Sentences with phrase «of policy assumptions»

They could have, by making product and universal life ethics training mandatory and misrepresentation of policy assumptions and guarantees criminal and harshly punishable, have stopped this before anyone was hurt.

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His remarks can't be considered a roadmap for the future path of interest rates; he made a point of stating that every policy meeting is «live,» meaning the latest data could alter assumptions.

(The Bank of Canada assumes they will converge in the future, but that is based on the assumption monetary policy works as it always did.

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.

If the original tax base is $ 263 billion and if nothing else changes — the assumption you have to make in assessing the effects of a policy — then this information is enough to put some numbers on the sort of revenues you can expect to generate by an increase in corporate tax revenues.

He has a theory about why the markets swooned: «Necessary changes in the stance of monetary policy removed the complacent assumption that «all bad news is good news» (because it brought renewed stimulus) that many felt underpinned markets.»

Any attempt to assess the potential economic impact of a Syria mission depends on a key assumption about foreign policy: Should President Obama decide for intervention, will the mission look more like Iraq and Afghanistan or Libya?

«The working assumption of every central bank is more governments would favor more growth and looser policy,» said Doug Porter, chief economist at Bank of Montreal.

While all of these infrastructure policy programs have an explicit focus on accelerating capital formation for infrastructure, they rest on the assumption that information about viable projects is readily available within the economy.

At the same time, an implicit assumption of Canadian pension policy has been that beyond a certain level of earnings, people should look after themselves.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

The analysis relies on a number of assumptions about how monetary policy affects debt and how debt affects financial stability.

The Washington - based fund attributes this revision to «the assumption that fiscal policy will be less expansionary than previously assumed, given the uncertainty about the timing and nature of U.S. fiscal policy changes.»

However, growth could be much lower if either of the two critical policy assumptions is not satisfied.»

The concern that the network hashrate will become too low is based on several assumptions and variables, including the number of daily transactions, the willingness of the users to wait for confirmations, the willingness of the users to pay small amounts, the behavior of the miners, the fee policies set by various wallets, the emergent consensus on acceptable fees by the mining community, and other factors, including what actually is «too low» of a network hashrate in the first place.

The entire premise of your article is based on the assumption that the U.S. will only take action against Mexico without being flexible in its trade policies against other countries down the road.

The study, «Return Shipping Policies of Online Retailers: Normative Assumptions and the Long - Term Consequences of Fee and Free Returns,» was conducted by Amanda Bower, professor of business administration / marketing at Washington and Lee University's Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics.

So how can Canadians reverse this assumption, widely held on the part of the political class, that raising taxes is a safe policy?

My assumption is: Democracy agendas / branding / policies are winners because of the zeitgeist created by Harper's anti-democratic regime.

At the beginning of June, Russia's Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin said that Russia was «actually ready to live forever at oil prices $ 40 or below,» as oil at US$ 40 is the current underlying key assumption of Russia's economic policies.

The OPEC / non-OPEC deal is working, and the current underlying key assumption of Russia's economic policies — oil prices at US$ 40 — can allow it to live forever at that price or below, Russia's Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin told Bloomberg in an interview on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday.

His skepticism undermines the idea of objective truth and thereby gives reason to be suspicious of claims and policies based on the assumption of it.

We simply can not afford to formulate public policy on the assumption that all living relationships are of equal value to society.

The policies they advocate on the assumption that individuals are purely self - interested systematically erode the communities that depend on the importance of human relations that are not contractual.

But for my purposes it is enough to say that the assumptions I have listed have many practical consequences when governments adopt policies oriented to economic growth on the basis of advice from neoliberal economists, or, indeed, many other economists who share this model.

In any case, the assumption that social policy will be improved by giving freedom of choice to self - interested individuals is not obviously very good Christianity.

But if the assumption is wrong, if tax exemption is not a subsidy or a form of federal financial assistance, then the tests applied to charitable trusts are not appropriate to tax exemption, and exempt entities need not be required to render what the legislature or IRS considers public benefit or to conform to what they construe to be public policy.

This assumption is still dominant, but the practical distortions it has introduced into the actual course of «development» have finally become so apparent that an alternative measure of the success of policies has been proposed by the Overseas Development Council.

Challenging Assumptions: Breastfeeding and HIV / AIDS Authoring organization (s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - Published: 2008 Summary: This policy brief discusses the benefits of breastfeeding in light of the risk of perinatal HIV transmission.

The reason why there is an assumption that the Republicans won't vote against Trump in unanimous lockstep, like they did as a matter of policy with Obama, is if the Congressional Republicans basically declare war on their own party leader, no one but the Dems can win (given their track record, that's not a given, either), short or long term.

It also undercuts the assumptions that all three countries are able to stay in step on policy towards North Korea, the primary immediate threat to the security of both Asian states.

Harriet Harman's triumphalist marking of Gordon Brown's first Budget as, «the end of the assumption that families consist of a male breadwinner and a female helpmate in the home,» culminated in an Equalities Bill (enacted by the Coalition) and one way maternal employment policies and childcare policies

Now some might criticise me for reviewing a book I haven't read but since IDS hasn't bothered to find out anything about the thousands of lives his brutal policies have destroyed but simply attacked them based on his own prejudices and assumptions I feel compelled to adopt his own methods towards this garbage.

For the limited scope of this study, which is to connect neuroscience with political theory and policy - making, I will focus especially on those findings that challenge long - held assumptions about human nature.

There is thus a direct contradiction between the government's rationale for full nuclear replacement and its organising assumptions for the rest of its defence policy.

Forgoing his slicker, better - known brother David, it apparently bought into the younger Miliband's soft - left strategy of opposing the coalition's austerity policies, on the assumption it would fail and become wildly unpopular among voters.

One Democratic party source close to the administration told the New Statesman: «Your assumptions about the beliefs of Obama's foreign policy team are correct - there are concerns about Cameron among top members of the team.»

Certainly, Miliband has never bothered doing a single foreign policy speech to avail us of that assumption.

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has meanwhile accused the Government of making immigration policy on the false assumption that «Joe Public, out there, is a bigot».

All of which works on the assumption that David Cameron and Andrew Lansley are such bas salesmen that they can't communicate a policy mesage.

, is authored by IAS Policy Analyst Aveek Bhattacharya and claims that «these estimates rely on data that are between 4 and 12 years out of date and sensitive to questionable assumptions and methodological judgements».

«Contrary to some of the assumptions, President Buhari had an engaging week devoted mostly to policy issues not ceremonial events.

Indeed, establishment of factories, under the new policy is expected within the first 100 days of the new government's assumption of office.

House Republican Leader Themis Klarides of Derby said, «The deficit was expected because the state's budget policies over the years have been built on false assumptions, that increasing taxes will be sufficient to meet spending levels.

Josef Schmidhuber, a senior policy analyst at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, questioned some of the underlying assumptions for regional production figures and said that this UEF study also fails to consider other external factors that could affect these results.

In fact, some of them didn't even mention it, being far more upset by a comment attributed to Watson a couple of sentences earlier: He was «inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa,» Watson had told The Sunday Times, because «all our social policies are based on the assumption that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.»

But even before all the data were in, the researchers began to suspect that their assumptions were wrong, says lead study author Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Public Health Policy at the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, N.C. «The stereotype that many of us in the U.S. and Europe have of an institution is not what is being set up in less wealthy nations,» Whetten says.

«For too long, policy makers have assumed that universal Pharmacare is an expensive policy for governments — that assumption turns out to be wrong,» said Dr. Danielle Martin, a co-other of the study and a professor at the University of Toronto.

The book includes chapters on the economic assumptions used, energy supply and storage technologies, demand and technology assumptions, a reference scenario, variations on that scenario, federal and state policies needed, a «roadmap,» and a final chapter of the main findings and recommendations.

Differences in projections of warming by the end of the century appear to be related to assumptions made on emission trajectories and the ambitiousness of climate policies beyond 2030 rather than differences in methodology or climate modeling.