To understand the rationale of Trump's announcement — in addition to the likely
international conflict at stake — Sean Rameswaram talked to Vox's Matt Yglesias for the latest episode of Today, Explained.
Not exact matches
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.
So I understand that
at times we can be in
conflict, hopefully that won't always be the case, but we should also look to the
International Space Station as an example of things that we can do together in a positive way.
Buffett, 63, heads the $ 360 million Howard G. Buffett Foundation for food security and
international conflict resolution and is also a board member
at Berkshire Hathaway Inc..
In addition, she has been a research fellow and an associate
at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, a nonresident James A. Kelly fellow in Korean Studies
at the Pacific Forum CSIS, and a visiting scholar
at the George Washington University's Institute for Security and
Conflict Studies under the Albert Gallatin Fellowship in
International Affairs.
And according to an article in the Journal of
Conflict and Security Law by David Fidler, a professor of law
at Indiana University, the current
international law is «not well positioned to support responses to terrorist cyberattacks,» and there are no «strong incentives» for states to develop
international law against this threat due to the relative dearth of these occurrences.
Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed
conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other
international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels
at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Earlier this year, as
conflict raged in northern Syria, two professors, one Lebanese and the other American, both from elite universities in the Washington, D.C. area, passed the long night
at Queen Alia
International Airport in Amman, Jordan, drinking tea.
At least 28 people died in fighting in recent days, according to
international press reports, in a continuing intercommunal
conflict that broke out in January 1999 and has flared up repeatedly since then.
Then he lists the signs in verses 4 - 14 which «give the character of the age — wars,
international conflicts, famines, pestilences, false Christs all that has characterized the age gathers into awful intensity
at the end...» Commenting on Revelation 20, Scofield enumerates seven signs, some of them specific, that precede the return of Christ in glory and the beginning of the day of the Lord:
Love, in terms that are relevant to
international politics, means caring for the welfare and the dignity of all — those
at a great distance, those on the other side of every boundary, those whose interests may
conflict with our national interests, those who are enemies or opponents.
«
At such times, the
international community has a responsibility to avoid fuelling the
conflict.
When we look
at it in this way, the problems of our world — internal and
international conflicts, delinquency, terrorism, widespread violence — do not appear any more as strange and mysterious phenomena, due to the irrationality and wickedness of a few, but as the «logical» and foreseeable expression of an «unviable» family, organized in a perverse and self - destructive way;
We work on policies
at national and
international level to stop aggressive marketing and
conflicts of interest.
Yolanda Foster, Amnesty
International's Sri Lanka expert, said: «Blurring the distinction between civilians and combatants means that thousands of ordinary people, desperate to flee the
conflict area, are
at greater risk of reprisals and getting caught in the crossfire.»
But the Syrian government is deeply suspicious of
international agencies and is determined to limit the presence of international NGOs like Medecins sans Frontieres, Oxfam, Care, Save the Children and the International Organisation of the Red Cross, who one would normally see operating en masse at this point in a non-international ar
international agencies and is determined to limit the presence of
international NGOs like Medecins sans Frontieres, Oxfam, Care, Save the Children and the International Organisation of the Red Cross, who one would normally see operating en masse at this point in a non-international ar
international NGOs like Medecins sans Frontieres, Oxfam, Care, Save the Children and the
International Organisation of the Red Cross, who one would normally see operating en masse at this point in a non-international ar
International Organisation of the Red Cross, who one would normally see operating en masse
at this point in a non-
international ar
international armed
conflict.
Dr Nicola Horsburgh is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed
Conflict and Department of Politics and
International Relations, Oxford.
At the University of Oxford Alumni Weekend, 17 September 2011, Dr Hugo Slim and Professor Jennifer Welsh, from the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed
Conflict (ELAC), discussed the concept of the «Responsibility to Protect» or R2P in contemporary
international relations, and its role in key cases such as Libya and post-election violence in Kenya.
Rather than look
at conflict resolution, the parties concerned and the
international community as a whole should concentrate on crisis prevention.
The process seemed to be abnormally long (up to 3 days and 3 nights) in the areas where opposition enjoys strong support, and was marked with constant
conflicts, strange power cuts in the polls and
international observers or observers from opposition parties not being let into the polls
at all: all symptomatic of possible attempts to alternate the results and change the voting papers.
Reem Abou - El - Fadl is Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in
International Relations and
Conflict Resolution in the Middle East
at St Edmund Hall and the Department of Politics and
International Relations.
Speaking during the programme, the Executive Secretary of NHRC Mr. Tony Ojukwu said, the training programme was aimed
at broadening and equipping the security personnel who were directly involved in the ongoing counter insurgency and counter terrorism operations in the North East with the fundamental principles of Human Rights as well as Rules of Engagement in line with the acceptable local and
international laws and principles of arms
conflicts.
The disgruntled NDC parliamentarians are making the case that the finance minister engaged in a
conflict of interest in the way he handled the floating of bonds on the
international market
at a tune of 2.5 billion dollars.
An
international conference will take place
at Queens's University in Belfast (19 - 21 May 2011) exploring how cities have been shaped by ethnic, religious and national
conflicts.
Reem Abou - El - Fadl is Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in
International Relations and
Conflict Resolution in the Middle East
at St Edmund Hall and the Department of Politics and
International Relations, Oxford University.
Itegboje said Nigeria had consistently been in the vanguard of supporting and participating in
international efforts
at conflict - prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and sustaining peace both sub-regionally, regionally and globally.
Right wing figures have complained of left - wing bias
at the corporation for years, and most
international conflicts see the BBC attacked by both sides.
Colin Kelley, a climate scientist
at Columbia's
International Research Institute for Climate and Society who linked climate change to Syria's ongoing
conflict, also praised the research.
For geologists like James Hammond, a research fellow
at Imperial College London and a co-panelist with Pastrana in the session on science and political strain, some of the most interesting volcanoes lie in countries that are in
conflict with their neighbors or the
international community.
An
international study by scientists
at the University of Exeter and the Universities of Okayama and Tsukuba in Japan investigated the complicated sexual
conflict over mating in Gnatocerus cornutus, the horned flour - beetle.
Given the risks involved,
international students and postdocs experiencing workplace
conflicts may want to start with services that ensure confidentiality, such as the ombudsman office, says Margaret Hellwarth, an
international scholar adviser
at the University of California, Davis.
She also learned of a survey conducted
at her institution that found that 40 % of the school's
international postdocs had experienced workplace
conflicts — twice the rate of their domestic peers.
«There is some potential for
conflict over the need for cooperation from local authorities (in Indonesia) in gathering evidence against violators,» said Andrew Wood, senior analyst
at Business Monitor
International.
Corine Wegener, cultural heritage preservation officer for the Smithsonian Institution, said that organizing an
international research community to study the primary causes of damage to cultural heritage in times of
conflict will be critical to intervention efforts in Syria — a goal to be discussed
at the September 19 meeting.
Shin Chang - Hoon, director of the
International Law and
Conflict Resolution Center and the Asan Nuclear Policy and Technology Center
at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, said the keys to preventing CBRN disasters relate to both social and scientific responsibility.
Winner of Best Picture Awards
at numerous
international film festivals including Sydney, Berlin and Fajr in its native Iran, as well as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the film is an intimate drama about
conflict within and between two families of vastly different social and economic standings.
At a time when 90 percent of our daily news has something to do with
international conflict, it does the heart good to happen upon a movie about brotherhood and the importance of peaceful coexistence.
RIAC activities are aimed
at strengthening peace, friendship and solidarity between the peoples, preventing
international conflicts and promoting crises settlement
Masters of Arts Student of Peace, Development, Security and
International Conflict Transformation
at Innsbruck University March 2014.
She has been a visiting scholar
at the National Center for Peace and
Conflict Studies (New Zealand), the Kurt Lewin Institute (Netherlands), the Marburg Center for
Conflict Studies (Germany), the Center for the Study of
Conflict and Social Cohesion (Chile), and the
International Graduate College on
Conflict and Cooperation (Germany, UK, Belgium), where she has delivered lectures and taught workshops on prejudice reduction and intervention.
In 2010 he received the Jeffrey Rubin Theory To Practice Award, awarded by the
International Association for
Conflict Management and the Program on Negotiation
at the Harvard Law School.
- Joseph Kanon «The Cairo Affair is the espionage novel
at its best, packed with betrayals, double - crosses, hidden agendas, moral
conflicts,
international relations, and even a delectable double - entendre of a title.»
It is identified that diversified employees are more concern or focuses on the work that reduce the
conflicts in the organization and lead the organization
at path of success in the national as well as
international market place.
Brandon graduated from the Middlebury Institute of
International Studies
at Monterey with an M.A. in
International Policy Studies, specializing in
Conflict Resolution and currently lives in Washington D.C.
The
conflict work was performed
at the Dept. of Bacteriological R & D for Intervet
International BV in the Netherlands.54
He is currently a Senior Fellow
at the Center for
International Development and
Conflict Management, University of Maryland, where he develops training programs and consults with corporations and government agencies on ethical standards.
Brandon graduated from the Middlebury Institute of
International Studies
at Monterey with an M.A. in
International Policy Studies, specializing in
Conflict Resolution and currently lives in Washington D.C.
Ten exhibitions on through October you don't want to miss: Sturtevant
at MOMA, New York; Martin Boyce
at Johnen Galerie, Berlin; Christian Friedrich
at De Hallen, Haarlem; Sean Landers
at Petzel, New York; Janus Høm
at 1857, Oslo; Andrea Büttner
at Museum Ludwig, Cologne;
Conflict and Collisions: New Contemporary Sculpture
at Hepworth, Wakefield; Diego Thielemans
at Wiels, Brussels; Marinella Senatore
at MOT
International, London; Shanghai Biennale.
In March 2013, he co-organized an
international symposium on artistic image - making in the context of
conflict at the Cinémathèque de Tangier, Morocco.
Through revisiting the contested histories of how Egyptian collections have been amassed by numerous museums from the 19th century onwards, it brings together antiquities, modernist works, archives, and 26
international contemporary artists and artist collectives to explore the mechanisms by which artworks come to acquire a range of meanings and functions that can embody a number of diverse, and
at times
conflicting narratives.