Sentences with phrase «general system of»

Similarly, in relation to the Tasmanian fisheries prosecution case of Dillon v Davies, (14) no general system of traditional laws and customs was asserted by the Indigenous defendant.
This means that the good can not be referred back to any Platonic universals or impersonal order of the cosmos, nor can it be founded in any general system of utility or justice.
Art is losing its «purposeful purposelessness» and is becoming a bondservant to «some more general system of social, political, and moral values.»
What is missing is the effort to bring these aspects together and to examine the ways in which they interrelate in a general system of ethics.
The general system of counting CEO pay includes multi-year stock awards, in their entirety, in the year they are issued, not when they vest.

Not exact matches

The stringent budgeting means RGI's selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A), a measure of overhead, is just 1.3 % of system - wide sales.
With that info shared through a common system with the sales department, the general manager and the web team, you eliminate the possibility of double - booking an ad space or disappointing clients with less prominent advertising, Pace says.
Now, thanks to advanced algorithms, modern electronics, and control systems, the hammers can hit the side of General Fusion's sphere - shaped metal reactor precisely at the same time, creating a pressure wave that compresses the plasma into a fusion reaction at 100 million degrees centigrade.
Ben Dutton, president and CEO of the Casman Group of companies, said about half of the 200 workers employed by his Fort McMurray - based general construction firm are already back in town and working on restoring heating - ventilation and other systems for commercial and industrial customers.
Graham, a general manager at a Boston Pizza in Stratford, Ont., used to rely on one of her staff members to check the temperature of the food in her restaurant's refrigeration system.
Rometty is no exception: She came to Big Blue as a systems engineer in 1981 after graduating from Northwestern with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering at Northwestern and doing a two year stint at the General Motors Institute (a condition of her college scholarship).
Apple's technology, called CarPlay, will turn a car's systems into an extension of your iPhone as long as it's plugged in, while Google, working with an alliance of carmakers that includes Honda, Audi and General Motors, is developing a model that could see the car's own systems running on Android.
General Motors (gm), which pioneered the connected car with its OnStar concierge service, sent a software update to million of vehicles in December, introducing an e-commerce system that lets drivers order coffee or make restaurant reservations while driving — to the chagrin of some safety advocates.
In general, critics seem to say that the downpayment requirement would restrict lending without doing much to increase the safety of the financial system.
It's clear the regulatory system failed millions of owners of General Motors vehicles with faulty ignition switches.
IBM shareholders CalSTRS and The State Board of Administration for the Florida Retirement System (SBA FLA) each voted against Rommety's proposed pay package at the company's annual general meeting.
He said hospitals in general were badly protected against hacking, partly because of underfunding and partly because some older medical machines are not compatible with the latest versions of software operating systems.
Uber, Waymo, Tesla, General Motors, and a host of others pushed the envelope and made real progress on various business models, from autonomous ride - hailing fleets to consumer - facing highway autonomous systems.
The decision to isolate high - risk offenders system follows a government report which highlighted the dangers of leaving religious extremist prisoners as part of the general prison population.
Going forward, Altera will be Intel's Programmable Solutions Group led by Dan McNamara, formerly vice president and general manager of Altera's embedded systems group.
«The survey findings confirm that budget - constrained small businesses are playing tug of war when it comes to balancing smart IT purchasing decisions and their budgets,» Stephen DiFranco, the general manager of HP's Personal Systems Group — Americas, said in a statement.
With more than 20 years of experience in U.S. Hispanic media, Puig served as VP and General Manager of Spanish Broadcasting Systems prior to joining Univision, where she directed all aspects of sales, marketing, promotions, and business development on the local and national level.
Fortune's Aaron Pressman has argued that undermining the public comment system would give a tactical edge to industry opponents of net neutrality, and that seems to be the thinking of the Trump FCC itself, which has refused to cooperate with an investigation into the fake comments by the New York Attorney General.
More importantly, though, Facebook's many admissions come in the context of the company making major changes to its systems, so they are more compliant with the European Union's incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Mobileye N.V., whose collision - avoidance technology has been adopted in cars made by the likes of BMW AG and General Motors Co., said on Sunday it had raised money from five investors that valued its equity at $ 1.5 billion, highlighting the market potential for driver - assistance systems.
«Upgrading systems to take advantage of technological progress is important and can increase efficiency,» the analysts wrote in general advice to any company looking at blockchain.
It had lower marks than others for its hours of metro accessibility and general access to public transit systems.
One of the knocks against the German system, however, is that children as young as 10 are streamed into a system that combines both general and technical education.
«There's pieces now we can invest in, pods of stores in the U.S., or elsewhere, and utilize the fact that they've got all the systems in Canada,» Rivett said in an interview Thursday after Fairfax's annual general meeting of shareholders.
Other companies are studying the economics of using automated driving systems to replace human drivers in taxi or ride - hailing services, including Uber Technologies (uber) and Lyft (lyft), which is collaborating with General Motors (gm).
The special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment in February of the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm that spread disinformation ahead of the election, indicates that Russian actors wanted to «spread distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general
Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.
OTTAWA — An overbuilt and overpriced condominium market is posing a risk to Canadian households, banks and the economy in general, the Bank of Canada warned Thursday in its latest review of the health of the country's financial system.
«It is obvious that we need such a system,» said Vasily Redkozubov, deputy director general of Russia's Internavigation Research and Technical Centre.
A preliminary review by the Office of the Attorney General revealed that Mylan Pharmaceuticals may have inserted potentially anticompetitive terms into its EpiPen sales contracts with numerous local school systems.
The changes to the General Preferential Tariff system and the associated 350 million dollar per year tariff increase more than undoes the benefits of the reductions on baby clothes and sporting equipment.
Christina LaMontagne, general manager of health at nationwide personal finance site NerdWallet and author of this study, says, «The medical system is a minefield for the average consumer.
It is a fascinating story about a very influential company that has relationships with some of the biggest names in healthcare, including: Oakland, Calif. - based Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, UCLA Health in Los Angeles, Arlington - based Texas Health Resources, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mount Sinai Health System in New York City and Duke University Health System in Raleigh, N.C.
«As a general example, we consider a contract awarded to a prime contractor for the production of a complex electronic system for the NSIB.
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Land is still its largest component — and some 80 percent of «capital» gains in the U.S. economy are land - price gains Site values are increased by public investment in streets, water and sewer facilities and transportation hubs, in school systems, by zoning restrictions, by the general level of prosperity, and most of all, by whatever bankers will lend.
In those select areas where we have had challenges ramping fully automated processes, such as portions of the battery module line, part of the material flow system, and two steps of general assembly, we have temporarily dialed back automation and introduced certain semi-automated or manual processes while we work to eventually have full automation take back over.
Over time the monetary system of the United States, as well as the world in general, has evolved.
In general, the Canadian education system must be adjusted to nurture economic value - creation competencies (business, marketing, sales and relationships) from early years in school and throughout university studies, and thus build confidence, a spirit of leadership, and competitiveness in the future generation of Canadians.
Finally, the Auditor General's report observes that background material produced internally for the Department of Finance in 2009 concluded that the elderly benefit system was sustainable in the long term.
Consequently, dispensaries that allow credit card purchases may have represented themselves as something else, like a consultant or garden shop, to obtain a bank account, said Mark Oury, general manager of Guardian Data Systems, of Vancouver, Washington, a merchant services provider for high - risk businesses.
WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said that «there is no escaping the fact that this meeting has failed,» and that the multilateral trading system came out of it «dented.»
The Standing Committees of the Public Accounts and on Government Operations and Estimates have also recommended that the «Office of the Comptroller General complete its study of accrual - based budgeting and appropriations and report back by March 31, 2013 its recommendations on whether the Government of Canada should pursue accrual - based budgeting in departments and accrual - based appropriations in its financial reporting system».
He serves on the board of the following not - for - profit organizations: the American College of Corporate Directors, Massachusetts General Hospital (President's Council), Boston University (Trustee Emeritus), The Boston Foundation (Director Emeritus), The Boston Center for Community and Justice (Honorary director), Wilson Center's Canada Institute (Advisory Board) and Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust (Chairman) and Partners HealthCare System, Inc..
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