Not exact matches
Now, it's selling investors on the idea of a futuristic blockchain - based messaging
system that, if all goes as
planned, will be up and running by 2021 and create a «VISA / Mastercard alternative for the new decentralized
economy,» according to a primer published online.
If there is any
planning to be done with regard to the banking and financial
system, the central issue of mathematical economics as applied to the financial sector should focus on how
economies should cope with the tendency for debts to mount up until a crisis erupts?
These risks and uncertainties include: fluctuations in U.S. and international
economies and currencies, our ability to preserve, grow and leverage our brands, potential negative effects of material breaches of our information technology
systems if any were to occur, costs associated with, and the successful execution of, the company's initiatives and
plans, the acceptance of the company's products by our customers, the impact of competition, coffee, dairy and other raw material prices and availability, the effect of legal proceedings, and other risks detailed in the company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the «Risk Factors» section of Starbucks Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended September 28, 2014.
The Board wants to ensure the Mayors»
Plan recognizes the importance of an expanded regional transit
system to the overall regional
economy.
It is time for the preaching of a new evangelism — the evangelism of the voluntary liquidation of the competitive
system in order that there may be a
planned economy which shall insure to every person in the nation an adequate supply of the goods of life.
However useful GNP may be for short - term
planning, it gives false expectations about the long term, because it regards a national
economy as a self - contained
system which can be divorced from its surroundings.
«In fact, she's already called for higher taxes on individuals and small businesses; she supports an energy
plan that would increase our electricity costs; she promises a single - payer health care
system that would further destroy our health care and
economy; and she wants to force federal gun restrictions that would take away the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens.»
He wrote that the voting
system for single - market rules was unchanged by Britain's veto on fiscal integration
plans - and that current proposals including restrictive solvency rules for institutional investors threatened the UK
economy.
Unfortunately, I think that's kind of inevitable - any
system that requires a centrally
planned economy over multiple communities is going to favor a very rigid top - down form of government, which lends itself to authoritarian rule.
However, the Inca Empire (15th - 16th century CE), which never had anything approaching an elected legislature, had an economic
system which was centrally
planned (a common feature of
economies laying claim to the name «socialist»), and in some respects recognizably redistributive.
The
plan, which would add a track to part of the Main Line, would increase the number of trains serving the
system, and would, the governor said, deliver a boost to Long Island's
economy.
They
plan to make several return trips to see if they can improve the health care
system, which is losing money, doctors and patients in a vicious cycle that threatens to undermine one - fifth of the
economy.
The
economy in TVP is in fact
planned but fully expects the use of advanced computer
systems to do the economic calculation since otherwise this task is - as it is well known - considered impracticable in complexity.
I like Heastie's suggestion that we move to a tax
system that is more progressive — much better for the
economy than the TEAPublican Trickle Down
plan.
«The current convention process is a rigged
system where an outsider candidate with fresh ideas and
plans to expand the state's
economy is suppressed,» said Smith, who was a top executive for the disaster relief organization Americares and the global beverage company Diageo.
«A modern, efficient power delivery
system is essential to ensuring that we have the reliable, clean and affordable energy needed to meet the demands of a 21st century
economy,» Cuomo said of the
plan shortly after it was announced.
Regarding question 12, the bureau said today that «[g] iven the importance of this small population group to the
economy, the federal statistical
system and the nation, bolstered by the new knowledge of historical precedent brought to light by commenters to the Federal Register notice, the Census Bureau therefore
plans to retain this question on the 2016 ACS.»
Democratization and decentralization of the
system, a new approach towards children and their parents, local communities, and
economy, are
planned.
The pre-K
plan, estimated to cost $ 200 million in the first year, would build a voluntary preschool
system for Tennessee's 4 - year - olds, which has been a longtime goal for many state leaders but has never been realized because of budget constraints and a wobbly
economy.
Another major difference lies in the fact that in market
economies not be possible to achieve rationality in the operation of the economic
system of a country because the state does not exercise with effective
planning and control of the
economy, while in state
planned economies this rationality can be performed in the formulation of objectives (performance standards) either in the correction of deviations between what was
planned and what was achieved through the action of the State.
It is clear that in a capitalist mixed
economy predominantly state or predominantly private, the rationality in the operation of the economic
system of a country can only be achieved in formulating goals (performance standard) and correction of deviations between what was
planned and what was achieved if the State act in the governance of the
system as a regulator of economic activity and as a mediator between the capitalists and civil society ensuring its participation in government decisions.
The absence of an effective
planning framework and state control in a market
economy causes it to become very large deviations between the occurrence of the desired standard of performance and the achievements of the economic
system.
Future energy professionals The energy companies that Global Action
Plan talks to on a regular basis are already highly concerned about the forthcoming skills gap and question whether our education
system is alert to the need to provide young people with the skills that will be required in a de-carbonised
economy.
Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic
Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market,
planned and mixed
economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern
economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern
economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.
The idea that government «experts» can centrally
plan a nation's educational
system is just as flawed as the idea that government can centrally
plan the
economy.
The federal government now controls two major car companies, has wasted over $ 860 billion on a failed economic stimulus
plan, taken over our health care
system, put the nation's banks and financial
systems under its enormous thumb and attempted to restructure our entire
economy with cap - and - trade legislation.
DOT's Strategic
Plan reimagines America's transportation
system as the means by which we connect with one another, grow our
economy, and protect the environment.
Crafted with the input of our leadership, our employees and our stakeholders, the United States Department of Transportation's (DOT's) Strategic
Plan for fiscal years 2012 — 2016 re-imagines America's transportation
system as the means by which we connect with one another, grow our
economy, and protect the environment.
As is, the Accord Hybrid's powertrain feels like a stepping stone on the way to the Clarity plug - in hybrid
system that is
planned for future release, which is a shame because the car around this hybrid
system and its fuel
economy potential are so good.
Strengths of this model include Roomy interior, great fuel
economy in ECO variant, affordable pricing, smooth ride, and excellent safety and occupant protection, Audio
System Feature, Auxiliary Input Jack, Located In Center Console, Audio
System Feature, 6 - Speaker
System, Onstar With 4G Lte And Built - In Wi - Fi Hotspot To Connect To The Internet 4G Lte Speeds, Includes 3Gb Or 3 Months Onstar Data Trial (Whichever Comes First)(Available 4G Lte Wi - Fi Requires Compatible Mobile Device, Active Onstar Subscription And Data
Plan After Trial.)
To achieve their version of the Utopian ideal, the Soviets executed a
planned economy in the extreme; everything, from the amount of food that would be made to the quantity of clothes that would be sold in stores, was regulated and calculated according to an elaborate
system of quotas.
New 5 - year
plan links a healthy environment to a strong
economy with a focus on the Arctic, oceans, freshwater and terrestrial
systems that provide critical habitat for species
I have always thought of Total War as a 4X / RTS hybrid about long - term strategic
planning and spectacular tactical battles, but Rise of the Tomb Kings adds crafting, a more detailed item
system, special heroes and hordes of free skeletons that let you raise a 20 - stack army in just a few turns without tanking your
economy.
GameCo, which
plans to focus on single - player experiences, also
plans to introduce a dual -
economy system so that players can win money but also garner points toward prizes.
It calls for better crisis management and contingency
planning (including early warning
systems and evacuation), reconstruction
planning, and international collaboration, especially when poor countries are affected (or when small countries are hit, since for them it can be the entire national
economy that is stalled by a flood, making them unable to manage the recovery and reconstruction).
Acting soon will allow them to «shape the adoption» to
planning and operational needs and to target development «to benefit the electric
system and the state
economy.»
Consistent with EIA's statutory mission and expertise, this analysis focuses on the implications for the energy
system and the
economy of reducing CO2 emissions under the proposed Clean Power
Plan.
Among them, the Climate Action
Plan has the potential to guide the U.S.
economy away from its reliance on fossil fuels and towards a more sustainable energy
system.
Economies in Transition - Countries with their economies changing from a planned economic system to a market
Economies in Transition - Countries with their
economies changing from a planned economic system to a market
economies changing from a
planned economic
system to a market
economy.
noun — Any of various theories or
systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often
plans and controls the
economy.
He is great on the merits of emerging sharing
economy models, new public transport
systems and town
planning that are serving to design out the car, the Transition Town movement and its focus on community energy, China's land grabs in Africa, and the crushing and debilitating damage done by the Anglo - Saxon work - life imbalance — his description of a «Universal Job Description for life in the service
economy» that runs: «Sit at desk, write emails, answer phone, make tea and / or coffee, go to meetings, fiddle with spreadsheets, eat lunch,» will be sadly redolent to many.
The Data and Markets team assists New York State energy policy decision - makers by providing energy market and
system operations intelligence across all fuels and sectors supporting the New York State
economy, managing program and operational aspects of the Fuel NY Initiative, and helping foster informed energy
planning through the quantitative analysis of energy issues and policies.
The Clean Fuel Standard is thus a key element of Governor Inslee's proposals to protect our climate, public health and our
economy; but the
plan faces opposition from the oil companies who currently dominate our energy
system.
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We can stay with business as usual and preside over an
economy that continues to destroy its natural support
systems until it destroys itself, or we can adopt
Plan B and be the generation that changes direction, moving the world onto a path of sustained progress.
Plan B has three components --(1) a restructuring of the global
economy so that it can sustain civilization; (2) an all - out effort to eradicate poverty, stabilize population, and restore hope in order to elicit participation of the developing countries; and (3) a systematic effort to restore natural
systems.
In general, my experience is based on the provision of legal services and management consultancy business for companies in various areas of the
economy, dealing with contracts, in sectors private and public, performing
planning and structuring strategies, adding, therefore, knowledge about the Brazilian and international markets, in a multicultural context, amid a diversity of legal
systems.
Although the Serious Organised Crime Agency resisted investigating possible criminal wrong - doing by these companies (on the basis of damage to the
economy) public pressure forced the government to announce
plans to introduce a licencing
system and new regulations.
This is not a time for traditional strategic
planning — it is time for scenario
planning that will create «dynamic resilience» that may become the life support
system your firm will need should the
economy worsen.
We've reported on governments» progress in delivering reforms that COAG agreed are national priorities, including: reforming the healthcare
system, disability services, education, skills and employment, addressing gender equity, improving housing affordability, homelessness, capital city
planning systems and water management and streamlining the
economy.