Sentences with phrase «major public crisis»

Sometimes, a teen's desire to turn every minor issue into a major public crisis may stem from a desire to get attention.

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United CEO Oscar Munoz discusses the major public relations crisis the airline suffered earlier in the year when a passenger was foricbly removed from an overbooked flight.

You might be surprised to know that the business world was strongly in favor of profit sharing at many points in American history, typically when the concentration of wealth was a major public worry or the country was trying to come together after a crisis.

After both previous major crises — when private and public debt levels were relatively high — slower debt growth, selective debt re-structuring and a long period of reflation have been the solution.

At Save the Children, she built a media program in a newly created public affairs department, and led the U.S. agency's media response to major humanitarian crises, including post-9 / 11, the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Haiti Earthquake as well as the agency's first advocacy - awareness campaign, Every Mother, Every Child and its signature research report, The State of the World's Mothers.

As international solidarity between states as well as UN resources have significantly decreased since the financial crisis in 2008, the new precept in international affairs appears to be that no major development project can be carried out without the active participation of major corporations and their front foundations / agencies, often in the form of public - private partnership (PPP).

Phone hacking allegations against the News of the World have led to «a major crisis in public confidence in yet another pillar of the establishment» Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said.

In a major speech this afternoon President Donald Trump will direct his Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency.

«Too many families and lives are destroyed by these dangerous drugs and this lawsuit is a major step forward in our effort to combat this crisis from both a public health and legal perspective,» Mahoney said in a statement.

Erie County would have been faced with a major public safety threat and I am thrilled that this crisis has been averted.

Amidst a major financial crisis, some in the Town of Evans are suggesting the municipality may save nearly half a million dollars by cutting its police department and having the Erie County Sheriff's Office assume control of public protection.

«Overdose is a major public health crisis, and recently there has been a rapid uptake in programs that train police in how to recognize and reverse these potentially deadly events,» noted Beletsky, an associate professor who holds joint appointments in the School of Law and Bouvé College of Health Sciences.

The president's 2002 proposal establishing the Department of Homeland Security addressed the lead - agency issue in the event of future crisis as follows: «After a major incident, the EPA will be responsible for decontamination of affected buildings and neighborhoods and providing advice and assistance to public - health authorities in determining whether it is safe to return to the areas.»

«We have been working for three years to develop a better research model of brain development, and it's fortunate we can now use this one to shed light on the major public health crisis posed by Zika infections,» says Hongjun Song, Ph.D., professor of neurology and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Institute for Cell Engineering.

There are also other public health implications: Antibiotics in too low doses may not help a patient fight an infection, but they can be sufficient to induce resistance in bacteria, and counterfeit painkillers containing fentanyl, a powerful opioid, are a major contributor to the opioid crisis, according to the DEA.

Coal emissions are a major factor in this public health crisis, the study authors said.

Heart disease is a major public health crisis in America.

Back problems are almost epidemic in our society; in fact, chronic back pain lies at the root of the escalating opioid crisis, which has turned into a major public health issue in the U.S. Not surprisingly, the American College of Physicians now recommends that doctors recommend self - care techniques like yoga and Tai Chi for back pain sufferers before prescribing addictive drugs.

Senger's outside work is as an investment consultant, so her support for destroying public worker defined benefit pension plans and replacing them with the «Wall Street Casino» of investment «choice» was a major question — then and now — as the Civic Committee and the Civic Federation pushed the idea that the only solution to the «pension crisis» created by Illinois and Chicago politicians was to destroy the retirement of public workers, either now or in the future.

Recent research from Roosevelt University reveals that Chicago's policies toward charters are a major factor causing the fiscal crisis in Chicago's public schools.

This group represents a cohesive and important body of work that documents three decades in the life of the major public health crisis of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

At the same time, major legislation has often incubated on the margins of these public arenas for significant time until a political crisis removes the normal obstacles to such major «watershed» legislation.

While many of the defecting companies said their anti-Kyoto posture had not changed, this was a major blow to a 10 - year campaign by oil, coal and automotive interests to prevent public action to address the climate crisis.»

Melissa works extensively with general and staff counsel providing coordination and support in for complex and general litigation, government and public affairs, communications, M&A activity, outsourcing, corporate and major financing transactions, procurement, antitrust, general compliance and reporting, and crisis management.

For many observers who are knowledgeable about the problems in policing, public safety ministers have been carrying around a picket fence with them for so long that the best they can offer when confronted with a major crisis is to sit on it.

Members have over recent years advised and represented a wide range of private clients and central and local government bodies on a number of high profile state aid cases including cases arising out of the banking crisis, challenges to public funding of broadcasters, and public support for major infrastructure projects.