Sentences with phrase «important change of policy»

Reflecting an important change of policy, none of these districts were continuing to rely on self - selected applicants who came to them having completed training in which the district had no role.

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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.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) officials tell Healthcare IT News that, while we can expect to see some major changes to health policy under President Trump (including rollbacks to the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare), health IT will continue to get «plenty of airtime in Congress» and could even become an important jobs priority for the incoming president.

The results of a world where developed and emerging countries are all pitted against each other will be «intensified conflict on the international stage over vitally important issues, such as international macroeconomic coordination, financial regulatory reform, trade policy, and climate change,» they said.

What's more, the speech — along with the entire March on Washington — led to important policy changes, most notably the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

While I agree that it's important to enact policies with a goal of achieving the «greatest change,» talking to my daughter about the issues important to her also taught me that we — men, especially — should pull up a chair and hear out what changes are needed prior to taking action.

These improvements in outcomes have surfaced amidst a number of other important changes in the environment as well, including significant technological progress and better economic policies.

Important changes to Canadian citizenship and immigration policy have broken into the headlines of late, from the introduction of the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act to serious abuses of the controversial temporary foreign worker program to refugee determination concerns.

By conducting policy in a transparent way and communicating what is important in determining the central bank's reaction function, I think policymakers can strike the best balance between a monetary policy that fully incorporates the complexity of the world as it is, while, at the same time, retaining considerable clarity about how the FOMC is likely to respond to changing circumstances.

Substantial changes in commodity prices present important policy issues, both for macroeconomic policies working on the demand side of the economy, and for structural policies that work on the supply side.

Jeremy Moorhouse, senior analyst at Clean Energy Canada, said the following in response: «The Clean Fuel Standard is one of Canada's most important climate change policies, cutting more carbon pollution than any other measure in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and...

When we talk about the Bank of Canada offsetting rather than accommodating changes in fiscal policy, it is important to understand that we are talking about changing the nominal interest rate relative to what it would have been otherwise without the fiscal policy change, and not relative to what the nominal rate was in the past.

Climate change is an important issue to the long - term health of our community and the world, however policies in our relatively small jurisdiction which are not aligned with the realities in other Canadian provinces and the United States put us at a competitive disadvantage.

More important, by caving to demands for «one strike» and «zero tolerance» policies that will remove from ministry faithful priests who did one bad thing thirty years ago and have since had an impeccable record and are clearly no threat to anybody, Dallas may have changed the very self - understanding of the Church.

My beliefs are important to me, but I don't expect my boss to cater to my «religious sensibilities» & change company policy for me for fear of inhibiting my «religious liberty»!

I have a policy of not changing purveyors at the drop of a nickel, and once again, my relations with my wholesalers are extremely important.

In other words, we can not adopt the rotation policy from the first few weeks of the season because it is important too reach the peak form as a team as soon as possible and that cant be done with too frequent changes in the starting 11.

International experts from UN Women and NGOs like Promundo are doing important work to change harmful norms of gender and masculinity through parental leave and fathers» quotas policies and education programs for adolescent boys, respectively.

They point to changing attitudes and aspirations of fathers today and the important programs and policies that must be put in place to ensure dads - and all parents - have what they need to be successful.

«That this House commends the Speaker on the action he has taken over the past year to reassert the principle that Ministers ought to make statements to the House before they are made elsewhere; notes that paragraph 9.1 of the Ministerial Code says that when Parliament is in session, the most important announcements of Government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament; believes that compliance with this principle is essential for backbenchers to be able to represent the interests of their constituents and hold the Government to account; and invites the Procedure Committee to consider how the rules of the House could be better used or, if necessary, changed to ensure compliance with this principle and to develop a protocol for the release of information.»

So why has this party — without a single seat in parliament — managed to change government and opposition policy on what many voters think to be the most important issue of the day?

«I think that a woman having a seat at the table changes the dynamic and trajectory of important policy discussions.

The study does a «very nice job» of using different approaches to show that climate change is a dominant force, says Thomas Lovejoy, president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment in Washington, D.C. «I think the single most important public policy [issue] here is agreeing on what the limit should be on greenhouse gas concentration,» he says.

Just as important, it would unite Americans in the fight against climate change in a way that no other policy would — as citizens who are all co-owners and caretakers of the air.

As many of us are paying attention to the climate change negotiations in Doha, Qatar these next two weeks, I think it's important to keep in context just how many moving pieces there are when it comes to crafting domestic policies that address a global issue.

David Wessel, director of Brookings» Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, said the linking of monetary policy with broader social and economic concerns, such as climate change, is an emerging and critically important task for governments to taPolicy, said the linking of monetary policy with broader social and economic concerns, such as climate change, is an emerging and critically important task for governments to tapolicy with broader social and economic concerns, such as climate change, is an emerging and critically important task for governments to take on.

Erich Battistin, Professor of Economics at QMUL and lead author of the study says the period provides a «perfect test environment» to interrogate an important policy question: can grade inflation change the composition of neighbourhoods?

«The study raises an important issue, how climate change can result in unanticipated release into the environment of toxic and radioactive wastes that were optimistically presumed at the time to be stably isolated,» Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in an email.

The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides policy makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as well as a good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

Given the rapidly evolving landscape of marijuana policy, they say further study will be important to understand how changes in marijuana laws impact the use of alcohol and other drugs.

«When trying to impose any sort of change, it is important to try and empathize with our audience and to work with, rather than against, the targets of that policy.»

While warming cities will bring big energy costs, researchers say they may also offer important insight into the role of local policy in climate change mitigation.

As scientists, when climate change research is relevant to public policy, the authors consider it important to bring that research to the attention of the wider world; sound science can and should inform wise policy.

I work in hospital operations, so it's important that I have an understanding of health care policy and how changes to that policy might impact our patients.

As important, the analysis does not consider any measures of state policies except for exit exams, implying that any other policy changes for the three decades between 1971 and 2004 are either irrelevant for student performance or are not correlated with the introduction and use of exit exams.

In other words, as external pressures on the teacher increase, due to changes in government policy such as testing and changes in curriculum, the need for those responsible for the running of schools to step up and show true leadership and support becomes ever more important.»

The two most important changes in American education policy over the past several decades have been the expansion of school choice and changes to school accountability.

I've become convinced that we need to look at how we recruit and how to generate the conditions that will try to ensure a stronger and stronger labor pool... In the end, it's crucial to prepare the teacher candidates you have to the best possible level, but it's also important to think about how you change policies to attract a stronger pool of teachers.

The question of how much Rhode Island's pension reforms saved taxpayers by moving to a hybrid system (and putting in place other policy changes) is an important one.

Second, because many education policies change the composition of school and classroom peer groups, it is important to understand how such changes may affect student achievement.

Four years from now it will be clear that while the Race to the Top competition drove important state - level policy changes, the work of the assessment consortia will have made the most direct impact on teaching and learning.

Although it makes some important changes to NCLB, such as eliminating AYP mandates, the proposed ESSA would not accomplish important policy priorities of allowing states to make funding for Title I portable, allowing states to completely opt out through the A-PLUS provision, or cutting programs and spending that have accumulated over the decades in a manner that has failed students and burdened school leaders with red tape.

According to McLaughlin (1987), policy research into the late 1980s generated a number of important lessons for policy, practice, and analysis by acknowledging the role of contextual factors such as local priorities, individual beliefs and motivation, and the balance between support and pressure to change.

The indeterminate nature of leadership in the course of policy making, and the slippage that occurs as policy refinements accrue during implementation, help to explain how policies succeed or fail.243 Particular instruments used to reformulate policy are less important, according to this perspective, than understanding how a particular policy issue got the governor «s or the legislative committee «s attention in the first place.244 A third image, the practitioner perspective, emerges from studies of publicsector administrators; it examines the tendency of administrators to seek flexibility and autonomy in interpreting policies, and ways in which this tendency affects the broader process of change.

«The most important piece,» she says, «is the value of the coalition building we did prior to implementing any sort of policy change.»

At the same time, it is vitally important for the well - being of all students and the school community to consider the legal and practical ramifications of changing immigration policy.

In our survey we asked what metrics districts use to evaluate the success of their policies.8 Evaluation is an important step in implementing any new policy, both to ensure policy effectiveness and determine whether any changes are needed.

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What School Leaders Need to Know, a new policy brief just issued by the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL), provides important information about the changing legal landscape affecting the preparation of youth with disabilities for work.