Sentences with phrase «on general infrastructure»

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Baidu — alongside other companies like Google (googl) and General Motors (gm)-- is also actively encouraging a push for better coordination between autonomous vehicle manufacturers and the U.S. government, saying that it's necessary to make small changes to existing infrastructure and ease regulatory obstacles in order to get self - driving cars on the road.

Trump met on Tuesday with around 20 executives of major companies like General Motors and IBM in an effort to ramp up support for the infrastructure initiative.

«We're on track to exceed our goal of powering 50 percent of our global datacentre load with renewable energy this year,» Christian Belady, Microsoft's general manager for cloud infrastructure strategy and architecture, said.

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, told National Public Radio last month that air strikes could have the objective of targeting senior leaders among the Islamist militants, safeguarding infrastructure or «blunting attacks» by large numbers of militants, possibly to counter an assault on Baghdad.

Our general and administrative expenses increased sequentially in absolute dollars during 2009 and 2010, as we invested in our infrastructure to support our growth in operations by hiring employees and utilizing outside consultants on project initiatives, including international expansion efforts.

The Ontario Auditor General's 2014 Report includes a chapter on Infrastructure Ontario's P3 program that is particularly damning — and corresponds with many of the criticisms made on this blog and elsewhere by myself and others.

The outgoing Auditor General expressed concerns about a number of significant and emerging pressures facing the Government, including an ageing infrastructure, and ageing population and insufficient progress in addressing Aboriginal pressures on reserves.

They decided to focus on selecting bonds issued by the government of Puerto Rico and its public corporations, which could include infrastructure bonds backed by alcohol taxes and general obligation bonds.

So getting a green light on the infrastructure plan from the Big Three — General Motors Co..

Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»

«It's no secret that the general strategy here is for the allied air campaign to degrade ISIL's capabilities, their infrastructure, their weaponry, their weapons stocks, basically to put them on the defensive so at some point when Iraqi security forces are able to launch a counter-offensive,» he said.

EDMONTON — NDP Leader Rachel Notley called on the Auditor General today to investigate evidence that the PCs are manipulating healthcare infrastructure priorities...

In general, despite the elegance and potential of Bitcoin, the infrastructure built on top of it was far from usable.

You can tell from my general postings that I will defend Wenger on some areas and I do not think that many issues will be resolved with a new manager, we need to get the infrastructure in that will take the club into the future is my belief.

«We particularly welcome the new emphasis on capital spending, and the measures to leverage private sector investment on infrastructure for roads and energy,» director - general John Cridland said.

Again this very much depends on exactly how money is spent in very very general terms spending on infrastructure and research and development grows the economy while spending on services is more likely to disappear.

According to President Buhari, «In 2017 alone, we saw significant commitments and agreements by major global organisations in infrastructure projects such as: the proposed USD 9 billion Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical complex in Lagos; the completed USD 600 million Lafarge Plant in Calabar; the proposed rail stock; the proposed USD 1.3 billion public private partnership with General Electric on Rail Track Development and the proposed ENI / Agip rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.

Event: Managing the impact of infrastructure on the economy and environment Organiser: Dr Leslie Budd, The Open University Business School Date: 4 November 2013 18.00 - 20.00 Venue: Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Audience: General audience This public debate is hosted by The Open University Business School and will include speakers» presentations and a question and answer session.

However, the governor has since softened his stance just a bit, with his office saying he wasn't invited to attend today's confab and casting it as focused on New Jersey infrastructure in general, and not on the tunnel specifically.

«I see roads, I see infrastructure, I see the people engaged in work, there have been tremendous opportunities, equal opportunities, and there are more schools and people are studying than in the past,» Luis Ayala, Secretary General of Socialist International said on Friday.

Despite the general blowback against Moses» legacy in the 42 years since Caro published his celebrated, mailbox - size biography, politicians who propose massive infrastructure projects without clear lines of funding continue to look back longingly on the builder's successes.

Enacted and modified to authorize the transfer from or use by the WCB in the amounts of $ 60 million for Board infrastructure, $ 50 million on other programs, including a transfer of $ 10 million for the creation of the Paid Family Leave Program, $ 140 million to SIF to cover general fund obligations of comp premiums for state employees.

«Firms give the Government a good report card on infrastructure and are pleased with its commitment in recent years to put infrastructure at the heart of its long term economic agenda,» said the CBI's director general Carolyn Fairburn.

«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»

The committee oversees construction issues of major facilities across Erie County; as well as issues concerning the Erie County Industrial Development Agency and Industrial Land Development Corporation; acts upon the repair and maintenance of county roads and bridges, general county infrastructure repair on buildings and other physical plant facilities; and discusses ideas concerning economic development, job creation and workforce development.

Initially briefed on this proposal when he was state attorney general, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has since become the infrastructure governor.

Dietl has done well in fundraising, having raised $ 580,000 and having $ 346,000 on hand as of last week's filing, but he faces an enormous cash need should he run as an independent in the general election without the benefit of a party infrastructure supporting him.

Chaired by Eric Holder, the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, NDRC is the first - ever strategic hub for redistricting focused on winning targeted elections and ballot initiatives, advancing legal action, and building the infrastructure to achieve a fairer redistricting process.

He also wants CNRS to promote scientific literacy among the general public and French policymakers and «lobby for a greater role of France» in European decisions on large research infrastructure and funding calls.

INFRAFRONTIER - I3 General Meeting will be hold in Marseille, on December 9th - 10th INFRAFRONTIER aims to build a world - class research infrastructure that provides the biomedical research community with the tools needed to unravel the role of gene function in human disease.

«The US Military has partnered with the African scientific and general community for more than 40 years,» according to MHRP director Col. Nelson Michael, M.D., Ph.D. «We have worked on the ground for decades with host nations to build sustainable infrastructure to support infectious diseases research in areas such as HIV, malaria, dengue virus and Ebola.

Section 508, on the other hand, is a US law (technical an amendment to the Rehabilitation Act) that requires all federal government agencies to make their websites (and IT infrastructure in general) accessible to people with disabilities.

The federal government's reports on the deteriorating state of public school facilities, most notably a 1995 report from the General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office), brought increased attention to the need to invest in education infrastructure.

These analyses focus on the economic impact of transportation investments, strategies for using transportation infrastructure more efficiently, ways of increasing the economic efficiency of federal transportation programs, new ways of financing transportation infrastructure, and analyzing the costs and benefits of transportation rulemakings, in collaboration with the Office of Regulation (C - 50) in the Office of the General Counsel.

Also when it comes to Russia in general, over the next 15 years are going to spend $ 1 trillion on infrastructure of which $ 450bln is going to be spent on transport infrastructure.

Prior to the war the infrastructure had been expanded, including building the Army ferry USAT General Frank M. Coxe, which transported troops to and from Angel Island on a regular schedule.

Mohamed Anil, Maldives attorney general, speaks to Breaking Travel News about a series of infrastructure developments in the Indian Ocean destination that are designed to improve the opportunities on offer to young citizens.

While the jungle areas, Mayan ruins and Belize's infrastructure in general can cause some accessibility challenges to disabled travelers, our accessible tours and cruise excursions are designed to make sure you don't miss out on this beautiful place.

The company focuses on the structural change of the region, the local SMEs and entrepreneurship in general, not to mention making efforts to increase the income from tourism and develop the local business environment including workforce, premises, services and infrastructure»».

The lack of masters and mentors does concern me - as we've moved away from the infrastructure that the guilds and the unions provided (wherein an individual would be an apprentice, then a journeyman, then eventually a master and take on an apprentice of their own) craft in general, not just printing, has suffered.

In a place like Bucharest where the few independent art spaces that exist have been built on a lack of an institutional infrastructure in general (not to mention one for contemporary arts), the questions of «instituent practices» and practices of care have inherently been located at the core of their existing and functioning systems.

GENERAL MOTORS PARTNERS WITH UTILITIES GM allies with U.S. utility group on electric cars: Wed Jul 23, 2008 http://www.reuters.com/­article/­smallBusinessNews/­idUSN2147289020080723 (REUTERS): General Motors Corp on Monday said it is collaborating with an organization representing U.S. utilities to ready the nation's electric infrastructure for the widespread sale of plug - in electric cars, such as the Chevrolet Volt.

Businesses are also moving forward: Auto company General Motors announced it will transition to producing only electric vehicles; 100 of the world's most influential businesses are creating a huge demand for renewable energy; and ten of the world's largest companies have launched a global campaign to expand corporate electric vehicle use and charging infrastructure (a big deal when you consider that about half of the cars on the road belong to companies).

For that, we need leadership from the finance and investment community and by local, regional and national governments who will decide on major infrastructure plans over the coming years,» said the Secretary - General in his remarks at the Austrian World Summit in Vienna.

At a reception during Iceland's first conference on how to power vehicles with «environmentally friendly fuels» in Reykjavik, September 17 2007, Thorkell Helgason, Director General at the National Energy Authority, hears about the infrastructure needed for electricity.

Every country around the world, they note, has a unique energy storage potential that is based on the combination of energy resources, historical physical infrastructure, and electricity market structure, as well as regulatory framework, population demographics, energy demand patterns and trends, and general grid architecture and condition.

Protests over the third runway at Heathrow, and against airport expansion in general, attempt to portray much needed investment in transport infrastructure as an unwanted imposition on «the people», rather than a development to be welcomed.

Julie A. Ruterbories, the U.S. Consul General in Amsterdam, had an outsider's perspective on the bike culture and infrastructure and she shares her experience with us in the short video profile above by our friends at Streetfilms.

General Motors, EPRI and the utility companies will work on everything from codes and standards to grid capability to provide an infrastructure to support the Chevy Volt, the Saturn Vue Plug - in Hybrid and other plug - in vehicles when they come to market.

[13] United States General Accounting Office, Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, «Information Security: Advances and Remaining Challenges to Adoption of Public Key Infrastructure Technology», GAO - 0l - 277, 200l, 18.