Sentences with phrase «executives calling the shots»

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High - profile technology executives have called for increased gun control in the wake of the shooting at YouTube's headquarters that left at least three people injured and the suspect shooter dead.

A former chief executive of Foster's Group, Trevor O'Hoy, told Fairfax Media on Thursday morning the wave of mega-mergers was being driven by two main factors, the declining appeal of commercial, mainstream beers around the world and the rising power of retail chains who are increasingly calling the shots when it comes to pricing.

Cuomo in a statement reiterated his call for New Yorkers to receive flu shots and pointed to steps the Department of Health was taking to stem the number of illnesses, including making more medicine available and a webinar with pharmacies on implementing his executive order to provide more vaccines.

In response to the shooting in Newtown, Wayne LaPierre, the group's executive vice president, called for installing armed police officers in every school.

Instead, Astorino, the Republican county executive of Westchester took a direct shot at the Legislature, releasing a 10 - point ethics reform package that called for everything from term limits and a less generous state pension system for state lawmakers to an overhaul of the state's Byzantine campaign finance laws.

The agency got the message, and despite President Barack Obama having issued an executive order in 2013, calling on the CDC to resume funding in the wake of the mass shooting in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the CDC made no changes.

Al - Mansour, the daughter of Saudi poet Abdul Rahman Mansour, and a former oil industry executive, had made a few splashes at festivals with shorts and documentaries before now, but «Wadjda» is an extraordinary calling card going forward — gorgeously shot, delicately balanced, always humane, and summoning up rich performances from a not - massively experienced cast.

Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion called the shots from a script by Saw's Whannell, Glee co-creator Brennan and A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night executive producer Josh C. Waller.

When the film is, relatively speaking, a mid-budget genre entry, there's less pressure and you can call more of the shots behind the camera as executive producer.

This (a five - door shooting brake) could be a good alternative for what we call «early adapters» to new trends,» a Kia executive explained to us.

This is where the relatively flat management structure of law firm partnerships is at a significant disadvantage to more hierarchical corporate entities where a small handful of executives call the marketing shots.

For them the legal industry's business model — not the company's owners or executives — calls the shots on pay, work flows, and personnel.

Haab, an ROTC student called a hero for shielding students during the shooting, spoke with Tucker Carlson on Fox News» «Tucker Carlson Tonight,» making the allegation about CNN producer Carrie Stevenson, who is the executive producer for Jake Tapper's «State of the Union» television show.