Sentences with phrase «on higher officials»

With the American federal government being criticized for a slow response, it has been up to the mayors of Puerto Rico to help the island and keep order and pressure on higher officials amid the devastation.

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NEW YORK, May 1 - The S&P 500 edged higher on Tuesday after comments from a Trump administration official on trade with China and the Mexican economy minister on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement provided cause for optimism.

Tillerson's departure just over a year into the Trump administration puts him on a short list of high - level government officials whose tenure have been incredibly brief.

As higher costs are passed on to consumers, supporters aim to put a dent in sales, as was the case in Berkeley, where according to public health officials retail purchases of sugar - sweetened beverages dropped nearly 10 % during the first year of that city's soda tax.

The meeting was held before Trump instructed officials to consider tariffs on an additional $ 100 billion in Chinese imports, bringing the value of the nation's products set for higher duties to about $ 150 billion.

BEIJING — A high - powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing on Thursday for talks with Chinese officials on defusing tensions that are propelling the world's two largest economies toward a trade war.

The Houthis and allied militias loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who have fired dozens of missiles into Saudi territory during a 2-1/2 year war, said on their official news agency they had launched a mid-range ballistic missile that «hit its military target with high precision».

Once the foreign firm becomes the official headquarters, the combined company no longer owes U.S. taxes on income earned overseas, a significant benefit given the high U.S. corporate tax rate.

European stocks closed higher on Monday afternoon after senior U.S. officials sought to play down risks of a military conflict with North Korea.

In fact, millions of people stand to see higher tax bills because of the elimination or curtailment of deductions such as one for state and local taxes, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan official scorekeeper for Congress.

Add to this that English is the official language, business laws are based on British laws with protections for investors, and the lower cost of living and you can enjoy a high quality of life for much less.

I wonder whether he also told Trump that Japan's high - ranking officials from foreign, defense and other government agencies were conducting consultations in Sendai, Japan last Thursday and Friday with their Chinese counterparts on contested maritime borders in the South China Sea.

This week, Federal Reserve officials signaled further interest rate increases in 2018 based on evidence of steady U.S. growth, while the heads of the ECB and the Bank of England seemed in no rush to push rates higher in the wake of disappointing economic data out of Britain and Europe.

The Magnitsky Act leveled sanctions on high - level Russian officials accused of human rights abuses and corruption.

For years, Republican officials have demanded that the Obama administration hold China accountable for currency manipulation, and even President George W. Bush wasn't afraid to rely on higher tariffs to support U.S. steelmakers.

LONDON, Jan 24 - Gold prices hit the highest in more than five months on Wednesday after a U.S. official welcomed a weaker dollar and investors sought insurance against uncertainty.

LONDON, Jan 24 - Gold prices hit the highest in more than four months on Wednesday after a U.S. official welcomed a weaker dollar and investors sought insurance against uncertainty.

LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters)- Gold prices hit the highest in more than four months on Wednesday after a U.S. official welcomed a weaker dollar and investors sought insurance against uncertainty.

On the eve of the U.K. government beginning the official process of leaving the European Union, sterling moved slightly higher against the dollar to trade at $ 1.2557 — mainly driven by a weaker dollar.

Tales of graft and officials» high living, including extravagant banquets and expensive rounds on the golf course, have prompted widespread public anger because bureaucrats are meant to live on modest sums and lead morally exemplary lives.

Several Republican politicians and government officials including President Donald Trump have suggested that mental illness was to blame for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday that left 17 people dead — but researchers say evidence suggests there is no traceable link between mental illness and gun violence, and that a much more widespread issue is to blame.

Yields on 10 - year Treasurys spiked to their highest level in roughly 10 months after Chinese officials recommended slowing or halting purchases of them.

Three Vatican officials, including the high - ranking Lucio Balda, are on trial for leaking sensitive information to two journalists, who are also on trial.

His comments were seen as negative for the single currency, which has fallen almost 3 percent from a 15 - month high of $ 1.37 hit earlier this month, as European officials step up the rhetoric on a strong euro.

In the currency markets, the differing messages of the world's major central banks on inflation and monetary policy prodded the dollar higher against the yen ahead of a series of appearances by U.S. Federal Reserve officials this week.

The CIA, meanwhile, waited until after the election to put forward an independent assessment of Russian meddling, the content of which was leaked to the press earlier this month via high - level officials briefed on the intelligence.

On Tuesday, officials say that 17 - year - old Austin Rollins entered Great Mills High School in St. Mary's County, Maryland, with a handgun and shot two students.

But his first interaction with an «overseas professor» with ties to high - level Russian officials occurred on March 14, 2016, weeks after he joined the campaign.

«By 11:41 a.m. today, just as most Canadians are getting ready for their lunch break on the first official work day of the year, the average of the 100 highest paid CEOs will have already pocketed what it takes the average Canadian an entire year, working full - time to earn,» says Mackenzie.

The appointment, announced on Wednesday, Netflix, gives the video streaming giant a high - profile former government official at a time of increased regulatory scrutiny of some of the nation's biggest technology companies.

The White House said a high - level delegation of administration officials is heading to China on Thursday to discuss trade issues between the two countries.

And on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the highest ranking officials at Goldman, including the firm's former president, Gary Cohn, were tracking and approving the transactions with 1MDB.

Goldman Sachs — which, according to American officials, received fees as high as 11 percent of the proceeds from the two 1MDB bond sales, which were code - named Magnolia and Maximus — put its main banker on the 1MDB account, Tim Leissner, on leave last year.

A compromise plan to raise pay for all Erie County Child Protective Services caseworkers and supervisors would resolve major wage concerns in a high - turnover unit on the front lines of child abuse and neglect investigations, officials said.

China retaliated against proposed U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods by targeting high - value American exports, from airplanes to soybeans, in a tactic Beijing officials say is meant to secure a truce.

He's been accused of spending at least $ 3 million on a round - the - clock security fleet, far more than his predecessors and higher - level cabinet officials.

Some officials argue that falling stocks will have a limited impact on the world's second - largest economy and that the costs of supporting the market are too high, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private.

And a late addition to the hundreds of official meetings and side events during the ministerial week is a high - level session Monday on the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma.

The vast majority of Android mobile apps available on the official Google Play Store that are meant for the management of cryptocurrencies are vulnerable to the most common and well - known vulnerabilities, according to a report published today by Swiss cyber-security firm High - Tech Bridge.

BEIJING / WASHINGTON — Top Chinese and American officials have begun the long process of sorting out trade frictions between the two economic superpowers, with the stakes raised higher by a new U.S. threat to impose restrictions on tech companies ZTE and Huawei Technologies.

A high - powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing on Thursday for talks with Chinese officials on defusing tensions that are propelling the world's two largest economies toward a trade war.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

North and South Korean officials agreed to hold high - level talks on Jan. 9 after a series of signals that relations between the two countries were starting to thaw.

The security official assigned to the Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was on campus through the entire event, armed and in uniform, but he remained outside the high school and failed to engage the gunman during the attHigh School in Parkland, Florida, was on campus through the entire event, armed and in uniform, but he remained outside the high school and failed to engage the gunman during the atthigh school and failed to engage the gunman during the attack.

After all, 1MDB's financial woes owe much to alleged high - level corruption involving former officials on both sides.

There is one new official setup on today's watchlist in $ AAOI, which recently gapped to all - time highs on big volume and is now in pullback mode after printing a lower high and lower low last Friday.

Officials and civic organizers in some of the 20 cities now vying to win Amazon's choice for its second headquarters are sounding alarms that accommodating this tech talent invasion could put a big strain on local residents already grappling with crawling commutes and high housing prices.

Read the letter sent to school board officials throughout the state of Florida by Governor Rick Scott outlining the action taken by law makers since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 17.

Eurozone officials are unanimous that it means a commitment to financial war against labor — to austerity and yet further economic shrinkage; to faster privatization selloffs (but not to Russians if they offer higher prices, as Gazprom did) and hence higher prices for hitherto public utilities; to no rejection of past insider privatization deals to higher value - added taxes on consumers; and to lower pensions for labor.

As of Monday, there has been no official comments on the latest move to target miners, who has enjoyed big support from government policies, categorizing employees in the sector as high - tech workers.