Sentences with phrase «much about agency»

In all three cases, the one common theme that is painfully obvious is that none of the licensees involved apparently understood or knew much about agency.

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«I think the concern of any advertising agency is always about how much involvement there's going to be, how much pressure is there going to be, how much are they going to tell us about our business.

There has been much debate about how blockchain could solve this problem, but a recent Newsweek report detailing the example of a home title being issued on the Ethereum blockchain showed a solution: It's only a matter of time, the article said, before government agencies start embracing blockchain as a valid alternative to existing title processes.

There isn't much about the new text that's radically different than the initial proposal the FCC released in late April — it still aims to reverse the Title II classification that gives the agency broad authority over internet service providers, and still questions whether rules that ban those ISPs from slowing down or speeding up certain sites for payment are even necessary in the first place.

If you tuned into a talk by Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., this week, you might think the NSA had begun to change its tune about encryption — the technology favored by Apple and its Silicon Valley brethren to scramble users» data and communications (much to criminal investigators» chagrin), making them unintelligible to spies and hackers alike.

We're connected to our friends and family, our co-workers and employers, a multitude of info - grabbing apps, and a whole host of other folks, businesses, and agencies that we hardly know or know much about.

Acknowledging there's much still to be learned about Paddock, his state of mind, and his motivations, Safir said, «There should be a database for police departments and federal agencies of people who have been... mentally disturbed where before you get a gun these people have to be cleared in order to process them.»

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.

While the remarks didn't disclose much about its plans for cryptocurrencies going forward, they come as part of a widened effort taken by the agency in scrutinizing related projects that may undermine financial health in China.

You should also ask about agencies» average recovery rate (how much debt they recover versus what they have been assigned).

But two former FTC officials said that Facebook's allowing the psychologist to take so much data about a person's friends could constitute a violation of a 2011 consent decree with the agency.

I gradually began to see that Christianity is not about solitary seekers after truth who just get together once in a while for a chat: other people are very much part of the divine scheme of things — even scripture has come down to us through the agency of other people.

Alschuler points out that the «bad man» whose perspective was decisive for Holmes does not really care about predicting judicial decisions as much as he cares about what the law enforcement agencies will do if he tries to get away with a crime.

They are surrogates, which is a way of saying that they are agencies by which God works; they are not substitutes, although much of the time, in our foolishness and defection, we regard them as such — and in so regarding them bring about a state of affairs which is disproportionate and destructive.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

«I always step back and think about what's coming because we have so much flexibility with draft picks and free agency,» Brown says.

It is sad that we get bucket loads of information from agencies about the legal and paper work stuff, but not much on what actually birth / first moms want, the human side of it.

By Sunday afternoon a few bloggers and tweeters had gotten the ad agency that created the ad on the phone, to find they didn't know a lot about Twitter and didn't seem to have a clue that there was so much anger piling up online.

Don't forget that there is much more information about each adoption agency listed in this Guide on the Adoption Guide website at: www.theadoptionguide.com/process/finding-an-agency.

Dear Abby: I have read in your column so many times about agencies that help adopted children «find «their biological parents, but since I am not adopted, I never gave the subject much thought, until now.

At present, not much is known about the health effects that occur from the levels of VOCs found in homes, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Much of what is written about the British intelligence and security agencies suffers from either a lack of access to sources or a touch of the Ian Flemings.

«The lesson I've drawn out of the Snowden allegations is that governments need to be much clearer about the purpose for which they infringe on citizens» privacy; about the agencies that have the legal power to do so; about the authority about which it's done; and, critically, about transparency and accountability systems.»

The IND will also work much more closely with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca)- anecdotal evidence suggests about three - quarters of illegal entrants are brought to the UK through criminal gangs.

And there is so much in the Adminstration to investigate regarding the Agencies and Authorities (the latter being the Shadow Government that pulls that State train) that Mr. Dicker's credibility will be at stake until he runs a big story about the Administartion's negative side and does not try to minimize it.

The Governor did touch on the current controversy surrounding the Department of Child Services, he did not go into much detail, however, he did say he would be transparent about the agency's review process and promise timely progress reports.

The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, created by an act of the state legislature in 1986 — then - assemblyman Maurice Hinchey was cosponsor — is one of those out - of - sight outfits we don't care much about as long as they empty the cans.

He also talks about his relationship with the new governor, conflicts with other law enforcement agencies, civil confinement, Rockafeller drug law reforms and much more.

The state's top ethics agency is seeking to require consultants and public relations professionals who are paid to influence the passage of legislation to disclose information about how much they're being paid and what bills they're attempting to pass or defeat.

Short - term work through an agency may be an option, although you may not have much choice about the work they offer so it might be difficult to manoeuvre your immediate responsibilities such that they point you in the right direction.

«For example, [measuring] chlorophyll a will give you information about how much biological activity is going on, and eventually more information about the concentration of carbon dioxide within the ocean and the atmosphere,» said Yoshihisa Shirayama, executive director of research at the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Tokyo.

The agency has predicted that getting to the moon will cost $ 104 billion (about 55 percent of the cost of the Apollo program in today's dollars, according to Griffin), and studies dating back to the 1960s predicted that a Mars mission would cost at least five times as much as getting to the moon.

But White Coat Waste also alleges that, aside from NIH, most federal agencies are opaque about how many dogs they use, the details of these experiments, and how much they cost.

And that suggests today's budget may be silent on, or vague about, what the president is seeking for some science agencies, much less for specific programs and cross-agency initiatives.

NSF, whose stimulus windfall equals about half the agency's annual appropriation, will also direct much of it to approved but as - yet - unfunded grants, sources say.

Much of the budget formulation process is in the hands of career civil servants, who represent a collective reservoir of knowledge about the agencies they oversee, and handle many of the more granular decisions on their own.

Using the publicly available data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and private insurance companies on how much money was spent on storm recovery, the scientists were able to show the volume of tweets about Sandy in New Jersey and New York was associated with how much money people in the area received for damages.

The bill, which has to pass through a long legislative process before it becomes law, seeks to clarify how much information about individual users of electronic services can be revealed to outside agencies.

Much of the data in the study has come out previously, some in earlier papers about the parents of the virus that «reassorted» to make this new H1N1, some in the flood of genetic sequences put into public databases, and some in press interviews with public health agencies and academic investigators.

«The public and regulatory agencies are saying we have to be much more transparent about any relationships faculty have with industry,» said Dr. Richard Schwartzstein, a member of the review committee and a pulmonologist at Beth Israel Deaconess.

Most observers expect the EPA to say that aviation emissions endanger public health but are not sure how much the agency and the Federal Aviation Authority will reveal about their vision for a carbon dioxide emissions standard for new aircraft.

Citizens the world over were engaged by the astronomical achievement, and now the European Space Agency and NASA are eager to learn as much as possible about the critically important celestial body of ice.

EIA predicts «much brighter prospects» for natural gas supply, keeping prices at about $ 8 per million British thermal units by 2030, compared with the International Energy Agency's outlook, which predicts $ 16 per million Btu by 2030, Gruenspecht said.

Much of the research funds formerly disbursed by RAS — about $ 1.3 billion planned for 2014 to 2016 — will now be distributed competitively by the Russian Scientific Fund, a new agency that will operate independently of both the academy and FASO.

But the agency would soon hear much more about Hyland's teething products.

Of course, the «motor men» of Detroit thought the agency was worrying about clean air too much.

National and local law enforcement agencies closely guard details about the technology's use, with much of what is known about stingrays revealed through court documents and other paperwork made public via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

«It is not too much to ask that companies make sure they aren't sending private information about their customers, their clients, and their employees to intelligence agencies,» Schiff said.

The governments of the world, and our government in particular, seem presently much less than enthusiastic about exploring the oceans of our own planet than in exploring other planets (ocean research seems to have taken a particular hit in the last decade of Congressional budget cuts, although admittedly, all agencies have seen cutbacks).

The EPA declined to respond to Climate Central's numerous inquiries about whether the agency has any estimate for how much leaking methane can be reduced by regulating VOCs and other pollutants.