Sentences with phrase «make policy in this state»

Real estate executives have long said that they contribute heavily to state and city legislators» election campaigns in the hopes of gaining access to those who make policy in a state where tenants hold considerable voting power.

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Tourism Minister Enrique de la Madrid, confronting rising lawlessness in and around the resort cities of Cancun and Los Cabos, said it made no sense for Mexico to maintain prohibition given permissive US policies in states such as California.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

The United States will enjoy a «Made in America» boom this year thanks to Trump administration policies, according to Jefferies.

The change, which applies to all retailers that accept AmEx, comes in addition to similar policy changes the company has already made, such as the elimination of signature requirements for purchases under $ 50 in the United States, $ 100 in Canada and 30 euros in the United Kingdom.

States can set up insurance exchanges, and if done well, he says, these exchanges will keep the number of policy choices to a manageable level and they will force insurers to present information about their policies in ways that make comparisons easy.

The housing bubble in the United States, which triggered the financial crisis in 2008, had highlighted the danger of using the financial system to make up for the failures in social policies.

The FOMC's policy normalization principles and plans make the temporary nature of the ON RRP clear by stating that it will be discontinued when it is no longer needed to help control the federal funds rate.26 This intention was noted again in the minutes to the January FOMC meeting.

Developments outside the United States affect our domestic economic outlook through their impact on trade and financial market conditions, and we have to take such developments into consideration in our monetary policy decision - making.

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

The letter raised the possibility that a federal contractor in San Francisco would have to make its policies conform to three separate sick leave rules — one for the city, one for the state of California and one for the federal government.

The funds were from Y Combinator's new Continuity Fund, which supposedly would be making pro rata investments at < $ 250 million valuations in all of Y Combinator's startups gaining additional funding, but the question as to whether or not Y Combinator has reversed its previously stated policy for the fund is less interesting than the fact the firm is also moving up market.

In no particular order these included: a dysfunctional bankruptcy framework; an immature domestic capital market; withholding taxes on foreign capital; corruption (particularly at the state level — the Modi government has made progress at the federal level); policy and renegotiation risks (a number of legacy and high profile tax eases are yet to be resolved); land acquisition costs (and legal risks); and, the need for tax reforms.

The Environment for Policy - Making in Canada and the United States, Canada-U.S. Prospects 9, by Mildred A. Schwartz.

Effective January 1, 2013, Insurance Law § 2612 also requires a health insurer, as defined in that section, to accommodate a reasonable request made by a person covered by an insurance policy or contract to receive communications of claim - related information by alternative means or at alternative locations if the person clearly states that disclosure of the information could endanger the person.

«Canada's fiscal circumstances relative to its stated budgetary policies» will now be the determining factor in making an arbitral award.

Against that background, one might justifiably ask whether it makes sense to have one economy (the United States) in a tightening monetary policy cycle, while the other (eurozone) presses on with its more accommodative easing program.

Gerspach added that any changes in trade policy would likely be about creating a level playing field and making the United States more competitive.

It's supposedly a move to protect the US steel industry from foreign competition, but in practice, it makes no sense as policy — instead setting up the United States for a disadvantaged economy and a trade war.

The United States» chief trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, who testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday, indicated that the administration was specifically concerned about Chinese policies that compel American companies to share technology when they make investments in China.

More substantively, while on national security measures the United States and Israel have a complicated relationship that would make cross-pollination hard to imagine — don't expect to see a former Mossad chief to be in the running to head the CIA — economic policy really is different.

(The Fed in the United States publishes a monetary target, but this appears to be more an on - going obligation under a law passed in 1978 than an integral part of current policy making.)

«Elected officials who are Latter - day Saints make their own decisions and may not necessarily be in agreement with one another or even with a publicly stated church position,» the policy explains.

Knowing that the majority (Christians here in the states) can pull some crazy crap and make policy that by law, they shouldn't be able to is in the back of my mind at least.

«In short, under his leadership US IRF policy can advance human rights and, at the same time, make substantial contributions to the national security of the United States at very low cost.»

California State University has told the campus ministry that «no exemption can be made» to a new non-discrimination policy that requires leadership positions be open to all students, InterVarsity announced in a monthly prayer letter.

In George Marshall's State Department Policy Planning Council, Niebuhr argued that humanity's sinfulness made necessary political strategies that balanced power against power.

As United States low - intensity - conflict strategy succeeds in making life miserable for all Nicaraguans the press can be expected to report on economic hardship as evidence of the failure of the revolution without describing such hardship as the intent and result of United States policy.

What difference does it make that advocates of just war work within the presumptions of a realist foreign policy — as in the case of United States foreign policy — which assumes that one must do evil that good may come?

But in the present policy of globalisation and liberalization the function of the state is only to make the climate safe for the market and withdraw almost completely from the realm of economic goals, leaving the market alone to determine them.

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

If we took more of an interest in the making of our foreign policy, usually for the profit of our corporate overlords rather than for the safety of the American people, maybe we would know why, when bringing the lamp of liberty to the darker places of the earth, the United States invariably chooses for its allies the despots who operate their countries on the model of a prison or a jail.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Mount Palomar Winery will make a reasonable best - effort to have the third - party utilize that information in accordance to Mount Palomar Winery's stated privacy policy, however, can not take final responsibility for the third - parties» actions.

Core focus is on consumer issues, although mention is made of prioritising «competition and consumer issues in highly concentrated sectors, in particular in the supermarket and fuel sectors» (nothing new here) and the policy states that some areas are always regarded as a priority, including «cartel conduct and anti-competitive agreements, and the misuse of market power».

Kristin: MomsRising is working on all of those family economic security policy priorities in cities, counties and states across the country, educating leaders about what's happening with moms, and educating the media, as well as reaching out to moms and letting them know that they're not alone in their struggle, and that together, they can make change.

Recess Before Lunch: The State Department of Education includes providing recess before lunch as a sample goal in its guidance document for wellness policy implmentation and monitoring, Making Wellness Work: A Guide to Implementing and Montoring Welness Policies in Maryland (2009).

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) shared just today what I think is their first policy statement specific to homebirth, and as one would anticipate, they concur «with the recent statement of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists affirming that hospitals and birthing centers are the safest settings for birth in the United States while respecting the right of women to make a medically informed decision about delivery» (2013, 1016, abstract).

Nestlé must state in writing that it will make the required changes to bring its baby food marketing policy and practice into line with the International Code and Resolutions (i.e. end its strategy of denial and deception).

Cadwell, Karin & Cindy Turner - Maffei RECLAIMING BREASTFEEDING FOR THE UNITED STATES Jones and Bartlett, 2002 This book provides an international policy perspective on the progress that has been made toward reclaiming breastfeeding as the cultural norm in the United SSTATES Jones and Bartlett, 2002 This book provides an international policy perspective on the progress that has been made toward reclaiming breastfeeding as the cultural norm in the United StatesStates.

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We're raising awareness about hunger, food distribution, and food policy in the United States by making small changes that everyone can be thankful for.

School districts are typically responsible for top - level decision - making when it comes to food: they oversee the food services group that determines breakfast and lunch menus; they set the district - wide wellness policy, which usually covers the food that may be sold or distributed during the school day; and they decide whether vending machines may or may not be placed in schools (although in some cases this is decided at the level of the state board of education).

Jenny Saunders OBE, Chief Executive of National Energy Action stated: «The CCC report highlights the UK Government must realign current policies and increase investment overall in programmes that can create warmth, comfort and make fuel bills affordable for vulnerable households.

«For years, Make the Road Action has mobilized communities from across the state to stand up to Governor Cuomo's destructive policies which put our values at odds with the needs of New York's communities of color,» Nixon said in a statement.

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

In his article, Eric Novotny addresses the relationship between social media and the state from both a scholarly and a policy - making perspective.

While Saudi's system of absolute monarchy means the King is legally the highest authority in the Kingdom, bin Salman has been granted unprecedented control of the state's domestic and foreign policies by his ailing, octogenarian father, ostensibly making him the real power behind the throne.

State lawmakers earlier this year agreed to a package of education policy changes that linked test scores to evaluations as well as in - classroom observation and made it more difficult for teachers to obtain tenure.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.