Sentences with phrase «most public calls»

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An initial public offering — or IPO as it's most commonly called — is the way for companies to go from private to public and sell stock shares in their firm.

It's a trend that once elicited one of the most annoyed public comments from Apple CEO Tim Cook ever: He called Chromebooks mere «test machines» in an interview from 2015.

According to the statement, Viacom (VIAB) had previously expected to complete what it called a «significant» agreement with an SVOD (subscription video on - demand) provider in the most recent quarter, but said that the «recent and highly public governance controversy negatively impacted the timing and its ability to achieve an optimal outcome with partners.»

Laurie Garrett, one of the globe's most gifted writers on global public health issues, has a timely and scary essay on foreignpolicy.com about the nasty norovirus plaguing athletes in the Olympic village — a bug one expert calls the «perfect human pathogen.»

Many of the so - called unicorn companies probably could go public — but, most likely, at prices they wouldn't like.

And yet emails that were never intended to be public unavoidably will have consequences, most of which will never be tested in a court of law or arbitration and some of which may never be aired at all, such as the unreturned call or, ironically, the unanswered email.

In what is perhaps the company's most valuable public vote of confidence, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett called AmEx an «excellent business» with managers that are «talented and shareholder - oriented» in his 2016 annual report to shareholders.

Most of these deals go through a privatized economic development agency called JobsOhio, which doesn't require as much transparency as a public agency about what taxpayers are getting for their money.

Uber, the most valuable startup to emerge from Silicon Valley in recent years, is facing mounting calls to go public.

In a CRTC online public consultation regarding the role of new media, calls for net neutrality were consistently among the most common, and highest rated submissions.

While most of these groups will frequently call for increased transparency in government, some refuse to make public their own financial backers.

Backed by the Koch brothers and their American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, legislators across the American West, where most of the public lands are located, are calling on the federal government to cede control and management of them to counties and states.

Dewey, who died in 1952 after reigning for more than fifty years as America's most influential public philosopher and educator, appreciated that the churches had not gone out of business, and that they could even be useful in promoting peace, fighting economic injustice, and, more generally, in «stimulating action» for what he called «a divine kingdom on earth.»

But beyond saying that women can shine in every profession, Stein calls women to exercise their professions as women: «The participation of women in the most diverse professional disciplines could be a blessing for the entire society, private or public, precisely if the specifically feminine ethos would be preserved» (Woman, p. 49).

It is called Capitalism, and if Chic - fil - a wants to show their bigotry to the American public, then the American public has a right to respond where it hurts them most, which is their bottom line.

This is no longer Adam Smith's capitalism, but what I. F. Stone calls «private socialism» — the public takes much or most of the risk; private entrepreneurs take the whole profit.

Nor is it to be found in most of the discussions about the virtue and value of public service for America's young people, discussions that have been going on for some years now» for convenience call them «post-Vietnam»» among both liberals and conservatives.

Indeed, or so it seems to me, it was in this feature called «The Public Square» where he most copiously displayed his very special literary gift.

most influential part of the Indian press not only makes little use of its freedom; it helps diminish the space for public discussion, which partly accounts for what the philosopher Pratap Mehta calls the «extraordinary nondeliberative nature of Indian politics.»

In the international press he was called the Netherlands» «most inflammatory public figure».

In his sermons in the parish church he often made little or no reference to public affairs and his own battles; in one at this time, he said: «He who calls on Christ in faith... the Holy Spirit most certainly comes to him.

While for the most part conforming to the normal expressions of public ecclesiastical observance, the Lollards privately responded with the special fervour of total commitment to the Gospel, nourished a form of religious egalitarianism which in some respect could be called a proto - Protestantism, and were sharply critical of the established priesthood.

By constantly reminding the world that salvation history is the interior, if you will, of world history, and that salvation history tells the world's story in its full depth and against its most ample horizon, the Church does the best service it can do for the world, including that part of the world we call «public life.»

Most of the tasting rooms and tours at our local wineries are open to the public, but be sure to call ahead just in case!

Most oddsmakers know which games will take one - sided public betting, so they will shade their opening lines to account for dull bettors racing to the window like drunkards (or myself) racing to the bar at last call.

Where Gibson is private, McLain, 49, holds the most public of jobs in the 1990s: He hosts a radio call - in show in Detroit, discoursing during morning drive time on everything from the state legislature to the state of the world.

To make matters worse, they argued that many in the media - most especially, in my personal experience, those active in social media - not only ignore and / or severely criticize research findings that don't fit the football = CTE and CTE = suicide narrative, but label anyone who dares to challenge that narrative or call for further study a «CTE denier» or a «shill» trying to advance their own vested interests, * confuse the public and conflate the issues, or all the above.

Eliza is a mini person of a million nicknames, but the one that seems to have stuck the most at the moment is Lion (every time I call it her in public within earshot of anyone else, I realise that I'm probably partly responsible for all those threads on mum forums about ridiculous baby names).

The U.S. Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding notes that several health organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Nurse - Midwives, American Dietetic Association and American Public Health Association all recommend that most infants be breastfed for a minimum of one year, with the first six months exclusively breast milk.

Nonetheless, her attack brought me to tears when I was literally exposed in public, at a moment when I most keenly needed the support of the so - called village.

While repeated calls from academia and public health have failed to convince most politicians, the group hopes calls from within the criminal justice system will finally make them listen.

It builds on a challenging, if intuitively persuasive, premise: that we really can identify what, in its most recent Inquiry, the Committee called «best practice in promoting good behaviour in public life».

Lumley's so - called «garden bridge» will be clad in copper and cost a total of # 175 million to build, making it the most expensive public footbridge in the Western world.

Most elected officials feel that way, although a select few — Sen. Chuck Schumer, who has been known to gleefully squeeze in fundraising calls while driving in between public events, comes to mind — actually enjoy the ask.

Ahead of it, the organization is calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to implement reforms, most notably replacing the county - based system of public defense with one run by the state, with adequate funding.

«It's a bit rich for him to pontificate on what he calls populism, but what most would refer to as democracy, when he himself has never been elected by a public vote.

«The New York Times called him the nation's most aggressive and outspoken prosecutor of public corruption and crime on Wall Street.

Most members of the public are probably unaware of the precise terms of this so - called «new settlement», and are unlikely to be able to make an informed judgement about its merits.

Mr. de Blasio's announcement today follows a flurry of similar policy initiatives that Mr. Cuomo, after his skepticism of the State Legislature, rolled out unilaterally over the last year: first, a $ 15 - an - hour wage for fast food workers through a special wage board, then the same for state public employees last November, and most recently for SUNY employees Monday — complete with a call for the city to follow.

Skelos becomes the second of New York's most powerful political leaders in nine days to be sentenced to prison for public corruption crimes, a double - whammy that has cemented the state government's reputation as an organization plagued by corruption and prompted widespread calls for ethics reforms in Albany.

For the second year in a row, the novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman is one of the most requested books by patrons of Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries.

Cuomo made it clear long before he unveiled his 2015 - 16 budget — and even before the November 2014 elections — that he had the teachers unions in his crosshairs, and intended to break the so - called «monopoly» he believed is to blame for most of the public education system's woes.

At 4 p.m., New York City Public Advocate Tish James, numerous women's organizations and elected officials will host «an emergency rally and call to action» following GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's most recent attack on women, Columbus Circle (60th and Broadway), Manhattan.

Alas other right wing Tory MPs have not fared so well on the site, with Iain Duncan Smith only getting 1.5 out of 5 stars for his 2003 novel and once recent reviewer calling it «a major contender for the most incoherent, dull, predictable, mess of a novel ever foisted on a long suffering public».

It's time that newspaper editors called off their dogs and set them only on the most deserving of cases, and it's time the public were allowed to make informed judgements about the probity of their politicians.

Plaid's Leanne Wood has received the backing of Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), who called her «one of the most outstanding politicians in Wales.»

And while fracking has gotten the most attention — demonstrators calls on him to ban the practice show up at many of Cuomo's public events — the other projects on hold could have significant implications for New York.

Collectively called the Criminal Justice Reform Act, the eight bills will downgrade most criminal noise violations, spitting, littering, possession of an open container of alcohol, public urination and after - dusk loitering and other prohibited activities in public parks to offenses penalized with a ticket.

Governor Cuomo, in a brief statement after the budget was passed, called the package «the nation's strongest and most comprehensive disclosure laws for public officials.»