David Cameron finally offered the electorate a prize
for years of austerity: tax - cuts, across the board, for 30 million people.
Not exact matches
Syriza, which broke a two - party - led system, has disappointed some on the left
for implementing
austerity measures and the reputation
of the mainstream parties remains damaged following what is perceived as
years of failed promises.
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).
Germany has completely rejected this recommendation, since it has been preaching
for years that the only way out
of the EURO crisis is
austerity.
As well, Flaherty cut in half an Employment Insurance premium hike scheduled
for Jan. 1, a move that will cost Ottawa $ 600 million a
year, but will leave that cash in the pockets
of workers and companies — a shift from deficit - shrinking
austerity to stimulus.
The summary
of their stats
for Ontario, in the 11 -
year period, 1998 to 2009, was as follows: Private sector: Arbitrated settlements: 28 (50,828 employees) average annual increase: 2.5 % Non-arbitrated settlements: 1,877 (1,658,929 employees) average annual increase: 2.5 % Public sector: Arbitrated settlements: 407 (282,903 employees) average annual increase: 2.5 % Non-arbitrated settlements: 2,842 (2,875,878 employees) average annual increase: 2.7 % This says nothing,
of course,
of the base from which those increases were granted, particularly after the public sector
austerity in Ontario during the 1990s.
ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's parliament has approved plans to lower the voting age by a
year to 17 and adopt a proportional representation system, after
years of economic
austerity have hammered popular support
for traditionally dominant political...
Given also the need
for an
austerity budget to comply with European rules, growth is likely to weaken, meaning the protest parties will continue to strengthen and may well be strong enough to take over in a couple
of years.
She was speaking after Eurozone leaders agreed to give Greece a third bailout package
of up to $ 86bn over the next three
years, in exchange
for further
austerity and reforms.
«Verily, O Gargi, if one performs sacrifices and worships and undergoes
austerity in this world
for many thousands
of years, but without knowing that Imperishable, limited indeed is that (work)
of his.
our greatest asset and the only thing i can agree with usmanov is that we have used his best
years for a miserable
austerity task
for which the rest
of owners / board were happy to watch him run it prudently but without facing to the reality that at some stage they will need ot back him aggressively either in transfers or with media / refs.
You tore into Wenger
for doing the same when all football logic told you that Arsenal should have at least once in the 10
years of financial
austerity have dropped to mid table or worse.
Part
of that advice would have been — «look, Arsene, I love you, and I love your zeal and the vision that you follow — but I think
for the next couple
of years, you should forget
austerity the dream and just tough it out, play hard and dirty, win a couple
of Premier Leagues, just to spite that tart Maureen, and then get back to following your dream.
Departments not protected by ringfencing will face total cuts
of over 30 % since 2010 by the end
of the coalition's eight -
year austerity programme, the Institute
for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said.
The gloomy headlines about life in
austerity have become all too familiar reading over recent
years, but what have the pressures on household budgets really meant
for family life, and could some
of the long - term impacts have been hidden from view behind the front door?
«On his own chosen measure, we will probably find out today that the chancellor has literally nothing to show
for nearly three
years of austerity.»
«It will be paid
for by further
years of austerity, public services brought to near collapse, public sector pay cuts and a welfare cap that bites into the safety net that any
of us might need.
For all Ed Miliband's talk
of restructuring the British economy and creating a responsible capitalism, the party's position on the core issue
of the deficit was dangerously muddled: after three
years of opposing «
austerity», the Labour leadership spentthe run - up to the election trying to minimise its differences with the government.
Treasury sources suggested international organisations had recommended extending the government's
austerity drive
for an extra
year would be more effective in retaining the confidence
of the markets.
The risk
of inflicting several more
years of austerity on the British people is a price worth paying
for leaving the EU, Iain Duncan Smith suggested last night.
The plan means a two -
year freeze on benefits and tax credits
for about 10m households, many
of whom have already borne the brunt
of austerity.
According to early reports, this Memorandum cover the Greece's financing needs
for the next three
years, but will require the harshest set
of austerity measures
of the three fiscal adjustment programmes to date.
Another six
years of austerity is likely to have an enormous knock - on effect as companies lack conditions favourable
for growth.
But when there are still millions
of people in this country living in poverty, and when the age
of austerity means we must focus on the real priorities can we honestly say it's right
for people earning over # 50,000 a
year to get state benefits in the form
of tax credits?
Austerity means the UK hasn't had any real fishing policy
for years,
for instance on the concentration
of quotas into ever - fewer hands.
Hammond has loosened Osborne's fiscal rules, but he will press ahead with most
of the pre-planned
austerity measures — though the tax credits rebellion forced the government to promise not to look
for fresh savings from the welfare bill in future
years.
The Shadow Chancellor will call
for a Budget that deals with the growing emergency faced by working families and our vital public services, which have been left in crisis after seven
years of Tory
austerity.
«The Tories are hoping that the British people can be kept in the dark about what the tax increases they are planning will mean
for those on middle and low incomes, who have had to bear the brunt
of seven
years of austerity.
Its
austerity policies inhibit growth and constantly pull down aggregate demand, and when as a result the budget deficit grows instead
of falls, that is used as a pretext
for another massive round
of cuts (another # 9.8 bn in this
year alone).
Ms Thornberry argued the Labour party had changed «
for the better» in the past
year because
of Mr Corbyn's influence on
austerity and housing issues.
The consensus is that not only is Cuomo returning to his liberal roots after two
years of austerity proposals, but he's positioning himself as a true - blue Democrat should he run
for president in 2016.
David Cameron in Ibiza With
austerity on everyone's minds, the PM flew via Easyjet
for his summer break this
year with his family to the island
of Ibiza.
He said that Ed Miliband was responsible
for the rise
of Jeremy Corbyn «because if you spend five
years demonising
austerity as some sort
of evil choice, then
of course you can never digest ideas that sometimes you need row back as a country in a way
of living within the means
of what you can afford».
With five more
years of austerity to go, let's watch the polls
for green shoots in public confidence in the economy, as well as movements in ratings
of the competence Osborne and the government.
Commenting on the announcement
of the draft Scottish budget
for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary
of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition
of its
austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another
year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»
He is expected to further flesh out his economic vision
for Britain 2020, signposting the way a Labour government under his leadership intends to return all
of our United Kingdom to the sound economics
of public investment so as to bring an end to the
years of political and economic
austerity.
On the heels
of six
years of austerity budgets dating to 2008, the Executive Budget proposes another
year of spending cuts in a host
of areas, and lays out a multi-
year plan
of steep spending cuts that will extend the
austerity measures
for three more
years, thus completing an «
austerity decade»
for New York.
Plaid's approach is based around a rejection
of the
austerity policies, which the coalition government has followed
for the past five
years.
The present government has protected many
of the benefits
for the over-65s from the
austerity of recent
years.
Unfortunate, then, that within hours
of the «
austerity budget», the Bank
of England's monetary policy committee reveals it's first single vote in favour
of an interest rate rise
for nearly two
years.
Organising the meeting, the Campaign
for Labour Party Democracy's George McManus reminded delegates that the Labour Party had rejected CLPD's calls to reject
austerity in favour
of an emergency budget at last
year's National Policy Forum.
The leader
of the Labour Party says a vote
for his party is the only way to prevent another five
years of Tory
austerity.
She told the Guardian: «This referendum has revealed that there are a lot
of people [who] feel they don't have a voice, that this country is not working
for them and they have faced a combination
of years of austerity and a rapid pace
of change in their community they didn't vote
for.
In 2012 Reeves urged the Liberal Democrats to choose to become a radical centrist political party, «a hard - driving radical liberal party
of the political centre», continuing his campaign
for centre left Liberal Democrats to leave, «Any attempt to position the Liberal Democrats as a party
of the centre left after five
years of austerity government in partnership with the Conservatives will be laughed out
of court by the voters — and rightly so.
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Strapped
for cash after 3
years of austerity budgets, Brazilian scientists are bracing
for an even harsher
year ahead.
However, the health and social care sector have experienced challenges in recent
years as a result
of austerity measures in the public sector which has had implications
for the pay and pensions
of those working in the sector.
Teachers» unions, getting ready
for the fire and brimstone
of their annual conferences, are likely to see it as an attempt to put gift - wrapping around another
year of austerity.
Following the
years of war - time
austerity and slow post-war recovery, it was not until the 1950's that the growth in London's art galleries and auction houses began to rival those
of Paris and shift the focus
of the European market
for modern art to the British capital.
Finding funds
for new acquisitions in the age
of austerity is a problem — a report published earlier this
year by Arts Council England and the New Local Government Network showed that local authority investment in arts and culture facilities has fallen # 236m since 2010.
This class
of climate Lords is served in turn by a vast climate clergy, who promise us that the green noblemen are indeed virtuous, and not tainted by the devil's own oils... But their own demands
for our
austerity aren't matched by humble requests
for green taxes, but demands
for # billions and # billions, and rising every
year.