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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.

You need a great idea, technical resources, funding, good marketing, the right people and so on but the biggest factor determining the success of a venture is its people.

In a nutshell, Wright finds that the two factors of yield curve inversion and the federal funds rate may be used together to better predict the likelihood of a recession occurring within a future twelve - month period.

Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors for the upcoming 12 months as well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.

It's also a good idea to activate two - factor authentication, as this provides an extra layer of security for the funds you hold in your account.

Services our representatives offer stretch from the first initial phone call, to participation as an exhibitor or visitor at the event, assistance with all related factors including stand construction, information on government promotional funds, VAT refunds, convenient travel and accommodation, as well as sales of entrance tickets plus much more.

A two - year study of fracking wells in Los Angeles, conducted by consultants Cardno Entrix and funded by the oil industry, monitored 15 environmental factors before and after fracking, including groundwater chemistry, vibration at the surface and at depth, and methane release.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

«I have already ensured that the issues surrounding CIHR and its reforms will be considered by the panel, and I look forward to their advice,» wrote Philpott, who also noted that «I expect CIHR to ensure that the very best health research across all pillars [biomedical; clinical; health systems and services; and social cultural, environmental factors that affect the health of populations] is funded according to the highest international standards of research excellence.»

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

«There is not a very good mechanism of funding in Europe,» she says and suggests this may be a factor in deterring young, mobile scientists from returning to Europe from North America.

«I'm hoping that there will be funding for a large - scale longitudinal study of gun violence, one that includes good measures of media habits as well as various family, community, and biological factors.»

Two factors underlie the problem in Nigeria, Sidibé says: little effort to focus resources on the regions of the country that have the biggest problems, and no strong «culture of accountability» to ensure funds are well spent.

A number of significant factors are well established: teaching is a high status profession in Finland; all teachers have a Masters degree; education is well funded by the state and free to all; school retention rates are high; and the country whose economic revival was led by companies such as Nokia had become a world leader in high level information technology applications, including in education.

Systemic inequality is certainly a factor as well, given that children of color are more likely to attend schools with lower funding levels and weaker teachers.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

As well as large variations in the average per - pupil funding received by local authorities from government, the onward distribution to schools use local formulae that also vary considerably in terms of the relative importance given to different factors such as deprivation, prior attainment and sparsity.

Effective teachers are one of the most influential factors in helping students succeed, and for some cash - strapped districts, federal dollars for professional development is the only funding they have to help better train their educators.

Primer on the U.S. Education System An overview, based on the latest education data, of how well students are achieving, what factors influence achievement, what the teacher workforce is like, who makes the decisions in the public education system and how public schools are funded.

This will be clearly demonstrated in an upcoming post on exposure of one well - known mutual fund to gold as a major factor.

The factors that come into play are: your State's taxes (you normally get a State tax break for using your State's plan), variety of investments available, as well as, fees associated with the account and the funds.

This is a factor as $ 3,000 of an open - end fund will automatically go into fractional shares that isn't necessarily the case of an ETF where you have to specify a number of shares when you purchase as well as consider are you doing a market or limit order?

They provide information about lots of mutual funds so you can search based on many factors and find good candidate mutual funds.

It is, of course, why Kiplinger, Money, and Morningstar all try to incorporate additional factors, like shareholder friendliness, experience, and strategy, when compiling their Best Funds lists.

But there are other options as well, investors today have options of actively managed funds, currency - hedged funds, low volatility funds, dividend funds and even factor based emerging market funds.

Lessons learned — Outside of the hassle factor of buying individual stocks, the above comparison does not answer the question why using funds is necessarily a better approach.

The fund uses fundamental analysis of factors such as each issuer's financial condition and industry position, as well as market and economic conditions, to select investments.

They focus on net fund alphas, meaning after - fee returns in excess of the risk - free rate, adjusted for exposures to three kinds of risk factors well known at the start of the sample period: (1) traditional equity market, bond market and credit factors; (2) dynamic stock size, stock value, stock momentum and currency carry factors; and, (3) a volatility factor specified as monthly returns from buying one - month, at ‐ the ‐ money S&P 500 Index calls and puts and holding to expiration.

Other factors to consider besides price include a fund's long - term performance and whether a fund's best years occurred long ago, or under the watch of a different manager.

Considers risk management factors, such as the underlying funds» relative and absolute performance, as well as their volatility of returns over time.

The Committee now anticipates, based on its assessment of these factors, that it likely will be appropriate to maintain the current target range for the federal funds rate well past the time that the unemployment rate declines below 6-1/2 percent, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal.

The Committee continues to anticipate, based on its assessment of these factors, that it likely will be appropriate to maintain the current target range for the federal funds rate well past the time that the unemployment rate declines below 6-1/2 percent, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal.

All of the well - established factors to which investors gain exposure in low - cost smart beta funds are expected to deliver a premium in the long run, but none is guaranteed to outperform at all times.

Another factor that helped REITs in recent years was massive buying by large pension funds, which came around to the notion that real estate was a good long - term diversifier against the ups and downs of the stock market.

Joe Nunes, president of Actuarial Solutions Inc., says one of many factors in that decision is how well the plan is funded and how the employer approaches it when it's underfunded.

He also compares the most important factors of the DFA and Vanguard small cap value funds, as well as the returns of all the major asset classes for the two fund families.

The Committee continues to anticipate, based on its assessment of these factors, that it likely will be appropriate to maintain the current target range for the federal funds rate for a considerable time after the asset purchase program ends, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal, and provided that longer - term inflation expectations remain well anchored.

Strategies for how best to deal with feral cat populations differ depending on a variety of factors, including availability of dedicated feeders, skilled humane trappers, spay / neuter funds, resources for food and vet care, health of the cats themselves, impact on human community and local wildlife, attitude of human community towards their presence, and more.

The report is also intended to improve the understanding of the potential benefits and challenges for developing countries to design FITs as well as the factors influencing their success, more in depth from the policy and legal foci, whilst also analysing the funding and capacity implications.

However, Mark S Brownstein, vice president at the Environmental Defense Fund's climate & energy program, tells Carbon Brief that further study is required to better understand the specific impacts of the various factors at play:

Secondly, it is also in the funder's best interest to recover its investment and a return of its investment earlier rather than potentially hoping for a greater amount later given the inherent risk factor linked to dispute resolution.

That optimistic view is supported by a range of factors: close links to London, in physical as well as professional terms; increased visibility since its expansion and rebrand; the non-applicability of MAR compliance; the stability it presents in contrast to the Brexit uncertainty; and the international recognition of its standing including in terms of asset allocation eligibility for the most highly regulated EU retail investor funds.

The basic factors that drive the development of construction disputes are uncertainty, contractual problems, and behaviour, as well as the availability of cash flow to fund disputes.

This is the best starting point and your answer could be based on a combination of any number of factors including income replacement, coverage to retirement, protecting your mortgage and providing funds for your child's college education.

The average cost of a very basic funeral in the U.S. is $ 7,181.1 If you haven't set aside the funds to cover these immediate expenses — as well as any outstanding medical bills you may leave behind — factor funeral and other final costs into your life insurance needs.

It varies from company to company and depends on factors such as the type of policy, time to maturity of policy, completed years of policy, philosophy of company's customers, industry practices as well as fund performance in particular policies.

You should also factor in «hidden income» that isn't part of your gross wages (like matching contributions to your retirement fund) as well as any end - of - life expenses.

SUMMARY: * Over seven years of experience in variety of international settings and cultures * Broad Cash Management and corporate funding background * Strong analytical capabilities and strive for continuous learning and growth * Interested in factors that improves the efficiency and security of finance business process using IT tools * Well experienced with using Sungard's Avantgard treasury management system, SAP and Bloo...

The focuses are factors of therapy itself (therapeutic relationship, continuity, support...) as well as the contexts of therapy (healthcare system, funding systems, multidisciplinarity...) and role related aspects (networking, supervision, stress tolerance...).

This research contributes to a better assessment of risk factors impacting non-listed real estate fund returns.