Sentences with phrase «end of the reform efforts»

I think Mr. Zimmer, on a regular basis, has been on the other end of the reform efforts that we've engaged in.

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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.

When they were removed, FIFA investigators Hans - Joachim Eckert and Cornel Borbely said that their exit would «greatly set back the work of the ethics commission and means the de facto end of FIFA's reform efforts,» adding, «this will inevitably lead to a renewed loss of trust and further hurt the already tarnished image of FIFA.»

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Sliwa's celebrity power in New York City could attract the 50,000 votes needed to give the Reform Party an automatic line on ballots for the next four years, ending the expensive and difficult effort to securing thousands of signatures for petitions to be placed on ballots statewide.

The legislators are being joined in their reform efforts by Janice Grieshaber - Geddes, a Manlius mother who successfully advocated for passage of «Jenna's Law» to end parole for first time violent felons after her daughter, Jenna Grieshaber, was murdered by a parolee in Albany.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday that he is about to «launch a major effort» to see voting and election reforms passed in Albany by the end of the legislative session, which runs until the middle of June.

Cuomo made little public effort to move the multi-faceted reform agenda he proposed in January and instead appeared to move the goalposts for reform toward the end of session when he announced he wanted to tackle independent expenditure campaigns, something Senate Republicans found much more appealing than restricting legislators» outside income or closing the LLC loophole.

While the governor proposes a spate of ethics reforms every year, efforts to reign in outside income and close the LLC loophole ultimately always end up fizzling.

Rep. Brian Higgins, a Buffalo Democrat, said Republicans such as Reed and Collins — who successfully fought for a House compromise that trimmed the SALT deduction but didn't end it — should now reconsider their support for the GOP tax reform effort in light of the Senate proposal.

At 2 p.m., key elected officials representing all levels of state government join reform advocates in calling on their colleagues to support efforts to end political corruption, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Republicans from New York are split on the tax reform bill over the efforts to cap or outright end deductibility of state and local taxes.

And so, the shutdown of the Moreland Commission as part of a weak ethics deal seemed to be the end of the latest efforts to reform Albany.

He said Trump will try to divide the Democrats to force through a draconian anti-immigration reform plan that includes funding for a wall at the Mexican border, an end to a diversity visa lottery that brings in people from around the world and a curtailing of family reunification efforts, which Trump calls «chain migration.»

While he commended DeRosa, he added it would be better if the Cuomo administration made a serious effort to get ethics reforms «to end corruption and prevent corruption from happening» passed before the scheduled end of the legislative session June 21.

While end - of - course exams and cash incentives carry great promise, other current «reforms» actually serve to discourage student effort.

Even when goals are clear, these teachers lack the tools to succeed: Pre-service training is completely disconnected from classroom expectations, and never ending «reform» pulls up the roots of promising efforts before they are given time to flower.

While Kline's proposal to end the federal School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure mills.

Most quality school reform efforts focus primarily on the end result of improving K12 student performance.

With a new twist coming out of the state Assembly, Democratic legislators continued this week to fine tune language and negotiate compromises in an effort to come up with a teacher tenure reform bill by the end of June.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

In a never ending effort to sound like she really, really cares about children, she uses the language of reform.

Based on the evidence from just these three schools, we have to conclude that the effect of the reform effort on classroom reading instruction was mixed at the end of Year 2.

In addition to making huge amount of money, TFA is about advocating and lobbying for «education reforms» that include a variety of anti-teacher positions including the excessive use of standardized testing, the expansion of charter schools and efforts to end tenure and seniority.

By the end of that decade, southern governors and chambers of commerce successfully launched a wave of curricula standards, standardized testing regimes, and teacher quality efforts that would be at the heart of the school reform movement of today.

To that end, reforming for - profits should be part of a larger effort to make American higher - education less wasteful and more rewarding for college students, whose diverse needs will lead them to attend very different institutions.

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

Alley Cat Allies has charted a course set on animal control and shelter industry reform and humane treatment through activities including: advocating for pounds and shelters to keep public records of animal intake and kill rates, for public and mandatory government oversight, and for increased pound and shelter accountability; mobilizing and educating the public and leading the national movement to end the killing of cats and to protect and improve their lives; and supporting the efforts of, and acting as the national voice for, thousands of individuals and groups across the U.S. who provide humane care for stray and feral cats.

Audrey remains passionate in her efforts to educate the public, change government policy, and advocate for reform in an effort to end the killing of companion animals to control the population.

The level of denial exhibited in this report is extremely damaging to the efforts of fossil fuel subsidy reform, especially since the German government had been so vocal in advocating for effective carbon pricing and ending subsidies.

Global Witness and Liberian civil society have documented systemic legal violations in the timber sector since the lifting of UNSC timber sanctions in 2006, which was a particular focus of international reform efforts since the end of the country's timber and diamond fuelled war in 2003.

In fact, this Article ends with a plea for more substantive and inclusive discussions of the many exciting reform efforts currently underway in law schools across the United States.

Previously, Héctor served as director of the Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services for six years where he led several county - wide initiatives, including efforts to reform the juvenile justice system, end chronic homelessness, transform mental health care, and end a 30 - year wait list for disabilities services.