Sentences with phrase «new operating environment»

This new operating environment has resulted in a much - transformed legal industry that is continuing to evolve.

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«They operate in a number of countries, they continue to expand strategically and they're open to taking risks in new environments.

«We are recommitting ourselves to New York City while also ensuring that we operate in a highly efficient and world - class environment for the 21st century,» Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said in the statement.

«This is about putting as much lipstick as possible on the pig in advance of Xi going into Washington where the administration is saying cyber attacks are the problem and the operating environment for U.S. firms is narrowing,» an official told the New York Times last week.

Globalization and the emergence of new economic powers in Asia and Latin America have expanded the number of connections but not the fundamental facts of Canada's economic situation or the policy environment within which we operate.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Many will be replaced by brand - new companies with entirely new business models created and designed to succeed in the new regulatory environment, where the older companies couldn't operate.

«Not only do small business owners report that the operating environment for their businesses will be better in 2017 than it was in 2016, but business owners are anticipating growth for their businesses in the new year as more plan to increase their capital spending, add staff and apply for credit.»

In fiscal 2012, we generated $ 762 million in cash flow from operations in what was a challenging economic environment, and we anticipate generating even stronger cash flows from operations in fiscal 2013, driven by the combination of continuing same - restaurant sales growth, accelerating new unit growth and an improvement in our operating margins.

By factoring in a variety of primary variables such as market environment, annual operating profit, costs not present after sales, new costs after sale, debts and assets.

The combination of low levels of ES funds and the cash rate remaining close to its target suggests a couple of conclusions: first, the market players involved with RTGS have adapted well to operating in the new environment; and second, participants have reasonable confidence about the availability of cash near the interest rate announced by the Reserve Bank as its policy target.

These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants, global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.

Harvest Market takes the better - for - you concept to a new level by focusing not only on what consumers put in their bodies, but also on how it can better the environment and communities in which it operates.

The Ishida DACS - G checkweigher, demonstrated with integrated metal detector, features a new Ishida - designed, exceptionally fast and accurate loadcell that is able to operate with great reliability in the harshest of environments.

Until more recently, Simplot was preparing to follow rival vegetable manufacturers Heinz and McCain to New Zealand, where Mr O'Brien said the operating environment was cheaper.

Auberge Resorts Collection owns and operates a portfolio of exceptional hotels, resorts, residences and private clubs under two distinct brands: Auberge Hotels and Resorts, timeless luxury properties acclaimed for their intimate, understated elegance, and VieVage Hotels and Resorts, a new lifestyle brand that brings together contemporary themes of design, community and wellness in a fresh, active and social environment.

Some brands are improving customer satisfaction by operating in an agile and innovative way, but overall it is clear that a new approach is required for this new environment.

«We fully embrace the spirit of the letter, which is a call for the UFC and all corporations — sports, entertainment and otherwise — operating in New York State and throughout the United States to do their part to root out speech and conduct derogatory toward women or that in any way perpetuates an environment that condones violence toward women, racism, sexism, homophobia, and relgious bigotry.

«It's satisfying to find a new twist on ideas dating back to the start of the 20th century, and as a materials physicist it is fascinating to be looking for materials which would operate in an environment so different to standard photocathodes.»

They are also concerned about the uneven performance of the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), the regulatory agency which decides what changes can be made in the operating permit and how to enforce the provisions of the permit.

I have now taken nanomechancis applications into the realm of personalized diagnostics, using AFM array technology and a new platform based on piezoresistive membrane surface stress sensors that operate in gaseous environments with a sensitivity increased by a factor of 10.

students who wish to build and operate new schools will have a richer tool set for designing highly effective educational environments and will able to take advantage of the best techniques that are being developed in the field.rough all of these efforts, I'm confident that the Ed.L.D.

Commenting on this new release, NetSupport's Managing Director, Al Kingsley, said: «With this update to both the Corporate and Education Editions of DNA, we're giving organisations the ability to monitor and support users across a multi-platform environment, which is a huge benefit for those operating a range of technologies on site; allowing them to see all activityand apply profiles to groups and departments to boost efficiency even further.»

For - profit organizations have strong potential in terms of their ability to develop new models, particularly those that operate in various «turn - around» environments and incorporate individualized learning technology.

If the unions lose in Friedrichs, superintendents, district administrators, and school principals will need their own toolkit to operate in the new, non agency - fee environment.

In addition to energy and environmental benefits, these new locomotives will allow KCSR to create a safer operating environment through improved train handling, more crashworthy cabs, and state - of - the - art train controls, which will promote crew alertness.

Always Open Support Service — If you are a new Binary Options trader then you may need some help getting used to the trading environment, and as such you are best advised opening up a trading account, ideally a demo account at first, to get used to the way the trading platforms works and operate.

Founder Patrick Purcell & family retained a 57 % majority stake, while the IPO proceeds allowed management to adopt a longer - term operating perspective (in an obviously difficult environment), invest in restructuring, new product development & other growth initiatives, and also execute a number of bolt - on acquisitions.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has launched a new strategic plan to drive up visitors numbers in an era of unprecedented change in the global operating environment.

Since then, they have fostered rapid growth of this new market environment with a variety of tactics such as aggressive sales, monetized in - game accessory markets (Team Fortress 2 hats) and achievements (trading cards), and crowdsourced the entire game licensing process, busting the doors wide open for indie developers, with further plans to crowdsource the entire store organization later; furthermore, they are opening a new market for Steam Machines, gaming - centric (but still quite capable) devices that run Valve \'s own Operating System and use Valve \'s own gaming controller.

The low polygon 3d environments that retro games fully operate on may be hard to swallow for the generation of gamers who were raised on AAA games on newer consoles onwards, but I believe I speak for most of us gamers (as part of the first wave of millennials) that there is an unspeakable, unmentionable, and undoubtable charm to explore worlds that are totally otherworldly, even if they are a byproduct of being a technical limitation.

These new works consist of a hero narrative in which other narratives operate within her created environments.

Operating outside the context of Mas» Griffith performative actions are stripped down to their basic form and abstracted to create new images and narratives that respond critically and poetically to our socio - cultural environment.

The Watermill Center, operated by the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, is a laboratory for performance founded by Robert Wilson as a unique environment for young and emerging artists from around the world to explore new ideas.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

The use of autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated vehicles is increasing our knowledge of how communities appear in their natural environment, but will need new methods of interpretation and analysis.

In order to achieve the target set by the Paris Agreement --- to limit the rise in global average temperature to below the 2 degree C threshold — all new construction must be designed to high energy efficiency standards and use no CO2 - emitting fossil fuel energy to operate; by 2050 the entire built environment must be carbon neutral.

The conventional belief that global warming would soon melt the Arctic, and make economic the large - scale infrastructure needed to operate in its inhospitable environment, had many in the oil industry — and in governments — gearing up to claim their share of this new frontier.

The intent of the Energy Petal is to signal a new age of design, wherein the built environment relies solely on renewable forms of energy and operates year round in a safe, pollution - free manner.

Though PEARL may be able to reopen for part of the year under a new pool of Environment Canada atmospheric research funding (which will have to bankroll a broader range of research with 30 per cent less money than the funding channels it replaces), it likely won't be able to operate as it had previously through the long Arctic winter night.

A new public web portal, designed to support implementation of IMO's Polar Code for ships operating in polar waters, has been welcomed by IMO's Stefan Micallef, Assistant Secretary - General and Director of the Marine Environment Division.

The panel, which operates under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program, is spelling out its new findings in a climate assessment it began working on three years ago and which fills 1,000 pages.

Especially when you consider that adjusting the operating position of your computer mouse and seating posture will always prove less expensive and easier on the environment than trips to the doctor, insurance payments, surgeries, and countless new product purchases.

So before anyone does anything they need to know one thing: law firms are operating in a new and changing environment; so they too need to change.

We are pioneering innovative new large - scale projects in the UK that can operate in a subsidy - free environment by connecting solar power plants directly into the electricity supply of major energy users.

Non-contentious environment and health and safety expert Elizabeth Shepherd advised a French environmental services company and a Polish waste company on their joint tender to the City of Belgrade to operate a new energy from waste plant, supplying electricity and heat to the local utility companies.

Well, a lot of the women that I interviewed were first - time GCs of their companies, and they're operating in a new economic environment where you don't just farm out all the work without paying a close eye on what's going on.

This will afford a further opportunity to new suppliers to enter the market, ironically since there is no longer any volume crime to be delivered, a lean «one man band» operating from a bedroom with a laptop seems to be the optimum business model in a legally aided environment.

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Firm leaders and professional development directors need to understand it in order to redesign systems and teach lawyers how to operate in this new business environment.