Sentences with phrase «largest economic grouping»
The uncertainty about what lies ahead for the European Union - the world's largest economic grouping - as well as the subset of nations that use the euro common currency, hit energy stocks hard.
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I found myself recently in need of a contact at a local, large municipal economic - development group, but didn't know a soul there.
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the drone industry's largest trade group, estimates that the opening of U.S. skies — all U.S. skies — to commercial UAS would create $ 82 billion in economic impact in the first decade alone.
And the CEO of Gen Con, a 50,000 - person gamers» gathering that's reportedly Indianapolis's largest convention in attendance and economic impact, said the law could prompt the group to move the event after 2020, when its contract with the city expires.
He also shed his interests in funds run by the private equity giant Blackstone Group — whose chief executive, Stephen A. Schwarzman, is an economic adviser to Mr. Trump — as well as BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager.
And, Memphis ranks as one of the most distressed large cities, a few spots behind Toledo, according to the Economic Innovation Group.
In fact, the Economic Innovation Group ranks it as one of the most distressed large cities based on its economic well Economic Innovation Group ranks it as one of the most distressed large cities based on its economic well economic well - being.
The Economic Innovation Group ranks the city as one of the top 10 most distressed large cities in the U.S..
Hispanics also had larger percentage declines in household wealth than white, black or Asian households from 2005 to 2009.5 Poverty and unemployment also grew more sharply for Latinos than for non-Latinos after the Great Recession began, and most Hispanics say that the economic downturn was harder on them than on other groups.6
Fourth, while the economic consequences of overall rates of population growth are often ambiguous or obscure, the impact of smaller groups within larger populations on the economic well - being of the whole society, or the impact of differential rates of growth within a national population on prospects for material advance, may be direct and important.
While the character of certain movements and groups is to a large extent defined by sociological criteria, such as the earlier so - called Frontier religion or now the Buchmean (Oxford group) Movement, which Allan Eister has recently analyzed in his book Drawing Room Conversion, we find that the more definitely a religious group is a religious group — as distinct from an economic, political, or cultural association — the more important, both for members of the group and students of it, will become its worship and its theology.
The familial group is smaller, not only because family planning has become a matter of ordinary practice but also because economic and social conditions have made large households almost impossible to maintain.
The systemic perspective can provide the general principles for developing the sorely needed sociotherapies for the larger groups, institutions, and socio - economic - political systems, which collectively determine the healing - growthing climate of our communities and of our world society.
In the latter state, after the large Western International Conference on Economic Dislocation last fall, a statewide coalition of eight local groups was formed.
Processes of economic growth that immiserate ever larger groups of people are usually not perceived as a gross violation of human rights by most Western governments, donor institutions, or as a matter of fact, by many human rights organizations.
Although the larger size groups in the organic dairy sector had higher economic returns, a trend toward concentration of production was not as evident.
Only the largest size groups of conventional producers had positive returns above total economic costs.
So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:
Director - General of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Mr. Frank Nweke Jr. told THISDAY that the theme of this year's summit, «Attracting Foreign Direct Investment through Global Partnerships», «is the heart of President Jonathan's transformation agenda and vision to grow Nigeria into one of the 20 largest economies in the world by 2020.»
BOLTON LANDING — In a pitch for the endorsement of the state's largest business group, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino chided the state's top executives for failing to speak up as its economic climate has declined and promised that he would authorize natural gas hydrofracking and immediately repeal hundreds of state regulations if elected.
Non-profits such as the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations have emerged as a focus in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's allegations that these groups served as vehicles for bid rigging and kickback schemes relating to large construction projects that are part of Cuomo's efforts to use the State University system as a platform for upstate economic development.
Abstract: More than twenty years of statelessness and related insecurity, including the proliferation of armed groups, the fragmentation of politics along clan - based lines, economic disruption and large scale population displacement, have had dire consequences on the rights and protection of women and young girls in Somalia; resulting in an increase in gendered patterns of violence as disillusioned and armed young men have been turning against women and girls with impunity.Implicated are Africa Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers, government soldiers and some men within Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Mogadishu, with allegations that tantamount to protector turning to perpetrator and exploiter.
Achievement gaps between students of different genders and racial, economic, and linguistic groups are large and persistent for the nation's top - performing students, even as they seem to be narrowing for K - 12 students as a whole, according to a new report.
The schools were randomly selected and did not represent any particular socio - economic groupings within the large metropolitan school district in which they resided.
Many Bay Area schools show a large gap in performance not only between low - income students and more affluent peers, but between different racial / ethnic groups within the same economic status.
For instance, according to a November 2017 survey done by Los Angeles - based Capital Group Companies, one of the largest investment management firms in the world, even though women believe they have more economic power as investors than they do in the workplace, eight out of 10 women have personally experienced negative stereotypes about their investing know - how and financial contributions to the household.
Companies with a large share of global sales have outperformed other groups of stocks this year based on the uncertain prospects for the US economy, U.S. dollar weakness, and high hopes for a global economic recovery, spurred by developing economies.
I was doing general economic research, but the group next door was a U.S. mortgage group that unfortunately had a very large exposure to non-agency mortgages.
Animals are, in many cases, essential to the emotional and economic wellness of small or large groups of people.
A major group exhibition of ninety nine artists based in the United States, 99 Cents or Less addresses Detroit's ongoing economic crisis and its 2013 bankruptcy — the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in the history of the United States.
Economic frustration, political grievance and authoritarian regimes in the Middle East are not the subject of this stand - out work, which is included in «All of this and nothing,» a large UCLA Hammer Museum group show currently on view.
The study was conducted by the Perryman Group and describes in detail the positive large - scale economic effects generated by drilling in the Barnett Shale.
You know a lot of focus on economic incentives for the greenies gets thrown around, but there is a consistent lack of skepticism for all the (much larger) groups benefiting from the status quo.
Environmental, economic, and social factors have always been among the main considerations of the Santa Margherita Wine Group: we have established land management policies, implemented from Alto Adige down to Sicily; we've made major investments in energy - saving and renewable photovoltaic systems that have revolutionized our largest winery; and we have recently completed a biomass plant.
Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, Hendricks said the «jobs versus the environment» battle pervaded his policy work — first as a special assistant to then - Vice President Al Gore, and later as an economic analyst at the Working for America Institute, an economic group tied to the AFL - CIO, the nation's largest labor union.
Using the form of a revival meeting, on sidewalks and in chain stores, Reverend Billy and his gospel choir exhort consumers to abandon the products of large corporations and mass media; the group also preaches a broader message of economic justice, environmental protection, and anti-militarism, protesting sweatshops and the Iraq War.
Citing concerns about rising global grain prices, as well as potential land - grabs by large energy firms, a groups of Indian ministers has quietly shelved the National Mission on Biodiesel, The Economic Times reports.
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When a large group of individuals has been wronged or harmed, but no one person has enough economic incentive to bring suit on his or her own, class action litigation is useful.
He also shed his interests in funds run by the private equity giant Blackstone Group — whose chief executive, Stephen A. Schwarzman, is an economic adviser to Mr. Trump — as well as BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager.
The «eat BCH» group also explains how thankful they are for the BCH community at large for promoting economic freedom and helping Venezuelan citizens.
As a small group, we work together reviewing economic trends, investment strategy, sector weightings, and equity selection with particular focus on having the S&P 500 and Lipper Large Cap as benchmarks.
This limits their ability to proactively engage with governments and third parties about development on their land and to strategise ways of using their native title rights for the economic benefit of the native title group or larger community, where desired.
One respondent questioned the feasibility of an economic development strategy for a small traditional owner group that owns large areas of land.
Intervention Included with intervention is a range of historical, programmatic, and policy considerations that allow group care practitioners to see themselves within the larger framework of human services helping professions: study of the organizational structure of human services delivery; the underlying political, social, and economic concerns; the history of services; the principal programs and methodologies; the key figures in the field; and the observable evolution and trends.
Two options were explored for reaching parents with the program: Chapter I pilot schools (schools which qualify for federal funds based on economic and achievement criteria, e.g. those which serve a high number of free or reduced - price lunches and also have a large number of children under - achieving on group tests), and adult education programs.
Two studies have analysed cost effectiveness of CBT for severe health anxiety delivered in a conventional face - to - face format compared with treatment as usual using data from randomised controlled trials.8, 9 In the first study, it was found that CBT but not the control condition reduced consumption of primary and secondary healthcare contacts, but total costs were unchanged in both conditions.8 In the second study, a large - scale randomised trial, the health economic analyses showed that there were no significant differences between the two treatment conditions.9 In both of the above studies, CBT was superior in reducing health anxiety symptoms compared with treatment as usual, which means that as costs were similar across groups, CBT is likely to be the more cost - effective treatment option.