Sentences with phrase «of other advanced countries»

The commercial bar of China looks like that of other advanced countries, with large multi-office partnerships engaged in sophisticated transactions (although the numbers are surprisingly small — it is estimated that there are about 350,000 lawyers in China, which has a population of 1.4 billion, compared to about 120,000 lawyers in Canada).

As it is, Americans pay vastly more for health insurance than citizens of all other advanced countries in exchange for inferior results.

Not exact matches

Competitors that advance in the competition will have a chance to pitch and receive advice from some of the sharpest business minds in the country, including Daymond John, also known as «The Shark» from ABC's «Shark Tank,» and other inspirational entrepreneurs.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

On matters of transparency, Beijing's handling of the tragic sinking of a cruise ship on the Yangtze River shows how far it still has to go to catch up with other advanced countries.

It requires very little to establish a foreign residency in many countries other than a bit of advanced planning and perhaps a small investment.

Canada recently passed the Copyright Modernization Act, which was created in response to U.S. government and corporate interests working in a sophisticated fashion to advance American interests at the expense of other countries, including our own.

Like other central banks in advanced countries, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) adopted an unconventional monetary policy after the 2007 — 2009 global financial crisis (GFC).

Many Americans assume that because we are the richest country in the world, with real G.D.P per capita higher than that of other major advanced countries, Americans must be better off across the board - that it's not just our rich who are richer than their counterparts abroad, but that the typical American family is much better off than the typical family elsewhere, and that even our poor are well off by foreign standards.

But because so much of our national income is concentrated in relatively few hands, large numbers of Americans are worse off economically than their counterparts in other advanced countries.

Now Britain wobbles upward with the other advanced industrial countries in a band plus or minus a few percentage points from the average, excepting the big, rich nation of churchgoers, which persists at 30 percent above the rest.

Working with in - country partners, IRRI develops advanced rice varieties that yield more grain and better withstand pests and disease as well as flooding, drought, and other harmful effects of climate change.

Despite being one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, the USA loses more women and babies during childbirth than any other well - developed country.

Some of our economists have been mainly concerned with the fairness of the distribution pattern in the country, while others have been concerned with the fairness of the distributive pattern by which the pattern has come about.Many bases have been advanced for judging the fairness of distributive patterns and of claims for particular changes in them.This and many other simple normal economic trends are what we must concern ourselves with this 21st century.

All four countries have also been carrying out reforms of their pension systems years in advance of many other developed economies.

Mr. Speaker, to achieve this, Government will design the requisite financial architecture that is capable of mobilizing resources to help rapidly advance our country's development through the following: • Launch of a national development bank, with the capacity to mobilize private capital towards agricultural and industrial transformation, among others.

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.

Less cynically, the leaders of ISIS may sincerely think that the Western way of life exemplified in rock concerts, large scale commercial banking activity contrary to Islamic law, and government institutions of countries that advance a way of life contrary to Islamic law in the world, is evil and that it is their duty to take action, on behalf of God, to punish this evil in a public way that discourages others.

We must work with other countries to advance the cause of human rights to confront the four greatest and interconnected threats facing our common humanity:

To the Members of the Democratic Party Platform Drafting Committee: At our founding, what made America different from every other country that existed before was a commitment to an ideal that had never been advanced — that all are created equal, endowed by their Creator with the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It became increasingly important to me to foster these ideas, so it was frustrating to learn that my dream of combining work in clinical medicine and bioethics was not supported by the German system of academic medicine — in contrast to the Anglo - American system and that in other advanced countries.

It is critical that Nevada's rural areas benefit from the same technological advances that other parts of the country have enjoyed.

Only 22.5 % of all full - time faculty positions at the nation's universities were held by women in 2014, a rate far below that in other advanced countries.

The country's newest space lab, Tiangong - 2, for example, hosts a number of scientific payloads, including an advanced atomic clock and a $ 3.4 - million detector called POLAR for the study of γ - ray bursts — blasts of high - energy radiation from collapsing stars and other sources.

In the wine - growing region of southern Australia, grape maturation dates have advanced about eight days per decade, she found, following other examples of changing timelines in natural cycles in the country.

«Informing citizens about the health of the nation and discussing pivotal science and policy issues such as mental health, chronic and emerging diseases and other public health threats, and vaccine research are important to not only advance the national dialogue but also improve the country's overall well - being.»

If these overall estimates are reliable they indicate that the total annual health costs in this country are more than $ 2 trillion, $ 1 trillion higher than the cost for a comparable number of people in other advanced countries.

Research and development to advance coal, natural gas, oil, and other fossil energy technologies, which will help the country make greater use of our rich natural energy resources and help keep down energy costs, are funded at $ 635 million — a decrease of $ 33 million below the fiscal year 2017 enacted level and $ 355 million above the budget request.

Unlike other countries, the medical departments of the universities are responsible for making sure that the best and the most advanced aspects of Neurological Sciences are taught.

Although the United States has been a world leader in astronomical research during much of the 20th century, other countries have advanced rapidly, so that in some cases their facilities are competitive with — and for some purposes, even superior to — U.S. facilities in optical ground - based astronomy.1 The United States can benefit from international collaboration, but only if it brings world - class capabilities to the collaboration.

As well as the potential risk of high animal protein intake on IGF - 1, mTOR, and other factors that can promote cancer growth, it's also worth noting that the countries with the highest health expenditure are probably the most technologically advanced.

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Wakanda is the most advanced civilization and culture in the world, but it has an understandable distrust of other countries.

With funding from the National Science Foundation, Illinois Consolidated Telephone Company, and others, the University of Illinois's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology launched Bugscope, where students around the country capture insect specimens, send them to the university, and then, through the Internet, control the university's $ 600,000 environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) for a two - hour period to view their insects.

Unfortunately, the United States educates only a little more than 6 percent of its students to an advanced level in math according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a small percentage when compared to the proportion in many other countries that score at a comparable level on the international PISA test.

At the same time we are seeing a decline in the popularity of subjects such as advanced mathematics and science and a decline in the performances of Australian students in comparison with students in some other countries.

That's the sort of policy that other advanced countries take for granted, and that help to explain their superior student performance.

So when these top - flight schools decide that advanced honors courses in physics and chemistry are to be given the same weight in calculating a student's official grade point average (GPA) as any other course, including cooking, check - book balancing, and make - up algebra, it becomes ever so clear — once again — that the country's progressive educators have successfully pushed back the forces of school reform.

Other countries do a much better job at bringing students up to the advanced level of performance.

As with external exams in many other countries, EOC results here are typically reported in terms of specific performance thresholds (such as advanced, proficient, needs improvement) rather than as simple pass - or - fail grades, enabling clearer signals of academic performance.

Tucker and his colleagues challenge us to ask why the U.S. is pursuing a reform agenda that differs markedly from what other advanced countries have found essential for creating good schools — high quality teachers, fair funding, and coherence in the system of education.

Advancing the Need for International, Global Studies Caryn Stedman is so eager to broaden her students» views of the world that she has invited visitors from other countries to her school.

This meta - analysis of studies of high - quality afterschool programs across the country illustrates the academic, behavioral, and other gains for students and their families and explains the factors that advance their success.

A national leader in education reform — and recent winner of the Broad Prize for best public charter school network in the country — Success Academy has long been committed to advancing education reform nationally by sharing its content and approach, and inviting others across the country to access and adapt what we teach and how we teach it.

However, simply measuring NJ against other states does not capture the reality of the 21st century global economy or the economic and educational advances of other countries.

To see how well schools in the United States do at producing high - achieving math students, we compared the percentage of U.S. students in the high - school graduating Class of 2009 with advanced skills in mathematics to percentages of similarly high achievers in other countries.

We have certainly seen significant advances in the availability of Internet - enabled, multimedia technology in schools across the country, as a result of the e-rate program and many other forms of financial support for technology.

In «Teaching Math to the Talented,» published in the winter 2011 edition of Education Next, researchers from Stanford and Harvard compared U.S. math achievement at the advanced level with that of 56 other countries.

We also can combat other forces that lower the confidence of children of color in their academic ability and their worth, such as the pervasive belief in this country in the bell curve of ability, school practices for tracking, disproportionate placement in special education, biased application of discipline procedures, and unequal access to Advanced Placement classes.