Sentences with phrase «government sponsored groups»

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«The PBM industry is known for «business as usual» and has been challenged to bring real value to plan sponsors (health plans, ACO's, FFS government programs, self - funded groups).

At the very least, we must ensure the civil rights of children who may someday come into the world through cloning, by insisting that no child can be owned, bought, sold, or manipulated, that no government agency or group can sponsor the cloning of a child over which it will have guardianship (i.e., children will be cloned only in circumstances where they will be reared by a family), and that no child can be cloned solely for the purpose of procuring organs or for monetary gain.

To remedy that, advocacy groups and government officials are waging a publicity campaign to inform poor families of the program and recruit new sponsors to support it.

I might add here that this situation unfortunately describes the supposed bedsharing debate: those that support informed choice to bedshare and who, like myself, who deplore inaccurate, simplistic generalizations about the «dangers» of sleeping with baby (and misrepresentations about the bedsharing issue, who differ from the governments position) are demonized, belittled at professional meetings sponsored by professional groups (like First Candle) and attempts to ostracize repeatedly take place.

The Minister of Regional Reorganization and Development, Dan Botwe, has debunked claims that the government is sponsoring interest groups pushing for the creation of a new region out of the Volta Region.

The forum was sponsored by Citizens Union along with other good government groups Reinvent Albany, League of Women Voters of New York City, and NYPIRG.

Embattled former militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, on Monday denied sponsoring the Niger Delta Avengers, a militant group that has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta.

The group revealed startlingly, how Dr Amoako Tufuor nearly wrecked President Kufuor's government with a rape case against a Dutch diplomat working at the School Feeding Office «Amoako Tufuor nearly messed the administration of President Kufuor with the raping of the Dutch woman officer working at the School feeding office as agent for the Dutch Organisation which sponsored the School Feeding Program.

It has support from numerous government reform groups on the left and the right, as well as majority party sponsors in both houses of the legislature.

Still, at a Baruch College forum sponsored by the good government group Citizens Union, only Mark Weprin of East Queens and East Harlem's Melissa Mark - Viverito said they or their senior staff had spoken about the contest with de Blasio or his senior staff.

James Duderstadt, former president of the University of Michigan, who recently chaired a Brookings Institution — sponsored study group that called for drastic increases in government funding for energy research, said the budget proposal is «definitely heading in the right direction.»

At a 5 April hearing in Brazil's Federal Senate, Chierice charged that the government - sponsored studies are being done in «bad faith,» and stated that his group is obtaining clinical data from overseas.

The groups alleged that Soon, a prominent critic of mainstream climate science and opponent of government action on climate change, had not disclosed funding from corporate sponsors to journals that published his work, potentially violating journal policies.

I'm happy to report that Hartmut's group earned some top scores in a government - sponsored competition in face recognition.

«Data from the census is the cornerstone of informed policymaking at all levels of government,» says Katie Gibbs, executive director of Evidence for Democracy, a science advocacy group based in Ottawa that has sponsored a write - in campaign.

In January 2004, a group of respected investigators wrote to Science voicing their concern about the wisdom of the US government in sponsoring the Thai vaccine trial.

You're also the lead sponsor of an initiative that would allow cities and the state government to potentially reduce pension payments to government workers like teachers, state employees, and police officers, all groups that are traditional Democratic supporters.

Some of these contacts have been informal; others have been sponsored by governments, private groups, and institutions.

Hawaii's first government - sponsored public school system was established in 1841 by King Kamehameha III, more than 100 years before the group of islands would join the United States.

For that reason, a number of environmental groups, including the U.S. - government sponsored Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), started campaigns to educate people in pre-1950 homes not to replace their windows.

agency bonds are issued by official U.S. government bodies (e.g., Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA); government sponsored entity (GSE) bonds are offered by lenders created by an act of Congress to assist groups of borrowers (e.g., farmers, ranchers, homeowners, mortgage lenders, etc.); the principal and interest of GSE bonds are not guaranteed by the U.S. government; Agency and GSE bonds are generally available in minimum denominations of $ 10,000, with subsequent investments in increments of $ 5,000; Fidelity makes these securities available in minimum denominations of $ 1,000, and subsequent investment increments of $ 1,000

The poll was conducted by Chinese polling company Horizon, who frequently commission government - sponsored surveys, and was commissioned by Chinese group China Animal Welfare Association in collaboration with Humane Society International and Avaaz.

Initially rejected from the most important commercial show of the time, the government - sponsored Paris Salon, the Impressionists organized yearly group exhibitions in commercial venues during the 1870s and 1880s, timing them to coincide with the official Salon.

An earlier fast - track assessment (FTA) sponsored by the UK Government and undertaken by essentially the same group of scientists that produced the analysis that I reported on in my previous post compared the impacts of climate change for three cases: unconstrained (business as usual, BAU) emission case, CO2 stabilization at 750, and stabilization at 550 ppm.

A front group is an organization that purports to represent one agenda while in reality it serves some other interest whose sponsorship is hidden or rarely mentioned — typically, a corporate or government sponsor.

«Rather than sending thank you notes to their corporate lobbyist sponsors, these legislators should instead consider an apology to their constituents,» Stephen Spaulding, Staff Counsel for the good government group Common Cause told CMD.

At the end of the weekend (Saturday Evening), groups will be judged by a panel that includes a representative of Hackney Law Centre, tech leaders from government and our sponsors.

At Reading, he launched a new research group, the Simplification Centre funded by corporate sponsors and UK government departments who wished to communicate more effectively with citizens.

MOSAIC programs and services continues to be responsive to the emerging needs of various refugees groups such as refugee claimants, convention refugees and protected persons, government assisted refugees, privately sponsored refugees, Blended Visa Office Referred Refugees and other stateless persons.

We are advising individual clients, an insurer working group, and two government - sponsored enterprises on revisions to ISDA OTC documentation.

Minnesotans have many different medical insurance choices, including group medical benefits, individual policies, supplemental insurance, and government sponsored healthcare options.

Indeed, while North Korea bans its own citizens» access to an unrestricted Internet, the country itself remains firmly dedicated to waging cyber warfare, with a large group of state - sponsored hackers put in place about 20 years ago to do the government's dirty work.

Security researchers have uncovered a new widespread malware campaign targeting cryptocurrency users, believed to be originated from Lazarus Group, a state - sponsored hacking group linked to the North Korean governGroup, a state - sponsored hacking group linked to the North Korean governgroup linked to the North Korean government.

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20 In this chapter, formal parenting support was measured using items concerning regular attendance at parent and baby or parent and toddler groups with the cohort child in the last year; any participation in a programme, group or seminar on child development, child behaviour, or parenting in the last year (examples given were Triple P - Positive Parenting Programme, Baby massage, Incredible Years Programme, Mellow Parenting, Baby yoga, Swimming classes / groups, Baby sensory, Tuneful tots (music classes / rhymes etc), PEEP parent education, Book Bug / libraries); and using, visiting or contacting any of five Government - sponsored resources (Childcare Link website or phoneline, ParentLine Scotland website or phoneline, ChildSmile website or ChildSmile dental services, Play, Talk, Read website, Play @Home booklets)

These patterns were also evident in attendance at other parenting - related classes and groups, including those which offered parenting support or information, and in the use of government sponsored parenting resources such as websites and phonelines.

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers, aided by banking and housing groups, are beginning a strong lobbying push to forestall a scheduled drop in the maximum sizes of mortgages backed by the government - sponsored enterprises.

The Bureau received over 2,800 comments on the TILA - RESPA proposal during the comment period from, among others, consumer advocacy groups; national, State, and regional industry trade associations; banks; community banks; credit unions; financial companies; mortgage brokers; title insurance underwriters; title insurance agents and companies; settlement agents; escrow agents; law firms; document software companies; loan origination software companies; appraisal management companies; appraisers; State housing finance authorities, counseling associations, and intermediaries; State attorneys general; associations of State financial services regulators; State bar associations; government sponsored enterprises (GSEs); a member of the U.S. Congress; the Committee on Small Business of the U.S. House of Representatives; Federal agencies, including the staff of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, the Bureau of Economics, and the Office of Policy Planning of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC staff), and the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration (SBA); and individual consumers and academics.