Sentences with phrase «from operation problems»

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Environmental risks and poverty are fundamental problems for almost every part of business operations, from storing data to manufacturing laundry detergent to growing tea.

For example, the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed merger, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals of the proposed merger that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transaction, the ability to successfully integrate the businesses, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, the possibility that Kraft shareholders may not approve the merger agreement, the risk that the parties may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed transaction in a timely manner or at all, risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction, the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Kraft's common stock, and the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of Kraft and Heinz to retain customers and retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with their suppliers and customers and on their operating results and businesses generally, problems may arise in successfully integrating the businesses of the companies, which may result in the combined company not operating as effectively and efficiently as expected, the combined company may be unable to achieve cost - cutting synergies or it may take longer than expected to achieve those synergies, and other factors.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

The best way for a business to stay innovative is to discover the best ideas in the organization, since great ideas can come from anyone, and often from those closest to problems and operations.

In the 1980's, though, huge latent problems from a few long - tail lines of insurance surfaced at Lloyds and, for a time, threatened to destroy its storied operation.

But the 5,000 - strong force's first operation in November was plagued by logistical problems, and it remains very much a work in progress despite political support from a variety of powers including Russia and China.

While the US and the UK are generally emerging from these problems — both on account of their more thorough - going balance sheet repair and because of their more successful conduct of QE operations by their central banks — they nevertheless must attempt to recover and grow in an environment that is adversely affected by the policy missteps in the Euro - area and Japan.

The problem with the Freedom of Navigation operations by the U.S., China - US Focus contributor Richard Javad Heydarian says, is that it's provocative enough to give China pretext to further militarize the dispute, but not robust enough to deter China from dominating the area.

Alberta has a revenue problem and if we should have learned anything since the international price of oil collapsed in 2014, it is that we should not depend on royalty revenues from oil and gas to fund the day to day operations of our public services.

Human patience is tested throughout the farming operation with unproductive land, problem of weed, failure of rains and attacks from pests, and enemies of crops (cf. GThom.9).

Most of our terrorist problems today are blow - back from government operations decades ago.

Maybe you've solved a problem nobody really has — we worked on a client one time who was determined to throw their operations into chaos by letting consumers build 100 percent customized burgers, from the type of bun, to the types of meats, to dozens of toppings — you - the - diner made every decision.

He has suffered from problems with his right ankle too and had an operation in September 2011 as a result of a stress fracture.

Companies without websites face problems from customers who want to find out more about that company, including its location, hours of operation and goods or services that it offers.

Nina Hansen, vice president of operations for the Enosburg Falls - based Abbey Group, which runs the food service programs at 70 Vermont public and private schools, as well as schools in New York and New Hampshire, said these unpaid bills are a problem in many districts, but none of the schools her company serves would stop a student from eating because of it.

Brown's book sheds light on a fascinating economic period, and highlights the serious problems that can sometimes emerge from the operation of free markets.

Every week we are seeing new examples of serious failures of care, unacceptable delays for treatment, cancelled operations, and agonising waiting times for people suffering from mental health problems.

Same idea, same problem: Private interests closely tied to an elected official funding what was essentially a shadow campaign operation, and millions of dollars from businesses, unions and others flowing in, in excess of the limits we impose on direct campaign giving.

He applauded the work of Hogan Lovells, which found numerous problems with the operations of the Research Foundation, the secretive arm of SUNY that manages revenues of about $ 1 billion a year, mostly from research grants, and a payroll of 17,000.

Dean Cole, a trauma surgeon at the Florida Hospital Fracture Care Center, has repaired problems from about 10 operations he didn't do; the first of these patients showed up only two years ago.

No more: Bounceur, a 30 - year - old mathematician from Algeria who is also a member of Algeria's Berber cultural minority, renounced such trivial pursuits when he came to France as a master's graduate in operations research — a discipline that blends mathematics and statistics with computer science to pursue optimal solutions to complex problems — seeking better opportunities.

«We started to do first science towards the end of 2005 and detected this imaging problem in the first year,» says David Buckley, director of SALT astronomy operations, from his corner SALT office at the Cape Town headquarters of the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO).

«This phenomenon is a huge problem when constructing quantum computers, because it prevents quantum mechanical superposition states from being maintained long enough to be used for computing operations.»

«It is the oldest plant still in operation and has had a myriad of problems from collapsing cooling towers to losing a spent fuel rod,» says Oona Adams, a union organizer who grew up in Guilford, Vt., near the plant.

She is from FoundAnimals.org and she'll be talking about a program aimed at trying to develop a nonsurgical method for neutering the millions of dogs and cats that each year have operations or add to the overpopulation problem.

Eggman: While backyard chickens are a step (or two) up from other farmed chickens, there are still a set of serious ethical and environmental problems with backyard chicken operations.

The terrorists make a point of separating the Israeli passengers from the gentiles — a condition of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (backers of the operation) that becomes an immediate problem for Böse, well aware of how it looks for Germans to be threatening Jews with summary execution.

It never digs very deep into the problems surrounding the ill - fated operation (from a lack of air support to faulty communications equipment), and the final act feels a bit too Hollywoodized for what comes before.

The following topics were covered: Area and Circumference of a Circle (including problem solving), Mean from a frequency table, Fractions (all operations) and Solving Equations (1 step, 2 step and expanding brackets).

There was a real risk of veering from our role authorizing schools into school operations as we delved deeper into their problems and possible solutions.

Learning objectives: Students will revise and complete questions from a variety of topics: Problems involving Algebra, arithmetic operations, prime factors, general problem solving and more.

Here is a list of the different lessons in this Year 3 SpringBoard Pack: Lesson 1a: PLACE VALUE AND ORDERING OF NUMBERS TO 100 Lesson 1b: PLACE VALUE AND ORDERING OF NUMBERS TO 100 Lesson 2a: ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FACTS Lesson 2b: ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FACTS Lesson 3a: COUNTING AND ORDERING Lesson 3b: COUNTING AND ORDERING Lesson 4a: DOUBLING AND HALVING NUMBERS Lesson 4b: DOUBLING AND HALVING NUMBERS Lesson 5a: MENTAL CALCULATION STRATEGIES Lesson 5b: MENTAL CALCULATION STRATEGIES Lesson 6a: SUBTRACTION BY COUNTING ON FROM THE SMALLER NUMBER Lesson 6b: SUBTRACTION BY COUNTING ON FROM THE SMALLER NUMBER Lesson 7a: UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLICATION Lesson 7b: UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLICATION Lesson 8a: SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE OPERATION TO SOLVE A PROBLEM Lesson 8b: SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE OPERATION TO SOLVE A PROBLEM Lesson 9a: USING MONEY Lesson 9b: USING MONEY Lesson 10a: READING SCALES Lesson 10b: READING SCALES Do you ever wish there was a simple to use, comprehensive way to boost your Year 3 Numeracy grades?

There are plenty of tutorials on the internet on virtually any subject, from how to bake bread to how to solve a mathematical problem to how to perform an operation with a particular software.

What's needed is a class geared specifically to guiding teachers through problem solving from various angles and making connections between number operations, just like students are expected to do.

Both the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (ISTE, 2007) and the Framework for 21st Century Learning illustrated the movement away from teaching technology operations to focusing on students» active use of technology in creative problem solving.

That prospect was clear this month in Massachusetts, when voters refused to agree to raise a cap on charter school expansion, and Moody's, the rating agency, applauded the move, saying it would allow urban districts to maintain their current financial operations without added pressure from charters that could create virtually insurmountable money problems.

In this unit, students will combine competencies from different domains to solve measurement problems using the four operations.

From arithmetic to algebra and beyond, students draw on a deep understanding of the four basic operations and the connections among them to solve problems.

Examples from the Massachusetts standards, which incorporate the Common Core, include: «Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text» or «Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.»

So, from equations to word problems, for a math operation to be worth solving, the need for a solution must have real - life implications to which students can relate.

Risks and uncertainties include without limitation the effect of competitive and economic factors, and the Company's reaction to those factors, on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company's products; continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the ability of the Company to deliver to the marketplace and stimulate customer demand for new programs, products, and technological innovations on a timely basis; the effect that product introductions and transitions, changes in product pricing or mix, and / or increases in component costs could have on the Company's gross margin; the inventory risk associated with the Company's need to order or commit to order product components in advance of customer orders; the continued availability on acceptable terms, or at all, of certain components and services essential to the Company's business currently obtained by the Company from sole or limited sources; the effect that the Company's dependency on manufacturing and logistics services provided by third parties may have on the quality, quantity or cost of products manufactured or services rendered; risks associated with the Company's international operations; the Company's reliance on third - party intellectual property and digital content; the potential impact of a finding that the Company has infringed on the intellectual property rights of others; the Company's dependency on the performance of distributors, carriers and other resellers of the Company's products; the effect that product and service quality problems could have on the Company's sales and operating profits; the continued service and availability of key executives and employees; war, terrorism, public health issues, natural disasters, and other circumstances that could disrupt supply, delivery, or demand of products; and unfavorable results of other legal proceedings.

Converting the underlying files (going from EPub to Mobi) is a solved problem — a program called Calibre does it with a simple drag - and - drop operation.

If these operations are even regulated, which many are not, APHIS or a state agency or law enforcement typically turn a blind eye, dithering over their authority to shut them down, pretending these are somehow legitimate «businesses» that should be supported, ignoring that these sleazy operators make their money from animal cruelty and leave communities with unwanted dogs in their shelters, environmental and health hazards from improperly disposed of carcasses and waste, infestation, and wastewater and other sewage problems.

In the long run, the price of this operation is far less than the expense of the litters and medical problems arising from unaltered animals.

He was a contributing editor for Pet Age magazine for 2003 - 06 columns titled «Problem Solvers» that covered all areas of a retail pet operation from pet store design, merchandising, operations, staff and promotions.

Originating from the Greek word arithmos, which means number, an algorithm is defined as a «procedure for solving a mathematical problem in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation or a step - by - step procedure for solving a problem, or accomplishing some end by a computer.»

The study, by researchers at the University of Texas and URS, a consulting firm — with the cooperation of (and some funding from) the oil and gas industry and Environmental Defense Fund (more on that below)-- shows that much of the pollution problem lies in a small subset of poorly operating systems or faulty processes — in this case valves run pneumatically using the pressure of extracted gas and operations that clear liquids from older wells.

Australia has garnered the Great Barrier Reef but outside that there are problems with runoff from bad logging operations.

The United States has trimmed excess fertilizer use since a peak in the 1990's, the scientists write, but runoff and releases from livestock operations still create big water problems, most notably the Gulf of Mexico «dead zone» resulting from nutrients washing from fields and livestock around the Mississippi River watershed.