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«I thought it would be good to build a book of business and then I would have the option to take it to a firm if I decide to make that career transition in the future... I am passionate about being an attorney as a second career and on working
on building a law practice, however that plays out — whether as a solo practitioner or at a firm,» said Lockerby.
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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.
If you have a service - based business like a
law firm, tutoring company, consulting firm or similar business that's heavily dependent
on your personal brand, take the time and energy to
build a strong one.
«And then we have a legal review that says that engaging this target comports with the
laws of armed conflict and that engaging in these circumstances is permissible according to those
laws, and once we've established all of those things we go to the government of Iraq and ask them for permission to strike that
building, and they'll say yes or no, and they do say both, depending
on the structure.
«There» s an emerging consensus that we can't
build a recovery
on poverty wage jobs, and these are the fastest growing jobs in the economy,» says Paul Sonn, legal co-director for the National Employment
Law Project.
Thousands of people gathered outside the Economy Ministry
building in Budapest
on Sunday to protest a proposed
law which would tax people based
on their Internet usage.
CONAKRY, April 24 - Bollore Group's concession to
build a container port in Guinea's capital Conakry was in strict compliance with the
law, a government spokesman said
on Tuesday, reacting to news of a probe by French authorities into the group's Africa operations.
Rather, Jared Kushner, the president's son - in -
law and senior aide tasked with reviving a Middle East peace process, wanted to table the nuclear question in favor of simpler alliance -
building measures with the Saudis, centered
on Trump's visit in May, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
The
law directs transgender people to use bathrooms in public
buildings corresponding to the sex
on their birth certificate, though it doesn't spell out an enforcement mechanism.
It's clear that today even the best language - parsing engines and related algorithms are no match for the old family connectivity trees
built out of bright - colored Post-its tacked to the wall, or the white boards that we see every night
on the tube in the police procedural shows like
Law and Order.
Natale
Law Offices, which operates out of the same
building as Global, even promoted this service
on its blog in July.
In a more unusual step, the Cubans also allowed a team of FBI investigators to come to Havana to investigate for themselves,
building on improvements in the
law - enforcement relationship that were formalized with a bilateral agreement in late 2016.
The Justice Department wants Apple (aapl) to
build custom software that would sidestep the company's tough security and encryption features so
law enforcement can more easily access data
on the disputed iPhone.
Every distillery has its story, and this is the one Dillon's hopes to share some day: how it helped change provincial
laws,
build an industry reliant
on local products, and managed to have fun doing it.
The film examines the potential consequences that arise when
law enforcement officials zero in
on one suspect and work to
build a case against that person while ignoring any contradictory evidence.
The new contract is
built around New York City's upcoming «Freelance Isn't Free»
law, which goes into effect
on May 15 and requires anyone hiring a freelancer for work valued at more than $ 800 to use a formal contract.
Immigration
law is
built on categories.
The collapse of the global economic - political paradigm that was fostered and nurtured by neo-classical economic theories
built on childish abstracts which failed to embrace the physical and mathematical realities of existence defined by universal
laws of matter and energy.
On Wednesday, Chancellor Leo Strine of Chancery Court gave companies a powerful incentive to
build both independent board review and minority shareholder approval into the going - private process, writing new
law that should boost shareholder protections.
The IRS overpaid nearly $ 3.5 billion in Obamacare tax credits last year that it can not recoup because of constraints
built into the program, frustrating Republicans who have failed to repeal the health care
law but say that money could have been spent
on programs for veterans or infrastructure.
At a meeting of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, held at the Treasury
building in Washington, Perez noted that while «lawsuits have been filed» against the conflict of interest rule, «we will continue to fight those vigorously,» adding that he believes DOL is «
on the right side of the
law and history.»
The DAO is
built on Ethereum, and is there by under the Ethereum «Code of
Laws».
Essentially, the
law says that Facebook is like a library, not a newspaper — if you go to a library and check out a book
on how to
build a bomb, the library isn't liable for that.
When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new
building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning -
law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later
on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.
But the Nunes memo implies the case was primarily
built on the Steele dossier — and points out that it was funded partially by a
law firm
on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
«Many of the proposals that have been put
on the table during the Trump administration have been so far out there that they have not been able to
build a 218 - vote majority in the House of Representatives in order to get anything passed, so the act is still the
law of the land,» Butterfield said.
But this is a country that is
built on the rule of
law.
As the global economy became more complex in the second half of the 20th century, most nations eventually moved away from the gold standard, creating fiat currencies
built on laws and trust in government.
Though state
laws still prohibit pot - related companies from advertising
on any mainstream platform, many of them now see the value of
building recognizable, commercially viable brands.
Deliberate assaults
on civilians, the murder of religious figures, indiscriminate bombings in markets and
buildings, hijacking and ramming planes full of civilians into
buildings occupied by civilians, attacks
on and destruction of churches and mosques — all carried out by al - Qaeda, IS, and Boko Haram — violate the clear limits set in Islamic
law for the conduct of a jihad.
And, of course, they whine like crazy when we don't
build their dogma into our
laws, like the ones
on abortion or gay marriage.
Christians have voted to put their God's name
on everyones money, add «Under God» to the flag salute, force schools to teach intelligent design with absolutely no scientific basis along side the sciences, voted to write their moral
laws on the fronts of public courthouses and tax funded
buildings, voted to ban certain people from living together, being intimate or raising children because their orientation didn't fit with their bible beliefs.
But they don't leave it there — they want to set
laws based upon their religious beliefs, set school curricula based upon their religious beliefs, have their religious prayers in public meetings, put their religious texts
on public
buildings, etc..
Everything in the universe, including our own brains, is
built up
on this principle of control and direction, and Nature can not break its own fundamental
law without the whole process of the universe being undermined and coming to grief.
The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks
on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a
law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before
building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.
The Programme of Action is comprehensive and seeks to
build and strengthen «adequate national structures which have a direct impact
on the overall observance of human rights and the maintenance of the rule of
law.
Relying
on memories of his friend Fly's work as a
law - copyist in 1840, and of the office at 10 Wall Street where he visited his brother Allan after returning from sea in 1844, Melville sets his story in a modern, nineteenth - century office
building.
The unity of control and direction, which is material being as it
builds through time and space to its climax in man, is but the partial expression of a greater reality, a
Law that defines and drives the unfolding a deeper purpose aligned
on a yet higher goal.
Building on Paul Tillich's teaching that «the
law of love is the ultimate
law,» Fletcher cited Augustine's invitation to «love and do what you will.»
Neuhaus taught me that while we have to respond to bad reason with good reason, we also have to
build on that reason with revelation; that while nature and natural
law are foundational, grace
builds on and perfects nature.
Gradually that tie has largely gone, but the christians in the USA at least want to impose their religion
on the rest of us despite the First Amendment: biblical texts
on public
buildings, their god
on the currency, their religious beliefs to be
law, christian prayer at public events, etc..
Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher
law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence
on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability
on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always
build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.
Another cause for concern is the way the christian agenda is pushed right here: christian religious beliefs to be taught as science, christian religious texts
on public
buildings, christian prayers at public meetings, christian beliefs as
law, etc..
Finally, imagine that you noticed many abuses caused by the belief in witches, such as people giving 10 % of their crops to highly suspect priests to ward off witches, belief in witches and elves being used to deny the pollution you noticed
building up in your village and
laws being passed controlling how a woman must act while pregnant based
on witchcraft.
Building on the Catholic emphasis
on the importance of free marital consent, Luther and Calvin developed further the covenantal understanding of marital commitment, elevated the status of women, emphasized the freedom of young adults to choose their partners, helped make marriage more compassionate and established marriage as a civic institution regulated by secular
law yet also blessed and given meaning by the church.
I am a atheist, but respect peoples belief's, and totally undertsand the need for the fundemental
laws that christianty has
built on.
Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless
laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag
laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to
build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs...
Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag
Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but
built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is
build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!
That's exactly why atheists don't want believers creating
laws based solely upon their beliefs, why atheists don't want those beliefs taught in schools as science, why atheists don't want those beliefs posted
on public
buildings, etc..