Sentences with phrase «drive by the corporation»

Their explosive growth has been driven by corporations courting small, rural elementary districts with promises of additional revenue with little to no impact to the school district.

The trend gathered pace in 2012 and 2013, before accelerating last year, and was driven by corporations seeking lower tax bills than those currently levied at 35 % of profits in the US.

Not exact matches

Driven by machine - learning systems, even the smallest of businesses can do the work of giant corporations, leveraging reams of untapped data to boost performance.

The nation's largest chain of drive - in restaurants saw system - wide same - stores sales rise 2.2 percent during the first quarter, powered by a 2.3 percent increase at franchise drive - ins, the corporation reported Monday.

q Proxy Solicited by the Board of Directors for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders — April 26, 2016 Virginia M. Rometty, Martin J. Schroeter, Michelle M. Browdy and Christina M. Montgomery, or any of them with the power of substitution, are hereby appointed Proxies of the undersigned to vote all common stock of International Business Machines Corporation owned on the record date by the + undersigned at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, One International Drive, Hutchinson Island, Savannah, Georgia 31402, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

Historically, the green bond market has been driven by supranational development organizations, including the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC), and they continue to be the most active issuers.

Our Top Corporations are the pillars of our economy by driving and standing behind their vital business partnerships with women's business enterprises,» Denny said.

We think the drive by lots of corporations will help push the industry to a barbell - type structure.

As someone who's spent many years trying to drive innovation within a large corporation I'm very familiar with the issues discussed by Bob in your post.

October 3 Michigan Senior $ afe training presented by the Corporation, Securities and Commercial Licensing Bureau of the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs at Lansing Community College — West Campus, 5708 Cornerstone Drive, Lansing, from 8am - 1:30 pm.

Enter the certified B Corporation, which is transparent and driven by its mission and values to do good, all of which attracts talent to reach out, connect, and apply for jobs there.

I believe childbirth is currently a multi-billion dollar profit making empire largely driven by pharmaceutical corporations, artificial infant milk companies and medical imaging multinationals.

These food donations are supplemented by money donations from foundations, government grants, corporations and individuals and community food drives.

B Lab drives systemic change through three interrelated initiatives: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between «good companies» and just good marketing; 2) accelerating the growth of the impact investing asset class through use of B Lab's GIIRS impact rating system by institutional investors; and 3) promoting supportive public policies, including creation of a new corporate form and tax, procurement, and investment incentives for sustainable business.

We stand united in condemning violent rhetoric on the airwaves that can lead to violent acts by unhinged extremists, and we will not condone corporations and public figures who inflame the masses in order to drive political ends or profits.

LLCs can legally circumvent campaign - finance rules that limit contributions by corporations to $ 5,000 and individuals to $ 150,000 combined for all campaigns each year, driving up the total donations by Litwin's holdings.

Families gathered around Bakelite radios (to listen to programs sponsored by the Bakelite Corporation), drove Bakelite - accessorized cars, kept in touch with Bakelite phones, washed clothes in machines with Bakelite blades, pressed out wrinkles with Bakelite - encased irons — and, of course, styled their hair with Bakelite combs.

Yet as our dependence on the internet grows, we are more vulnerable to those who seek to disrupt — whether they are hackers exposing the internet's weaknesses, governments intent on keeping their citizens under control, or corporations driven by profits.

Many perceive it as driven by the global market, enriching the global corporation, and adding yet another force by which the poor can be squeezed out of their livelihoods.

Many of funders were driven either by corporations or the government been funded by the corporations.

With a trifle of movie news and the trailer park out of the way, Kevin lays into the North Korean fiasco regarding the film The Interview and why we as a country let a spineless, corporation driven by profit alone dictate our foreign policy.

For example, the $ 31 million invested by private individuals, corporations and foundations to support The Mind Trust's efforts has helped build the infrastructure needed to transform our city's schools, making Indianapolis one of the nation's best - positioned cities to drive systemic change.

Chad Checketts is one of the principals of Humentum Corporation and has focused his career on driving measurable results by enhancing organizational alignment.

Destructive and unproven educational policy driven not by research but by federal mandate, corporations, the ultra-wealthy, and those seeking to privatize public education and weaken teacher unions.

The similarly priced Chrysler Cirrus, which was concurrently launched by the Chrysler Corporation for the 1995 model year, matched the Contour in design, performance and driving dynamics, but had more features and a larger interior.

Experiential ride and drive training programs offered by the Yokohama Tire Corporation have been an annual event for dealers, but now the company is thinking about opening up these events to the general public.

As the world's automotive manufacturers merge themselves into only a handful of big, soulless corporations driven by CEO bonuses, cars are better than ever.

When the Diplomat and similar Plymouth Gran Fury were discontinued, it marked the last rear - wheel drive non-truck model (aside from the Dodge Viper) sold by the corporation until the Plymouth Prowler was introduced in 1997.

Storage specialist Lexar Media has released a preview of one of its products that we think will be a winner — a USB flash drive with a unique storage capacity meter to its popular drives by integrating an innovative electronic paper display from E Ink Corporation.

A powerful, national online force driven by over one million members, Color Of Change moves decision - makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.

Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) is in the midst of an earnings recovery driven by improving end markets and new product offerings.

I began thinking of large corporations as bloated whales, driven by arrogance and greed, as they systematically rolled over working moms and pops.

In Delhi, Friendicoes has taken center - stage in the initiative to bring down the stray population; the shelter was assigned to carry out a continuing sterilization drive in Delhi by the municipal corporation.

«The calming and behavior category is being driven by consumers looking for more natural, non-pharmaceutical options for their pets,» says Derek J. Archambault, director of marketing, pet and retail, for FoodScience Corporation in Williston, Vt. «We see that a majority of pet owners would like to try a supplement option before going to a prescription drug, and when it comes to issues like anxiety - triggered behavior challenges, they are embarrassed to talk to their vet about it.»

A re-imagined alternate history dating back to ashes of the Korean War documents the fall of one global superpower — and the rise of another, driven by the ruthless APEX Corporation in a world...

Then I discovered Dust a FREE FPS, sure it was rough around the edges during beta and before the Uprising update, but a game that's more in depth, that rewards you for being more tactical than foolish and also lets you drive tanks, pilot drop ships or call in bombardments from space... all in the context of an ever changing galaxy with planets up for grabs by groups of players known as corporations.

The VR and AR market, valued at $ 5.2 billion in 2016, is on track to expand to $ 162 billion by 2020, driven by gaming consoles and VR headsets, International Data Corporation projects.

billion by 2020, driven by gaming consoles and VR headsets, International Data Corporation projects.

As The Times reported last September, a move by a host of corporations with global markets to shift operations to renewable energy sources is in part driven by concerns of young consumers:

And while recent studies from entities such as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration have shown that the Clean Power Plan is still needed to drive the development of additional clean energy and energy efficiency resources in order to achieve significant nationwide CO2 reductions, it appears that the costs of compliance compared to a business - as - usual case will continue to fall — and may even be offset by the significant benefits the Clean Power Plan can offer.

The initiative's overall aim is that by 2020, science - based target setting will become standard business practice and corporations will play a major role in driving down global greenhouse gas emissions.

Multinational corporations driven by responsible business ethics and a desire to show leadership on climate change bought two out of every three forestry offsets sold.

Forcing by regulation or taxation the developed world to eviscerate itself uselessly investing in unreliable solar or wind power, at the same time driving all production industries, and jobs toward the third world, makes sense only to international corporations and banking systems.

The opinions of everyday GW deniers are evidently being driven by influential GW deniers who have a lot to lose if GW is taken seriously, such as executives in transnational oil corporations.

Much of this demand is being driven by big corporations like General Motors and Google and other non-utility customers who collectively signed 2,074 megawatts of power purchasing agreements in 2015.

Combining meticulous scientific narrative with devastating economic analysis, The Biofuels Deception argues that the seemingly innovative, hopeful campaign for «green energy» is actually driven by bio-technology industries and global grain - trading corporations.

In addition, export credit agencies are by design meant to benefit home country corporations — they are not driven by developing countries» climate priorities.

In other words, everything that is good about markets — in terms of freedom, in terms of altruism, generosity, cosmopolitanism — all of that has been driven into the ground by the concentration of market power in the hands of just a few corporations.

The solution was to reduce those emissions by making conventional energy expensive enough to change how individuals and corporations consume energy and, most important, to drive massive levels of private investment into energy efficiency and clean - energy alternatives.

We have transformed from a time when legal technology was a product driven by large corporations to a time when it is an idea driven by a desire to make things simpler and smarter.