Sentences with phrase «major economic initiatives»

The strong bipartisan vote today in the House of Representatives sends a very clear signal to the Senate that patent reform is a bipartisan priority, and one of the few major economic initiatives that Congress can pass this session.

That vote, as well as the Administration's actions, have demonstrated that comprehensive patent reform is a legislative priority for 2014 — and, in fact, appears to be the one major economic initiative upon which Congress is in bipartisan agreement.

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Last fall, confronted with the prospect of global economic stagnation, the G20 recommended a major global infrastructure initiative to raise global output by 2 per cent over the next five years.

First, there would have to be additional major credible cuts to government programs; second, there would have to be some «creative budget accounting», including «one - time» savings initiatives in 2015 - 16; and third, there would have to be a significant recovery in global economic growth in 2014 and 2015.

The Nation Builders Corps program will be a major government initiative to address livelihood empowerment and graduate unemployment to solve economic and social problems.

The Executive Budget reprograms more than $ 340 million in existing economic development capital resources for major regional initiatives.

The state has quietly launched a major initiative to develop a series of economic development hubs in Buffalo aimed at attracting medical, energy and technology companies that would generate thousands of good - paying jobs.

While we are not opposing some major proposals, such as the elimination of some $ 375 million in prior year commitments for economic development initiatives, we do have major concerns with some aspects of the Executive Budget.

She said: «All of the honorees have taken action to make our community a better place... Marissa Brett, who is president of the Westchester County Association, does this through the BLUEPRINT for Westchester, the WCA's major economic development initiative to revitalize the Westchester economy.»

The government has announced a special initiative called the «Akufo - Addo Program for Economic Transformation (AAPET)», as a major intervention for job creation, infrastructure development and accelerated investment in Agriculture.

Cleaner, Greener Communities is a major statewide initiative encouraging communities to incorporate sustainability goals and principles into local decision - making and then form partnerships to transform these goals into economic development projects.

But for the Government to succeed in raising prosperity across the North, it should return to the original focus of the initiative — boosting the economic performance of major Northern city - regions such as Greater Manchester and the Leeds city - region.

These companies were involved in the state's major economic development projects, including the «Buffalo Billion» initiative of the Cuomo Administration.

The Buffalo Billion was a major economic development initiative announced during Cuomo's first term.

Among them are Buffalo developer Louis Ciminelli, a top contributor to the governor's political campaigns, and Alain Kaloyeros, the flamboyant head of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute — both major players in the Buffalo Billion, one of the governor's central economic development initiatives.

The Project is being funded by Empire State Development and NYPA as a major component of Governor Andrew Cuomo's «Buffalo Billion» economic development initiative.

OTTAWA — Flush with revenues from an unprecedented economic boom, the Canadian government last week unveiled a series of budget initiatives that would reinvigorate academe while making major thrusts in high - energy physics, genomics, and environmental technologies.

Hosted by the California Workforce Association, this dynamic conference offers a framework for workforce, economic development, education and business and industry to collaboratively support regional economies and identify workforce development initiatives and strategies that address critical issues facing California's major regional industry sectors.

One review of the literature found that only about one - fourth of businesses that undertook turnaround initiatives were able to institute major changes in their structure and management, and even those businesses did not show increased economic performance (Hess & Gift, 2008).

A particular highlight this year will be the ongoing examination into the social, political and economic landscape that shaped ROSC and its subsequent impact on contemporary art developments in Ireland, which will culminate in a major symposium in November 2017, our ongoing provision of programmes for people living with dementia through the AZURE initiative and the launch of a new digital digest that will develop new content about our programmes, giving people new ways to find out more about the work, and to personally connect with art and artists at IMMA.

The World Resources Institute has announced an initiative that it says will focus on business and finance models for sustainable, low - carbon economic growth in major markets like the U.S., China, Mexico, India and Brazil.

... is a major new international initiative to analyse and communicate the economic benefits and costs of acting on climate change.

Managing partners and members of executive committees in the more financially and professionally successful law firms that are organized into substantive departments and / or practice groups for the delivery of legal services strongly support the concept of having practice leaders assume a major role in their firm's efforts to: (1) increase the productivity levels of all timekeepers within their practices, (2) increase the economic contribution of their practices to the firm and (3) assume primary responsibility for communications to and from members of their practices about firm economics, priorities and business issues, as well as practice growth and client development initiatives.

In many of the more financially successful firms, the practice leaders have assumed a major role in the initiative to increase their firm's economic performance.