Sentences with phrase «in a race to the bottom of»

This was just the beginning of Motorola's new lineup of smartphones, but it looks like the company is engaged in a race to the bottom of the Android phone market.

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«My expectation is that banks will engage in prudent lending — not the type of «race to the bottom» practices that led to a mortgage crisis in the United States.»

As a result, many entrepreneurs find themselves in a race to the bottom, as they begin to focus on using revenues to keep up with expenses, instead of produce profits.

With so many U.S. corporations racing to the bottom — moving manufacturing to foreign countries for cheap labor and no environmental responsibility, taking advantage of the H1 - B Visa program to bring cheap workers in, lowering benefits and eliminating pension plans — it's refreshing to learn that some companies are taking the exact opposite approach.

«In a campaign cycle that has been nothing but a race to the bottom — at such a critical moment for our nation — and with so many who have tried to be respectful of a record primary vote, the time has come for Governor Pence to lead the ticket,» Huntsman told the Salt Lake Tribune.

Nonetheless, when Pinnacle went bankrupt in 2012, a victim of what my CEO termed «a race to the bottom» among the regional carriers, labor became the focus of attention, just as it does in all airline bankruptcies.

My prediction is that as international waters remain choppy and uncertain with Brexit potentially looming and this nutty «race to the bottom» with interest rates, international buyers will continue to park portions of their assets in valuable real estate, keeping the major US markets growth steady.

The absence of proper consumer protection was a major contributing factor to the present financial meltdown, for «it has now become clear that abrogating sound state laws, particularly regarding consumer protection, created opportunity for regulatory arbitrage that resulted in a regulatory «race - to - the - bottom.

With competition in the solar space increasing, SolarCity engaged in a pricing war with many of its rivals, a race to the bottom that hurt deal profitability.

These may have lessened the fall in Canadaâ $ ™ s corporate tax revenue losses, but not by much. Even worse, this tax shifting makes the overall net impact even more negative as any revenue gains from income shifting come at the expense of even greater revenue losses elsewhereâ $» and fuel a race to the bottom with tax cuts.

I've posted before about the Temporary Foreign Workers program, a part of this new race to the bottom, in which the Harper government has been complicit.

The internet has reduced many of the traditional barriers to entry that protect companies from competition and created a race to the bottom for prices in a number of categories.

Will it not be harder than ever to stop the «race to the bottom» in terms of standards of labor and pollution?

Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction of environment.

(CNN)-- Even though former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, one of two Catholics in the race for the GOP nomination, was helped by an evangelical bump in Iowa on Wednesday, his support among Catholic Republicans is near the bottom of the field, according to a new Gallup survey.

That the race is more to the bottom than the top was perhaps illustrated a few weeks ago when a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing dozens of workers.

There is pressure to ease restrictions and, thus, the well - known race to the bottom in terms of environmental protection and other standards.

Bottom of dueces rotated out to stretch defense to open a window to get to the goal in a foot race.

With both sides languishing near the bottom of the Bundesliga, the three points on offer were crucial in the race to avoid relegation.

This immediately made me think of last year's Kings - Mavericks game when both teams were in the thick of the race to the bottom.

Of course, our own Hammers are still well within the mix and so there is all to play for in yet another crucial race to the bottom clash this afternoon.

It has become a yearly occurrence for the bottom of Spain's premier division to take us until the final day to find out who has the privilege of hosting Real Madrid and Barcelona again in the next campaign, usually providing much greater excitement than the title race.

Collective social protection at a European level is the only response to the four freedoms - that can lead to the sort of race to the bottom in Europe you describe - that makes sense.

«For him the global free market equates to a race to the bottom with the gains being shared among a smaller and smaller group of people,» said Osborne in his 2013 Tory conference speech.

This has led, in practice, to a «race to the bottom» substantially reducing the effective power of social and political actors to act upon the level of these standards.

Its success, however, depends heavily on states» willingness to work together, and across the world, governments have been turning inwards in a «race to the bottom» of narrowly - defined national interest.

Issa has made no secret of his interest in getting to the bottom of muddled, mishandled White House attempts to force Democratic Senate candidates Joe Sestak and Andrew Romanoff from races in Pennsylvania and Colorado.

Gerard Larsen, who officially retired in July as East Hampton Village police chief, was at the bottom of the pack in that race, but vowed on Tuesday to run again in two years.

The airline industry's cost - cutting «race to the bottom» continues, safety advocates say, despite the passage of a broad - ranging aviation safety law in wake of the Flight 3407 Clarence crash three years ago.

«There's a lot of people who are interested in this race, among others in the state, but the bottom line is it's the voters in the 46th Senate district who get to send their representative to Albany, and it's up to them,» Tkaczyk said in an interview at her headquarters in Guilderland outside of Albany.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo chided Jeb Bush for tweeting a photo of a handgun, saying it represents a «race to the bottom» in political campaigning.

The TUC warned that attacks on public sector pensions by opposition leaders and employers» groups in recent months threatened to undermine what was left of «decent» retirement provision in Britain in favour of a «race to the bottom».

The communities where state employees currently provide vital services stand to lose tens of millions of dollars in decent paychecks that are spent in local communities, accelerating economic devastation and a race to the bottom.

Nixon is also touching on a form of «economic development» that has grown like topsy in recent years, drawing states into what would be considered, if it were cut - and - sew factories rather than glamorous entertainment productions involved, a competitive race - to - the - bottom to throw money at less - than - needy studios.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo chided on Wednesday Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush for tweeting a photo of a handgun, saying it represents a «race to the bottom» in political campaigning.

I can see why the Conservatives will be content to offer devolution of income tax in a context where it encourages a race to the bottom.

Brexit secretary also tells US Chamber of Commerce Britain will not take part in a «race to the bottom» to secure trade deals

Cuomo says the bottom line is that there are not currently enough votes in both houses of the legislature to approve a broader public campaign finance that would apply to all statewide races, including the governor's.

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The race is on to tap the world's biggest and most unusual fossil fuel supply — methane trapped in frozen hydrates in permafrost and at the bottom of the ocean

«The bottom line is the United States does not want conflict in outer space,» says Frank Rose, assistant secretary of state for arms control, verification and compliance, who has led American diplomatic efforts to prevent a space arms race.

«Importantly, while not often considered in studies of competitive markets, individuals in relational markets will not engage in a race to the bottom, but rather make decisions that support the long term health of the overall market, which may include the long - term survival of competitors.»

So here's the bottom line: Emma Stone has the edge to win her first Oscar for a starring role in a Best Picture frontrunner, where she is a breath of fresh air that will blow through the Oscar race.

Shot on iPhones affixed with anamorphic lenses, Tangerine follows a breathless day in the lives of two transgender prostitutes as they race around downtown Los Angeles in order to get to the bottom of a bizarre love triangle.

Many of us are starting to look at outliers in previous Oscar winners Clint Eastwood (American Sniper) and James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) to shake up the race and feed off the dying hopes for the bottom - tier vote - getters here.

There were proposals to, among other things, hold schools accountable only for the progress of the lowest - performing students in the bottom quintile; not disaggregate data by race and ethnicity; require states to deal only with the lowest - performing schools; or ignore test results altogether as an accountability tool.

In his recent review of the Maranto and McShane book on Obama's education policies, Nathan Glazer described how advocates for national standards see them as a fix for this race to the bottom:

So, if a race to the bottom is fueled by the desire to satisfy federal bureaucratic rules, why would we think the solution is in the adoption of more federal bureaucratic rules?

The study showed that, while states had a variety of performance standards (as would be expected in a federal system), the supposed «race to the bottom» was not happening.

• The Tennessee and Michigan districts were both created in response to the Obama Administration's Race to the Top program, which required states to take action on their bottom 5 percent of schools.