Sentences with phrase «existing policy reform»

As a result, many of the existing policy reform proposals are unlikely to make things better.

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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.

The authors address these questions and provide a comprehensive overview of what an RMB clearing hub is and how it fits into existing developments in currency internationalization, policy reform in China, and the positioning of cities in a changing global economy.

Over at Cato, Julian Sanchez has written a post about how the aftermath of healthcare reform could reveal faultlines in existing political coalitions and trigger realignment: There's no intrinsic commonality between, say, «left» positions on taxation, foreign policy, and reproductive....

During the battle for healthcare reform, for instance, reformers were able to pass legislation only with a relatively high degree of cooperation from powerful vested interests, and the reform itself amounted to a reorganization of existing submerged policies rather than their elimination.

ALBANY, NY (10/04/2013)(readMedia)-- This morning, New York State AFL - CIO President Mario Cilento testified at a joint hearing on existing tax policy and reform initiatives held by the New York State Senate Committee on Finance and the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations.

The EMBO Journal's policy was held up as a model for a reformed peer review process by the 14 senior scientists, including 6 members of the EuroSyStem Project, who criticised the existing peer review process in an open letter to senior editors of peer - reviewed journals in the field of stem cell biology in June 2009.

If the right policies are not put in place soon, we may find ourselves back where we started: with self - interested groups that benefit from the existing arrangement fighting the reforms that would bolster student learning.

Without systems redesigned to support them, new schools «either have to exist outside the system to survive, or they get derailed... because the current structures and policies are inappropriate or ineffective in sustaining the new designs,» said the Annenberg Institute for School Reform's Warren Simmons in Education Week.

And in the pursuit of its second objective, giving feedback on the Rhee reforms, it does not carry out even minimal case - study research to see whether a probable relationship may exist between Rhee policies and classroom outcomes.

In the current data - driven reform environment, more and more education policymakers are asking for reliable evidence of the effectiveness of new and existing policies and programs.

Much will be learned from these experiences in the years ahead, but for the time being one immediate takeaway merits repeating: Local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs.

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

In this, the second annual national survey of U.S. adults conducted under the auspices of Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard University, we observe a public that takes an increasingly critical view both of public schools as they exist today and, perhaps ironically, of many prominent reforms designed to improve them.

Creating new resources, processes, and values is hard and gradual work — The temptation of any reform agenda — especially one as rational and intuitive as competency - based education — is to imagine that vis - a-vis policy change or of their own will, schools can simply flip a switch and suddenly exist in this new, mastery - based paradigm.

Our new report for the Friedman Foundation, Pursuing Innovation, takes a deep dive into that proposal by documenting how much and what types of competition currently exist in K — 12 education, predicting which forms of competition are most likely to generate pressures for improvement in K — 12 education, and brainstorming policy attributes that will maximize the effectiveness of competition - based education reforms.

«We are committed to achieving measurable impact in education policy, both by improving existing reform initiatives and by developing new, innovative solutions to our nation's most pressing education problems.

Steve Perry and his policies could only exist because of the ed reform embraced by Obama.

Prior to working in the federal government she was the Director of Public Policy and Community Partnerships for Green Dot Public Schools where she was responsible for executing Green Dot's reform agenda by advocating at the local, state and federal level for education reform, supporting existing schools with compliance and oversight, the development of new schools and overseeing the implementation a community schools model at the new Locke Wellness Center.

how to finance the reform efforts (e.g., reconfiguring existing organizational structures and budgets, granting policy waivers, doing away with programs peripheral to the district reform priorities, raising funds through local bond elections and community contributions, competing for government and foundation grants);

HSUS is the nation's largest animal protection organization that works to reduce animal suffering and create meaningful social change through progressive legislation; making sure existing laws are enforced; public awareness campaigns and investigations; assisting large corporations in reforming their animal welfare policies, and providing direct care, rescue, and services for animals in crisis.

No simple solution exists — but policy reforms to reduce excess capacity and get prices right can help in both the near and long terms.

The Guardian: The existing food system has failed and needs urgent reform, according to a UN expert who argues there should be a greater emphasis on local food production and an overhaul of trade policies that have led to overproduction in rich countries while obliging poor countries — which are often dependent on agriculture — to [continue reading...]

New York State energy planning based on the Reforming the Energy Vision goal to change the energy system of New York to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 80 % from 1990 levels by 2050 is trying to choose between many expensive policy options like pricing carbon in the electric sector while at the same time attempting to understand which one (or what mix) will be the least expensive and have the fewest negative impacts on the existing system.

Prior to coming to UCS, Ms. Wisland was the director of the California Hydropower Reform Coalition where she helped design several state and federal policies to reduce the environmental impacts of California's existing network of hydropower dams.

In my view, the greatest deficiency in this process is not the draft indicative framework per se but the fact that it currently exists in isolation from any other form of performance monitoring, particularly on identifying progress on important goals such as capacity building and governance reform, as well as identifying the unmet need and accordingly whether policy approaches are moving forward or in fact regressing.

When children enter kindergarten, half of the achievement gap between low - income students and their more affluent peers that exists in high school is already present.22 The federal government can address the developmental needs of young children through child care reform by implementing policies that improve quality starting at birth and continuing up to age 13.