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.
«Under - emphasis of these (structural)
policies relative to macroeconomic, trade and financial stability
policies is a key reason for many
governments»
failure in recent decades to mobilize a more effective response to widening inequality and stagnating median income as technological change and globalization have gathered force,» the report said.
The latest jobs numbers prove a point: Putting
government policy over business interests has been a disastrous
failure for the American worker.
Another pinned the
failure on a dilution of the business case after a
government agency revised its
policies.
This paper explores the concept of What Works Centres, independent and non-partisan organizations structured to create, collect and curate evidence on public
policy challenges and the success — and
failure — of
government and community - based interventions.
If egalitarian social
policy follows any one guiding «moral» principle, it is to justify
government intervention to overcome «market
failure.»
It's hard to find a
policy with a more consistent track record of
failure than
government job - training programs, but throwing more money at
government schools without any structural reform is one of them.
A measure of happiness could help assess the success or
failure of a range of
government policies.
In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist
policies and ideals: the
failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive
government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.
The chair of the communities and local
government committee, whose Sheffield South East constituency borders Rotherham, said the
failure to implement child protection
policies means at least one officer should join Labour's council leader Roger Stone in losing their job.
It is clear that the
government's economic
policies are a total
failure.
In the third year, the programmes and
policies would have showed signs of promise or
failure and
government may have to decide how to finetune its programmes, he has explained.
The
government has maintained the move is to enhance
policy credibility and not an admission of
failure on the economic front.
Second, he's trying to explain the circumstances in which voters blame some
governments for
policy failures, but are willing to absolve other
governments of responsibility for exactly the same problems.
In Fenwick's opinion, a Combined Authority simply merges two
policy failures of current and previous
governments: regional
policy and directly - elected mayors.
Governments always have to take the blame for great
failures of public
policy.
The Tory leader, who will give a speech this week on the family, also used the article to attack the
government's
policies on childcare, claiming they had caused «disappointment and
failure».
Its blunt assessment of the causes of the crisis in which the then Labour
government found itself was summed up in this phrase: «First among these [causes] has been the
failure to establish effective control over financial
policies».
Three newly - elected barristers all delivered maiden speeches during yesterday's debate on the Queen's Speech which highlighted the
failures of criminal justice
policy under the previous Labour
Government.
«Improvements in the court system must not be sacrificed as a result of the
failures of
government prison
policy,» he warned.
«The truth is this
government's
policies are not just unfair, they're a
failure.
The office of former President John Dramani Mahama says attempts are being made to blame the ex-President for what it calls a possible
failure of the NPP
government's free SHS
policy.
Meanwhile Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Paul Holmes said: «These deeply troubling figures highlight the chronic
failure of this
government's prison
policy.
We can quibble over
policy and strategic details: the way in which the debate on immigration is following the welfare debate is becoming divorced from fact; the persistent
failure of banking «reform» to get to the fundamental issues; and the possibility that the
government's dearth of competence may be a weaker spot than their closeness to fat cat Britain.
To be clear, neither the residents I talked with nor I blamed the
failures of
government policy on the mosque.
The Labour party said the vote was indicative of the
government's
failure to deliver effective health
policy.
Others maintain the state's economic development efforts remain stuck in a cycle of
failure, the byproduct of both market forces and
government policy.
The achievements of Labour in
government were considerable, but we have to address the
failures, and these go beyond
policy and are foundational in nature.
Even where they differed from Labour, as on Europe and immigration, they can not benefit from the
failures of
government policy because they decided to downplay controversial issues.
Shcherbakova said one implication of the findings is that financial markets can be important contributors to successes and
failures of
government policy.
«In Syria ineffective management practices, crop
failure, and weak
government response combined to exacerbate the societal effects of the drought,» said Joel Creswell, AAAS Science & Technology
Policy Fellow and one of the organizers of the symposium.
The
failure of the gas and electricity regulators to agree how to improve matters demands
government intervention but as this smacks of «
policy» such action has not been forthcoming.
Russell Hobby of head teacher union the NAHT said that the
government's
failure to offer teachers a more generous deal has harmed recruitment, saying: «We are really starting to see the effect of that
policy on recruitment.
The methods used to correct market
failure include: • Indirect Taxation • Subsidies •
Government expenditure / state provision • Buffer stock control • Price controls • Legislation and regulation • Information provision • Competition
policy • Public - private partnerships • Tradeable pollution permits These methods are used to correct the following types of market
failure: • Negative consumption externalities • Positive consumption externalities • Negative production externalities • Positive production externalities • Merit goods • Demerit goods • Public goods • Information
failure • Inequity
Here's the best stuff I've seen: This Gerson column smartly points out the federal
government's successes and
failures (and though this superb Brooks column on evolving conservative
policy thinking isn't about The War on Poverty per se, it should be read in conjunction with Gerson's).
Quizzed in parliament on Monday, the permanent secretary of the Department for Education (DfE), Chris Wormald, defended the
government's teacher training
policies, despite their
failure to meet recruitment targets for four years running.
«The events in schools in Birmingham reveal the weakness in
government policy and the
failure to prevent radical agendas playing out in our schools.»
She argues that without fundamental change in
government and business
policies and the redirection of major resources back into the schools and the communities they serve, urban schools are consigned to
failure, and no effort at raising standards, improving teaching, or boosting achievement can occur.
This is an ugly situation, one that is the product of sloppy monetary
policy, poor regulation of financial companies (for two decades), poor risk controls, overlending by
government institutions, and a cultural
failure where we borrowed too much and saved too little.
(That the
failures were in turn partially caused by bad
government policies was another issue, but worthy to remember as well.)
The repeat spectacle of wasteful unsustainable
government policy of damming and diverting the Nile and thus causing the
failure of agriculture and the overthrow of the Pharaoh is older than the pyramids... [Read the rest.]
Such
policies address a pervasive market
failure because, in the absence of
government policy such as patent protection, the invention of new technologies and practices from R&D efforts has aspects of a public good and thus tends to be under - provided by market forces alone.
Public
policy tradeoffs:
Policies that attempt to correct «market
failure» in energy markets must be tempered with the reality of «
government failure.»
Oroville is an apt metaphor and symbol for California
government that continues to be in denial about its dysfunctional water and energy infrastructure
policies and priorities...
Failure to fix the designed weaknesses of the spillways surely was «penny wise but pound foolish» given the enormity of the consequences of f
Failure to fix the designed weaknesses of the spillways surely was «penny wise but pound foolish» given the enormity of the consequences of
failurefailure.
This is the work that
governments have done since Alexander Hamilton invented industrial
policy, not as a corrective to proliferating market
failures, but as foundational and continuous
policy to create and shape markets themselves.
The evidence for this widespread
failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal
failure of the press or advocates of climate change
policies to ask those
governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change
policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.
More than 100 energy companies, charities and businesses have joined forces to warn David Cameron that Britain is heading for a fuel poverty crisis owing to a
failure of
government policy.
And public -
policy - side, respectful of «Public Choice» economics on «
government failure» in the attempt to address «market
failure.»
This is the 3rd entry in a series that has been examining the practical significance for climate change
policy formation of insights of sociologists about the
failure of
governments to respond to the enormous threat of climate change.
I think that's where there's been a
failure of
government, in many places, to actually rise to the challenge of introducing
policies.