Sentences with phrase «of failed enterprise»

«Between the half - erased neighbourhoods are ruined factories, boarded up warehouses, rows of storefronts bearing the traces of failed enterprise... some areas have been stripped entirely and weedy version of nature is returning... a third of Detroit, some forty square miles, has evolved past decrepitude into vacancy and prairie - an urban void nearly the size of San Francisco.»

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Others explain that the first wave of enterprise AI is «doomed to fail,» and somehow that's both preordained and acceptable.

In a meeting with Broadcom on Friday, Qualcomm proposed a reverse termination fee of 9 percent of enterprise value, if Broadcom fails to win regulatory approvals.

While the WTO rules are very valuable, they were formed two decades ago and have failed to catch up with the times and realities of the global economy, such as massive government subsidies that create overcapacity and competition from state - owned enterprises.

Tenneco Inc (NYSE: TEN)'s proposed $ 5.4 - billion acquisition of Icanh Enterprises LP (NASDAQ: IEP)- owned Federal - Mogul is likely to be accretive to its earnings per share, but the deal fails to address two ongoing investor concerns, according to Goldman Sachs.

They fail to realize the critical importance of forging a team of people that are willing to dedicate their lives to turning the founder's vision into a truly self - sustaining enterprise.

In most countries (including the US and UK), more than half of newly created enterprises fail within the first five years (business failure statistics according to OECD Entrepreneurship at a Glance Report 2016 and Eurostat).

It was rumored that he spent all of his time on things not related to the major problems, as a 29 year - old with little to no experience was running a failing multi-million dollar enterprise with too many problems to solve for one owner.

The saga of the failed BHP Billiton bid for Potash Corp., which was heightened by the potential involvement of a Chinese state - owned enterprise, carries several lessons for Canada as it prepares to deal with a growing number of large, and potentially controversial, acquisitions by state - owned and other enterprises.

If particular ideals failed, they were revised, perhaps radically» but the enterprise of fashioning ideals was never wholly scrapped.

During the 1980s, most of the communist and socialist nations of the world were already quietly dropping their failed economic systems and turning to markets, private property, and personal enterprise.

They argued that «as now constituted, the Council [for World Mission] represents only a very restricted understanding of the missionary task;... that it perpetuates the relationship of donor and recipient; and that it fails to give adequate place to the talents of every church in the cooperative enterprise».

In fact, says Cobb, Metz's rejection of the historical in favor of the apocalyptic perspective on the human community shows that he is aware that the Christian enterprise may fail, but:

In this way, those who at first failed to show any interest may sooner or later come round to showing it; members of the congregation may begin to develop a habit of attendance; and thus a real start will be made in that highly important and yet very difficult enterprise: adult Christian education.

Having originally disputed the change on the basis of failings of the consultation required in the 2013 enterprise agreement, the coal union eventually agreed the company was free to alter shifts.

Blonde also fails to realize that progressive taxation and even much nationalization of enterprises have been a natural part of the democratic liberation of the proletariat and poor through their own demand.

Among his complaints, Peebles says de Blasio has failed to follow through on a promise to improve the percentage of contracts the city awards to minority - and women - owned business enterprises, or MBWEs.

Britain, they thought, was ready for a centre - left politics that decried the failings of markets and stood up to monopolistic big business, without entirely abandoning commitments to budget discipline and private enterprise.

In yet another attempt to protect his assets against angry business associates, Cappelli Enterprises failed to convince a judge to dismiss a lawsuit regarding the troubled developers failure to comply with contracts and aggreements between owners of 5 Anderson St and the developer.

The journalists in question are obviously acting in cahoots with some unscrupulous individuals to malign the person of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and by extension the Government of the State of Osun, but like so many others who have tried to do so in the past, they will continue to fail in their dubious enterprise.

Following a Newsday story last week that detailed how the district attorney's office failed to prosecute apparent public corruption, drug activity and an armed robbery during an extensive wiretap investigation into Macedonio, County Executive Steve Bellone in a news conference accused Spota of leading a «criminal enterprise» and demanded that he step down or be removed from office.

«He sees limits on what the voluntary sector, social enterprises and community groups can do... Gordon Brown looks at area where the state has failed and thinks the answer is more state intervention, more of the same.

Even if we fail to find the miracles that allow us to make and then transport hundreds of gigawatts of power over 3,000 miles at pennies per kilowatt - hour, and even if we can never find photovoltaics that are as cheap as dirt, the enterprise of trying to do it will push our science and our engineering so far forward that we'll generate a cornucopia of unexpected new technologies that will be the basis of vast new industries.

«Robert Beall deserves a lot of credit for placing a huge and expensive bet on an enterprise that could well have failed,» says Collins, the current NIH director.

Honestly, the movie fails to measure up not only to the best of the genre like the Beatles» Help, but even to similarly superficial vanity enterprises such as the Spice Girls» Spice World.

No: testament to the howling ineptitude of the enterprise is that its every desperate attempt to offend fails miserably.

The message of these films has become alarmingly familiar: American public education is a failed enterprise.

What Mulgrew and his brethren can't quite grasp is that parents all over the country are getting sick and tired of the teachers unions being in control of what has become a failing public education enterprise.

Last week, the American Enterprise Institute hosted an event discussing the failings of civics education in America.

Education policy guru Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute never fails to provide provocative and noteworthy commentary on the latest education issues.

«The NCTQ report is intended to support a specific political agenda that seeks to label teacher preparation and the teaching profession as failed enterprises that should be taken over by the corporate, for - profit sector of our society,» three faculty members from Wisconsin universities wrote in an op - ed that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal - Sentinel shortly before the report was released.

Also, as an FF disciple, I reject a number of commonly held beliefs including the concept of «too big to fail»; the definition of corporate failure; the belief that creditworthy entities, corporate or governmental, ever repay indebtedness in the aggregate; or the belief that a capital infusion into a private enterprise by a governmental agency is, ipso facto a «bailout» rather than an «investment».

The results from a survey of failed small - to - medium - sized enterprises conducted by CCH, an Australian accounting software company, reveals an even higher percentage (50 %) of businesses fail because of a poorly designed business plan, or no business plan at all.

As you will read in the story, a SWOT analysis is a formal process of evaluating the internal (strengths and weaknesses) and external (opportunities and threats) factors that will ultimately decide whether an enterprise succeeds or fails.

And when all else fails, Budget and Enterprise have some of the cheapest rates in my experience

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Journalism is both a public service and a free - market enterprise, so I'm never surprised, or really disappointed, when they fail to follow the protocols of other disciplines.

The market sometimes fails to provide enterprises of obvious public value.

Zhang Zhanping, deputy head of the capital's monitoring team, said that the agency will also enhance supervision to reduce cases of enterprises failing to report accurate emission numbers or refusing to pay emission fees.

Steven and Orestes should stop trying to spread the corruption of «climate science» to the rot of the entire scientific enterprise, in support not only of a failed hypothesis but anti-human ideology, which has already cost at least hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions in treasure.

The skeptics, on the other hand, have little more than a political manifesto camouflaged as science (witness Crichton, Inhofe, Michaels, Tech Central Station, The Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Global Climate Coalition, etc.) In fact, as you suggest, the skeptic's arguments fail to rise to the level of a theory of climate at all.

Within the parameters of these rules, as a form of National Promotional Bank (NPB), the MDB will step in when the private market fails to provide adequate financing to certain lines of business, categories of clients or types of enterprises that meet the Bank's social and economic mission, or, if such financing is available, it is not offered at normal market terms and is not appropriate to reach the Bank's purpose.

Even with OSHA's Mobile - area office eyeing it because of previous citations, Opelika - based D&J Enterprises has failed to make the workplace safer for its employees.

Successful defense of a mandamus and declaratory judgment claim against a County Treasurer accused of failing to properly abate taxes on a large commercial property located in an Enterprise Zone.

But you should be aware that it is possible to fail if you fail to meet the basic standard of doing the work and making a positive contribution to the collective enterprise.

The title of the piece is meant to be a little ironic, because not only were these four not «pirates» in any persuasive definition of the term (they're all now associated with legitimate enterprises), but they also failed to usher in an era of universal free content exchange — and they deny that that was ever their intent.

If you fail to call or show up in person to the Municipal Judge, City of Mount Enterprise Rusk court for long enough, a bench warrant will be put out for your arrest.

Lenovo also reported healthy growth of its enterprise machine business, which it over the years has built by taking over failing IBM divisions.

That's why I am surprised when some of them fail to approach their executive job search with the same spirit of enterprise.