Sentences with phrase «on agency terms»

Under the department's proposed remedy, Apple will be prohibited from again serving as a conduit of information among the conspiring publishers or from retaliating against publishers for refusing to sell e-books on agency terms.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

In announcing the ban, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said his agency was punishing ZTE for violating terms of an agreement struck last year to settle allegations that the Chinese company had flouted U.S. restrictions on selling technology to Iran and North Korea.

The debate is centered on the agency's director, Richard Cordray, who is serving a five - year term that ends in 2018.

According to the agency, the ARC loans can be used to pay principal and interest on any «qualifying» small business debt, «including mortgages, term and revolving lines of credit, capital leases, credit card obligations and notes payable to vendors, suppliers and utilities.»

In fact, a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health finds that the EPA «has moved away from the public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the public.

The bureau said it does not know, but Chopra said the agency is concerned that with an aging population and very long terms on some private student loans, this could «spiral out of control.»

The company is working on longer - term ways to eliminate hunger and malnutrition too: Take African Improved Foods, its creatively - financed joint venture with the Rwandan government and development agencies, aimed at boosting the local food - processing industry.

In February, the agency filed a lawsuit against RD Legal Funding LLC, alleging that the lawsuit lender had scammed 9/11 responders by paying high - cost advances on settlement payouts and lying about the terms of the advances.

When Karen Mills announced in February that she would not stay on for a second term as head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, she still planned to remain in her post until the government agency named a replacement.

Earlier this week rating agency Standard and Poor's changed its U.S. long - term debt outlook to «stable» from «negative,» despite the concrete prospect of more showdowns on fiscal policy.

Although much of the recent drop in oil prices has been due to the prospect of higher exports from Iran in the coming months (the International Energy Agency forecasts an extra 300,000 barrels a day by the end of March), the dumping of stored oil is essentially a short - term factor, and its influence on crude prices should logically pass quite quickly.

«Ultimately, if users opt to stay on the platform, then it's unlikely we'll see significant shifts in media spends in the short term,» said Benjamin Arnold, managing director of ad agency We Are Social.

According to The Washington Post, while all State Department employees will remain on duty, at least in the short - term, and uniformed members of the military will be paid, other agencies will lose almost everyone.

Unfortunately for Google and YouTube, the controversy has erupted just as advertisers are getting ready for the «upfronts,» a process in which TV networks try to sign long - term contracts with major brands and agencies based on their ability to reach specific audiences.

It's definitely not something new, but apparently the term is sufficiently self - explanatory at CEO - and manager level to have earned content marketing a place on the product menus of sales - driven SEO and online marketing agencies.

State - run Xinhua news agency said on Sunday (Feb. 25) that the Central Committee of China's ruling Communist Party of China has proposed removing the phrase that the president and vice-president «shall serve no more than two consecutive terms» from the country's constitution.

Build.com offered to settle and agreed to tell employees they wouldn't be punished for posting comments about «terms and conditions of employment on their social - media pages,» according to an April agency statement quoted by the study.

However, in August 2011 the long - term sovereign credit rating on the United States of America was downgraded to AA + from AAA by the Standard & Poor's ratings agency, reflecting increasing concerns about the U.S. budget deficit and its future trajectory.

In an effort to restart the securitization market, on November 25, the Fed announced the Term Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF).14 In December, the FOMC announced that it would begin to significantly expand its balance sheet through purchases of long - term assets including agency debt, agency mortgage - backed securities and long - term treasuries — the Large Scale Asset Purchase or LSAP progTerm Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF).14 In December, the FOMC announced that it would begin to significantly expand its balance sheet through purchases of long - term assets including agency debt, agency mortgage - backed securities and long - term treasuries — the Large Scale Asset Purchase or LSAP progterm assets including agency debt, agency mortgage - backed securities and long - term treasuries — the Large Scale Asset Purchase or LSAP progterm treasuries — the Large Scale Asset Purchase or LSAP program.

Moreover, to support a stronger economic recovery, the FOMC is purchasing long - term Treasury securities at a rate of $ 45 billion per month and agency mortgage - backed securities (MBS) at a rate of $ 40 billion per month, and will continue purchasing assets until it sees substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market, conditional on ongoing assessment of benefits and costs.

Eric has proven that one can build a multi-million dollar digital marketing agency by simply focusing on being of service to the client — a novel concept — and one Eric is willing to share with other business owners looking to build long - term growth and client retention.

Japan's Financial Services Agency is sending what Reuters terms «administrative punishment notices» on several of the nation's cryptocurrency exchanges and some may...

Asset owners, as principals, take on more agency risk when they commit to asset managers long term.

Our focus is on young and growing companies including start - ups, minority, and women - owned businesses that sell goods and / or services on terms to other credit - worthy and reputable businesses (private or public and local, state, and federal government agencies).

That's not to say that the discussions of rape culture and women's sexual agency aren't important — just that they shouldn't lead us to give the performance a free pass on its cultural appropriation, or in harsher terms, racism.

On the contrary, given the presumption of a collective agency for the cell as a unified field of activity, it makes excellent sense to account for the stability of the field in terms of societies of inanimate actual occasions with their ongoing transmission of fixed patterns and for the vitality of the field in terms of the nexus of living occasions with their higher degree of novelty and originality.

After noting the parallel language with respect to the functioning of eternal objects, Leclerc writes: «It should be noted that the term «functioning» in neither case implies «agency» on the part of the entity functioning.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

Michael Edwards, who recently joined the Ford Foundation after a stint on the World Bank's civil society team, comes from the world of private aid agencies (sometimes termed nongovernmental development organizations or NGDOs).

Chapter three sets forth Polkinghorne's trademark proposal that God's action in the world be modeled on the concept of human and divine agency through «holistic causal principles of a pattern - forming kind,» summarized in the term «active information.»

He spoke movingly of how he had first had to come to terms with these questions when reporting on sexual abuse of minors in a Protestant missionary agency, and how the past year's reporting on the Catholic situation had posed for him painful ethical dilemmas with respect to issues of confidentiality, perspective, and the dangers of playing to stereotypes.

2) That means, all things being equal, every single person on earth was created with the command and the capacity to exercise Genesis 1:26 - 27 dominion, which means to steward or in modern terms, to exercise agency or lead.

Second, government agencies have allowed these terms to be used somewhat interchangeably on labeling, so that you often can not rely on the grocery store signs to help you determine whether you are looking at a bin full of sweet potatoes or a bin full of yams.

The FSA says: «On the basis of current evidence, the Agency's assessment is that organic food is not significantly different in terms of food safety and nutrition from food produced conventionally.

In comments submitted to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) called on the agency to more clearly define the use of the term «natural» in food labeling.

Global warming, greenhouse gases and carbon footprint have become household terms, and consumer groups, government agencies, and businesses are working on ways to preserve the land, air, water and other natural resources.

With Lonzo Ball already on board and free agency beckoning, IT doesn't figure to be in their long - term plans.

Each one was supported by a separate short - term grant, often on a contract from one city agency or another, and in order to keep the money flowing, Canada was required to demonstrate to the foundations and agencies that paid for the programs that a certain number of children had participated.

It has some short term benefits on a population level basis — which means it makes sense for government agencies who want to save some healthcare dollars to be interested in breastfeeding levels, but is a poor explanation for lactivist zealotry.

The FDA is taking this action in part because it received three Citizen Petitions asking that the agency define the term «natural» for use in food labeling and one Citizen Petition asking that the agency prohibit the term «natural» on food labels.

Washington, commenting on the park district during a press conference Thursday afternoon, indicated that he would use his second term to exert greater influence on the agency.

He said: «In terms of security and defense, we will rely on your budgetary support to enable us to continue to improve the professional and operational development of the Armed Forces of Liberia, and other security agencies, in order to better prepare them to participate in the fight against global terrorism.

Lhota informed MTA board members at a recent meeting that he would detail how he plans to pay for the $ 836 million emergency fix, and what the agency would prioritize in terms of work on the subway.

CSEA, which has threatened to sue Paterson if he goes forward with his plan to lay off 898 state workers prior to the end of his term on Dec. 31, has pending FOIL requests regarding hiring at other — yet unnamed - state agencies.

A foremost global rating agency, Fitch Ratings affirmed a stable outlook on the Foreign Currency, Long Term Issuer Default Ratings...

The TUC condemned the proposals, saying it will become much harder to get a pay rise of defend terms and conditions in the workplace and that employers would be able to break strikes by taking on agency workers.

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, running mate to the opposition New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Flagbearer, Nana Akufo - Addo, has accused President John Mahama of misleading Ghanaian's for giving the impression that, International Credit Ratings Agency, Moody's, revised outlook on Ghana's Long Term Bond Ratings from Negative to Stable, is an upgrade.

International credit rating agency Standard & Poor's announced today that it has raised its long - term corporate credit rating on Rio Tinto to A - from BBB +.

«We did not take the decision to join HIPC as a political trick or gimmick, but as an opportunity to take a breather to pursue medium to long term targets,» the President said, when heads of United Nation (UN) agencies in Ghana called on him at the State House to express support to the new administration and also outline their programmes for the year.