Sentences with phrase «of public interest groups»

EFF, alongside a number of public interest groups, is creating Trolling Effects, an online database of patent troll demand letters.

The panel consisted of Senators David Carlucci, Jeff Klein and Diane Savino, who consulted members of public interest groups, think tanks and other nonpartisan organizations on the impact of a campaign finance reform package proposed by members of the legislature's Independent Democratic Conference.

New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a collation of labor unions, community organizations, and the variety of public interest groups such as Citizens Action of New York.

This requires local and national coalitions of public interest groups to organize to demand that the existing regulatory processes work to protect the public rather than the industry they are supposed to regulate.

Citing the close race against Avella, the former head of public interest group Center for Community Interest said he hoped to draw on his years working alongside former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to restore honesty throughout the district.

He did so at the expense of the presumption of innocence and at the behest of a public interest group claiming special rules of evidence for victims of some crimes.»

Not exact matches

Macquarie Group client investment manager David Kiely provided a financial community primer for what not do to in public view when he clicked on an e-mail containing racy GQ photos of Kerr as his colleague Martin Lakos appeared Tuesday on the country's Seven Network TV, to discuss the central bank's surprise decision to keep interest rates unchanged.

The British government said on Thursday it would refer Rupert Murdoch's planned takeover of European pay - TV group Sky to regulators to decide if the deal was in the public interest.

In a legal filing joined by other public interest groups and the consumer electronics trade association, the group said the justices should not become regulators of technology and «the court should not attempt to predict the future of television.»

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 serPublic Interest, a group dedicated to highlighting the hazards of the privatization of public serpublic services.

«The NY Fed should go back to the drawing board and draw from the deep, diverse, and highly qualified list of candidates provided to it by the Fed Up coalition (as well as surveying the views of other public interest groups),» the Economic Policy Institute's Josh Bivens said in a recent statement.

Ridlington, along with Michelle Surka of U.S. PIRG, the public - interest research group, authored «Following the Money,» an annual report ranking state transparency websites.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams, reported to be the top pick to replace the retiring head of the New York Fed, failed to stop widespread customer abuses at Wells Fargo, the public - interest group Better Markets alleges.

In sum, proxy access is bad public policy, unsupported by the empirical evidence, and the pet project of a powerful interest group.

The Career & Technical Education (CTE) Working Group is focused on creating public dialogue around programs of study pathways for students interested in entering the STEM workforce.

Engagement with stakeholders — including patent holders, research institutions, consumer advocates, public interest groups, and the general public — is also an important part of our work moving forward.

Fifth, governments, industry and other interested groups should strengthen their efforts to build a national ethic of energy conservation and a clearer public understanding of the costs and benefits of various energy choices.

As such, the most effective approach to building public support is to craft a trade agenda that aligns with the economic interests of the general public and the long - term economic prosperity of Canada as a whole, rather than focusing on the narrow interests of some business groups.

This was driven in part by the rise of public interest litigation — think, for example, of an environmental group finding a third - party plaintiff to sue a company to stop an environmentally sensitive development project.

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As the general public, entrepreneurs, regulators, small businesses, educators, students and industry groups become more aware of the facts about crowdfunding and the impact that it can have at the grassroots level for every small business on every street corner to the highest levels of government and regulation, a groundswell of interest has emerged sparking dialogue and events bringing crowdfunding education, awareness and issues into the spotlight.

Communities of faith are not bereft of the Spirit, and therefore of the possibility of renewal through the efforts of men and women who dare to act in the hope that the Church can contribute more to our public life than merely another interest group.

But during the firwt years of television, organized groups could scarcely expect to achieve any results at all, because the Federal Communications Commission refused to recognize representatives of the public as «parties of interest» in license procedings.

And a republican form of government makes it less likely that factional interests — that is, those groups that defend substantively wrongful and improper public policies — will be able to exercise their plans of oppression against the legitimate rights or interests of the community in general and the individual in particular.

In that year, the FCC released a programming statement in which they concluded, under a good deal of pressure from particular groups) that no public - interest basis was to be served by distinguishing between sustaining - time programs (those broadcast on free air - time) and commercially sponsored programs in evaluating a station's performance in the public interest.

When the State Department considers who it will appoint to international conferences that deal with such matters, it consistently turns to the representatives of the communication industry rather than to knowledgeable representatives from public interest groups.

For example, as the result of law suits instituted by public - interest groups, the courts held that whenever broadcasters present a particular point of view on a matter of public importance, they also must provide opportunities for opposing viewpoints to be presented.

In an industry making such large profits by using a public resource, the industry «s attempts to prove how public - spirited they are provide excellent leverage for moral jujitsu on the part of public - interest groups, including the churches.

The political approach was used in the struggles of public - interest groups, with church organizations in the lead, to achieve media reform during the l960s and 1970s.

Hence their worship services and other «religious» activities have frequently been transformed as if they were means of upholding the morale of a group in society whose special interest is the maintenance of the ideal and program of the good life in the public affairs of the day.

It is the responsibility not of government to formulate and perpetuate public policy but of the citizenry, who can do so wisely, creatively and effectively only by organizing themselves in voluntary groups around their various shared interests and concerns.

When groups of citizens get together to accomplish purposes of mutual interest (from which they derive no profit), it should not be the responsibility of government to inspect, evaluate and approve their endeavors on the basis of supposed conformity to the prevailing notion of «public benefit» or «public policy» of the moment.

Lobbyists and interest groups stir up public opinion demanding action this way or that; the legislators bend to the winds of this pressure; the congressional committees and their friends in the bureaucracy write the immensely detailed and arcane rules that, with little oversight, put legislation into practice.

So long as deregulation is in effect, local public interest groups who have difficulty getting stations to meet their demands for reasonable reform should consider petitioning the FCC to deny the license of the station.

New technologies centered around the increasingly more powerful personal computer are enabling smaller entrepreneurs and public interest groups to publish newsletters and produce radio and video cassettes of an «alternative» provenance that criticizes the mainstream.

They are the same people who fight nondenominational prayers in public schools, the use of public school facilities for meetings of high school religious - interest groups, and state support of private schools.

Mainline groups have been critical of this advantage taken by the paid - time broadcasters because it has frustrated their efforts to encourage stations to act responsibly in the public interest.

(30) Frank and Greenberg in their study The Public's Use of Television found that several of their specified interest groups in the community had a higher - than - average use of religious television programs even though their interest in religion was below average.

Rather, they are interested in protecting the security of their ethnic group and continue to maintain, often with great vehemence, that eternal religious invisibility in our public places is the «price of liberty.»

In an increasingly competitive global marketplace, it is in our interest to farm responsibly with the best science available,» said John De Luca, president and CEO of the Wine Institute, a public policy advocacy group, representing more than 600 California wineries.

He headed to Chicago and worked for several nonprofit organizations, including the Illinois Public Interest Research Group and the Nkrumah Washington Community Learning Center, in the heart of gang territory.

Mass Audubon stands with the affected communities and other interested public and private groups in supporting a strong EPA permit governing the implementation of this crucial environmental cleanup project, which may well affect Massachusetts and the Northeast for centuries.

The public campaign invites concerned and interested parents to get more information by attending parenting events, discussions, and conferences; offers group - based interventions for parents with specific interests and concerns; and provides in - depth treatment for parents who have children with serious conduct problems or who have serious problems of their own.

IPRA is a not - for - profit organization and public interest group who is an advocate in providing quality park, recreation and conservation education, resources and services to professionals and citizens throughout the state of Illinois.

In other business, the district voted unanimously to renew its contract with the South Cook Organization for Public Schools, a group that has lobbyists in the Statehouse in Springfield to represent the interests of south and southwest suburban elementary schools.

While the use of food dyes has been a concern for years, the U.S. nonprofit watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest made a plea to the Food and Drug Administration to ban the chemical in American foods.

Just change what's in them,» said Margo Wootan, head of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group.

IBFAN — the International Baby Food Action Network — consists of over 27o public interest groups working in 168 countries to promote the health and well - being of infants, young children and their mothers through the protection, promotion and support of optimal infant and young child feeding practices.

«It is clear that the complex array of federal food safety programs doesn't adequately protect America's schoolchildren,» said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.

When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.