Sentences with phrase «last public outing»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

As Bloomberg pointed out last month, Spotify's recent deal to raise $ 1 billion in convertible debt valued the company at roughly $ 8 billion and put additional pressure on the streaming service to go public.

As a recent client note from BNP Paribas pointed out last week, Chairman Ben Bernanke laid out the bank's strategy on «threats to financial stability» quite neatly in his latest public address.

After a two - year - long push by the Coast Guard to phase out the last of the lighthouse keepers prompted public outcry, the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans scrapped the plan.

«They never invited us for dinner, then at the last minute they realized that optically it wasn't playing very well in public for them, so they put out a statement that we didn't have dinner because I was tired,» Tillerson said, according to a transcript of the interview.

Although the change may come as a surprise to the public and some Starbucks employees, the company has been sending to signals to Wall Street for the last year about its intentions to carry out a the succession plan, announcing a reorganization in the summer that gave Mr. Johnson oversight of the day - to - day operations.

What's more, a white paper out Tuesday from e-commerce company PayPal, which went public last week, sheds light on the enormous middle class who seem to still be buying, with a particular focus on U.S. - made goods sold online.

The survey, which polled 1,002 U.S. adults, also highlighted the fact that the DOJ and Apple legal battle has become a hot topic in the public sphere, with 75 % of respondents saying they have heard a lot about it since the news came out last week.

Tesla put out a public statement about the crash just last week.

The proposed regulations, put out for public comment Jan. 4, would ban high upfront fees and restrict the kinds of contracts debt settlement companies can offer, effectively outlawing the business model most popular with, among others, Cambridge Life Solutions, a company Matt McClearn and I wrote about in this magazine last fall.

When the Apple Maps app rolled out last fall, the criticism from consumers was loud enough to push CEO Tim Cook into issuing a public apology.

SABMiller immediately issued its own statement saying it still didn't like the terms of the new offer, which would give its public shareholders 42.15 pounds a share in cash, a premium of 44 % over where the shares were trading before news of AB InBev's intention to bid leaked out last month.

For the inaugural Founders 40 list, out in April, Inc. showcased some of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. that went public in the last three years.

Even the thought of taking a public speaking class unnerved him, and he backed out at the last second the first time he signed up.

This company reduced the out - of - pocket costs of EpiPen for some patients last week amid a wave of criticism from lawmakers and the public over the rapid escalation in the product's price in the past few years.

The British Columbia Unclaimed Property Act and the Quebec Public Curator Act set out specific responsibilities for the administration of unclaimed property if the last known address of the owner of the property was in British Columbia or Quebec.

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Eric Janszen, Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson 6 November, 2010 Janszen (E): What I'm noting, starting with the gold crisis over the last few weeks, and the public nature of some of the complaints that we're hearing out of Brazil and China and the front page of the Financial Times, we seem to be heading into a pretty serious currency crisis.

I wanted to learn about the last era of American history when public shaming was a common form of punishment, so I was seeking out court transcripts from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

In that case, over 83 million customers saw their data stolen, and that incident was just a sliver of the activity perpetrated by the criminals who carried it out, according to indictments made public last month.

It's bad for everybody,» he said of his negative public image in July 2016, according to a book about Uber that came out last month.

 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).

What you describe with private intimidation tactics to combat public assertions is the same as what happened the last time this came out publicly around 2010 or so.

Richard John Neuhaus, Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square came out last month and has already received significant notice.

At a time when secularists are doing all they can to drain the last drop of Christianity out of this country, I find it insulting that these same anti-religious zealots are becoming muslim apologists and arguing for the inclusion of muslim holidays in the NYC public school calendar.

During my public conversation with Professor Bacevich last month, I pointed out that, in the colonies and the early republic, Americans conceived of themselves as participants in a covenant with God.

We go because it's the last place on earth (except perhaps the therapist's office) where it's socially acceptable to cry in public, or to say out loud that we're sinners in need of mercy, or broken and in need of healing.

In a public letter, Focus president Jim Daly said, «Focus on the Family has been working diligently over the last three years to reach out to Millennials.

Later (in the same chapter) he lists the following criteria: we must recognize that we are doing evil, we should act only out of demonstrable necessity, and only in last resort, and we must justify our actions publicly and submit to public judgment as to their correctness.

After a fairly disastrous trip to Rome for Easter 2005 where I'd had food poisoning, been locked in a toilet and managed to flood my hotel bedroom, we ended up in St. Peter's Square for the Easter Sunday Mass, which turned out to be the Pope's last public appearance.

Even when it's hard to get out of bed, I like being there just before the bell rings, experiencing the vendors setting up, taking their last few sips of coffee before meeting the public.

As Woolies learnt last year with its disastrous ANZAC campaign, and as ALDI is discovering now after refusing to heed the call to phase out caged eggs (as Woolworths and Coles are doing), the consequences of alienating consumers are very real — and very public.»

At the end of last month, Jose Mourinho gave Manchester United forward Anthony Martial a public dressing down and it appears to be working out pretty well.

As the end nears, the NFL has turned into the NFL — the National Arithmetic League — and the American public is holding its breath as Commissioner Pete Einstein hunkers over his calculators, trying to figure out whether Tampa Bay's first victory in history last Sunday will qualify the Buccaneers for a wildcard spot when the playoffs begin on Christmas Eve.

However, the betting public seems to have a short memory, as 8 out of 10 spread bets are sticking with Atlanta to win by 7 or more against a 5 - 4 Titans team who has been plagued by inconsistency, yet looked good last week in a 30 - 3 upset victory on the road against the high - flying Panthers

This tells us that oddsmakers anticipate the public will overvalue a pitcher based on their last impressive outing and shade their lines accordingly.

Despite being blown out last week 47 - 21 by then # 2 LSU, the public continues to pound the # 22 Mountaineer bandwagon, even with the line giving an additional 2 points to the visiting Falcons.

With the 6 - 4 Golden Bears coming to town, the betting public is back on the Cardinal bandwagon, with nearly nine out of ten spread bets confident in Stanford bouncing back and winning by at least 19 in front of their home crowd in what could be Luck's second to last home game.

Despite FIU losing three of their last four games, the public remains heavy on the 4 - 3 Golden Panthers, with slightly more than 8 out of 10 bets confident that FIU can win by at least 7 points at home against a 2 - 4 Troy team with one of the worst statistical defenses in the nation.

In fact, I don't remember the last time a current manager ever said anything polite or non-confrontational about any another manager, usually, the knives are out in public and they tell owners to fire their managers.

And even though the 2 - 7 Golden Gophers played hard last week on the road against then # 17 Michigan State (lost 31 - 24), the betting public is pounding Wisconsin, with more than eight out of ten spread bets confident in Russel Wilson engineering a 28 point win or more on the road.

As noted by BT Sport last year, Shaw was singled out for public criticism by the Portuguese tactician last season, while as recently as January, he praised him and suggested that there weren't many better left - backs than him, as per the club's official site.

After being blown out at home by then # 3 Oklahoma last week 55 - 17, the public has lost a great amount of confidence in the Longhorns.

On the back of a strong campaign, PSG will be looking to invest in quality wingers and even though it is public knowledge that Angel di Maria remains the priority, having missed out on the Argentine player last season, Sterling's name has been thrown around after they came close to signing Memphis Depay.

The public love Liverpool and the money will pour in for them but Stoke have conceded more than once in just two of their last twelve games with those two occurrences happening in their last three outings.

His scoring ratio, albeit in the Swiss and Russian leagues averages out at way over a goal every other game and his double strike in the CL last week has brought him into the public eye once again.

These are our going out diapers because they last and they keep our baby feeling dry so she's happy and behaving while we are out in public.

But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.

«Last year, we moved our kids, now 7 and 9, out of a private parochial school into our public school district's gifted and talented program.

Transformers, the 1980s toys that later starred in their own animated TV series, re-entered the public consiousness last year when their full - length movie came out.