Sentences with phrase «on lobby system»

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Technology companies, such as Microsoft and Cisco Systems have ramped up lobbying ahead of talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, looking to avoid any future restrictions on cloud storage and to promote an international pact to eliminate technology goods tariffs.

On a lobby disclosure form reviewed by Reuters, Cisco Systems listed NAFTA and government procurement as the trade issues handled by its lobbyists.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

But recent bank lobbying has been remarkably successful in distracting attention away from classical analyses of how to shape the financial and tax system to best promote economic growth — by public checks on bank privileges.

After MAT (a campaign that will continue with the shift to the WTO where there is a project to coöpt, in the framework of the American lobbying system, a part of the opponents) concentration could be focussed on the tax on capital (Tobin tax etc.), the struggle against the plans of the IMF, the struggle against Third World debt.

The burden falls on the GOP establishment and conservatives to tell the employer lobbies that the party of lower taxes, lower government spending, and lower regulation will not design an immigration system to ensure that low - skill workers never get a raise.

Panelists are hopeful it will continue on a good path, but are prepared to lobby for the food system to ensure what is right continues to be done.

Read a sample of e-mails sent to MEPs by lobbyists High time for CIAA to come clean on its lobbying CIAA's $ 1 - billion campaign to promote the GDA labelling system was clearly a key element in its political strategy to combat other, stricter labelling options which it feared would damage sales of unhealthy food, such as the «traffic light» system.

In addition to lobbying for more funds for school lunch — and the schools as a whole — we need to focus on conserving resources and reducing waste, as Chef Ann has done in her school systems.

The West Wing is undergoing renovation over the next couple weeks, while Trump vacations in Bedminster, N.J.. On the list of repairs: the replacement of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, as well as restoration of the South Portico's steps and repairs to the Navy mess kitchen and the lower lobby.

Sen. Eric Schneiderman called Donovan a «nice man,» but noted he had lobbied against Rockefeller Drug Law reform as the head of the state DA's association (Rice was on the board, too, which has become an issue in the primary) said he «represents the past» and the «old, failed ways of thinking about the justice system.»

Advocates spent a million dollars on television ads and countless hours lobbying and holding demonstrations in favor of adopting a publicly funded, matching small donor system for statewide races, including the governor and the legislature.

Conference instructs the National Executive to lobby the Westminster Government and Ofqual to: (i) provide urgent clarification on the criteria for the new grading system for all subjects and (ii) review the impact of the new grading system on the prospects of young people.

«In the current political campaign environment, the presidential campaign finance system doesn't work at all and can not work,» said Craig Holman, who lobbies Capitol Hill on ethics and campaign finance issues for the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

In Albany, where a number of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's policy priorities have succumbed to resistance from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Senate Republicans, documents suggest that de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group in New York as an intermediary to press politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

A fairer voting system would help us take on the EU and the green lobby.

Can a democratic system be structured in a way that doesn't rely on ethics or brute - force, police - state-esque measures to disable lobbying?

Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the recently - passed New York State budget is a mixture of «simple pros and cons» and vowed that he will lobby Albany on his proposal to impose a new tax on sales of properties worth $ 2 million and to see his administration's power over the city's school system extended at least another year.

Documents suggest that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has turned to the real estate industry's chief lobbying group, REBNY, as an intermediary to press Albany politicians on a matter beyond its traditional scope: the city's public school system.

«While the UFT focuses on political stunts and lobbying to keep bad teachers in the classroom, the mayor, governor, and State Education Department are working collaboratively to implement a rigorous teacher evaluation system that will help ensure our students have the best teachers,» she said in a statement.

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In addition to his work with the CFI, Polak is chairman of the advisory board of a consultancy called The Westminster Connection, which has lobbied MPs successfully on behalf of Elbit Systems, Israel's major defence contractor.

It is a confederation of non-governmental organisations and pressure groups lobbying for a ban on producing and deploying fully autonomous weapon systems — where the ability of a human to both choose the precise target and intervene in the final decision to attack is removed.

Disclosed emails revealed that a covert coalition lobbying for relaxed regulations around a genetic extinction technology, with help from a well - funded public relations firm, Emerging Ag, was attempting to game the system and manipulate the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

The game could do more in regards to its online lobby system, but everything else is pretty much spot on.

AFC has spent nearly $ 400,000 in its lobbying efforts in Wisconsin in the past four years, focusing on numerous bills that critics say are aimed at privatizing the public educational system.

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The teacher lobby has been in consistent opposition to any evaluation system that is in any form based on the advancement of student achievement as measured by standardized assessments, even a measly 20 % weighting.

Alonso's speech marked the first public acknowledgment that the city hopes to model its construction funding plan on a groundbreaking schools project in Greenville, S.C. Transform Baltimore, a coalition of education advocates led by the American Civil Liberties Union, has been lobbying city leaders to carry out Greenville's plan, which would require a nonprofit or other entity to float the bonds on behalf of the school system.

But the bottom line, Michelle Rhee, Achievement First and ConnCAN elitists who will have spent upwards of $ 2 million on their lobby effort to sweep in and take over Connecticut's education system, with the help of Governor Malloy, have failed.

After spending hundreds of millions on lobbying, these groups were able to persuade tea - bag and conservative Republican governors and legislatures to repeal collective bargaining for teachers, limited bargaining rights for others, dramatically expanded funding for charter schools or otherwise undermine what most would describe as the American public education system.

I am pleased to see a document, such as this, which speaks to something as important as our education system that uses proper scientific citing of bona fide papers on the subject as opposed to emotional arguments meant to sway voters or think - tank «papers» from thinly (or otherwise) veiled lobby groups whose intent is NOT the betterment of our educational system but rather the increase of funneling of tax - payer dollars away from socially responsible infrastructures (like education) and towards already wealthy private corporations.

With an assist from LEE, the organization has nearly doubled its investment recently with respect to its lobbying efforts, spending almost $ 2 million since 2010 on attacking unions, weakening teacher tenure, supporting more and earlier standardized testing, reducing certification requirements, and encouraging the use of VAM in teacher evaluation systems.

We're yet to delve into the online aspect that makes up the bulk of GT Sport - so expect more on that soon, including the official FIA - sanctioned events - but the game's creators promise a matching system to put you among drivers of similar experience, and measures to reduce the potential for dirty drivers to infiltrate online lobbies.

evo isn't lobbying to restore widow - making on - limit handling, but now electronic stability systems can smooth on - limit behaviour, it's surely unnecessary to erase the last traces of a dynamic fingerprint that makes your car unique.

Swimming pool Rancho Bar and Restaurant Travel agency Car rental Spa Aerobic classes every day Ice / vending machines Complimentary newspaper in lobby Safe deposit box - nominal fee Truck / RV parking, Surfboard storage Free outdoor parking Meeting facilties Catering Photocopy services, nominal fee 24 - hours Complimentary breakfast buffet 24 - hour front desk Massage services Babysitting on request Free High - speed Internet wireless Baggage hold Safe deposit box Interior corridors 20 % non-smoking rooms available Doctor on - call Cable television Bus parking Water filtration system, bottled water available

The hotel will have direct access to the airport AirTrain rail system — Hyatt expects that 60 percent of hotel visitors will arrive via the AirTrain to the lobby on the fourth floor.

Persistent «lobby» with instanced campaigns, non-standard crafting system, and pulling back on the race / class locking?

Them's Fightin» Herds will launch on Feb. 22 with six characters; a «unique overworld story mode» and online lobby system using pixel art; and GGPO netplay.

Head to the linked blog below for the full story, as well as information on Forza 4's new feature: «Rivals Mode», the return of user hosted public lobbies which the community missed so much in Forza 3, the new «car affinity» system, and more.

Arms does something pretty wonderful with its lobby system: each lobby is comprised of up to 20 players competing on a maximum of 10 Switch consoles.

You can of course team up online with random players as well, and on the whole the lobby system was stable, with a minimal number of disconnections so far.

Plus, the lobby system and the way you find a game, after the game shipped so many of those things were frustrating to me that if I look at my friend's list on Xbox Live and don't see seven people on playing Gears (presumably together) my likelihood of logging in diminishes even further.

Other modes include challenge mode that sees you try to get a place on an online leaderboard, online multiplayer (your best bet with this is to get a couple friends to buy the game at the same time with you, because this game uses a lobby system and it's wasn't populated at the time of review), quick race, and 2 to 4 player split screen local multiplayer... pause for effect....

Up to eight players with eight separate systems can gather together in a local lobby for local 2 - on - 2 battles.

At the risk of descending ever further into off - topic weirdness, here's an article about the environmental message of the aliens, also mentioning «intelligences beyond the material realm», «ecological destruction on a scale that threatens the survival of the Earth's living systems» and the fossil fuel lobby.

The US High Speed Rail Association, based in Washington DC, plans to lobby for a state of the art rail system that covers the entire country and provides service on par with the most advanced systems in the world.

There are 57 of them in the slender building, sometimes stacked on top of another in the same shaft and reached by sky lobbies, the system used in New York's World Trade Center towers.

There is no desire on the part of lawyers to lobby seriously and vigorously to clean up the Ontario IME / IE expert witness system.

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