Sentences with phrase «in public aid»

Sources familiar with the Baltimore submission have said it includes billions of dollars in public aid.

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Here, the first lady isn't afraid — and that's worth more than a thousand public service announcements,» one administrator of an AIDS clinic in D.C. told the Washington Post at the time.
The public relations program aid your business in many ways.
Point employees in the direction of where they can go for public or charitable aid.
Though much of the success of craft breweries (which are technically defined as those that make less than 6 million barrels per year) and microbreweries (which make less than 15,000 barrels) can be credited to shifts in public taste, those in the industry say they've learned a few truths along the way that have aided in their success.
The California Insurance Fund, a public ministry that aids distressed parties in defaults, would make good on some of it.
Amazon isn't so much interested in taking over what's called the «last mile» of the delivery trek as it is in making the process more efficient for the company and public entities that aid in delivery.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
In 1987, Princess Diana made headlines when she removed her gloves to shake hands with HIV - positive patients, during one of her many public visits to people suffering from HIV and AIDS.
They can go to the CFPB's website (http://consumerfinance.gov/students/knowbeforeyouowe) where an online ranking tool will provide the public with an opportunity to weigh in on the financial aid shopping sheet.
In an amended public financial filing, Flynn was forced to disclose «a brief advisory role with a firm related to a controversial data analysis company that aided the Trump campaign.»
But the conciliatory moves will do little to assuage public sentiment for the man most identified with the painful cutbacks inflicted on the nation in exchange for aid.
Typically in the wake of a major blackout, local governments invoke a mutual aid agreement with experienced public US utility companies, which can send crews at minimal cost to restore power.
Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.
As Maria charged in, PREPA decided not to invoke mutual aid agreements with other public utilities the way Florida did for Irma.
We need to reinvent federal grants - in - aid to the states, drain the federal for - profit contracting swamps, and wring more public value from grants to nonprofits.
FEMA has offered more than $ 3.3 billion in aid to disaster victims through its Individuals and Households Program and $ 1.4 billion in public assistance this year.
On the positive side, if the Conservative Government does table its proposed legislative aid mandate, it will afford an opportunity for a more open public debate, in which we will have a chance to address the fundamental purposes of the aid program, and how those purposes may be best achieved.
The fair value of our common stock has been determined in accordance with applicable elements of the practice aid issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Valuation of Privately Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation.
Now, in the wake of the Parkland school massacre that killed 17 people, several South Florida cities are installing special first - aid kits in public...
Certainly the public is legally able to sell their property without the aid of an agent, just as most people are able to change the oil in their cars without a service station.
«The IRS Form 1040X looks more intimidating than it is,» said Marshall Hunt, certified public accountant and director of tax policy for the Accounting Aid Society's tax assistance program in metro Detroit.
Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.
 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).
If the point of your article is to criticize the AIDS lobby for ignoring the ethical dimensions of this social malady, or to criticize the moral philosophy that compels AIDS activists to hand out condoms in public high schools instead of emphasizing the importance of chastity and self - discipline, then you should be commended.
Having spent the past three years (up until August 1991) working in the public health department of a Florida city, I can assure you that AIDS can be transmitted through heterosexual intercourse, and that it in fact is being so transmitted at an increasing rate.
The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.
Mormons do not run religious schools that take public aid from the state, such as secular textbooks, though that is a practice approved by the Supreme Court in states with substantial numbers of parochial schools.
Paradoxically, the danger in public gatherings is rather to the person who has AIDS, for that person's weakened immune system makes him or her highly susceptible to ambient sources of infection.
Although bearing the same gay stigma in the public mind as does the disease, these groups typically are broadly based, receive public as well as private foundation funds, and seek to serve without discrimination all who are affected by AIDS.
To aid in this, the synod suggested that congregations exercise closer discipline and that the magistrates also enforce public discipline.
Certainly, Pope Leo XIII's great encyclical, Rerum novarum, was pretty clear, at one point arguing that the government should come to the aid of families only as a last resort: «True, if a family finds itself in exceeding distress, utterly deprived of the counsel of friends, and without any prospect of extricating itself, it is right that extreme necessity be met by public aid...».
Originating in a popular program in aid of a «submerged middle class,» Boston's projects had become untenable warehouses for those public neighbors toward which proper Bostonians were most ambivalent.
For reasons of politics and public relations, government after government has refused to admit that AIDS was a problem in its country until it became almost insurmountable.
But consider the history of the AIDS epidemic in this country, and how it was veiled in secrecy and shame for ten years before we faced it as a public - health problem.
Although millions of heterosexual persons in Africa have AIDS, in the West there is in the public mind a strong suspicion that AIDS is a punishment on persons for promiscuous sexual behavior or for drug abuse.
She has 3 children and is the founder of the Redefine Positive Project, an initiative that is working to reform HIV / AIDS education in public schools across the nation.
3 S. A. Stewart, USA Today, November 21, 1984; L. McKusick et al., «AIDS and Sexual Behavior Reported by Gay Men in San Francisco,» American Journal of Public Health, 1985, pages, 193 - 96.
The churches have also tried to help mobilize public opinion in favor of overseas aid.
The United States welcomed its immigrants, protected its workers, freed the slaves, enfranchised women, aided the needy, provided social security for the aged, ensured the civil rights of all its citizens, and made public space accessible to the handicapped: all in service to its ideals of justice.
When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.
Most teen - agers are not yet preoccupied with AIDS, but the public discussion of it has brought talk of sexuality and contraceptives out in the open.
(2) Parochial school aid: In addition to supporting a voucher system, the Reagan administration has been indefatigable in its desire to channel public money generally into private schoolIn addition to supporting a voucher system, the Reagan administration has been indefatigable in its desire to channel public money generally into private schoolin its desire to channel public money generally into private schools.
One positive change is the increase in support of international aid programs from the U.S. public and political leaders of both parties.
Jesse Jackson, while still the leading Democratic politician in Chicago, chose to be silent during the public storm that broke after it was revealed that Cokely — then a high - salaried aide to the Democratic mayor — had accused Jewish doctors of injecting blacks with AIDS.
Members of one church in Florida not only led the fight to exclude three hemophiliac boys with AIDS from public school but also decided not to admit persons carrying the AIDS virus into Sunday school, worship or other church activities (Florida Baptist Witness, September 17, 1987).
Insisting, in our public - policy decisions, on the importance of the connection between homosexual promiscuity and the transmission of AIDS is not an instance of heterosexual homophobia.
Charity doesn't work well, is an ineffective distribution of resources, and is an insulting Band - Aid on the problems that the churches have in fact created and perpetuated by their influence on public policy.
Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.
Total public development aid (including loans repayable at below market rates) has not exceeded 45 billion dollars in recent years.
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