Sentences with phrase «for public problems»

The topic of hope has been a consistent theme of process theology.9 The weakness of process theology has been not neglect of the topic but neglect of its practical meaning for public problems.

Not exact matches

A pro tip for public policy advocacy groups: If you're looking for attention, it helps if your problem appears massively huge and your solution impossibly cheap — preferably less than a cup of coffee a week.

The problem is that city and local governments may be hesitant to accept liability for the risks the tunnels may pose to existing infrastructure or let private companies compete with public transit systems.

That investor indifference could be a particular problem for any technology company looking to exit via the public markets.

First, public companies have an «agency problem,» the inherent conflict of interest between executives wanting to create wealth for themselves and doing what's best for shareholders.

Uber drivers have been implicated in violence in the past, and the company's approach to screening its drivers has been criticized for some of its legal and public relations problems.

With congestion a problem for cities all over the world, could making public transport free ease gridlock and help the environment?

«Reclassification, even if successful, would resolve no existing problem and would almost certainly end the massive private investment in Internet infrastructure that has gone on since 1996, when Congress created a light - touch regulatory environment for Internet access and related services,» Larry Downes, an Internet industry analyst and a director at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy, says.

The fight for Canadian Pacific Railway by its largest shareholder, Pershing Square Capital Management, epitomizes a growing problem with public company governance.

Following successful models like the X-Prize, private - and public - sector leaders should work together to set up a high - profile Canada Prize that offers incentives for entrepreneurs and researchers to solve critical problems with commercial and public benefits, like cheap desalination units or better distribution of electricity to villages.

WASHINGTON — Because of substantial wage growth, bonuses, and other positive economic factors, the Republican tax law is gaining in popularity with the American public after initially negative reviews, which is becoming a problem for Democrats looking to run on a cohesive economic message in 2018.

The second, bigger problem is that the ongoing private valuation inflations have so jacked up the numbers that there's really little or no bump left for the public even if the sellers can get the offering out the door.

And Haley says the boat - captain incident has further diffused local opposition to American forces on Okinawa, and has strengthened Japanese public support for stronger ties to the U.S. «Japan has enormous problems with its aging economy and aging population,» she notes.

Even so, it's a problem for more than 50 million people in the U.S.. That's according to public speaker and social entrepreneur Andrew Horn, who says entrepreneurs, in particular, often struggle with social anxiety in spite of how they may come off as self - assured and confident.

Still, while the electric scooter sharing startups say they want to be part of the solution for crowded roads and congested public transit, many in San Francisco still find them to be a problem.

For all their problems, public markets remain reasonably efficient.

Drinking water contamination has been the biggest public relations problem for the industry.

«Her problem is to remind people of her strengths and how her strengths are what the country needs right now,» says Robert Shapiro, an economic adviser to former President Bill Clinton and to Hillary Clinton when she was in the Senate, and a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy.

Just weeks after President Barack Obama appeared at its plant for a photo opportunity in May 2010, the company was experiencing cash - flow problems that caused it to cancel a planned initial public offering.

As an example, I would love for a team to look at ride - sharing — like what Lyft and Uber have done — and see how you use that to help solve public transportation problems in San Francisco.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

The problem is that requirements for being a public company director are astonishingly minimal.

Krafcik has said he sees Waymo's self - driving car technology being used in an array of applications from personal vehicles and ride - sharing to logistics and solving so - called last - mile problems for public transport.

Hospitals across England reported the cyber attack was causing huge problems to their services and the public in areas affected were being advised to only seek medical care for emergencies.

Many of the problems in the economy and job markets we see today are a direct result of large corporate failures to invest in the future and create long - term value for all stakeholders, including employees and the public in general.

The disclosure was swiftly met with criticism because of the delay in alerting the public to the hack, as well as problems with the website that Equifax set up for people to check whether their details were at risk.

The Spanish government has been noteworthy in its pursuit of well - directed actions to address Spain's debt and banking - system problems, and the Spanish public has demonstrated an understanding of the need for austerity and reform measures.

The real problem was that Britain's Treasury refused to authorize the funds needed for investment as long as the enterprises remained in public hands.

The problem with a powerful public official having valuable secrets is they can be exploited for more than just financial gain.

ROCKY HILL — Town officials are scrambling to address homeowners» complaints of noise and fumes from truckers using the Wal - Mart parking lot at Town Line Plaza as a rest stop.Although the problem has persisted for many months, it became public this week...

Of course, fiscal policy also has its limits, since an excessive buildup of public debt can create its own problems for both the economy and the financial system.

Lack of access to even urgent dental care for many people with low income, seniors and others is a problem that could be solved with a «public option» for dental insurance, according to a new report...

And for that he would need a «fiscal problem» that he could fix with tough spending cuts and public service layoffs.

«Expect a burden of mental health problems, which will include depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and it's particularly going to impact groups who don't have access to rapid opportunities for recovery,» Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, told Vox after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas.

If you restate his argument in an uncharitable way, he is saying that the solution for the problem of excluding non-accredited investors in value appreciation is not to let them participate in private markets, but instead to suffer them to populate an earlier public market for private investors seeking liquidity.

Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy.

An earlier filing might have been a telltale sign about the financial problems to come: Tesla disclosed that it had begun reimbursing Mr. Musk for his use of his private plane, justifying the cost by saying, «By paying only the variable expenses of Mr. Musk's private airplane, consistent with the reimbursement policy in place, we will recognize a cost saving as compared to the customary practice for an initial public offering road show.»

Portugal has addressed its public debt problem — the deficit was 9.3 % of GDP in 2009 — with a 5 % pay cut for public sector workers earning more than $ 1,500 a month and an increase in VAT.

In a sweeping speech on the future of Europe, Macron also repeated his desire for the euro zone to have its own budget and finance minister but said his idea was not about «mutualising past debts» or about trying to «resolve the public finance problems of one state or another».

Boston has been trying to find a solution for its growing traffic problems in part by efforts to link its commuter rail lines, says Barry Bluestone, professor of public policy at Northeastern University.

The organization hopes to use new technologies as an instrument for attracting the attention of the world public to the existing humanitarian problems and the necessary material support for children in need.

He cautioned any twinning of the pipeline would be «transformative change» that would present «a challenge and a problem for us» but that it would be up to Kinder Morgan to bring back proposals that are defensible and in the public interest.

This week's announcement generated a new round of complaints about the ORPP, but it's important not to let problems with the ORPP undermine the strong general case for public pension expansion.

With my limited understanding of cyber currency, it seems as though it will always have a public relations problem as the preferred ransom payment for those operating outside the law.

Setting aside the FANGs» public perception problems, two particular numbers underscore the investment case for BATs: the BATs will ultimately be able to access over 4 billion consumers across Asia, while the home market for the FANGs is less than 750 million.

In a dichotomous way of looking at the problem, many people either side with private blockchains as useful for industry or public blockchains, like Ethereum and Bitcoin, as being the only innovative technology in this space, often calling private blockchains «distributed ledgers» to differentiate them as, simply, decentralized databases, and not blockchains at all.

Obama shouldn't be on track for a normal reelection, but might be unless Romney can fend off the ruthless capitalist pig ads and such by projecting hismelf as a public - spirited guy who has the savvy it takes to solve the tough problems we face.

The question of Catholic institutions like Notre Dame — their odd relation to the Church and their peculiar relation to the nation — is already pressing on us, and it requires no great leap to predict that, over the next decade, this question will dominate the public stage as the central Catholic problem of our time: the locus of media attention and the flashpoint for the arguments of Catholics with one another.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

@eqlizer: The problem is that Christians more so than any other theist group are trying to hijack history (U.S. is a Christian nation) and science (Intelligent Design), rebrand it with Christian bias, and sell it for public consumption.