Sentences with phrase «included broad public»
It included broad public works programs (building dams, swimming pools, public buildings, roads, etc. across the country), labor reform, market regulations, and more.
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«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.
They fear stronger resistance to their push for civil - rights protections, including broader access to public restrooms, and wonder if their newly won right to serve openly in the military is in jeopardy.
We include corporate CEOs, the head of the Canadian public pension fund and an activist investor, and the heads of a number of institutional investors who manage money on behalf of a broad range of Americans.
He advises clients in a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including debt and equity financings, private equity and venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, shareholder arrangements, corporate reorganizations and public markets matters.
Business Services: This broad category includes advertising and public relations; computer system design; employment services; customer service; research and development and consulting.
There are many other tactics shareowners use as levers including, investor statements endorsed by a broad group of institutional investors; direct outreach to other shareholders; proxy voting services; and other investment advisors to gain support for specific shareholder proposals; and, outreach to consumers and the press as a way to draw public attention to an issue or a company.
GDP is the broadest indication of a country's economic health or weakness, as it includes all elements of both public and private consumption.
The work of EBRI is made possible by funding from its members and sponsors, which include a broad range of public, private, for - profit and nonprofit organizations.
Such gaps tend to narrow for a number of reasons, including higher marginal productivity on cheaper labor and land costs in lower - tier cities, better economic integration with government - led redistribution of infrastructure and public resources from regional hubs to small neighbor cities, and broader penetration of technology, including smartphones and the internet, according to the Morgan Stanley research.
Plays are play, as Walter Ong observes, except for the playwright and perhaps some of the paying public.5 Moreover, while most would say that tennis and drama provide at least the occasion for play (even if some tennis players, for example, are not actually «playing»), the list of possible play activities is much broader than we often imagine, including much of life - more, in any case, than just tennis, reading, dancing, etc..
Such a celebration has a scope broad enough to include all the New Testament means by leitorgia, latria, diakonia (the service of God), and has enough specific concreteness to be verbalized in the liturgical life of the church where it is assembled in public worship.
Today, Barmuda Companies manages a broad array of restaurant and nightclub concepts, including Beck's Taproom Grill, Voodoo Lounge, Deringer's Public Parlor and Joker's.
Beginning in December, 2013, Caffeinated Club's broad public relations effort started out strong and the product has been enthusiastically featured by hundreds of Media outlets nationwide, including print media, television, radio and online publications.
Text4baby is made possible through a broad, public - private partnership that includes government, corporations, academic institutions, professional associations, tribal agencies, and non-profit organizations.
School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.
A broad range of education and health groups, including KSHF, then urged the USDA to refine the standards and helped generate nearly 250,000 comments from the public on the proposal.
These partnerships also provide a range of funding opportunities, and many grants are broad enough to include support for the fees associated with public use of school kitchens.
The strategies for achieving these broad macroeconomic objectives include the following: • Promoting inclusive growth without compromising fiscal consolidation; • Anchoring fiscal policy on reducing the fiscal deficit to low and sustainable levels, sufficient to reduce the overall public debt burden; • Strengthening the inflation targeting regime and pursuing complementary monetary policy to promote monetary discipline; and • Pursuing complementary external sector policies to ensure exchange rate stability and favourable current account balance.
Sometime after midnight on the last day of the legislative session — with zero public hearings, public review or consultation — Governor Cuomo rammed through a bill that includes very vague and very broad new reporting requirements for charitable groups which engage in lobbying or coordination with related charitable groups.
The case centered on the meaning of what constitutes an «official act,» with Chief Justice John Roberts agreeing with McDonnell that instructions to his jury were so broad as to include almost anything a public official did.
Governor Cuomo proposed a broad set of laws including stricter limits on campaign contributions and party spending on behalf of candidates, public financing of elections to match small contributions from individuals, and new public corruption crimes in an attempt to reduce the culture of corruption in Albany.
«Our firm handles a broad range of public affairs matters, including government and community relations, crisis management, press and digital strategy,» said Geto, «so we're fortunate to have a mix of seasoned consultants and dynamic young executives with experience and relationships in all of these areas.»
In reversing McDonnell's conviction, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court found that instructions to the trial jury about what defines a public official's «official acts» were so broad that they could include almost any action an official might take while in office.
Cuomo, who doesn't face re-election until 2014, has pledged to enact broad new campaign finance reform laws, including the public financing of campaigns and stronger disclosure rules that target independent expenditure groups.
Such measures include: broad expansions of executive authority to redirect or reduce funding after the enactment of the Budget and the shifting of billions of dollars in spending outside the Budget; the appropriation of significant amounts with little detail as to specific purposes or recipients; and reduction of the independent oversight of public resources.»
The two - year - old public / private group, largely funded by M&T Bank, works with a broad range of partners and service providers, including the Buffalo Urban League.
Dutchess County continues to expand its digital document management, providing public access to a broad range of county documents, including legislative resolutions, County Clerk documents, as well as historical records using an online web portal.
He's been discussing the need for broad changes to the public education system — including giving the governor more control over setting policy — since before the November elections.
The four - member Independent Democratic Conference backs a broad package of reform measures that includes the public financing of political campaigns.
Cuomo has supported public financing of political campaigns in the past, but has up until this point not included such a system in the state budget proposal — a process that the governor's office has broad power over.
The impact of the legislation would be profound, sponsors say: It imposes a broad array of new financial, ethical and administrative controls on the Port Authority, including a requirement that all its meetings be open to the public.
Cuomo won the backing of the party after promising to work for liberal priorities, including a higher minimum wage and broad public campaign financing.
The Archbishop of Westminster went on to make a broader attack on the treatment of immigrants in the British media, warning that «there is a moral responsibility on all those in public life, including the media, to avoid stirring up irrational fears that feed prejudice».
«He has written numerous books on economic theory and practice and he remains a prolific writer in national magazines and newspapers on a broad range of subjects including health policy, economic management, taxation and public spending, transport, pensions, and e-government.
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.
Mr. Cuomo has hinted occasionally at the makings of a broad, if workmanlike, agenda for the next four years: creating jobs, particularly upstate; rebuilding infrastructure, including upgrading New York's aging airports; demanding better performance from the state's public schools.
We are open to fellows with a broad range of interests that include, but are not limited to: medical research issues, food and drug safety, health care quality and costs, coverage of the uninsured, health information technology, and public health.
This scale asks scientists to reflect on a specific public engagement activity and rate their agreement with six statements, including «The activity helped participants connect science to their everyday lives» and «The activity provided me with an opportunity to learn from the broader community.»
The largest lobbying sectors — including finance, health care and transport — have spent billions to promote policies that favor narrow interests over broader public interests.
Such steps are likely to include better documentation of how each award satisfies the agency's two funding criteria — scientific merit and broader impacts — as well as a clearer description for the public of what the researcher hopes to accomplish.
Executives from a broad range of health care - focused organizations — including hospitals, health centers, medical schools and public health departments — across the U.S. and from other countries participate in a two - day training session in Boston that focuses on defining disparities and their causes, developing strategies to identify and address disparities and fostering the leadership and change - management skills to implement those strategies.
Designed to help transform Ph.D. s into «citizen - scholars» whose broad knowledge is applicable outside of academia, Texas's Professional Development Program (PDP) teaches practical skills, including how to write articles, grant applications, and book proposals; craft public policies; and work in consulting.
The WHOI cruise, he adds, which includes researchers from the International Atomic Energy Agency and multiple nations, «can build public confidence in data quality» and build a «broad, common data set» that will be extremely useful for marine scientists studying radiation in the future.
This conference touched on a broad spectrum of topics encompassing scientific integrity, including gene therapy, guidelines for animal and human subject use, authorship, public health issues, and the involvement of minorities in research.
He is now organizing a group of experts, including evolutionary scientists and theologians who believe in evolution, to counter the SRT's campaign by working to improve the teaching of evolution in the classroom, and in broader public life.
She also supports the National Preconception Health and Healthcare Initiative, a new public - private campaign to promote preconception health, which she believes has the potential to drive broad system changes that will help increase awareness of and receptiveness to health information, including the USPSTF recommendation on folic acid supplements.
NSF judges proposals on two major criteria: intellectual merit and broader impact, the latter of which can include education, increased public understanding of science, and other benefits to society.
At the opposite end of precipitation extremes, drought also poses risks to public health and safety.192 Drought conditions may increase the environmental exposure to a broad set of health hazards including wildfires, dust storms, extreme heat events, flash flooding, degraded water quality, and reduced water quantity.
Development and application of ocean observing systems, bio-physical interactions, circulation processes on continental shelves, impact of these processes on marine resource management, and extension of applicable research to broader audiences that include decision - makers and the general public.