Not exact matches
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability
of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost
of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates
of certain aircraft; 6) the
effect on aircraft demand and build rates
of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the
effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result
of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the
effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution
of key milestones such as the receipt
of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation
of our announced acquisition
of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability
of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk
of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production
of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts
of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak
of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact
of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition
of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the
effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the
effect of changes in tax law, such as the
effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations
of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the
effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as
well as the cost and availability
of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass
of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many
of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment
of interest on, and principal
of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness
of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness
of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact
of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition
of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result
of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks
of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions
of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government
policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
August 30, 2016 — The
effects of large oil price shocks on the Canadian economy are complex, as is the
best response
of monetary
policy, but getting it wrong can be very costly, according to a new...
Although it was popular overall, a number
of interesting sources indicate that this
policy may actually cause staff to take less time off than usual, which has detrimental
effects on their
well - being.
With respect to the first, Phelps answers
well: Economic analysis is
good to the extent that it accurately predicts the real
effects of economic
policy.
People
of good will are then pressed to ask whether they should support
policies that have these
effects.
Fortunately, a number
of good laws and
policies were in
effect already, helping to maintain the quality
of the environment within the United States.
As childhood obesity rates continue to rise (as I fear they will), and as we start to see ever more clearly the ill health
effects of our current school food regime (replete with its a la carte junk), as
well as our current agricultural
policies, maybe our society will eventually embrace the idea
of universal, free school food.
Effective food
policy actions are part
of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality
of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health
of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took
effect at the beginning
of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability
of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as
well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.
Although programs have proliferated to address the needs
of fathers and families, there is also a need to evaluate their effectiveness in helping fathers become
better parents and
better partners.8 Federal and state
policy makers have placed increasing demands on programs to evaluate the
effects these programs have on fathers and families and whether they are worth investing public dollars.9
Although some SIDS experts and
policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those
of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious
effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results
of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors
of 1 study reported a small deleterious
effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month
of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.
I think it's politics getting in the way
of actually having
good public
policy take
effect.
President John Mahama who has been consistent on the impact
of the home grown
policies backed by the rippling
effect of improved power supply and stabilized cedi maintains «Ghana is rising and Ghana is doing
well».
This project offers a
better way
of measuring the
effects of government
policy on business.
The rapid ageing
of society also has dramatic
effects on available affordable housing and only a
well - planned
policy response can prevent a national housing crisis.
He is primarily interested in the field
of Capital Theory, as
well as the
effects of paternalism, and looks to incorporate his research into public
policy.
The net
effect of this not - thought - through
policy is that, in many cases, children from rich and affluent homes who attend some
of the
best private schools for their primary education will be the beneficiaries
of this scholarships, and children
of less endowed schools and remote villages and towns will be disadvantaged.
One
of my highlights
of my time in coalition was... that the attainment gap, namely how
well poor kids do in school as opposed to their wealthier classmates, was closing for the first time in a very long period
of time and the reason why that appears to be the case, was because
of the
effect of policies like the pupil premium.
He held that the company's performance this year was impacted by two major factors
of tough economic challenges around consumer spending, which according to him driving consumer preferences towards value brands across the sector as
well as the
effects of FX
policy and Naira devaluation.
This has the
effect of making the
policies look popular — and they may
well be — but it may be that if the same
policies were presented differently, the poll numbers could change a lot.
The Democratic governor unveiled a seven - pronged agenda, consisting largely
of policy proposals already in
effect as
well as some new measures he plans to push.
«Moreover, we are concerned that establishing a practice
of aggressive inquiry into the professional histories
of scientists whose findings may bear on
policy in ways that some find unpalatable could
well have a chilling
effect on the willingness
of scientists to conduct research that intersects with
policy - relevant scientific questions.»
«Above all, we wanted to know whether it is
better to provide economic justifications, such as the positive
effects of climate
policy on technological innovation and the labour market, and personal aspects like protection
of our health, rather than to focus on conveying scientific facts and the risks
of climate change.»
He then joined the Innocenti Research Centre, initially for a 3 - month contract analyzing data on the relationships among AIDS, public
policy, and child
well - being in Africa, and on the
effect of globalization on children's
well - being.
In the absence
of broader structural measures, the authors conclude that «targeted technology initiatives, strategic industry
policies, and the like will have modest positive
effects at
best, and may instead prove harmful to overall economic performance».
We hope that our work will help scholars and policymakers understand these past trends and their
effects on a broad range
of social issues, as
well as inform future efforts to change
policy.»
But even if the form is improved and women have a
better understanding
of the
policy, the researchers are still concerned about the
effects of the waiting period and its societal cost.
We can now directly assess — like in the case
of Indonesia's IUU
policies — whether
policies are achieving their intended
effect, as
well as observe any resulting changes in fishing behavior.»
Amid this web
of causes and
effects, developing countries must define
policies that make the
best use
of scarce resources.
Having
better economic models should increase confidence in projections
of the
effects of various
policies, and greatly improve communication with climate modelers.
We evaluated the
effect of pregnancy delay on reducing prenatal exposure to Zika virus, as
well as the marginal
effects of individual decisions to delay pregnancy longer than recommended by health
policy.
This contributes to
policy discussion on Medicaid expansion by providing evidence that public outlays on Medicaid are
well spent,» said Kimberly Johnson, associate professor at the Brown School and co-author
of the study, «The
Effect of Health Insurance on Childhood Cancer Survival in the United States,» published Sept. 11 in CANCER, a peer - reviewed journal
of the American Cancer Society.
A case has been made that the absence
of effective governmental leadership is related to the
effect of special interests on
policy, as
well as to public relations efforts by organizations that profit from the public's addiction to fossil fuels [237], [250].
This statement replaces the outdated 1998 American Academy
of Pediatrics (AAP)
policy statement «Cholesterol in Childhood,» which has been retired.3 New data emphasize the negative
effects of excess dietary intake
of saturated and trans fats and cholesterol as
well as the
effect of carbohydrate intake, the obesity epidemic, the metabolic / insulin - resistance syndrome, and the decreased level
of physical activity and fitness on the risk
of adult - onset CVD.
Koretz's research focuses on educational assessment and
policy, particularly high - stakes testing and its
effect on schools, as
well as the validity
of the score gains.
Of course, the effect of these policies will be determined by how well they are implemented, but they apparently do reflect a tectonic shift in Tennessee's approach to public educatio
Of course, the
effect of these policies will be determined by how well they are implemented, but they apparently do reflect a tectonic shift in Tennessee's approach to public educatio
of these
policies will be determined by how
well they are implemented, but they apparently do reflect a tectonic shift in Tennessee's approach to public education.
Reporting on the statistics The
effects of this disastrous triumvirate on the education pipeline is made apparent in the NSEAD Survey Report 2015 ‑ 16, that asked how, over the last five years, has government
policy impacted on art craft and design education, looking at curriculum provision in art and design, the value given to art and design in schools and colleges, professional development opportunities and the
well ‑ being and workload
of art and design teachers.
Our
best evidence
of the
effects of laptop
policy comes from a separate analysis that compares the exam scores
of students assigned to the unrestricted - use and tablet - only classrooms to those
of students in classes where laptops were banned, while adjusting for the minor differences in the backgrounds
of students across groups and including controls for the instructor, the class hour, and the semester.
My goal was to learn from the
best about how
effects of the environment, standardized testing,
policy, and culture can be understood individually and under what conditions these
effects work
best together.
Accordingly, any
policy that drives charters into old molds - making them, in
effect, «look and act familiar» as worthy expressions
of the existing «system,» producing students who do
well primarily on tests organized in ways that reflect this system - undermines the sound intent
of the charter idea.
In the time between announcing this
policy and it taking
effect today, more than half
of all soft drinks have been reformulated to lower the sugar content, including many
of the
best known soft drinks.
New Zealand's isolation makes it a
good laboratory, since the
effects of a
policy change will not be diluted by, say, massive immigration or international economic tidal waves.
To the extent that
better information improves the match between families and schools or leads to pressure on schools to increase measured achievement, this
effect can augment the impacts
of school - choice
policies.
Her research has been focused predominately on K - 12 public education fiscal
policy, as
well as the competitive and efficiency
effects of school choice on the public school system.
This information on the educational
effects of tests will give feedback to
policy makers as to what is working
well and what needs to be changed, making it possible to improve instruction through the improved use
of test information.
Of course, the effect of these policies will be limited by how well they are implemented, but they do address an issue that has crippled education reform nationwide for over 50 year
Of course, the
effect of these policies will be limited by how well they are implemented, but they do address an issue that has crippled education reform nationwide for over 50 year
of these
policies will be limited by how
well they are implemented, but they do address an issue that has crippled education reform nationwide for over 50 years.
Decades
of best practice, cutting edge research in early education including the Head Start Impact Study, expert advice, and The Secretary's Advisory Committee's recommendations all culminate in a call to action for
policy changes that ensure all Head Start programs provide a consistently high quality early learning experience that prepares children for Kindergarten and has long - term
effects on their academic success and overall health.
The most promising social
policy for combating the
effects of family background, then, could
well be the expansion
of programs that allow families to choose schools without regard to their neighborhood
of residence.
To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns
of local and national charter reformers who know the city
well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage
of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the
policy alternatives that seem to work
better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative
effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative
effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the
best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.
In this sense, RAND simply repeats an already
well - known finding: that if you rely on imprecise statewide data and if you ignore all other aspects
of state educational
policy, you will often find that average statewide school spending and class size have at least a minor
effect on student performance.
The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size
of the work group, organizational
policies and procedures, the prior training and experience
of members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size
of the school will have a significant
effect on how
well teachers know other teachers; it also will affect the way in which teachers form workgroups or departments to talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature
of professional communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional communities to focus on instruction and student learning.