Sentences with phrase «new infrastructure changes»

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In addition to tax changes (more on that below), Trump's plan to grow the economy focuses largely on generating more jobs in the fossil fuel economy (in coal and onshore and offshore drilling for oil and gas) and as a result of new infrastructure projects.

He argued that the new government's perceived approach to Brexit is not only about leaving the EU, but also fundamentally changing the British economy, saying: «Basically its rewarding people who voted for Brexit, its about infrastructure, its about the productivity gap, its about the regional divide, rebalancing the economy — the stuff that was talked about in 2008, but nothing happened.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The existence of these platforms have created an entirely new class of SOHO entrepreneurs, who now have access to the tools and infrastructure that are rapidly changing how we define what a «job» really is.

The changes, the latest in a series of new rules since the two former Cold War foes began normalizing relations in December 2014, will allow export to Cuba of some US consumer goods sold online and let US firms improve Cuban infrastructure for humanitarian purposes, the US Treasury and Commerce Departments said in a statement.

As McKinsey has noted, in order to achieve a change of scale at requisite speed, particularly in a digital setting, an organization today needs to start by realigning its technology infrastructure to handle the new levels of customer interactions that will come.

A new federal infrastructure package presents a critical opportunity to strengthen America's infrastructure against the growing risks posed by extreme weather and other impacts of climate change.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Currently, the entire community is steadily preparing for the consensus change as development teams release new code, while users and infrastructure providers upgrade their full node implementations.

On the other hand, this extraordinary resource gives us the opportunity to create new infrastructure that will enable such diversification more easily in the future, when circumstances change.

Pointing to the changing face of this industry, there is broad expectations that regulation and transparency will increase over time, as more mature professional and institutional investors and established venture capital funds and new infrastructure platforms that will provide technology to host ICOs for preliminary due diligence come into the market.

In order to serve existing demand in Eastern Canada with Western Canadian crude, you would need significant changes in infrastructure, including the addition of new pipelines.

Any infrastructure changes made in high times, such as building new barns or updating new parlors came with additional debt - to - service, and maximizing these facilities can help a farm endure tough times.

Meanwhile, it's certainly a change for Wenger to have such figures in the hierarchy, and although the 68 - year - old signed a new two - year contract in the summer, this is surely with a long - term plan for Arsenal in mind to move on from him in the future and have an infrastructure in place with splits responsibilities.

JUST IN: News coming in from Arsenal is that Wenger will step down as Arsenal manager after this season.Wenger has made it clear that he's leaving.The club have changed infrastructure just to have a new head coach.The appointment of Minslintat and Sanhelli are coinciding with the change and were planned.

School districts are thinking about school foods in a new way that places a priority on health, but they also need to find innovative financing strategies to pay for the equipment and infrastructure changes they need to put healthy foods on the lunch tray.

Yet Africans are again discussing the role of the state in economic change, and there is a new, and welcome, emphasis on the tangibles of development (production, infrastructure and employment) in addition to intangibles (democracy and governance championed by the Washington Consensus).

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon in Queens on Friday unveiled an environmental policy platform that is geared toward shifting the state to 100 percent renewable energy, strengthening the state's efforts against climate change and rejecting new infrastructure for gas pipelines and other fossil fueles.

The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) and infrastructure specialists Parsons Brinckerhoff and Balfour Beatty today launched the results of an initiative that provides a detailed «route map» for change and suggests new and innovative models for funding transport infrastructure.

The report argues that through a «bottom - up» approach local communities can be encouraged to recognise the need for innovation and change - fully participating in the development of new infrastructure and services.

The commission is looking for entries covering how existing infrastructure can be adapted, how roads shared by driverless and driven vehicles can work, and how these changes can be introduced alongside charging networks for new electric cars.

«New York State is facing unprecedented environmental challenges — from climate change, to poisoned water, to failing infrastructure, the list goes on and on,» Krueger said.

Even though new technological infrastructures or individual tools rarely, if ever, change the world in one blow or cause particular events, they still have implications, biases, long - term implications, like the ones discussed by careful, deep thinkers of long - term change like Harold Innis and Elizabeth Eisenstein and more immediate ones for how we live our lives, as studied by social scientists willing to let the chips fall as they may.

However, Renata Pumarol, deputy director for New York Communities for Change, said Cuomo should instead impose higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires, such as Vornado and Related, to fund infrastructure improvements.

Nana Akuffo Addo, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and the New Patriotic Party must apologize to Former President John Dramani Mahama for chastising and criminalizing his resolve to seek external support to provide Life Changing Infrastructure, which ameliorated the living conditions of the ordinary Ghanaian.

But Parks and Trails New York and other active transportation advocates say now it the time for the state to change it's approach to infrastructure.

There is an overlying awareness when assessing New York's environmentally progressive work - in - progress that the effects climate change and fossil fuel energy industries have on the environment, infrastructure and public health don't stop at state lines.

Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed his first preliminary budget of the Trump - era today — $ 84.67 billion in expenses for Fiscal Year 2018, and $ 84.6 billion for improving and maintaining city infrastructure over the next decade — a budget devoid of any allowances for federal funding changes under the new Republican order in Washington, D.C.

There are so many common - sense things we could be working on, from infrastructure to the training of our workers for a changing economy, and instead we're having this governmental shutdown,» said the 27 - year - old founder of a Hudson Valley venture capital fund and a major contributor to the new Advanced Manufacturing Center pioneering 3D imaging work at SUNY New Palnew Advanced Manufacturing Center pioneering 3D imaging work at SUNY New PalNew Paltz.

Miner announced Wednesday that the speech will take place at the Southwest Community Center at 401 South Ave.. At last year's event, Miner discussed infrastructure changes, new police satellite buildings and high school graduation rates.

G. Thomas Tranter, Jr., President of Corning Enterprises, said, «Through achievements like the creation of Regional Councils, the New York Works infrastructure plan and a return to fiscally responsible budgeting, Governor Cuomo has fundamentally changed New York's approach to business growth.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office just announced that he has reached a deal with the legislature to implement tax code changes, create a new jobs program, fund infrastructure investments and interestingly enough — lower the Metropolitan Transportation Authority payroll tax.

Superstorm Sandy may have been the worst disaster to hit the LIPA electric grid, but the storm's aftermath brought a wave of changes that included a new system operator, badly needed technology and infrastructure upgrades, and more than $ 1.4 billion in federal funding to repair and prepare for the next big storm.

Climate change experts have warned New York, like New Orleans, is suspectible to rising sea levels, especially since much of its transportation and energy transmission infrastructure is underground.

He didn't utter the words «climate change» but Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news conference earlier today that weather is getting more extreme and dangerous, forcing New York to rethink how it builds its infrastructure and transportation.

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

The commission predicted that some New York City hospitals would close in future years because of high overhead and infrastructure costs and changing national trends in health care delivery.

«Outstanding issues include under - investment in school technology infrastructure, significant inequities in allocation of Fair Student Funding dollars, disparities in gifted and talented education, resistance to training and support for new learning devices like tablets, inaction on liberalizing school space usage policy for community - based organizations, and poor community notification on significant changes to school utilization,» Adams said.

The makeup of Congress will ultimately determine whether there is any significant change in tax or infrastructure policy, both of which have major implications for New York in particular.»

Now Corbyn doesn't seem that bothered about Clause 4 in the interview, but maybe another look at it mentioning public ownership of some type for the basic infrastructure of the country may do for him what Blair's changes did for New Labour.

The statement and the radio appearance are part of a series of outreach efforts AAAS has made to encourage the new administration to leverage scientific evidence and fact - finding in forging policy prescriptions to address challenges from climate change to infrastructure improvements that it confronts.

1 Security results from continual attention to a shifting technical infrastructure, changing vulnerabilities, and new threats.

Purdy hoped to fund the new ocean observatory through an account that NSF maintains for game - changing scientific infrastructure.

Armed with new maps and data sets produced in the past six months about how climate change could play out on the ground with infrastructure, local government officials in southeast Florida are starting to ask some tough questions: Will some roads have to be elevated or deemed unusable?

Two of the greenest cities in North America, New York and Vancouver, have hit upon the right recipe for a more sustainable 21st century, and they are investing in infrastructure changes to prepare for the new realities of a hotter worNew York and Vancouver, have hit upon the right recipe for a more sustainable 21st century, and they are investing in infrastructure changes to prepare for the new realities of a hotter wornew realities of a hotter world.

From clean coal to infrastructure resilience, the new Secretary of Energy has plans for combating climate change

Published yesterday in the online version of the journal Nature Climate Change, the study depicts how such a shift could put new strains on U.S. infrastructure, as rails and trains replace riverboats as the primary mode of agricultural transportation.

While U.S. EPA recently announced carbon reduction policies that will affect the coal industry and the Obama administration has issued new rules in 2012 to sharply raise fuel economy standards for automakers, among other steps, the federal government has yet to enact serious legislation to combat climate change's impact on infrastructure.

The emerging global information infrastructure (GII) was a new and exciting environment full of promise and opportunity for research, education, commerce, entertainment, social change, and democratic governance, but where laws and ethical standards remained unwritten, and where individuals and institutions are still testing the bounds of acceptable behavior.