Sentences with phrase «of arbitrary cap»

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Paul Merski, senior vice president and chief economist with the Independent Community Bankers of America in Washington, D.C., called the goodwill cap «arbitrary and random.»

«The last thing we want to do in this economic environment is to put arbitrary caps where you're hurting the growth of the small business sector,» Merski said.

A de Blasio spokesperson said Flanagan's proposal «would add an arbitrary, unnecessary and restrictive cap to the New York City property tax code — which already has a number of existing caps — and cost the city billions, resulting in severe cuts to vital services such as public safety and education.»

The candidate promised to impose an arbitrary cap on the amount of cash he would take from individuals and interests seeking public benefits.

The AFL - CIO's Mario Cilento says the «undemocratic and arbitrary cap» has «done nothing but tie the hands of school districts at exactly the wrong time.»

As the good - government advocates criticized such a cap as arbitrary, Heastie cautioned against getting hung up on the percentage and the type of salary that percentage is linked to.

David Cameron has suffered a blow to his EU reform plans after the outgoing president of the European commission, José Manuel Barroso, said an arbitrary cap on free movement within the EU would be incompatible with European law.

As long as charter schools aren't kept from opening or expanding because of arbitrary state caps, parents will continue flocking to them.

While some say capping the number of charter schools controls the quality of education, others say the caps are arbitrary and limit opportunity.

When center - left officials and institutions (such as the NAACP) support arbitrary caps, they are dismissing the voices of three million current charter school students and their parents, and the one million more who want to enroll their child in a charter school, but due to high demand, were only able to get on a waiting list (this includes: 8,640 parents in Washington, D.C., 44,000 in New York, 34,000 in Massachusetts, and a whopping 158,000 in California).

The arbitrary cap on the number of charter schools that can open in New York continues to prohibit growth.

But the program also has prompted a number of states to lift arbitrary caps on charter schools and, perhaps most importantly, has gotten 36 states and the District of Columbia to introduce more rigorous teacher - evaluation systems.

The article is centered around secretary of education John King who speaks against «arbitrary» caps on charter schools and in support of greater state accountability.

Small cap stocks are companies with a «market cap» (the value of all the shares they have outstanding) below, say, $ 250 million, or some other arbitrary figure.

Small caps are companies with a «market cap» (the value of shares they have outstanding) below $ 250 million, or some other arbitrary figure.

Regarding allocation across the market cap is arbitrary choice of Fund manager even for Multicap / Balanced fund.

Although recent legislation helps consumers in some ways by limiting credit card fees and requiring credit cards to notify customers in advance of arbitrary rate increases, many credit card companies are raising interest rates to recoup the income they're losing due to caps on penalty fees.

Small caps stocks are companies with a «market cap» (the value of shares they have outstanding) below, say, $ 250 million, or some other arbitrary figure.

Even with these basic lists, we can find the «stocks in play» for that day instead of sticking to arbitrary large caps which we wouldn't have traded that day because other stocks were in play.

Many kennels also think that it is only worth getting a dog operated if it is either an exceptionally good dog or they are sure that the course of treatment will be less than an arbitrary expense cap.

An arbitrary cap on the number of animals any entity can possess throughout the state will not end unlawful, inhumane breeding practices.

The cherry on top of the year, however, was Himid's receipt of the Turner Prize, Britain's most prestigious art award — made all the sweeter by the fact that she is the first woman of color to win and, at 63, she's also the oldest recipient after the award's arbitrary age cap of 50 was abolished.

Other weakening efforts include an arbitrary cap limiting efficiency and demand response expenditures to no more than 2 % of an electric customer's bill or 1.5 % of a gas customer's bill.

Would an arbitrary punitive damage cap of $ 250,000 in a case like the Ford Pinto or Exxon Valdez oil spill deter a multi-billion dollar corporation from committing violations in the future?

Caps on awards for pain and suffering establish arbitrary compensation which act as a one size fits all and show to increase claim costs and the amount of administration involved in personal injury cases.

A $ 350,000 cap was enacted in 1995, which with inflation adjustments rose to $ 445,775 before it was struck down by the state Supreme Court in 2005 as being arbitrary and violating the equal protection provision of the state constitution.

Savings from caps have led to huge insurance industry profits, which «the insurance industry should pass... onto Florida physicians in the form of reduced malpractice insurance premiums, and it should no longer be necessary to continue punishing those most seriously injured by medical negligence by limiting their noneconomic recovery to a fixed, arbitrary amount.»

Those looking for a deep principle of justice explaining the logic of this cap level should prepare themselves for disappointment: as this first - rate student note carefully documents, the level of the California cap was quite arbitrary.

A friend of mine just saw this play out as she was offered a sizable promotion with considerably more responsibility — yet just an 8 percent raise because of arbitrary pay caps.