Sentences with phrase «government run agencies»

Typically, it requires referral in places like the US because it tends to be most offered by government run agencies.

Not exact matches

For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

BCG even suggested that postal agencies could develop secure digital e-mail platforms to take advantage of consumer anxiety about run - of - the - mill e-mail, which is highly vulnerable to spam and hackers, and remains out of bounds for a range of sensitive communications, like exchanges with physicians, government agencies and investment advisers.

Sunshine Hillygus, who advises the federal government on the census, notes that this question is likely to fuel suspicion on the part of the undocumented that the census will become a political tool to be used against them — with negative implications for both data accuracy and for the long - run reputation of the Census Bureau as a nonpartisan agency.

He has nominated industry - friendly officials to oversee key government agencies, including the consumer bureau, which is being run on an interim basis by Mick Mulvaney.

Despite more than paying for itself — by its own reckoning, Ex-Im Bank has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the last two decades through interest on guaranteed loans and credit insurance — the 80 - year - old government - run financial institution is a sunset agency.

The system will allow companies and government agencies to manage and secure not just BlackBerry devices on their internal networks, but devices that run on rival operating systems such as Android, Windows and Apple's iOS.

It also seems to run afoul of part c: «an individual who is acting under the direction of a government or agency.»

While some run businesses, others lead nonprofits and government offices and agencies.

And the nation has built out a cyberpolice team, which is funded by the U.K., while government agencies run regular simulations so that employees know how to deal with hacks when they take place.

The new platform, the BlackBerry Enterprise Service, or BES 12, will allow corporations and government agencies to manage and make secure not only BlackBerry's mobile devices, but also those running on rival operating systems such as Google Inc's Android, Apple's iOS and Microsoft's Windows platform.

JPMorgan Chase, seeking to avert a wave of litigation from the government, is negotiating a multibillion - dollar settlement with state and federal agencies over the bank's sale of troubled mortgage securities to investors in the run - up to the financial crisis.

He went on to say that the agency, created under the Dodd - Frank financial overhaul, is run by «essentially a one - person dictator» and added he had «probably had more complaints about the CFPB in my office, from small local banks and credit agencies, than every other government agency put together.»

Earlier this month Facebook revealed it had removed 70 Facebook accounts, 138 Facebook Pages, and 65 Instagram accounts run by the Russian government - connected troll farm the Internet Research Agency.

Facebook has removed 70 Facebook accounts, 138 Facebook Pages, and 65 Instagram accounts run by the Russian government - connected troll farm and election interference squad the Internet Research Agency.

The Venezuelan government and its state - run oil company, PDVSA, both defaulted on certain bonds in November, according to ratings agencies.

One reason Russia requests the reviews before allowing sales to government agencies and state - run companies is to ensure that U.S. intelligence services have not placed spy tools in the software.

The announcement comes as Venezuela faces acute financing problems after creditors and ratings agencies declared the government and state - run oil firm PDVSA to be in partial default for missing interest and principle payments on bonds.

While the average working American might know enough to file and receive their Social Security benefits, the system, thanks to the nearly 3,000 filing rules, is wrought with traps and run by a government agency that is prohibited from dispensing advice.

Were the television networks, the movie producers, and the editors of the prestige papers really in charge, there would be no pro-life movement, active euthanasia would be the uncontested law of the land, every school child would be indoctrinated in the joys of gay sex, home schooling would be prohibited, church schools would be run by state agencies, government day care for preschool children would be mandatory, churches would not be tax - exempt, and smoking anywhere would be a criminal offense.

Rather, government agencies and private groups, including churches, should develop such spots, and stations should run them as public - service announcements.

Pay particular attention to the bottom of the ad, which contains a disclaimer added by the MTA, the government agency that runs the subway.

A lot of the money is spent on incarceration, police, on government agencies that are not particularly inviting or well - run.

Economic - development agencies run by local governments doled out $ 1.5 billion in tax breaks to 4,486 projects in 2011, an increase of 16 percent in net exemptions since 2010, according to the state comptroller's office.

Mr. Speaker, we note that several transition programs run under the various government institutions and agencies including the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth Enterprises Support and the Youth Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary government institutions and agencies including the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth Enterprises Support and the Youth Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth Enterprises Support and the Youth Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary graduates.

The agencies will study options for using facilities owned by state or local governments or the possibility of using privately - run sites.

That conclusion, based on a full but complicated analysis of every possible measurement ¬ — complaints to Ombudsfolk, audit reports of all kinds, measurement of times and numbers, review of agency work and outsourcing — stands up against every possible reservation, such as the argument that costs and complaints would have risen even more had the reforms not been undertaken, or that social change made it necessary for government to run faster to stand still.

The government agency set up to target criminals» profits has come under fire today after it was revealed it costs four times as much to run as it has seized.

I can not recall doing all that much original reporting on the County government except related to the Westchester County Health Department which I considered one of the worst run agencies in New York based on my dealings with them.

«The end goal is to run government more effectively and to provide benefits and savings for agencies and taxpayers.»

The «bosslets» who ran these agencies weren't appointed by the governor, but were instead named by legislators or local officials, adding to the complexity and opaqueness of government.

«She has the experience and understanding of state government operations that are needed to run an agency as important as the Office of General Services.

Several board members expressed reservations about whether the board's work as a non-partisan government agency might be compromised in some way by Tirado's run for office.

And there is so much in the Adminstration to investigate regarding the Agencies and Authorities (the latter being the Shadow Government that pulls that State train) that Mr. Dicker's credibility will be at stake until he runs a big story about the Administartion's negative side and does not try to minimize it.

The release further stated that «government is satisfied that it is no longer in the public interest to keep running these agencies, parastatals and departments with huge cost on public revenue and no services to the public, under the present economic realities».

Clegg's trip also saw him visit a Colombian Reintegration Agency (ACR) centre — a shop run by the Colombian government for ex-guerrilla fighters who are going through a seven - year reintegration process to help them back into mainstream Colombian society.

Unlike government agencies, Democratic county organizations are privately run, often dynastic entities, operating autonomously from the state Democratic Party, according to John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany.

Since January, Mr. Reed has run the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, a BID of BIDs, overseeing the MetroTech office park, Fulton Mall and the Court - Livingston - Schermerhorn corridor, an L - shaped spine of older office buildings, mostly filled with government agencies and legal firms.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the primary a «royal screw - up,» and described the Board as «an agency run amok,» comparing it to Tammany Hall, a symbol of New York City government's corrupt past.

Both men have said creating new economic development opportunities, creating a more inclusive county government, addressing the chronic overcrowding at the county jail and lowering the cost of running the county Resource Recovery Agency as priorities.

That came last night from a «government source» in a story run about PIP cuts by the Press Association news agency.

Roughly 1200 of these are research labs, which are often housed at major academic centers or run by government agencies themselves, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It was organised by the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), run by the University of KwaZulu - Natal in Durban, with collaborators in the US and funding from the US Agency for International Development and the South African government.

In the newly funded project, which will run until October 2017, the team is working closely with Singapore's Housing and Development Board and the National University of Singapore, along with other government agencies.

The election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president, a candidate who called human - driven climate change a hoax, was followed by Trump naming more and more climate - change doubters to run the government's environment and energy agencies.

Both private and government - run funding agencies typically hire grant administrators and program officers with graduate degrees.

The risks to public health from exposure to emissions from shale gas extraction or fracking are low as long as operations are properly run and regulated, the British government's health agency said on Thursday.

Also critical: If an investigator's lab runs on federal funding from NIH, he or she should talk to a scientific officer at the agency early on, to double - check that the start - up plans won't run afoul of government conflict - of - interest rules.

LONDON (Reuters)- The risks to public health from exposure to emissions from shale gas extraction or fracking are low as long as operations are properly run and regulated, the British government's health agency said on Thursday.

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