Sentences with phrase «existing system time»

One reason policymakers often consider a pilot program rather than full - scale adoption is to give the existing system time to adjust.

Not exact matches

One could argue this system is backward, as it is five times as expensive to gain a new customer than retain an existing one.

He noted that the existing CDS system is capable of doing real - time settlements, but speeding up the overall process for other players in the capital markets ecosystem such as regulators is difficult.

WorkJam's web and mobile clock can extend existing time and attendance system or can be run standalone and integrated it with payroll providers.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

We are content to manage existing positions and see how the market responds to yesterday's plunge, as one or two more distribution days by next Friday would certainly force our timing system into sell mode.

Although remnants of the Client - Patron system still exist today, something happened about 1000 years ago which caused the church to look for new ways of revenue and income, and for the first time in nearly a thousand years they began to consistently preach and teach the necessity and importance of the «tithe.»

It is necessary to remember that such a paradigm shift does not occur overnight - paradigm shifts generally occur over a long period of time, with pockets of thought frequently unaffected by the new for a long period, and often with movement taking place back and forth between paradigms until the new paradigm becomes «settled» and existing social systems are reintegrated.

At the same time, its inter-disciplinary nature also perplexes academicians in finding its role and place in the academic arena and impedes its independent existence within the existing theological education system.

By setting his, discussion in the context of a dialectic (externalization, objectification, internalization), he has in effect stressed the importance of social interaction for the production and maintenance of religion but at the same time he has recognized the independent capacity of religion to exist as a cultural system and to shape individual thoughts and attitudes.

For example, in the Orphic belief system, the beginning was known as «Unaging Time», when nothing existed and nothing grew old.

Asserting that in our time the whole planetary system must be taken into account in planning for a humanly desirable future, he argues that the prime end must be to redirect the use of human and technological resources to overcoming the gap between the affluent nations and that much larger portion of mankind which still exists in hunger, poverty, disease, and misery.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

In order to be able to describe at all that which fills up space as dependent on the co-ordinates, space - time or the inertial system with its metrical properties must be thought of at once as existing, for otherwise the description of «that which fills up space would have no meaning.

Problem definition is time - consuming, a deep journey into our own prejudices and hopes for a Christian faith that actually makes a difference, a horrible awakening that giants of the faith may have little faith in God and more in courts and money, that fame - seekers exist within the church system and garner friends as shields, that a man that marries a second wife may wish to destroy the first wife at any cost, and that authors can indeed write good books but run away from women speaking of their own abuse, and that prior friendships dictate the limits of Christianity....

This article states that there is a 92 % to 8 % ratio of pro / anti-gun sentiment... that shows their belief system is biasing their political views of a weapon that didn't exist during the time of Jesus.

It is between these two elements that the short circuit exists on which she carries on her principal business, while the ideas and symbols and other institutions form loop - lines which may be perfections and improvements, and may even some day all be united into one harmonious system, but which are not to be regarded as organs with an indispensable function, necessary at all times for religious life to go on.

The compact system is time and cost effective, with a small space footprint allowing it to be easily be deployed over existing conveyor belts without having to modify the production line or change plant layout.

This is a good time to check your brewery's existing tax compliance system, including recordkeeping, bonds (if applicable), and payment schedules.

Since a major part of currently existing betting strategies are inefficient, most gamblers just waste time and money to find a win - win game system.

Running Stroller Car Seat Among one of the most efficient renovations in infant stroller style in existing times is the travelling system.

The reason for that is that democracy became gradually established over centuries in the West, the fact that each generation ends up being indoctrinated by the system as it exists at the time is then not apparant.

I'm sure that very few people will be in support of an existing system that has wasted over three years of public time and money in order to get something that has already been democratically agreed in Wales.

At a time when the technology exists for radical new forms of decentralised democracy, the Westminster system looks even more sclerotic and indefensible.

Today's damning report by the home affairs committee informs the prime minister in no uncertain terms that she doesn't have the time or capacity to set up a registration system for existing EU nationals, let alone one for them and then a second for new arrivals.

I hope that my time in the House will help to ameliorate some of those discrepancies and disconnections that now exist in our system.»

Review Federal Regulations for Repeal — Vote Passed (240 - 185, 4 Not Voting) The measure would establish a commission to review existing federal regulations and identify those that should be repealed in order to reduce costs on the U.S. economy — including those that should be repealed immediately and those that should be repealed over time through a new regulatory «cut - go» system under which agencies could not issue new rules unless the cost of a new rule was offset by repealing existing rules identified by the commission.

Dedicating a single press conference to the issue for the first time, Mr. de Blasio laid out in dire terms what would happen if New York City reverted to the old system of education that existed before his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, won mayoral control of public schools in 2002.

During the UK's parliamentary expenses scandal, many questioned the system as — just like Bronwyn Bishop in Australia now — they felt that they had acted within the rules that existed at the time.

«The current system of part - time legislators and existing income disclosure requirements is the preference of only about one - third of voters.

If saving the existing system means calling the Senate and the Assembly back into session to climb down from that height, the governor should waste little time doing so.

But wide gaps exist in the current system, such as the time period between when an addict makes the decision to get clean and when a bed at a detox facility becomes available.

Keeping the ethics monitoring groups at current levels comes at a time when Mr. Cuomo, lawmakers and other state officials are all floating various ideas to strengthen existing ethics laws, including heightened disclosure requirements, increased penalties and an overhauled per - diem system.

What Rockland County needs is a full - time mass transportation system, and not the part time one that exists today.

Rather than replace existing cochlear implants, it's likely that the two technologies will be combined, to give patients a system with greater flexibility that can adapt to their needs over time.

Europe does not have a similar real - time tracking system, although Denis Coulombier of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control says that the existing European surveillance system has worked reasonably well during this outbreak.

For the first time, the French egalitarian system has been abandoned: the project encompasses just 39 out of the 83 existing universities.

The tungsten isotopes also showed that both groups existed at the same time, between about 1 million and 4 million years after the start of the solar system about 4.57 billion years ago (SN Online: 8/23/10).

Drake multiplied the number of sunlike stars in our galaxy that form each year by a handful of variables: the fraction of those stars that have planets; the number of planets per planetary system where life could exist; the fraction of habitable planets where life actually arises; the fraction of those where intelligence emerges; the fraction of intelligent species that develop interstellar communication; and finally, the average length of time that those communicating civilizations survive.

Depending on the data set, Flowtune completed the slowest 1 percent of data requests nine to 11 times as rapidly as the existing system.

At a range of 2 meters, existing time - of - flight systems have a depth resolution of about a centimeter.

Some of these systems exhibit chaotic behaviour: their state at some future time can not be predicted from their state at an earlier time, because imperceptible differences that exist now can cause big divergences later.

This planet may be warm and pleasant for 10 times the entire time that our solar system has existed!

BIC lasers can also be made to emit beams with specially engineered shapes (spiral, donut or bell curve)-- called vector beams — which could enable increasingly powerful computers and optical communication systems that can carry up to 10 times more information than existing ones.

A new nucleic acid sequencing platform, the Sequel System, provides higher throughput, more scalability, a reduced footprint, and lower sequencing project costs compared to the PacBio RS II System, while maintaining the existing benefits of single molecule, real - time (SMRT) technology.

While governments tighten their money belts, particularly in Europe, under the existing systems they know that they can lower wages, offer fewer full - time positions, and so forth.

«The link between metabolism and cancer has been proposed or inferred to exist for a long time, but what is more scarce is evidence for a direct connection — genetic mutations in metabolic enzymes,» said senior author Ricardo C.T. Aguiar, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of hematology - oncology in the School of Medicine and a faculty scientist with the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at the UT Health Science Center and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Division.

Lawrence Livermore scientists for the first time have experimentally re-created the conditions that exist deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter, Uranus and many of the planets recently discovered outside our solar system.

Adding this variable angle slant hole collimator to an existing breast molecular imaging system allows the system to get six times better contrast of cancer lesions in the breast, providing the same or better image quality while also potentially reducing the radiation dose to the patient by half.