Sentences with phrase «little public benefit»

\ n \ nGiven the practices surrounding government research grants, public disclosure of the names in this case would carry a great potential for harm to the individuals and little public benefit.

The spending plan completely cuts funding for the oil research and development program on grounds that the private - sector oil industry should pay for the technology developments that provide little public benefit.

Not exact matches

The International Monetary Fund for years has documented that asking ever healthier taxpayers to wait a little longer for their pension benefits is among the handful of measures that will allow developed economies to save their public retirement systems for bankruptcy.

«I think there's very little benefit for people of wealth,» said Trump, who unlike many of his White House predecessors, has refused to make public his own tax returns.

These benefits are part of a very long list that includes cheap takeaway food, sprawling suburbs with affordable housing but little public transport or amenities, short meal breaks, long working hours, quick treats for ratty kids when you're tired from a long day's work, high profits in the food processing industries, foods that are transportable and keep for long periods without spoiling and so on.

ACCC commissioner, Roger Featherston, said that the ACCC considers that the coordination, which allows Jetstar branded airlines to operate as a single fully integrated organisation in relation to things like scheduling, sales, marketing and pricing, is likely to result in public benefits and is likely to result in «little, if any» detriment due to a lessening of competition.

The Evening of Food and Music at Little Goat Diner is Presented by VH1 Save The Music Foundation To Benefit Public School Music Programs

Ferguson was calling attention to city contracts that included a little known «public benefit clause,» which required companies that win contracts with City Hall to donate money to a charity.

Billed as the salvation of depressed Western New York, the Buffalo Billion sent taxpayer money into the hands of Cuomo donors, with little - to - no benefit to the public.

«One of the most important things the legislature can do in an effort to restore some faith in the system is to pass the proposed constitutional amendment that would ensure elected officials like Sheldon Silver, who abused their office for their own personal benefit, would not receive a public pension,» said Little in a statement.

Labour will reverse benefit cuts in other areas, but offers little defence against these three big hits - choosing to focus on other areas of public spending.

The plaintiffs argued that an individual's right to privacy was compromised at little or no benefit to the public, says John Roberts, who directs the Massachusetts chapter of the ACLU.

The creation of novel, transmissible, virulent influenza strains is exceptionally risky and has little public health benefit; such research should be stopped.

Biologist Elizabeth Hadly of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who presented at the session, said her experience supports the idea that public engagement provides little career benefit.

These contrasting numbers suggest that, as the panelists here largely agreed, engaging with the public is important but offers little career - related benefit.

While exercise has many potential benefits, this data suggests that the public health policy of encouraging more physical activity is having little observable impact on actual waistlines or health, and that current mainstream exercise trends and guidelines are not effective.

The paper cited the «decision to sweeten an already lucrative pension program in 1998 [as] a classic example of how public employee benefits are enhanced, often with privileged insiders pushing for the deal, and little study in advance.»

To determine the optimal level of a public policy program, voters and government officials must compare the marginal benefits and marginal costs of providing a little more of a little less of the program's services.

Little Kids Rock partners with public school districts in some of the nation's most economically disadvantaged communities with the goal of ensuring that all students (K - 12) have access to music education and its many benefits.

What they back is a public education system that is no longer fiscally sustainable in its current form — and spending plenty of money for little benefit to children or taxpayers alike.

Instead, iClassics is taking the public domain classics and only selecting titles that actually stand to benefit from being a little less dry, a little more entertaining.

Additionally, if your debt is actually less than your annual income, there is little benefit for you to pursue Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

Policymakers appear to know little about the Income - Based Repayment program and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness benefit for federal student loans.

In 2003, a task force formed to study the effectiveness of the Prince George's County pit bull ban concluded the ban to be extremely costly while providing little attendant financial or public safety benefit to the county and noted that, as a direct result of the ban, «Animal Management Division human resources [are] stretched thin... thus reducing their ability to respond to other violations of the [Animal Control] Code.»

Given the financial stakes, it is little wonder that alternative - energy companies, «green» investment firms, and biofuel producers are lobbying hard for more government largesse, and marketing their cause directly to the public by highlighting its supposed benefits for the environment, energy security, and even employment — none of which withstand scrutiny.

Solar Mosaic — Empowering the public to invest in and benefit from clean energy Mosaic is an online marketplace that enables people to invest in solar projects for as little as $ 25 and earn competitive returns.

«Until we get an unbiased accounting of BOTH costs AND benefits of using fossil fuels, there is little hope in getting rational public policy that won't do more harm than good.»

I have spent a lot of time describing this scheme because it is typical of how little many of the supporters of ABS understand the practice environment of small firm solicitors and how willing they are to make a mess of it to the detriment of the public (but, to the extent more estates end up in litigation, to the benefit of those who wish to see ever increasing rates of litigation).

The public — and injured people especially — will not benefit from an overly zealous law that shows little regard for how the practice of law and the administration of justice actually work.

While the government has spent considerable time hyping the benefits of the new program, there seems to be little practical information reaching the public (or immigration counsel!)

Response: We acknowledge that such entities may be engaged in disease - specific or other data collection activities that provide a benefit to their members and others affected by a particular malady and that they contribute to the public health and scientific database on low incidence or little known conditions.

(«The publicderives tremendous benefit from HDL, and authors stand to gain very little if the public is deprived of this resource.»)

It's rather distressing that the people who have worked hard to attract the Olympic Games to Vancouver and who have worked hard to make them happen — and seem to be on the verge of being successful — have so little confidence in the public benefit of the Games that they go to such extremes to suppress all possible criticism of them.

The aforementioned benefit of fewer casualties and reduced human suffering represents a double - edged sword: Some already argue that the American public is too sheltered from the costs and burdens of our current wars; imagine how little attention the public would direct towards a war in which the only casualties were expensive erector sets that shoot.

With more than 20,000 developers globally, the benefits of a public chain holding roughly $ 1bn of value, not to mention an emerging open - source ecosystem of development tools, it is little wonder that Accenture observed «every self - respecting innovation lab» is running and experimenting with it.

Child care should be a public good to benefit all, not a business whose goals may have little to do with serving children, families and community.

If a Realtor is prepared to mislead the public via this strategy, then one might conclude that a Realtor for whom the guilt of this deceptive behavior holds little weight might also tend to mislead that same said public for said Realtor's own short - term financial benefit at the expense of the public's benefit.