«Can you do what the studios normally do from a wide distribution standpoint, only with a lot fewer resources — spending on marketing — and with a much better
economic structure for the people who actually made the film?»
«On our part, the 8th Senate will continue to work assiduously to pass laws that will put more of our people back at work, create a sustainable
economic structure for future generations of Nigeria, and reduce poverty.
SolarCity and Nevada utility NV Energy, owned by Berkshire, famously have been battling it out in Nevada over that state regulator's decision to change the rates and
economic structure for rooftop solar.
Not exact matches
Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of
economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities
for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital
structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.
«Dirty» or
structured term sheets are proposed investments where the majority of the
economic gains
for the investor come not from the headline valuation, but rather through a series of dirty terms that are hidden deeper in the document.
The reliance of British Columbia on Asian markets underlines the importance
for the west coast of the developments in trade
structures (so - called «trade architecture») and regional
economic integration taking place in the Asia Pacific region.
«This report discusses how tax
structures can best be designed to support GDP per capita growth.The analysis suggests a tax and
economic growth ranking order according to which corporate taxes are the most harmful type of tax
for economic growth, followed by personal income taxes and then consumption taxes, with recurrent taxes on immovable residential property being the least harmful tax.
The pace of change in healthcare and the life sciences sector has been accelerating, creating a demand
for professionals who can navigate the strategic,
economic, political, and social undercurrents that are changing the face of this global
structure.
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management's Global Investment Committee (GIC), a group of seasoned investment professionals with whom I meet regularly to review the
economic and political environment and asset allocation models
for Wealth Management clients, believes deflation fears have gone too far and have become too embedded in both investor psyches and market
structures.
After confronting the «knowledge problem» at the heart of discretionary monetary policy — that policymakers are unable to know the true
structure of an increasingly complex and global
economic system — Dorn calls
for the establishment of a Centennial Monetary Commission to evaluate the performance of the Fed over its 100 - plus years of discretionary monetary authority and to discuss how best to reform the country's central bank.
Banking and Monetary Statistics 1914 - 1941 (1,400 +) Data on the nominal term
structure model from Kim and Wright (6 +) Historical Federal Reserve Data NBER Macrohistory Database (2,000 +) Penn World Table 7.1 (4,400 +) Penn World Table 9.0 (3,800 +) Recession Probabilities Weekly U.S. and State Bond Prices, 1855 - 1865
Economic Policy Uncertainty Sticky Wages and Comovement (3 +) A Millennium of Macroeconomic Data
for the UK (9 +)
The military powers are not power realities in themselves, but they influence every aspect of the human life in a given society and in the world,
for militarization of politics,
economic structures, and cultural values is the pervasive phenomenon.
Robert Sirico at Villanova University
for a moderated discussion that will engage in important questions about free societies and human flourishing, and the
economic structures that facilitate a virtuous society.
Revolutionary
structures, he adds, can not serve this design except by providing occasion
for each social group to participate more fully in shaping the community's
economic and national life.
In most cases, liberationist theologies have taken root in situations that call
for freedom from existing government and
economic structures.
That is,
economic structures should operate within political ones, and the closer these are to the people who are governed, the better the chance
for genuine human participation.
Moreover, violence is always used in the conviction that it is the only means adequate
for attaining a noble end — social justice, the nation's welfare, elimination of criminals (
for the political or social enemy is always considered a criminal), radical change of the
economic structures.
And — since policy and
structure do matter — it is time
for us to proceed from our own personal use of money to an examination of
economic systems.
As we move into the»90s with an
economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt
for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.
Such a sign is a call to transform national and international social,
economic, and political
structures so that they may provide the conditions required
for the development
for all, without exclusion and discrimination against any person in any circumstance.
Islam builds in both the
economic and educational
structure for an Islamic society.
For so long as women settle for a position of subordination in marriage, in the church, and in the economic order, we will be aiding and abetting the ills of racism, militarism, and all the other oppressive structures in our socie
For so long as women settle
for a position of subordination in marriage, in the church, and in the economic order, we will be aiding and abetting the ills of racism, militarism, and all the other oppressive structures in our socie
for a position of subordination in marriage, in the church, and in the
economic order, we will be aiding and abetting the ills of racism, militarism, and all the other oppressive
structures in our society.
We rightly take up the legitimate question of whether our present
economic structures provide a living wage
for ordinary people.
Tax
structures and governmental regulations,
for example, certainly have an impact on
economic productivity.
For instance, poverty is addressed through dissolving the blocks to prosperity within the consciousness of each individual, without analysis of the social
structures that perpetuate
economic inequity.
Equally alarming, it is virtually impossible
for a member of Congress or an ordinary citizen to obtain even a modest handle on the actual size of military spending or its impact on the
structure and functioning of our
economic system.
In their view, the Constitution sets the basic
structure for a society in which individuals compete
for life's rewards, and the competitive
economic market is the mechanism of social justice.
Black support
for violence accompanies a call
for economic sanctions and a desire to overthrow the existing power
structure.
It is important
for Christians to remember that every
structure of justice, as embodied in political and
economic institutions, (a) contains elements of injustice that stand in contradiction to the law of love; (b) contains higher possibilities of justice that must be realized in terms of institutions and
structures; and (c) that it must be supplemented by the graces of individual and personal generosity and mercy.
The objective here is to humanize the
structures which govern the media, both by encouraging persons within the industry to «do well by doing good,» and by insisting that the social and
economic powers of the industry must be counterbalanced by governmental power which politically expresses the concern of citizens
for the general public welfare.
The objective here is to humanize the
structures which govern the mass media, both by encouraging persons within the industry to «do well by doing good,» and by insisting that the social and
economic powers of the media must be counterbalanced by other kinds of power which express the concerns of citizens
for the general welfare.
For example, one of the central
economic factors encouraging the excessive power of broadcasters is the tax
structure which allow businesses to write off advertising as a business expenditure.
But neither includes in its basic categories or
structure any view of the natural world except as a source of resources
for economic production.
One looks in vain in Luther, Calvin, Baxter, Wesley, Edwards, and all the major figures of three centuries of Protestant writing,
for any more than incidental treatment of the problems of the
economic, political and legal
structures of life.
They were concerned
for economic survival, of course, but beyond that participation in family
structures seemed more important to them than «improving» their condition.
We are indebted to Marx
for his insight that the
economic production process and relations decisively influence the values and
structures of our relationships.
In 2013 he established the Commission
for Reference on the Organisation of the
Economic - Administrative
Structure of the Holy See (COSEA) under Joseph Zahra.
(5) Inner - city urban ministry either as a one - year resident or one day a week
for thirty weeks to mingle with the people wherever they are, to engage the power
structure of the community, to explore the
economic and political strategies of community planning, to discover the potentialities
for a ministry to total needs of persons who are deprived or in stress.
The improving
economic and political conditions, significant outside investment in infrastructure and minerals and a better internal organisational
structure have meant that Africa's key markets now present one of the world's biggest opportunities
for medium - and long - term growth.
The local Government departments of agriculture are the
structures responsible
for organic farming and although no direct
economic support is available
for organic agriculture, $ A250 000 (approximately US$ 130 000) was provided
for research in 2000 - 2001 and up to $ A1 000 000 (US$ 520 000)
for extension to farmers.
They won't last, the
economic structure of the game will leave the EU behind and England, coz players want superstar money
for being superstars.
He returned the favor to Easton, praising him
for having the «leadership and the courage... to stand up
for fairness and equity in education funding, standing up
for fairness and equity in our tax
structure because I'm fairly certain that it was not students who made those terrible gambles that caused this
economic hardship.»
Outside the formal
structure of the European
Economic Area (EEA),
for instance, we will lack the consultation mechanisms afforded even to Norway; and unlike Norway, we will be fully compliant with the European Court of Justice, while also losing our judge on it.
@JackOfAllTrades234 - part of the allure of gangs is as a stand in
for the traditional, more stable family
structure which has been decimated by both baked - in
economic and opportunity disparities and....
China's
economic governance
structure provides us with a useful map to navigate the different areas of policy and gauge the potential
for reform.
http://ghanapoliticsonline.com «Presidents create opportunities
for people to make money and he [Mahama] says he is laying the social and
economic structures in this country; my [Mahama] first term of office was dedicated to laying down the social and
economic infrastructure and that is in tandem with development paradigms everywhere,» he explained.
Let me quote directly from my first article, «In 2015 and 2016
for instance, Nigeria «erected» two structural barriers against foreign investment - one, the
structure of multiple exchange rates reaching as many as 13 according to some reports and the huge variance between the rates at a point rising to a difference of over N200 between the lowest and the highest rates; and the absence of clarity over
economic policy.
The fight
for an eight hour workday led to a greater social revolution and a drastic change in
economic structure.
«And by framing this as «war footing,» as a counter-offensive to the assault by Washington on the entire
economic structure of the state, will make it easier
for him to sell the kind of things that a politician can't sell or perhaps get away with in «peacetime.
B - Would help the ministry to fashion out appropriate policies and administrative
structures that can propel the growth of the industry as a major pillar
for socio -
economic advancement.