Sentences with phrase «of public»

The University of Calgary's School of Public Policy recently pointed out that Canadian corporations actually do more taking over than getting swallowed.

«Our biggest concerns are reduced access to advice for the lower end of the investor spectrum and higher costs for individuals,» said Andy Blocker, executive vice president of public policy and advocacy at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).

There exist profitable, late - stage startups that are run by people who believe their companies could stand a little seasoning before going through the hassle of an IPO to face the quarter - by - quarter scrutiny of the public markets.

A right to use a portion of a public good for private gain — the private gain part is a key element in the consideration and also in how a court would look at the transaction.

He currently a communications consultant in the nonprofit, and is now with In The Public Interest, a group dedicated to highlighting the hazards of the privatization of public services.

The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

Trump stayed out of public view the entire weekend.

They believe too that a voluntary military and civilian national service program for young people would help alleviate the social disruption and teach important new skills and provide tutoring to disadvantaged students, help for the elderly, and improvements of public spaces such as parks and playgrounds.

Instead of a public vote, Ben & Jerry's is calling for a free vote in parliament on marriage equality.

A tide of acid attacks in London in recent weeks has led to fears for the safety of members of the public — including tourists.

Pivoting is much harder when you're under the scrutiny of the public markets.

On the plus side, Bala's report says AWS fields the most extensive array of public cloud block, file, and object storage services that suit most needs and that those services tie in nicely to the rest of Amazon's cloud products.

«It's not Goldilocks and the three bears,» wrote Canadian Union of Public Employees national research representative Keith Reynolds.

A new study finds a direct correlation between employee satisfaction and the stock performance of public companies.

«I think Cuban is pretty competitive given his comparatively low level of name recognition at this point,» Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling, told Business Insider in an email.

In June, Perry ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to ramp up border operations, an additional $ 1.3 million a week.

Gotlieb's call for marketers to be more proactive in explaining targeted advertising echo those made in September by Macy's consumer strategy executive Julie Bernard, who attributed much of the public's ambivalence about the practice to negative media spin.

The ad is the latest in a weeklong series of public apologies by Zuckerberg and other execs.

Actress Jessica Alba has recently been under a huge amount of public scrutiny after it came out that the «natural» products her Honest Company sold may not be so natural after all.

So what does it mean when a presidential candidate gains a devoted following and rises to prominence — yet consistently avoids taking responsibility for the content of his public messages?

VICE News made numerous email and telephone queries over the past month to spokespeople for the Army, the Navy, and the Department of Defense seeking comment on the Army Institute of Public Health study and the treatment of troops before and after their deployment to Guantanamo.

A recent Abacus Data poll, done on behalf of Public Response — an agency that works with labour — indicates that a majority of Canadians, 61 %, believe unions do a good job of protecting their members» jobs.

Robert Mansell is a professor of economics and academic director of the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy.

And the amount of public disclosure is only going to decline.

When he looks at Postmedia, he sees short - term owners hyping an unproven strategy ahead of a public offering.

But Steve Weisz, the president and CEO of public timeshare provider Marriott Vacations Worldwide, told CNBC's Jim Cramer that the data suggest otherwise.

Afterwards, invite the interviewer into conversation by saying something along the lines of, «I'd love to hear about the kind of public speaking this job involves.»

Uber said California should allow paying members of the public to ride in autonomous vehicles with drivers.

And yet emails received in the rule - free court of public opinion may not be admissible in a court of law, where strict rules of admissibility apply.

I think history's lessons tell us that public scrutiny and competition favors the harsh realities of the public spotlight with its trials and tribulations over the easy of autocracy, control and cloaked decision - making.

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll ™ among 1087 Canadians 18 years of age and older, the average amount of vacation time given to employed workers is about 4 weeks (3.7), while the self - employed take a similar amount of time off (4.0 weeks, on average).

«When you own your own facilities and control the manufacturing process,» explains Peter Iliopoulos, senior vice-president of public and corporate affairs, «you have direct influence in terms of the CSR standards you can implement.»

The designation of a public health emergency would mobilize resources across the federal government to assist individuals and communities fighting addiction and its effects.

At agencies throughout the country, Socrata has provided or created tools to help governments track performance of public initiatives.

Two organizations, Canadian Union of Public Sector Employees (CUPE) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) have publicly released their proposals on how the minimum wage should be increased in Ontario, with the CCPA proposal in particular showing some promise.

Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the government «should listen to the pay review bodies who govern each individual area of public sector pay,» and that ministers should respect the «integrity» of the pay review process.

The Post reports that these databases, searchable by any member of the public, will be maintained by local media outlets — with courts providing details of credit defaults, and banking regulators updating banks on the blacklist.

And such actions still have not protected firms from legal attack; McInturff, who conducts the NBC / WSJ poll and is co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, says he gets a claim per week accusing his firm of calling a cellphone from an autodialer.

Johnson & Johnson was lauded in its response to the crisis, but this occurred in the days before social media, the Internet, and 24 - hour cable news, when careful consideration as to the tone and content of public communication could be timed to a daily, weekly, or monthly news cycle.

If and when he does formally accept, Khosrowshahi will be tasked with bringing Uber back from the brink of its public meltdown, attempting to bring peace to its warring board, and keeping its core business running.

«Money is not the problem,» says Zoltan Acs, a professor of public policy at George Mason University in Virginia.

«You would make some direct operational savings by removing the complexity of the ticketing system, where you have cash payments that slow buses down,» Peter White, Professor of Public Transport Systems at the University of Westminster, told CNBC.com.

Facebook is planning a series of public forums in May and June in different countries to get more feedback on its rules, said Mary deBree, Facebook's head of content policy.

The Golden Lamb Restaurant & Hotel opened in 1803 as a «house of Public Entertainment,» and it still provides food and lodging to this day.

While that's not impossible, achieving this kind of expenditure control will require difficult choices and continued restraint in terms of public sector compensation.

As economic satisfaction increases, «consumers are more comfortable spending and confident they can manage any new debt,» said Rod Griffin, Experian's director of public education.

Kushner has, for the most part, tried to stay out of the public eye, especially given his sons» prominent position in a controversial White House.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

While venture capitalists, mutual funds and other private investors can only see upside in a zero - interest environment where growth is hard to find, public investors would be skeptical of a public Uber, Smith explains, just as they've asked tough questions about companies like Twitter and Yelp.

A Number 10 source said the Government was responding to the recommendations of public sector pay review bodies which are currently reporting to ministers «on a case - by - case basis».