Sentences with phrase «failing infrastructure did»

This vague feeling translated into anxiety, and I began to worry that moles on my arm looked cancerous or my metro train would crash into another metro on the way home (D.C.'s failing infrastructure did little to relieve this worry).

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These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

But the show has also done good, small - bore reporting on President Trump's domestic agenda — the impact on Kentucky drug - treatment programs if Obamacare is repealed, or how public - private partnerships, of the sort championed by Trump to rebuild infrastructure, have failed to work in building highways in Virginia.

Other teams have done it and whilst some have failed, others have succeeded, and I do understand about the apprehension about the board being cowardice and unable to pick a proper man being why we still have Wenger, but it does look like we've got some people in the infrastructure who are real football people and who will have an input into who the next coach should be.

They made them believe they were going to invest the money in building infrastructure in the form of railways and other stuff but after getting the money, they failed to do that and gave them out to individuals to enjoy.

Firms either cut corners by reducing costs, hiring cheap and inexperienced staff and failing to invest in infrastructure — or they just cancel the contract, as A4e has done.

When we confronted him with the failing infrastructure he asked what he could do in order to maintain the highest level of food safety,» said Joel Fierman, President of the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Cooperative Association.

Failing to appreciate the salience of social infrastructure and the irrationality of the organizational environment, both liberals and conservatives have spent a lot of time pursuing questions of limited utility... In hindsight, we would have done better had we given more attention to trying to figure out how to implement anything under such inauspicious circumstances.»

RIM says a crucial link in its infrastructure had failed, and a backup didn't work either.

Unfortunately their efforts are undermined by rogue agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission which is failing to do its job and evaluate the environmental and climate impacts of the massive fossil fuel infrastructure projects it approves.

Aunger continues to be an outspoken critic of the trail, which he thinks failed because there was no government oversight; its construction was left to volunteers, which would never be done for highways or other important transportation infrastructure.

In a film too family - unfriendly to feature here, four friends fight a daily battle with an infrastructure that fails to support those who are doing what is right for their carbon footprint.

They're doing it now because they've failed to make the necessary investments in infrastructure over the years that would allow them to actually deliver what they sell, and coincidentally they choose to throttle traffic that competes with their other business areas.