Sentences with phrase «government run departments»

Bechtel is booking $ 4 billion a year in revenues from a relatively new venture: helping the U.S. government run departments more efficiently.

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Instead, they said they got them from state - run companies, neighborhood committees or government departments that handed them out as part of their «party building work.»

Governor Kasich asked me to help him run economic development for the state and privatize the department so it could move at the speed of business not the speed of government.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury issues these securities to raise money the federal government uses to run its operations.

In Budget 2012, the government announced the death of the Community Pasture Program, run by the former Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, now the Agri - Environment Services Branch of the Department of Agriculture.

It requires more government departments (the DEA), more police, more court cases, more social services (because you have to do something with the children of the parents you arrest), and more prisons with all the staff required to run them.

I'm betting the department running it is running into the red, thereby costing the government cash.

The government runs and funds a national school lunch programme, administered by the US department of agriculture, which operates in over 97,700 schools.

Administration or «running costs» as they were then called, were introduced in the 1980s to give government departments more flexibility in determining staffing levels and to make them responsible for the costs of services previously provided centrally.

In government departments, the clocks run faster than ordinary ones and endless decisions are required - with little opportunity for discussion - all the time.

As for cost - cutting, far from falling, the administration or running costs of UK civil departments actually rose by about two - fifths in constant - price terms over the three decades from 1980 to 2010 — a performance not very different from the trajectory of administration costs of English local government over the same period.

Set up in October 2003 the group has secured some notable parliamentary successes, including stopping the privatisation of the Forensic Science Service, helping solve a long running pay dispute in the Department for Work and Pensions and more recently opposing the government's plans to reduce the redundancy rights of our members.

Plans to shake up the way government departments in Whitehall are run could mean that under - performing civil servants lose their jobs.

If you could run any government department, which would it be and why?

A UK Labour government will recognise that expertise and invest trust in Wales to do even more in future by devolving to Wales responsibility for the Work Programme - currently run from Westminster by the Department for Work and Pensions.

Citing the recent United States Department of States report, which alleged cases of extreme human rights violations under the Buhari administration, Ologbondiyan called on Trump to ask Buhari questions on the way he runs his government.

The largely amicable town board race will feature former town building inspector Paul Andreassen, running on the Democratic, Conservative and Independence party lines; longtime Saugerties police officer Donald Tucker, running on the Republican and Conservative lines; Vincent Altieri, who serves as the Captain of the Sheriff's Police Services Department and holds Republican, Independence and Reform party lines; and Democrat John Schoonmaker, who majored in Biology at Siena College and currently works as a Gnotobiologist at Taconic Biosciences, is running on the Democratic line and hopes to bring the town's youth into the fold of local government.

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.

David Attenborough (for respectability, gravitas and social reports on the human species), Stephen Fry (for obscure and diffi cult to source facts), Armando Iannucci (for how not to run a government department - he's done the research) and John Prescott (to defl ect criticism from anybody else).

He explains the demands of his office even further, «[The Information Minister] is running GBC, Information Services Department... you have 10 regional offices; you have 180 district offices that you are running; you have a government communication machinery that you are superintending and you have also to manage hundreds of party communicators.

We need one, two or possibly three of the old guard in, not only to run major departments, but also to act as mentors to those - the majority - with absolutely no experience of government.

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».

@Bobson If a government department is going to run out of money, it usually knows well in advance and a decision can be taken to authorize extra funds (or not).

In her past terms, says Bartels, the legislators were «inundated by every detail of running every department, the businesses - within - businesses of county government.»

Last week, the Justice Department's Inspector General released a report that found private prisons are less safe and less effective than government - run corrections facilities.

Cameron will also have to persuade Juncker that Hill is a substantial figure despite never having run a government department.

«You do want somebody to think about the planning of school places, capital investment... If the government doesn't have some local tier to do this you are running the risk of... the horrendous prospect of the Department for Education trying to allocate capital across the country without having that local knowledge.»

But now the power that Osborne holds in Whitehall threatens independent institutions (BBC, universities), as localism in education has come to paradoxically mean schools being run from the Department of Education and local government securing extra powers only on Osborne's terms.

The state Spending and Government Efficiency Commission is considering placing the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, located in the Catskills and managed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, under the Olympic Regional Development Authority, which runs the Adirondack resorts Whiteface and Gore and other facilities in and around Lake Placid.

The second publication of the government's progress reports - an innovation devised by David Cameron to make government more efficient and transport - shows its business, environment and «big society» projects to be running months behind schedule only six months after their timetables were originally published... The Cabinet Office was the department whose agenda had slipped the most with 17 rearranged targets.

Rather than spell out which departments would be the losers, the government would hope to prevent rifts in the cabinet in the run - up to next year's election by simply laying out broad priorities.

The wide - ranging report, which is funded by several Government departments is based on figures for 2008, the most recently available, but will still come as a boost for David Cameron, the Tory leader, in the run up to the next General Election.

Chris Randall walks through the halls of Huntsville, Alabama's A&M University proudly carrying the souvenir bag he got from being an undergraduate researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Department of Energy's (DOE) largest science laboratory, and one of the most prestigious government - run labs in the U.S..

From 1 July, the federal government's health department will take over responsibility for the policy and financing of some 90 community - run Aboriginal health centres in Australia from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.

Government funding for microengineering, under the Department of Trade and Industry's Link initiative, runs out in less than a year.

The Troops - to - Teachers program run by the Department of Education has attracted many more men and African - Americans to the teaching profession, when compared with the new - teacher population at large, according to a report last week from the Government Accountability Office.

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 landscape of subsidized OST programs includes those operated by public schools and public charter schools; those run by District government agencies, such as the Department of Parks and Recreation; and those organized by non-school entities that receive public funding, such as community based providers (CBOs).

«Its plans, outlined in the Queen's speech, will add to the chaos the Government is already presiding over - chaos with primary tests, the specifications for GCSEs, AS and A-levels running late, and the Department for Education's (DfE) accounts being criticised by the National Audit Office for the second year running.

The government has said that all schools will either have to convert to academy status - which sees them funded by the Department for Education but run by a governing body or trust independent from the local authority - by 2020 or commit to doing so by 2022.

In response to withering criticism and political pressure, the U.S. Department of Justice is backpedaling on its lawsuit against Louisiana's school choice program, which provides school vouchers to low - income students assigned to government - run schools receiving a D or F rating for performance.

Fedloans under the Department of Education is a typical example of a government ran business.

The arrival of the vessel at the port was celebrated with a welcoming ceremony attended by Awah Al Ketbi, chief executive of AL Ketbi Consultancy, the company which runs the Costa representative office in Dubai, Captain Mauro Muratore and government officials and VIP guests from Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, tourism and maritime sectors.

A particularly powerful thread, the importance of the Pentagon as a driver of innovation and market for effective energy technology, emerged in an earlier discussion involving three of the top figures in the federal government focused on advancing energy choices that will work for the long haul — Cathy Zoi, assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy, Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, and Jeffrey Marqusee, who runs environmental research and development programs for the Department of Defense.

Government «studies» are similarly biased according to who is running the department or administration at the time.

(The public - power agencies, such as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, are run by governments.

Stern's boss, Hillary Clinton, has explicitly confirmed what critics of the CFR have often charged: that the Council unofficially runs the U.S. State Department, and has virtually taken control of the entire executive branch of the federal government, regardless of which party may occupy the White House.

Mohapatra, a senior scientist with the government - run India Meteorological Department, said dust storms and thunderstorms were the result of nearly similar weather conditions like intense heat.

This approach may avoid running afoul of the Supreme Court's observation that, «[a] s a general rule, decisions concerning budgetary allotments for departments or government agencies will be classified as policy decisions,» because funding (or not funding) individual services may not implicate larger budgetary decisions if the «operational decisions» are made by «lower level» actors within the parameters — including ultimate financial constraints — of the policy.

Lord Low argued that there is, in fact, adequate funding available to provide early legal advice, suggesting that funds could be raised from the lottery, the government through the lottery and that the Department for Work and Pensions should be made to contribute to the running costs of advice centres.