches, colleges, and others to divest their stock portfolios of investments in fossil fuel corporations — as was done in the the 1970s and 1980s as part of delegitimizing the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Following the lead set by other states, the new law required the investor - owned utilities to divest most of their generation.

And even if no other schools divest, it has sparked conversations on campuses across the country about a range of other ESG investment strategies.

So far, investors have divested about $ 3.4 trillion from the fossil fuel industry, and the total is growing each week, as major investors like the Rockefeller Family Fund divest from Exxon Mobil and other dirty - energy corporations.

; regional climate action groups like Climate Action Bainbridge, Cascadia Climate Action, Olympic Climate Action, Oregon Climate (now Our Climate), and Divest UW; faith organizations including the Climate Action Ministry at Eastshore Unitarian, Interfaith Works, and Washington UU Voices; clean energy groups like Seattle Electric Vehicles, Seattle Transit Blog, and Solar Installers of Washington; and many others, including Carbon Tax Center, Conservation Hawks, the American Sustainable Business Council, AIA Seattle, and the American Planning Association's Washington Chapter.

New York now joins other cities like Stockholm, Seattle, Dunedin and Berlin that have also moved to divest.

Nonetheless, Fenton said that a clear moral line in the sand has been drawn for other institutions such as the Universities of British Columbia (UBC), Toronto, and McGill, all of whom face decisions this fall on whether or not to divest from fossil fuels.