Sentences with phrase «of public problems»

The masterful human innovation of irrigation unleashed millennia of public problems.

In addition, there are in nearly every congregation employers who have alcoholics in their businesses or plants, workers who know of untreated alcoholics in their unions, professional people with alcoholics among their clients or patients, public schoolteachers and opinion molders who through social prestige, political leadership, or involvement in the mass media help to create new images of public problems.

During most of his long life he stood near to political circles in the capital, and he was acutely aware of the public problems, social and international, in which his country was involved.

Beyond using plain language in client communication, lawyers should be aware of the publics problems with reading.

Not exact matches

A pro tip for public policy advocacy groups: If you're looking for attention, it helps if your problem appears massively huge and your solution impossibly cheap — preferably less than a cup of coffee a week.

Retiring University of Western Australia transport Professor John Taplin has advocated the introduction of a congestion tax in the CBD as one way to reduce traffic problems and make public transport more attractive.

«We have this long history of using it in the southern US and it hasn't caused [anywhere] near the problems people are claiming,» said Dr. Grayson Brown, a public health entymology expert at the University of Kentucky.»

The good doctor has spent much of the past 35 years reframing our national epidemic of gun violence as though it were any other epidemic — that is to say, as a public health problem.

Wisconsin is poised to strip collective bargaining rights from most of the state's 175,000 public employees in the boldest step by a new Republican governor and Legislature to solve budget problems by confronting organized labor.

He also had a stuttering problem until his 20s, and overcame it by reading poetry aloud in front of a mirror, to smooth out cadence and forcing himself to participate in as many public speaking events as possible.

This lack of transparency on the true extent of this widespread safety issue may be why the problem has yet to fully bubble up into the public consciousness or to attract the serious attention of U.S. regulators.

It is incredible that the Japanese public opinion, and the Japanese leaders, seem oblivious to these existential problems of an old and distinguished civilization.

The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

First, public companies have an «agency problem,» the inherent conflict of interest between executives wanting to create wealth for themselves and doing what's best for shareholders.

Uber drivers have been implicated in violence in the past, and the company's approach to screening its drivers has been criticized for some of its legal and public relations problems.

You need an inner circle of people who hold you accountable and then help you clean your dirty laundry before it becomes a real (public) problem.

From the «conservative» ideology, the «problem» is that the Central State, in cahoots with public unions and Corporate Overlords, grabs an ever - larger share of the national income to redistribute to reward its cronies and favorites.

Even if a company doesn't know all the facts, and even if its investigation is ongoing, it needs to reassure the public that it understands the severity of the problem and their concerns, and that it has the crisis under control.

«I believe that most of the problems in the entrepreneurial ecosystem have their origin in the philosophy of short - termism that infects our companies, our investors and our public markets,» he told the crowd at a recent event in Vancouver.

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

At the core of this problem is the fact that shareholders have too limited a role in public company governance.

Following successful models like the X-Prize, private - and public - sector leaders should work together to set up a high - profile Canada Prize that offers incentives for entrepreneurs and researchers to solve critical problems with commercial and public benefits, like cheap desalination units or better distribution of electricity to villages.

WASHINGTON — Because of substantial wage growth, bonuses, and other positive economic factors, the Republican tax law is gaining in popularity with the American public after initially negative reviews, which is becoming a problem for Democrats looking to run on a cohesive economic message in 2018.

Even so, it's a problem for more than 50 million people in the U.S.. That's according to public speaker and social entrepreneur Andrew Horn, who says entrepreneurs, in particular, often struggle with social anxiety in spite of how they may come off as self - assured and confident.

Still, while the electric scooter sharing startups say they want to be part of the solution for crowded roads and congested public transit, many in San Francisco still find them to be a problem.

Because Trump has refused to make his returns public, scrutiny of potential problems has been impossible so far.

The goal of the report is not to dissuade companies, researchers, or the public from AI, but to highlight the most realistic concerns so people can better prepare and possibly prevent future cyber attacks or other problems related to AI.

Aequitas co-founder and CEO Jos Schmitt told Canadian Business earlier this year that one of the problems with Canadian capital markets is that companies launch initial public offerings before they're mature enough to operate as publicly traded corporations:

Indeed, Clinton's perceived coziness with Goldman Sachs (gs) became such a problem that even the bank's CEO Lloyd Blankfein has recently had to play coy in public about his staunch support of the candidate.

«Her problem is to remind people of her strengths and how her strengths are what the country needs right now,» says Robert Shapiro, an economic adviser to former President Bill Clinton and to Hillary Clinton when she was in the Senate, and a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy.

More important, the cliff is an obvious effort at correcting the biggest flaw in public budgeting — the tendency of politicians to ignore the broader, long - term implications of what they do by continually kicking problems down the road.

The problem lies less with layers of government and excessive numbers of government workers providing services than with the generous salaries and benefits of those who are on the public payroll.

But as people with experience solving complex problems, leading complex organizations and coping with regulatory and legal issues, they have a valid and vital perspective to express on matters of politics and public policy.

If this client goes public about your dishonesty, you may find yourself with a big image problem — and that kind of thing tends to stick.

«Health overwhelmed what I thought would have been financial problems» in terms of causes of stress, said Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health in a livestreamed discussion forum about stress at Harvard on July 9.

«The problem is, I don't know whether I'm going to get the mensch or the schmuck,» Joele Frank, of the eponymous public relations firm that has helped companies fight Elliott and other activists, commented at a panel at a Tulane law school event in March.

After claims of no problems as late as October, Olympus» alleged fraud has been followed in recent months with independent reviews that have been made public, condemning the company's actions.

Krafcik has said he sees Waymo's self - driving car technology being used in an array of applications from personal vehicles and ride - sharing to logistics and solving so - called last - mile problems for public transport.

Many of the problems in the economy and job markets we see today are a direct result of large corporate failures to invest in the future and create long - term value for all stakeholders, including employees and the public in general.

The disclosure was swiftly met with criticism because of the delay in alerting the public to the hack, as well as problems with the website that Equifax set up for people to check whether their details were at risk.

Each semester I ask my students at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland to construct policy to solve this problem.

«There are clearly signs of problems,» comments Jeffrey S. Levine, a certified public accountant whose firm, Alkon & Levine PC, is based in Newton, Mass. «A client of mine, who owns a very fast - growing temporary - personnel company, suddenly experienced a significant slowdown in payments from a few of his largest customers.

Smartphones don't have the same level of protection and their connections to public Wi - Fi networks come with significant problems, as detailed previously.

He aims to install 800 of his towers in public parks across China, not only to create pockets of cleaner air, but to bring more awareness to what is admittedly a huge problem that a giant air purifier — or even 800 of them — can't begin to solve.

Instead, the department's Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services directed the public to use a toll - free National Customer Service Center telephone system to resolve immigration - related problems.

The Spanish government has been noteworthy in its pursuit of well - directed actions to address Spain's debt and banking - system problems, and the Spanish public has demonstrated an understanding of the need for austerity and reform measures.

China's public sector is out of the red, even without taking account of massive foreign exchange reserves, which couldn't easily be used to bail out domestic problems.

Fairbanks said another problem with Prop 61 is its linkage of prices paid by state agencies to the VA's price, which is not public information, and it is not clear if the state could compel disclosure.

Counterpunch Today's deepening financial and economic crisis can not be alleviated without addressing a number of problems that the public does not really want to hear about.

ROCKY HILL — Town officials are scrambling to address homeowners» complaints of noise and fumes from truckers using the Wal - Mart parking lot at Town Line Plaza as a rest stop.Although the problem has persisted for many months, it became public this week...