Sentences with phrase «increasing number of proposals»

We find that during contract negotiation years, unions increase the number of proposals they make by about one - quarter (and by about two - thirds during contentious negotiations), and change the subject of proposals to focus on matters personally costly to managers.

NIH has also received far more applications than predicted since 2003, as some investigators increased the number of proposals they submitted.

Therefore, I would like to recap that our current plan is not to simply increase the number of proposals but to be more proactive than in the past by making appropriate decisions that will enhance our overall corporate value over the long term.

Not exact matches

«The Treasury Department estimates that the Administration's tax cut proposals would (1) increase tax receipts from the AMT by $ 262 billion over the 2002 - 2011 period, and (2) increase the number of taxpayers in 2011 who have additional tax liability because of the AMT from 20.4 million to 34.7 million.»

You can gauge the interest in responsible investing simply from the increase in shareholder proposals being filed about ESG issues and the exponential growth in the number of questions being asked by institutional investors, researchers and clients - and as a CEO, I have to make trade offs that may not be in the best short term profit interest of the Bank but are viewed in our best long term interest.

Apple Inc. shareholders could make history next year by deciding whether the company should be forced to increase the number of non-white executives and directors, with a vote on a proposal the iPhone maker has tried to squelch.

A number of provinces have made proposals to enhance the CPP, involving the increasing of pensionable benefits, financed through higher employee and employer contribution rates.

An increasing number of top - flight general managers, among them Schalke's Horst Heldt, are thought to be comfortable with the proposal, though the always influential Bayern Munich probably will defend the status quo.

In a submission to the House of Lords Constitution Committee's inquiry into the passage of legislation through Parliament, the CIOT proposes: · The Finance Bill Public Bill Committee takes oral evidence from tax experts and others; · More effective liaison between select committees and the Finance Bill committee; · Increasing the resources available to Parliament for scrutinising tax matters; · Using technology to make it easier for those outside Parliament to comment on Bills, e.g. an online facility to input comments by clause numbers, so MPs can see who says what against each clause; · Asking the Office of Tax Simplification to publish simplification assessments of new tax proposals.

Other casualties of the final deal included the Senate's earlier proposal to increase the number of eligible condo projects.

But when the county joined in the request for proposals in June, it increased the number of covered retirees and resulted in more competitive offers from insurance companies, Syracuse officials said.

The reason being that as the research proposals increase so also is the number of documents that you have to go through.

Other parts of the anti-obesity proposal include: ensuring new schools are built with dedicated activity space; creating a program to send doctors into homes to develop preventive programs for children with asthma; increasing the availability of free food programs for children; and doubling the number of school - based health centers in the city to 250.

Little said the Senate's plan also contains tax relief for North Country families and businesses, and rejects a number of «tax - and - fee increases» proposed by the governor, including new Department of Motor Vehicles fees, a surcharge on pre-paid cell phones and a proposal calling for online marketplaces to collect sales tax on behalf of their vendors, a loophole that governor says is costing state and local authorities $ 275 million in uncollected tax every year.

The proposal is part of two zoning amendments that seek to increase the number of affordable housing units throughout the city.

The state is considering a plan to dramatically increase the number of casinos on non-Indian lands in New York, a proposal that could not go before voters until at least November 2013.

«The number of programs and proposals is likely to grow because free - tuition programs meet several policy priorities of governments, including increasing higher education participation rates to cultivate a trained workforce while maintaining affordability,» the report found.

As expected, the Senate will push for a $ 1.9 billion increase in education aid, compared to Cuomo's $ 1.1 billion boost that is tied to enacting a number of his education proposals.

«The Ministry of Justice is consulting on proposals that would increase the number of disputed compensation cases heard by small claims courts — where claimants have to pay their own legal fees even if they win.

While many residents at Tuesday night's Southold Town Board meeting agreed that having affordable housing for the area's workers and retired population is important, others said they feared how a proposal to increase the number of units allowed in an affordable housing development will change the North Fork's rural character.

Today, she shared a number of concrete proposals to better tackle the issue of increasing opportunities for MWBEs — an area where she has been critical of de Blasio — and more generally aimed at increasing diversity throughout the city, including setting up a public - private partnership and a point person who would be responsible for increasing opportunities in the private sector.

Asked if his recent fund - raising sprint of $ 1,000 - per - head dinners was at odds with his proposal to increase taxes for the wealthy, de Blasio said, «a number of people who are supporting my campaign will be among those taxed and so they are, by definition, buying into that plan.»

The second proposal was an amendment to Article 1X, which would increase the number of veterans» homes eligible for tax exemption.

Following months of hearings and negotiations, after funding for a number of Council priorities was added to the mayor's final proposal, and amid concerns of a widely expected economic slowdown and potentially insufficient savings, the Council approved a plan that increases city spending by about $ 3.6 billion over last year's adopted budget.

Other proposals lie in the Conservative armoury such as strengthening select committees and increasing the number of free votes.

«This proposal threatens to dramatically increase the number of New Yorkers at risk of going hungry,» said Ron Deutsch, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

At the same time, the number of people regulated by JCOPE would see a further dramatic increase should a proposal in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive budget be enacted.

State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan has said he will not support renewing mayoral control unless the number of charter schools are increased, an approach Cuomo has endorsed, while Assembly Leader Carl Heastie's conference packaged the renewal with several tax proposals.

«The governor's proposal raises the city's cost in foregone property tax revenue in order to subsidize construction workers» wages, without increasing the expected number of affordable housing units,» she said.

For scientists in academe, universities» expectations about the number of grants they should win increased, as did the number of proposals submitted to NIH.

Several of the most significant of those proposals concentrate on increasing the numbers and percentages of Americans getting scientific degrees, both of which have suffered recently compared to other countries.

Considering that over the same period there was a 16 % increase of research proposals submitted, the number of allegations vis - à - vis proposals was slightly reduced.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a series of proposals to promote this mode of transport, such as expanding the cycling route networks, creating safe and attractive routes, offering public access to bicycles for short trips and increasing the number of parking stations.

More astronomers are applying to the NSF for support; between 1990 and 1999, the number of proposals received increased by about 50 percent, and the number of grants awarded declined by 30 percent (NRC, 2000, Figure 5.4).

WASHINGTON — While most of the debate in Congress over President Clinton's deficit - reduction proposal focused on the plan's controversial tax increases and spending cuts, the omnibus package also contained a number of provisions affecting children, students, and schools.

As the quality and number of such proposals increased, NCER could reallocate its research funding toward more partnerships of this kind.

One proposal calls for increasing the number of labs from the current seven to as many as 16, while the other two proposals would create only a few new...

(Calif.) School districts facing significant increases in the number of new refugee students could receive $ 5 million in one - time Proposition 98 funding under a proposal considered Tuesday by key legislative panel.

The House Education Committee voted in favor of a proposal to increase the number of students eligible to receive state vouchers to attend private school.

A Republican - controlled Legislature is considering a number of proposals that would change or reduce funding for public schools, including increasing the number of private voucher schools across the state, expanding the number of independent charter schools and applying letter grades to schools in report cards.

Liberal Democrat education spokesman, John Pugh, called on Ms Greening to «put a stop to damaging proposals to scrap Qualified Teacher Status and parent governors, as well as plans to vastly increase numbers of academies».

He's called for a doubling in the number of apprenticeships over the next five years, and has made repeated attempts to increase federal funding for apprenticeship programs in his budget proposals.

Several proposals by Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislators are now pending that would expand the Milwaukee program, both in terms of the number of children it serves, increasing the income level for eligibility and expanding the area where voucher schools are located.

Malloy and his operatives now want to expand this outrageous money grab with a plan to increase the number of charter schools in Connecticut and implement a new funding proposal that would see an additional $ 40 - $ 50 million a year diverted to the private corporations that own Connecticut's existing charter schools.

The proposal does not mention increasing the number of guidance counselors in BPS even though the district does not meet the American School Counselor Association's recommended ratio of one counselor per 250 students.

«Under our proposals, existing grammar schools and new grammar schools would only be allowed to open if they met strict conditions designed to ensure increased numbers of less well - off pupils have access to selective education,» Gibb told a debate in the Commons this afternoon.

We're doing an increasing number of bankruptcies and consumer proposals for people over the age of 60 who have debt and are carrying debt into retirement.

What is surprising is that the number of consumer proposal filings has increased.

«There should be a quid pro quo here that says «look a lot of people are going to fall off a cliff when they retire» and I think the number is about to increase with this proposal.»

In regards to increasing the number of sessions to one for each year of either bankruptcy or a consumer proposal, my reasoning is two-fold.