Sentences with phrase «most public contribution»

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«Most medium - sized companies won't have a defined benefit pension plan, like those offered by very large companies or the public sector, so they would want to look at a defined contribution plan,» she explains.

Some folks have no pensions; some have a defined contribution plan, which depends on the market; others, including most public employees and more than half of the private - sector ones have a defined benefits plan — you get a guaranteed pension based upon years of service.

I don't minimize the importance of his insights on the role of religion in the public square, but I suspect his greatest and most enduring legacy will lie in his contribution to the unity of the Church, for which he fervently prayed.

In his review article of Hartshorne's Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method (PS 2:49 - 67), Robert Neville remarks that «one of Hartshorne's most important contributions» has been his concern to deal «with problems as formulated by public discussion, usually that of analytical philosophers.»

As most of you that have read my work and seen my contributions to the sports betting community on twitter realize, part of my focus has always been on educating the betting public.

The thing that has helped me most of all, though, is viewing my public actions as my own contribution towards establishing a positive parenting culture.

The police are clear that the most important contribution that the public can make is to carry on reporting anything suspicious and to be vigilant, and I would ask them to do that.

New York needs comprehensive reform: lower contribution limits, an independent enforcement agency, no more loopholes, and most importantly a system of matching small contributions with public funds.

With the possible exception of public - finance advocates, most people aren't much concerned about politicians accepting campaign contributions from individuals or businesses with whom or over whom they might have influence.

Hawkins said that Cuomo's hostility to public school teachers and their unions and his support for charter schools must be understood in light of his large campaign contributions from wealthy hedge fund managers who profit from the favorable tax treatment of investments in charter schools and who like the fact that most charters are non-union.

The path to election reform is somewhat muddled; most rules governing contribution limits and the matching funds program that provides public money to candidates are derived from legislation passed by the City Council.

To begin to reverse New York's most unequal distribution of wealth and income in the nation, Hawkins said the public bank should have an entrepreneurial division to develop worker cooperatives in which profits are distributed more equitably according to labor contribution, not capital ownership.

Democratic Party central committees in the counties of Del Norte, Kern, Los Angeles, Marin, Mendocino, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Stanislaus, and Yolo accepted the max - out contribution from one of the state's most powerful public employee unions.

As of the most recent filing period ending on Jan. 11, the New York City comptroller has collected $ 1.37 million in campaign contributions for his 2017 re-election bid — more than de Blasio's haul of $ 1.13 million — public records show.

Public anger over cuts to tax credits, disability benefits, and changes to national insurance contributions for self - employed workers have driven the most significant government welfare policy U-turns in recent years.

The most visible symbol of this new way of doing things is the optical camera on the Juno mission: its contribution to science is seemingly nil; it flies solely for public entertainment.

Researchers commonly use this public - goods exercise to examine social dilemmas because individual participants will benefit the most by selfishly free - riding off everyone else's contributions while contributing nothing themselves.

Join the Space Telescope Science Institute's Public Lecture Series for a retrospective view of Hubble's contributions to the investigation of the deep reaches of the cosmos, and some fresh glimpses of what Hubble is currently doing to further our understanding of the most distant parts of the universe.

In the most recent quarter for which data are reported, ending September 2008, the employer contribution rate for public K — 12 teachers (14.6 percent) was 4.2 points higher than that for private - sector professionals (10.4 percent).

Most public school teachers participate in defined benefit (DB) pension plans, which because of different accounting rules contribute significantly less today for each dollar of future retirement benefits than private - sector DB pensions or defined contribution (DC) pension plans.

After we pointed out that ECEC - style data on annual contributions to public pension plans are a dramatic underestimate of pension costs, most of the pay comparison literature followed our lead in applying some kind of correction.

Choosing Schools «most unique contribution is to evaluate systems of school choice in terms of how they could serve various public interests - namely, the degree to which a system of choice can promote equity, student achievement, and social capital (or social connectedness).

Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve teachers» working conditions, students» learning conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.

His most recent 13D amendment filed Wednesday annexes a letter setting out a (huge) case study of DVD «partly as a contribution to public education but also to obtain a clearly objective review of the Dover Motorsports situation for our own investment purposes:»

This leadership gift, along with many other generous financial and volunteer contributions helped make this shoreline site one of the region's most beloved public places and the recipient of national and international awards for the quality of design, environmental restoration and community engagement.

Today, The Cooper Union is ranked among the most prestigious private institutions in the world with a public mission: To prepare bright, creative and ambitious students to apply their talent and expertise to make impactful contributions worldwide.

With contributions from over 40 artists of the more than 100 originally participating, Times Square Show Revisited reflects the spirit of the original with a mix of extant sculpture, painting, and video — most of which has not been on public view since 1980.

His most famous public art commission, Art of the Negro (1950 - 51), a series of murals in the library at Atlanta University, celebrates the contributions of African - Americans to all the arts.

Particular attention by the English critics and the public was devoted to the work of the more recent Avant - garde of American painters included in this exhibition, which was widely held to be considered America's most distinctive contribution to contemporary art.

«How can we make the most important contributions to serving the public?»

The relative contributions of atmospheric long ‐ wave absorbers to the present ‐ day global greenhouse effect are among the most misquoted statistics in public discussions of climate change.

With 1000 + articles worldwide, the report made a noteworthy contribution to a global public discussion on peak fossil fuel demand, including an endorsement from Nick Butler at the FT that «it deserves to be read by everyone working in the energy sector, by policy makers and perhaps most urgently by investors».

The relative contributions of atmospheric long - wave absorbers to the present - day global greenhouse effect are among the most misquoted statistics in public discussions of climate change.

Quite possibly it is the most broadly - based outstanding contribution to the literature on the science, the economics, the politics, and the public policy issues on both climate change and related environmental developments.

Moore points out that the addition of chlorine to drinking water and swimming pools has been one of the most important contributions to public health and safety in the history of the world, saving hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people from horrible deaths caused by water - borne bacteria, parasites, and viruses.

Oxford University Press has reissued three classic works by F.A. Mann, containing many of his most important contributions to public and private international law.

As a public site, this law society investment in the most comprehensive free - to - use legal information resource in Canada concurrently serves up perhaps the most significant contribution to access to justice ever made by the legal profession.

Until then, this statement made by Colin Lachance about CanLII is not yet true: «As a public site,... [it] serves up perhaps the most significant contribution to access to justice ever made by the legal profession.»

While the source of the money used to make the gift was masked from the public, a trail of clues puts the contribution at the doorstep of some of the same actors — most notably Leonard Leo, an executive vice president at the conservative Federalist Society — who have helped promote Trump's mission, and that of his White House counsel, Don McGahn, to fill judicial vacancies as quickly as he can with staunchly conservative, preferably young jurists.

The most successful NHMRC contribution to increasing the numbers of Indigenous people as researchers was support provided by its population health capacity - building grants.36 These grants were introduced in response to a review of Australian public health research and were designed to strengthen research workforce capacity.