Sentences with phrase «for public aid»

More than 100 members of cef, a Washington - based coalition of parents, educators, clergymen, and public officials who support and actively lobby for public aid to private schools, gathered on Sept. 21 to celebrate the recent progress of their cause and to discuss strategies for continuing that momentum.

Not exact matches

Point employees in the direction of where they can go for public or charitable aid.

Amazon isn't so much interested in taking over what's called the «last mile» of the delivery trek as it is in making the process more efficient for the company and public entities that aid in delivery.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

But the conciliatory moves will do little to assuage public sentiment for the man most identified with the painful cutbacks inflicted on the nation in exchange for aid.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

As Maria charged in, PREPA decided not to invoke mutual aid agreements with other public utilities the way Florida did for Irma.

We need to reinvent federal grants - in - aid to the states, drain the federal for - profit contracting swamps, and wring more public value from grants to nonprofits.

On the positive side, if the Conservative Government does table its proposed legislative aid mandate, it will afford an opportunity for a more open public debate, in which we will have a chance to address the fundamental purposes of the aid program, and how those purposes may be best achieved.

FEMA has yet to authorize reconstruction aid for Puerto Rico, so local governments (and public utility companies) on the island are not eligible for long - term grants.

He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and New York State Society of CPA's, and previously served on the Finance Committee for the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York.

«The IRS Form 1040X looks more intimidating than it is,» said Marshall Hunt, certified public accountant and director of tax policy for the Accounting Aid Society's tax assistance program in metro Detroit.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

If the point of your article is to criticize the AIDS lobby for ignoring the ethical dimensions of this social malady, or to criticize the moral philosophy that compels AIDS activists to hand out condoms in public high schools instead of emphasizing the importance of chastity and self - discipline, then you should be commended.

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

Paradoxically, the danger in public gatherings is rather to the person who has AIDS, for that person's weakened immune system makes him or her highly susceptible to ambient sources of infection.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a conservative Christian who has taken public stands against abortion and same - sex marriage, had joined Obama for an AIDS summit.

Christian Aid has taken a stand after a new ComRes poll found that 80 per cent of public agree it is morally wrong for banks to profit from investments that pollute the environment, while 77 per cent believe banks should be stopped from doing so.

Originating in a popular program in aid of a «submerged middle class,» Boston's projects had become untenable warehouses for those public neighbors toward which proper Bostonians were most ambivalent.

That means support of the quest for a new international economic order and willingness to share generously the tremendous profit the U.S. has been getting out of the region — sharing through substantial financial aid for public works, food, education and housing projects.

For reasons of politics and public relations, government after government has refused to admit that AIDS was a problem in its country until it became almost insurmountable.

It is also true that we must work hard to ensure that the laws which govern our own system protect the public health and welfare and provide aid for those who can not make it on their own.

But consider the history of the AIDS epidemic in this country, and how it was veiled in secrecy and shame for ten years before we faced it as a public - health problem.

Although millions of heterosexual persons in Africa have AIDS, in the West there is in the public mind a strong suspicion that AIDS is a punishment on persons for promiscuous sexual behavior or for drug abuse.

The public response to AIDS proves the tenacity of the notion that illness is divine punishment for wrongdoing.

After interviewing some former Irish terrorists and seeing the carnage they wrought, Burleigh can not understand why so many clergymen came to their aid, why so many Irish Americans toasted and financed their activities for years, and why movie scriptwriters continue to mislead the public: «Hollywood contributes its quotient of surreal movies about nobly moody Irish terrorists allegedly facing agonizing moral dilemmas, rather than the reality of intimidating drunks cutting people's throats....

The documents reveal how the National Security Agency leaked intelligence information, directed covert operations within Nicaragua to influence U.S. public opinion, and developed other elaborate programs for the diplomacy office to help the Reagan administration persuade Congress to renew contra aid.

Gay men have vigorously fought off the only public health measures that could significantly contain the spread of AIDS — contact tracing and testing of partners — methods long used for syphilis and other sexually transmitted afflictions.

The United States welcomed its immigrants, protected its workers, freed the slaves, enfranchised women, aided the needy, provided social security for the aged, ensured the civil rights of all its citizens, and made public space accessible to the handicapped: all in service to its ideals of justice.

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

It can be a great aid to worship, for tested forms and the direction given by a person whose vocation it is to conduct public worship can go far toward eliminating trial - and - error.

Morning and Evening was not meant as a substitute for common prayer and public worship but rather as an aid to personal spiritual reflection.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

As the AIDS crisis enveloped Africa, Western nations generously pressed the snappy acronym «ABC» — Abstinence, Be faithful, use a Condom — as a strategy for education and public health.

Twenty years ago, when I wrote the amicus curiae brief for the National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs (COLPA) in the Supreme Court in Lemon v. Kurtzman — the landmark case on aid to parochial schools — I truly believed we could win.

They are of most benefit for athletes and active members of the public to aid in rehydration.

Government aid under the form of grants, soft loans or regulated minimum prices for green power sold to the public grid often make green power generation an economically attractive application for biogas.

Following their convincing win at Seattle this past weekend (which is one of the toughest places for opposing teams to play in the NFL), the public isn't just drinking the Cincy kool - aid, they're pounding it, with 7 out of 10 bets confident the high - rising Bengals can either win straight up or lose by two or less on the road.

WHO 2010, Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants, Recommendations for a public health approach WHO Feb 2010, PMTCT strategic vision 2010 — 2015: preventing mother - to - child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals WHO 2010, Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding, an updated Framework for Priority Action (copyright WHO 2012) WHO / UNICEF / UNAIDS 2011, Global HIV / AIDS response — Epidemic update and health sector progress towards Universal Access — Progress Report 2011 WHO 2011, Global health sector strategy on HIV - AIDS, 2011 — 2015 WHO 2012, Programmatic Update — Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infection in Infants (versions available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese) Yezingane Network and UNICEF, December 2010, updated July 2011, Infant feeding in South Africa in the context of HIV, Questions and Answers

Christian's project contributes about $ 250,000 toward the cost of the program and receives about $ 1 in federal school aid through the Chicago Public Schools for each meal served, according to Maureen George, the project's program director.

But the comment came as DeVos, a staunch opponent of public schools, is taking over the nation's free lunch program that provides nutrition to low - income students and is under attack from Republicans, raising questions about whether the administration of President Donald Trump will protect food aid programs for children, NPR reported.

First, PCC must negotiate facility fees with the Illinois Department of Public Aid and apply for an operating license through the Illinois Public Health Department.

The public is invited and proceeds will benefit the Parks Foundation of Highland Park SMILE Grant - in - Aid program which provides recreation grants for local families in need of financial assistance.

There are several benefits with the baby slings [Benefits of Baby Sling] such as these slings are hands free, they create a great bonding tools for the parents, they may aid to reduce colic and crying, they help to lower the baby stress hormones, they make easier to nurse in public.

They object to the governor's proposals to cut CUNY's budget, reduce financial aid, eliminate public accountability for tuition rates, and his attempt to furlough faculty during exam period.

Following last week's events, I have written to Sir Denis O'Connor, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, and asked him to provide clearer information to forces about the size of deployments, the need for mutual aid, pre-emptive action, public order tactics, the number of officers trained in public order policing, and an appropriate arrests policy.

These categories are important as a statement of public policy because being a registered charity makes an organisation eligible for Gift Aid.

A press release from the group says the students and faculty «object to the governor's proposals to cut CUNY's budget, reduce financial aid, eliminate public accountability for tuition rates, and his attempt to furlough faculty during exam period.»

The Independent mentions Tory plans to make aid to developing countries go into education vouchers... So a Friedmante casino instead of universal public services for the worlds poor then.