Research from the McKinsey Global Institute found that a 10 per cent tax on high - sugar products would be one of the least effective measures in combatting obesity, ranking 14th of 17 intervention methods, with portion control having the highest
estimated impact with the most cost effective measures.
In contrast, portion control had the highest
estimated impact with the most cost effective measures.
Not exact matches
• volume effect: the
impact of changes in volumes is
estimated by comparing the quantities delivered in the period under review
with the quantities delivered in the prior period, multiplied, in both cases, by the weighted average net unit selling price in the prior period
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately
estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions
with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements
with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements
with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts
with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse
impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse
impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the
impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and
estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships
with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or
impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance
with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
• price effect: the
impact of changes in average selling prices is
estimated by comparing the weighted average net unit selling price of a range of related products in the period under review
with their weighted average net unit selling price in the prior period, multiplied, in both cases, by the volumes sold in the period under review.
Actual operational and financial results of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet will likely also vary, and may vary materially, from those anticipated,
estimated, projected or expected for a number of other reasons, including, in addition to those identified above: the challenges and costs of integrating operations and realizing anticipated synergies and other benefits from the acquisition of ExpressJet; the challenges of competing successfully in a highly competitive and rapidly changing industry; developments associated
with fluctuations in the economy and the demand for air travel; the financial stability of SkyWest's major partners and any potential
impact of their financial condition on the operations of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines, or ExpressJet; fluctuations in flight schedules, which are determined by the major partners for whom SkyWest's operating airlines conduct flight operations; variations in market and economic conditions; significant aircraft lease and debt commitments; residual aircraft values and related impairment charges; labor relations and costs; the
impact of global instability; rapidly fluctuating fuel costs, and potential fuel shortages; the
impact of weather - related or other natural disasters on air travel and airline costs; aircraft deliveries; the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots and other unanticipated factors.
In Dick's case, Wedbush Securities
estimates that the whole hunting segment, not just firearms, make up only 10 % of company sales and that the moves announced by Dick's would have at most a small
impact on sales,
with the biggest threat coming from a hit to store traffic.
But the
estimates came
with a caveat: Almost half of the projects the PBO reviewed didn't have identifiable start dates, making it tough to determine the «actual timing and magnitude of their economic
impact,» the report says.
It was still unclear whether Sony, which is still struggling
with the
impact of the cyberattack, would recoup the money it spent to make the film and the $ 30 million or $ 40 million in
estimated marketing costs.
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the
impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than
estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays
with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
To the extent that investment advisers comply
with the Fiduciary Rule and PTEs only when the Fiduciary Rule and PTEs are applicable on their original terms and schedule, this
estimate represents a reasonable adjustment of the 2016
estimate to reflect the
impact of the 60 - day delay.
On the other hand, if some advisers would comply
with or without a delay or would fail to comply
with or without a delay, then the
estimate overstates the delay's
impact.
The
impacts of today's final rule are categorized consistently
with the analysis of the original Fiduciary Rule, and the Department has also concluded that the
impacts identified in the Regulatory
Impact Analysis accompanying the 2016 final rule may still be used as a basis for
estimating the potential
impacts of that final rule, were it not being modified today.
San Diego's rapidly growing cybersecurity industry is boosting its cooperation
with local colleges and universities.The goal is keeping more local graduates in the area instead of Silicon Valley.
With more than 7,600 jobs, the industry has an
estimated $ 2.37 billion
impact.
They
estimate the
impact of the corporate tax rate reduction from 18 % to 15 % in 2012 at $ 6.2 billion [3], in line
with Finance's first
estimate but considerably higher than their latest
estimate..
This may be true, as behavior may change, but it is simply not possible to
estimate with any accuracy on what those
impacts would be.
The
impact of these changes has been to raise both revenues and expenses by about $ 17 billion (2010 - 11
estimates),
with no
impact on the budgetary balance.
Intelligent investors can come up
with solid stock valuation
estimates if they are familiar
with DCF analysis and are equipped
with a basic understanding of the industry and how major developmental milestones can
impact the value of a biotech firm.
As reported yesterday, IHS Markit has
estimated that these tariffs will result in a 1 - 3 cent increase in the cost of solar racking, tracking and mounting systems,
with the greatest
impact to tracking systems.
Coinbase, one of the leading exchanges for cryptocurrencies
with billions of dollars exchanged on its platform, recently received a court order from the Internal Revenue Service («IRS»), to hand over information on all customers who made a transaction worth $ 20,000 or more between 2013 and 2015, which is
estimated to total 8.9 million transactions
impacting more than 14,000 different account holders, according to Forbes.com.
This goal has already had a positive
impact on the company's bottom line,
with an
estimated $ 541 million in savings (its environmental record is also impressive — see its 2014 sustainability report here).
Our research agrees
with industry
estimates that a line move of 0.5 to 1.0 point can
impact your expected winning percentage by 2 % -5 %.
Head -
impact sensors have limited applications to concussion diagnosis but may provide sideline staff
with estimates of athlete exposure and real - time data to monitor players.
A few longitudinal studies, along
with a small number of experimental studies, have recently emerged allowing an improved
estimate of the causal
impact of parenting behaviour on emotional health.
They are the HD - R (research) version and are equipped
with a gyro to measure rotation (this is an
estimate since it is hard to do accurately) and a 3 - axis accelerometer to measure linear peak g (this is the standard measurement for head
impacts).
Although most studies of parental depression have focused on mothers, the
impact of depression in fathers has received increasing attention.2, 3 Using data from the 2002 National Comorbidity Replication Survey, the Institute of Medicine report also
estimated that 4.3 % of men
with a child under 18 years old had a major depressive disorder within the previous 12 months.1 In addition, a recent meta - analysis4 suggested that the prevalence of paternal depression within the first year of a child's life was 10.4 %.
In terms of the economic
impact of any ban, Burns
estimated that there were around 700 jobs directly associated
with hunting, and a total of 6,000 to 8,000 jobs dependent on it.
Many are wondering what the effects will be — although some
impacts of Romanian and Bulgarian free movement have already happened,
with an
estimated 100,000 to 150,000 people born in the A2 currently living in Britain.
Today's Mid-Year report also confirms
estimates in this space last month of the likely fiscal
impacts of Cuomo's recent tentative contract settlement
with the Public Employees Federation.
The fiscal
impact statement provides the
impact on the city's revenues and expenditures for the fiscal year in which the benefit begins, the next year, and the first fiscal year in which the
impact of the project is fully realized along
with its job creation
estimates.
The state Division of Budget on Monday
estimated the state will end the current fiscal year
with a $ 6.2 billion surplus, according to the first quarter financial plan that outlined the
impact of the major windfall financial settlements.
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With the uprating measure also affecting universal credit (UC) rates going forward, the government has also had to revise downwards its
estimates of the poverty - reducing
impact of UC.
Asked to explain the apparent lack of a costing, a Treasury spokesman told FactCheck that a regulatory
impact assessment published by the government on 29 November 2006 along
with the Pensions Bill
estimated the cost of uprating the basic state pension in line
with earnings.
At that point we will be able to start working out notional figures and coming up
with detailed
estimates of what the partisan
impact of the boundary changes will be.
With an
estimated 500,000 public sector jobs set to go over the next four years, the figures raise the possibility of unemployment edging towards the symbolic figures of three million unless, as the coalition hopes, rapid growth in the private sector stymies the
impact of redundancies.
However, the budget will also add to the cost of doing business by extending assessments on electric, natural gas and steam energy, for a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, half of which will be paid by business, and by increasing the minimum wage — a measure whose
impact will be felt by many business,
with total cost
estimates as high as $ 2 billion per year once fully implemented.
«Just as important, the University is an extremely powerful economic engine for the city, county and region,
with an
estimated $ 2.2 billion annual economic
impact.
In three separate indoor UV chambers, Benca exposed the dwarf pines to 7.5, 10 and 13 times Berkeley's normal UV - B intensity, in line
with estimates of the
impact Siberian Trap eruptions would have had on the ozone layer if their emissions occurred over various lengths of time, ranging from 400,000 years to less than 200,000 years.
With Arctic temperatures warming twice as fast as the global average, scientists estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere through the end of the century with significant climate impa
With Arctic temperatures warming twice as fast as the global average, scientists
estimate thawing permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere through the end of the century
with significant climate impa
with significant climate
impacts.
Nelson and his colleagues, working
with funding from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank,
estimated global agricultural
impacts by pairing IFPRI's own economic models for crop yields
with climate models for precipitation and temperature from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
In these maps, each area represents the final
estimated crater size and location of a collision from roughly that time,
with redder spots showing older
impacts and bluer spots younger.
Next comes annoyance — which impairs people's well - being even if it has no direct
impact on health —
with a corresponding figure of 587,000 years, followed by learning deficits among schoolchildren
estimated at 45,000, and tinnitus
with 22,000.
Combining these new
estimates with the fact that there are even larger
impact basins on the Moon and other planets, Schultz concludes that protoplanet - sized asteroids may have been common in the early solar system.
This is a result in itself and, together
with the reports of amateur astronomer John McKeon, has helped us come up
with our preliminary
estimate which slightly reduces previous
estimates of the flux of
impacting objects in Jupiter.
An «urgent call» to understand risks of stress Researchers who were not involved
with the new study said it was a good initial
estimate of the
impact of last year's drought but cautioned that the ultimate effect of the dry spell is not yet clear.
The blackout itself, which was a big one, affected 50 million people and 60,000 megawatts
with an
estimated economic
impact of $ 10 billion.
We have arranged each risk according to how much views have changed in the past year (
with the biggest combined increase in
estimated likelihood and potential
impact at the upper left of the page); orange shading highlights science and technology concerns.
Meteorite
impacts have also flung bits of Mars into space; Mike Zolensky, a space geologist
with the Stardust mission,
estimates that roughly one Mars rock a day hits Earth.
The Notre Dame study used expert elicitation, a process of formalizing and quantifying experts» judgments to
estimate Asian carp
impact to Lake Erie fishery biomass, a method designed by co-author Roger Cooke, senior fellow
with Resources for the Future.
This finding coincides
with work indicating that the IPCC has tended to provide overly conservative
estimates of the
impact of climate change in previous publications.