Sentences with phrase «new area of policy»

Advised that as this is a new area of policy development, opportunities that may arise from climate change, including the sequestration of carbon as an alternative to emissions, will be considered.

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The New York City area, with its many interest rate - sensitive industries, has prospered when decision - makers in the public and private sectors could have confidence that the Federal Reserve was committed to a rigorous set of policies that promoted price stability, in a growth - oriented economic environment.

Andrew Jackson, director of social and economic policy for the Canadian Labour Congress, agrees with Elizabeth Kelliher that the Canadian government should be making massive new investments in social housing, as well as many other areas of infrastructure.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

Whether one deems this cluster of questions the third part of an expanded just war tradition or an extension of «right intention,» one of the classic deontological ad bellum criteria, this is obviously an area in which considerable criticism of the Iraq War has been focused» whether the issue at hand involves the scandals at Abu Ghraib prison, interrogation methods, de-Baathification policies, counterinsurgency strategies and tactics, or the provisions of the new Iraqi constitution with respect to religious freedom and the role of Islamic law in post-Saddam Iraq.

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».

Since the United States educational system usually develops policies from the local level, some districts feel that the new standards rolling out nationwide are simply too cookie cutter and won't be in the best interest of local areas.

The city of Toronto has adopted a new breastfeeding policy that ensures nursing mothers access to private facilities in a host of municipal buildings, community centers and recreation areas.

This series provides economic data to inform policy makers about how breastfeeding leads to savings in health costs and other costs, raises awareness among the academic and wider community and highlights a new and publicly relevant area of research.

Over the past several years, fluctuating advice regarding the relative risks associated with bed - sharing, and a certain amount of media scaremongering, has prompted NHS trusts to remove bedsharing information from patient areas and introduce restrictive policies on what health professionals can say to parents about where their new baby might sleep.

They point to issues ranging from environmental policy to the deportation of undocumented immigrants as areas that New York can provide an alternative and potential challenge to federal policies.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

Developing new policies in this area is not a question of simply shouting «out with the old, in with the new» and switching support wholesale to new media — most news, for examples, is still accessed via linear broadcast and print newspapers, even though other platforms are of growing importance.

As in so many policy areas, Labour's legacy of change between 1997 and 2010 is being comprehensively rubbished by the new administration.

According to Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz, Agudath Israel of America vice president for community services, who worked assiduously to promote the idea that New York should follow the federal government's lead in this area, the new policy will bring many millions of dollars to yeshivos gedolos and seminaries, and represents the most helpful new benefit program the yeshiva community has seen in yeaNew York should follow the federal government's lead in this area, the new policy will bring many millions of dollars to yeshivos gedolos and seminaries, and represents the most helpful new benefit program the yeshiva community has seen in yeanew policy will bring many millions of dollars to yeshivos gedolos and seminaries, and represents the most helpful new benefit program the yeshiva community has seen in yeanew benefit program the yeshiva community has seen in years.

In an address to the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank in London, she called for a federal UK founded on a «new Act of Union» that included repatriating to Scotland the EU's powers in areas like fisheries, farming and employment rights.

The UK government's decision to press ahead with new nuclear power stations in England highlights one of the areas where significant policy differences exist between the UK and the Scottish authorities.

Mr Cameron has also announced that former party leader Iain Duncan Smith would be in charge of a new social justice policy group aimed at tackling problems in deprived and disadvantaged areas.

After Labour had largely remained quiet about the issue in the first two years of the Coalition government, Miliband touted his speech as the first step in a new conversation, and offered extensive apologies about Labour's past policies on immigration in a bid to begin to rehabilitate Labour's public image in this policy area.

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

While the policy notes that «New York's legal code is relatively accessible compared to other states,» it suggests that the state commit to including its laws on a platform such as America Decoded, adopting the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's eRegs tool to make the laws more accessible, and instituting an «open by default» policy in the area of IT purchasing, data and research.

In those areas, New Yorkers have their most direct connections with the policies and personalities of City Hall.

Though he's had an at - times difficult relationship with the left of the Democratic base, Cuomo on the convention floor sought to play up areas of commonality on policy, touting the push for the $ 15 minimum wage and 12 weeks of paid family leave — both measures that were approved in New York earlier this year (with, by the way, the Republicans in control of the state Senate).

Different government departments moving in different directions is not a new development, but the prospect of collapse in a policy area of such vital importance to our national energy, economic and environmental needs bears the hallmarks of incoherent government and now risks becoming a national scandal.

At the time, the exhibit matched the theme of a successful policy push for increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 in the New York City metro area and the approval of a paid - family leave program.

In light of that, Hammond will have his work cut out as he prepares an autumn statement that «resets» Osborne's fiscal policy to deliver Theresa May's new industrial strategy, growing Britain «from rural areas to our great cities».

With the perceived confusion over funding for the government's free Senior High School education policy dominating the news cycle, the New Patriotic Party government needs to outline to citizens its priority areas for development, the Operations Director of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu said.

The Paramount Chief of the Tumu Traditional Area, Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton VI, endorsed the «1 - District -1-Factory» and the «1 - Village -1-Dam» policies of the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo.

That spot went instead to Vicki Been, formerly the head of New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy — which has also been somewhat critical of mandatory inclusionary zoning in its studies of programs in the San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas.

In the aftermath of the bombings in New York and New Jersey, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battled back and forth over policy and fitness to lead after the series of weekend bombings in the New York City area.

There are still far too many areas of mental health care, services and policy that need improvement in every part of New York.

«The Summit on Latinos seeks to advance the collective interests of Latinos in the city of New York by identifying common ground on key policy areas such as health, immigration, education, civil rights, and business and workforce development, among a host of others.»

Brown was careful not to imply that there would be any reversals in the key areas of Blair's social policy, or any radical breakaway from New Labour.

One area that he will not instruct it to examine will be the issue of outside nonprofit groups created to take donations to support an elected official's policies, like the Campaign for One New York, which was created for Mr. de Blasio, and whose efforts were later examined by state and federal investigators.

While the Buffalo police is updating its policies and procedures to comply with the state program in areas like administration and property maintenance, changes to its training in the use of force and firearms will happen only once police move to their new headquarters over the summer.

But the trickiness of his task in leading a united party forward was exposed as foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell, a strong supporter of the Lib - Lab project, called for an unprecedented extension of co-operation with Labour to new policy areas including health and education.

As a mentor for the S&T Policy Fellows at EPA over the years, Frithsen is an advocate for incorporating fellows into EPA teams to augment expertise on existing programs and to explore new areas of research.

Important new research is emerging in this area that needs to be brought to the attention of policy - makers — hence the need for the conference that Next Wave reported on.

With over 80 percent of forests already degraded by human and industrial activities, today's findings underscore the immediate need for international policies to secure remaining intact forests — including establishing new protected areas, securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, regulating industry and hunting, and targeting restoration efforts and public finance.

Barbara R. Jasny Deputy Editor, Emeritus Education: B.A., New York University; Ph.D., The Rockefeller University Areas of responsibility: Genomics, genetics, biomedicine, molecular evolution, public policy, computational social science E-Mail: [email protected]

The task we set ourselves was a synthesis of all the new findings so that coral scientists, conservationists and policy makers could get a really good over-view of what research areas are most promising as global climate continues to change.

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Some of the doctorates employed in these areas continue to do research, including those who start their own companies, but many more are finding that their scientific training has opened doors to exciting new job opportunities in regulatory affairs, informatics, technology transfer, science journalism, science policy, and education, among many others.

In theory, the disease could be halted by limiting people's access to unaffected areas, but that would be a very unpopular policy and perhaps impossible to implement, he says.The rapid spread of sudden oak death is «such a dynamic system that a lot of our tools in ecology for understanding and predicting patterns are inadequate,» says Rick Ostfeld of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York.

Allstate, one of the largest residential property insurers on the east coast, elected not to renew 30,000 policies covering coastal properties in New York City, Long Island, Westchester County and Connecticut, and is considering reducing coastal area coverage in Massachusetts and along the Gulf.

«Globally important wilderness areas — despite being strongholds for endangered biodiversity, for buffering and regulating local climates, and for supporting many of the world's most politically and economically marginalized communities — are completely ignored in environmental policy,» James Watson, director of science and research initiatives at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and the study's lead author, said in a statement, adding that we probably have only one to two decades to turn this around.

The expected results are to: Challenge the Governments in Southeast Europe to respond with more clear and concrete statements on their policies in the field of S&T; Open new vistas for scientific and technological co-operations in the European Research Area.

The new clean air policy package is estimated to avoid an extra 58,000 premature deaths, protect an extra 123,000 km2 of ecosystems from nitrogen pollution (more than half the area of Romania), and save 19 000 km2 forests from acidification by the year 2030.

But on Thursday, Carrie D. Wolinetz, NIH's associate director for science policy, announced the new policy proposal, saying it would «enable NIH research community to move this promising area of science forward in a responsible manner.»

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