Sentences with phrase «of agency level»

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While the business of booking trips through a traditional agency will likely never return to pre-internet levels, there is a growing understanding among travelers that calling an old - school agent could be worthwhile in certain cases.

Last month, the panel of 31 independent scientists charged with reviewing the EPA's draft report stated that the agency's broad conclusion about the mining technique known as fracking is at odds with the evidence and «inconsistent with the observations, data, and levels of uncertainty presented.»

the Company's share repurchase plans depend on a variety of factors, including the Company's financial position, earnings, share price, catastrophe losses, maintaining capital levels commensurate with the Company's desired ratings from independent rating agencies, funding of the Company's qualified pension plan, capital requirements of the Company's operating subsidiaries, legal requirements, regulatory constraints, other investment opportunities (including mergers and acquisitions and related financings), market conditions and other factors.

Through a QMS there is increased management oversight which, keeping compliance in mind, demonstrates the proper level of control to regulatory agencies.

By the end of February, when Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler delivers his final set of rules on net neutrality, Wheeler would expand the agency's reach over the internet and broadband providers through a series of «bright line rules» that would take the debate over net neutrality to yet another level.

«First, because it's a very limited downgrade, only on two out of three banks, and especially since Moody's rates them better than the other two agencies (Standard & Poor's and Fitch), so, in reality, it put them at the same level or even slightly higher than the other agencies.»

Yum Brands felt the full effect of those risks in December, when Chinese food safety agencies launched a probe of the company's supply chain after excess levels of antibiotics were found in chicken from two suppliers.

The IRS audited only 0.84 % of taxpayers in 2015, the lowest level since 2004, and the agency is on track to audit even fewer people this year.

The department's understanding of rising sea levels will enable the military services and agencies in affected areas to make informed decisions on how to continue to execute their missions, Babb added.

For instance, intelligence agencies may go after political opponents to maintain or increase the level of influence they enjoy with the government.

According to former employees, Facebook, Google and Twitter all worry that if they are public about their true level of cooperation with Western law enforcement agencies, they will face endless demands for similar action from countries around the world.

The federal government has raised the National Terrorism Public Alert level from medium to high based on advice from security and intelligence agencies, but says it was not based on knowledge of a specific attack plan.

The agency said there have been recent variations in the number of cases reported in the region and, while the level of risk is unknown, Zika virus infection during pregnancy causes severe birth defects, including microcephaly and other severe brain abnormalities.

But Obama fired Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 — and Flynn's security clearance would have been renewed at the DIA level rather than by the upper echelons of the White House.

The International Energy Agency, a Paris - based think tank, said in its annual review of long - term megatrends in global energy that soaring electricity demand around the world will ensure that CO2 levels keep rising unless ambitions are ratcheted much higher.

Cyber crime ignores borders by its nature, and fighting it requires an unusually high level of cooperation between the companies under attack, the private security firms they hire for protection and investigations, and the law enforcement agencies in multiple countries that try to track hackers down.

«Because almost 90 % of adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18 and nearly 2,500 youth smoke their first cigarette every day in the U.S., lowering nicotine levels could decrease the likelihood that future generations become addicted to cigarettes and allow more currently addicted smokers to quit,» the agency wrote in a release.

«Almost every level of dialogue with the United States is frozen,» Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told a state - sponsored news agency.

While the top level of the agency is staffed by officials chosen by the White House, the Justice Department is supposed to undertake legal obligations of the U.S. government in a non-political fashion.

To compile the proposals, Wu partnered with professors from Harvard, the International Women's Media Foundation, and the social services agency Digital Sisters, which she calls «a pow - wow of high - level feminists.»

In March, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion to include a new indication for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL - C levels.

Among its suggestions is a recommendation that all levels of government use procurement programs as a means to support small and medium enterprises and minority - owned businesses, including requiring supplier diversity policies for federal crown corporations and agencies.

«Because almost 90 % of adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18 and nearly 2,500 youth smoke their first cigarette every day in the U.S., lowering nicotine levels could decrease the likelihood that future generations become addicted to cigarettes and allow more currently addicted smokers to quit,» the agency wrote.

Apple has been increasing the level of encryption in its mobile software amid heightened privacy concerns following leaks by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about NSA surveillance programs.

Meanwhile, a coalition of almost two dozen state attorneys general is suing the FCC at the U.S. Court of Appeals, demanding a federal - level rollback of the agency's decision.

In March of 2015, the FDA sent KIND a letter saying its advertising was in some instances misleading, in part because the fat content of four of its fruit and nut bars exceeds the level the agency allows companies to tout as healthy.

The Environmental Protection Agency says the Michigan incident showed that, unlike other types of crude, bitumen can sink in water — the Kalamazoo will have to be dredged to contain damage — and might emit dangerous levels of benzene, a carcinogenic substance, when it breaks out.

Dickson's high - level policy - making seems to emanate from an ultra-exclusive bureaucratic club called the «heads of agencies,» which includes the governor of the Bank of Canada, the heads of the provincial securities commissions and senior Department of Finance officials.

«I'd like to set the record straight: Neither I nor anyone in my office has spoken with the president or any high - level member of the Trump administration, including Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, regarding government business since August.»

The agency classified a version of fentanyl called furanyl fentanyl as a Schedule 1 narcotic, its highest level of restriction, in November 2016, and in February the agency added any compound chemically similar to fentanyl to Schedule 1 for at least two years.

Consequently, this level of service usually only exists in government agencies.

Richard Aucoin, chief registrar of the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, which sets Canada's pesticide levels, said that Canada's higher levels were a «trade irritant.»

Nobody with this kind of exposure to blackmail or manipulation by special interests or foreign intelligence agencies would be able to get a high - end security clearance, and, traditionally, at least, that would have made someone ineligible for a high - level White House position.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that an average of 800,000 barrels per day in production were taken offline last month, contributing greatly to May's having the highest monthly level of unplanned global oil supply disruptions since the agency began tracking such data in 2011.

It's definitely not something new, but apparently the term is sufficiently self - explanatory at CEO - and manager level to have earned content marketing a place on the product menus of sales - driven SEO and online marketing agencies.

Within program expenses, major transfers to persons were up $ 1.1 billion, primarily due to higher old age security payments, reflecting an increase in the number of recipients and higher inflation, as benefits are indexed to quarterly changes in the consumer price index, major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 0.6 billion, reflecting legislative increases; while direct program expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion, as lower «other transfer» payments more than offset increases in departmental / agency operating costs.

I have to say, however, that the Mangools suite of SEO tools is outstanding and is something some of our team uses at my Enterprise level SEO Agency.

The hard part is that we have some large enterprises and agencies that are doing very large scale link building and there's no way we could provide them with the level of service that they need at $ 79 / month.

Smaller business owners are forced to sink or swim by their own efforts or take risks employing SEO agencies who themselves often don't have skilled content marketers able to produce the right level of content.

Rich Barton participated in PAGE kick - off meetings in Washington, D.C., chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker that also involved President Obama and other senior - level officials from the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development.

This is a guest post written by Dolly Howard (@dollyhoward), Inbound Marketing Consultant of SmartBug Media, a strategic inbound marketing agency and Gold - level HubSpot partner based in Southern California.

While Dennis» agency, Blitzmetrics, continues to focus on enterprise level, Dennis is also very passionate about working with small - to medium - sized businesses to help them tap into the incredible power of Facebook.

From owners of high - level brokerages and agencies to senior - level executives of real estate technology companies, industry search databases, and unique concepts paving the way for the future of the real estate business, members of the Forbes Real Estate Council are filling in all the gaps.

The U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im) is a vital federal agency that levels the global playing field by providing financing tools for buyers of American - made products when commercial financing is not available.

«The merger of the two companies augments the investment advantages and economic revenue for Abu Dhabi, and creates a body capable of achieving the highest level of integration and growth in multiple sectors, including energy, technology and space industry,» the agency said.

Congress just held a hearing on the nomination of former Congressman Scott Garrett to lead the U.S. Export - Import (Ex-Im) Bank — the federal agency that helps level the playing field for American workers against aggressive foreign competition.

Due to this difference in agency, (perceived) avatars and agents often yield different levels of social influence.

IEA holds high - level workshop on the future of electricity Large gathering is part of agency - wide effort on next World Energy Outlook special electricity focus 24 April 2018

As a result of the MBS and agency purchases, the total assets of the Federal Reserve today exceed the total reached at the peak level of activity for the lending facilities in December 2008.»