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China has been issuing increasingly strident calls for Taiwan to toe the line, even as Tsai has pledged to maintain the status quo and keep the peace.

The unilateral statement issued by the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, initially caught some defense, military, and intelligence officials off guard, NBC News and BuzzFeed reported late Monday, and struck many as President Donald Trump's attempt to draw a red line for US military intervention in Syria — something he had criticized President Barack Obama for doing in the past.

The other issue that faces all companies is, as you get to a large enough size, there are people whose job it is to protect business lines — they're just doing their job — but this is the classic case of «The Innovator's Dilemma,» the famous business book, which says that when companies ultimately fail, whether it's Polaroid or whoever, it's not because they were big and dumb; it's because they were actually really smart.

Mr. Schultz will continue to lead the Starbucks» efforts on social issues as well as the development of its effort to develop a superpremium line of coffee and coffee stores.

The increase in LOE per Boe between periods is primarily due to high line pressures, gathering line freezing issues and unexpected gathering system facility downtime as well as increased costs associated with air regulations.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

As one pilot explained to me, not backing them up «would cause massive issues for the lines of communication among the crew and diminishes the already fragile authority flight attendants have over passengers.»

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House threatened on Tuesday to veto emergency House legislation that aims to avert a threatened national default, a pre-emptive strike issued as Republican Speaker John Boehner labored to line up enough votes in his own party to pass the measure.

Bottom line: My recommendation for Canadian issues is to concentrate in the banks and other financials, utilities and telecoms at the expense of other sectors such as consumer staples and consumer discretionary stocks.

«Jack Johnson's reputation was ruined by a racially motivated conviction more than a century ago after he was charged with transporting a white woman across state lines,» McCain said in 2017 as he unsuccessfully urged President Barack Obama to issue a pardon on his way out of office.

There are many issues at stake, particularly the role of women in the military, and, as Fox News put it, the «blurring of gender lines.»

And if you have a morale problem, you likely also have a productivity problem, among a multitude of other issues such as poor concentration, lackluster performance, and increased turnover, all of which can have a negative impact on your bottom line.

And, if you look at what happened yesterday as a whole, I think what you see is that cannabis reform was the one issue that was able to cut across party lines and unite voters in a bipartisan consensus.»

«Given the significant consequences of acting as an unregistered broker - dealer and the increased attention being given to this issue by the SEC staff, private - fund advisers should consider reviewing their practices to determine whether any activities that may be approaching or crossing the line would require broker - dealer registration,» David Blass, the chief counsel of the SEC's division of trading and markets, suggested in a speech last April.

Delta Air Lines Inc. earlier this week reported results that beat analysts» estimates and issued a first - quarter forecast suggesting airfares will stay intact even as jet fuel prices decline.

«All the data privacy issues, the congressional hearings, none of that will get as much scrutiny from investors as the bottom line,» said Brian Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Research.

We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

It also offers insider details from shareholder advocates and issue experts, as well as resources for how institutional investors with a social mission can better align their values with their votes, with a sharp eye on the financial bottom line.

As to the market, after the stellar early start, a more mixed pattern developed, as losing stocks pulled narrowly ahead of winning issues on both the Big Board and the NASDAQ by the early afternoon, while the small - cap fueled Russell 2000 dipped below the neutral linAs to the market, after the stellar early start, a more mixed pattern developed, as losing stocks pulled narrowly ahead of winning issues on both the Big Board and the NASDAQ by the early afternoon, while the small - cap fueled Russell 2000 dipped below the neutral linas losing stocks pulled narrowly ahead of winning issues on both the Big Board and the NASDAQ by the early afternoon, while the small - cap fueled Russell 2000 dipped below the neutral line.

The inclusion of these ideas in the CIC report underscores a key point about the importance of Asia for Canada — that Asia's rise matters for all of Canada, and that an Asia strategy should be central to Canadian public policy as a whole, rather than a niche activity for a few line departments that deal with «international» issues.

The company already walks a very fine line on the regulatory front, pursuing such a large transaction strikes me as overly brash, regardless of any antitrust issues.

Join Saxo bank fixed income specialist Althea Spinozzi in her latest webinar as she covers the 3 % line in the sand, the increasing prominence of Chinese government debt in the fixed income space, and more issues facing bond traders and investors.

Initially the thought was that Home Equity Lines of Credit would no longer be deductible but the IRS recently issued guidance that as long as the line is used to buy, build or improve your home it remains deductible.

For rights issues were a temporary line is paid as a result of the subscription, the temporary line will be moved into the ordinary line via a Pari Passu event.

For some traders this is not an issue, as it is the «negative» crossover on its own (the MACD breaks below the Signal line) that gives them the sell signal.

Merkel, who enjoyed record high popularity ratings early last year, has grown increasingly isolated in recent months as members of her conservative bloc have pressed her to take a tougher line on asylum seekers and European allies have dragged their feet on the issue.

At issue is payment to meat - processing workers based on what is known as gang time, which counts only the time the production line runs.

Ryan Anderson has now tackled another fevered social issue from what today's cultural tastemakers and enforcers regard as the wrong side of a red line.

So far as I know there is no issue in our society today on which the old - line churches are giving effective leadership of the sort I have been outlining above.

«As a Muslim American, I think this is an issue we all need to work together on,» Jihad Saleh Williams said as he waited in linAs a Muslim American, I think this is an issue we all need to work together on,» Jihad Saleh Williams said as he waited in linas he waited in line.

For example, as a straight ally for my LGBT friends, I'm careful to check with them when I write about LGBT issues, to see they feel I've crossed a line or said something off base.

Rather than allow this experience to float free of the moorings of actual science, as Jurgen Moltmann appears to do, we would prefer to ground it in the dynamic of scientific observation, along the lines indicated in this issue's Notes from Across the Atlantic.

The line of thought at issue here runs as follows:

A leaked draft copy of the report shows abortion as being a power that should be devolved to Edinburgh but sources suggest Labour said the issue was a «red line».

There is also a fifth, more detached, philosophical way of looking at these issues without appealing to «direct historical influence» as if it were some sort of causal connection as Lowe claims it is.7 Of course the fourth line and fifth lines are outside ordinary present - day historiographical research, excepting undergraduates in general education courses (who seem inevitably to find, in spite of the odds in a fair - sized library, Russell's History of Western Philosophy first, and then cite it liberally).

At the same time, claiming to know what God is like and how he would react to topical issues like gay marriage is ludicrous as well... by definition, if he is God, he doesn't think along the lines of a human brain, so we will never be able to understand him.

After leaving the prosecutor's office in 2001, I was burdened to apply what I had learned on the front lines as a child sexual abuse prosecutor in helping to train and equip the faith community to address the many issues associated with abuse.

I recall an instance at a big conference here some years ago where a Christian musician I respected (although we have some pretty different views on some issues) refused to be cornered by a line of questions (framed more like an interrogation) which would have made him espouse the party line on spirituality as defined by those running the event.

This line of thought suggests that the products of minds are best conceived as issuing from constructive acts performed by «embodied psyches,» in which psyche and soma resolve their tensions and oppositions with the help of «radical imagination.»

For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.

In particular, as the issues with which these present deliberations began clearly indicate, process philosophy is also involved with a whole list of fundamentally analytical issues along the lines of the following:

In Jewish law as given in the Old Testament / Tanakh, if a man's brother died without issue to carry on his line, the man was to take the widow as a second wife, and the child (ren) would be considered those of his late brother and would inherit.

As human beings, we are never going to agree on everything, never see eye to eye on every issue, never agree on where to draw the line.

Now, I take issue with the fact that you have not swallowed the party line, as well as the hook and sinker.

At this point, concerning controverted moral issues, political manoeuvring became a major, if not the major concern of the Church, and magisterial proclamation has tended to be seen as nothing more than a slightly frustrating bottom line of what can be got away with.

Almost never do they concentrate on the sacramental issues that help constitute them as Baptist or non-Baptist, or on historic Calvinist - Arminian lines that once separated them.

It is an interesting one, Sarah's position is in line with David Gillespi and focuses on how the body turns fructose straight into fat (as well as the issues it has w refined sugars) and is based on how our bodies used it back in caveman times — interesting ideas.

It is possible that foods made with coconut are processed on the same lines or in the same facilities as those with tree nuts, so that can be the issues as well.