Sentences with phrase «only corporate acts»

The latter may prefer rules that facilitate costly wealth transfers between firms, while the former want only corporate acts and legal rules that maximize the value of their entire portfolios.

Not exact matches

Undies boss tripled her pay, then sacked 1,850 workers In an act that could only be described as corporate bastardry, shameless executives at Bonds owner Pacific Brands awarded themselves pay rises of up to 170 per cent while they sacked nearly 2000 workers.

Sen. Bob Corker was the only Republican to vote against the bill, which, among other things, proposes to cut the corporate rate to 20 % while changing individual tax brackets and significantly undercutting portions of the Affordable Care Act.

Nancy Smith, executive vice president and corporate secretary at AARP, said on a conference panel with Hauser that AARP will not only continue to advocate for the fiduciary rule but plans to assemble some members to act as «mystery shoppers» to see if advisors are complying.

It is far from clear that corporate tax reform on the scale envisioned by the new administration will pass this year and even the hallmark 1986 Act had only modest stock market impacts.

It's only in its overwritten second act that Death Spa gets bogged down, spending time with a pair of cynical police detectives, a paranormal investigator, and Michael's lawyer, and developing half - assed plot threads in the corresponding genres of murder mystery, ghost story, and corporate thriller.

The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrote.

In the twenty years since the first Massachusetts charter school opened following the passage of the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993, charter schools both nationwide and within Massachusetts have strayed from their original, neighborhood - driven roots and have become increasingly corporatized; statewide, parents of students in charter schools comprise only 14 % of charter trustees, with more than double that percentage — 31 % — comprised by corporate representatives.

For 11/19, we wonder why ABC News is wasting our time complaining about the fact that corporate CEOs are acting like coporate CEOs, and cover the few interesting debuts from the LA Auto Show that we haven't done previously, which only leaves the Nissan Cube and 370Z and the 2010 Ford Mustang.

«As legal leaders in Canada, we are duty - bound not only to advocate for greater inclusion, but also to act to generate the positive impact we want to see in our businesses and communities,» said Desjardins, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, corporate social responsibility chairman, with Bombardier.

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 Instead of requiring a grossly negligent «act or omission» on the part of the «controlling mind» of a company (as previously), the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 — enacted on 24 July 2007 — seeks to create liability for a company, government departments or police forces if (and only if)(cl 1 (3)-RRB- «the way in which its activities are managed or organised by its senior management is a substantial element» in the «gross breach of a relevant duty of care» — punishable by a fiAct 2007 Instead of requiring a grossly negligent «act or omission» on the part of the «controlling mind» of a company (as previously), the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 — enacted on 24 July 2007 — seeks to create liability for a company, government departments or police forces if (and only if)(cl 1 (3)-RRB- «the way in which its activities are managed or organised by its senior management is a substantial element» in the «gross breach of a relevant duty of care» — punishable by a fiact or omission» on the part of the «controlling mind» of a company (as previously), the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 — enacted on 24 July 2007 — seeks to create liability for a company, government departments or police forces if (and only if)(cl 1 (3)-RRB- «the way in which its activities are managed or organised by its senior management is a substantial element» in the «gross breach of a relevant duty of care» — punishable by a fiAct 2007 — enacted on 24 July 2007 — seeks to create liability for a company, government departments or police forces if (and only if)(cl 1 (3)-RRB- «the way in which its activities are managed or organised by its senior management is a substantial element» in the «gross breach of a relevant duty of care» — punishable by a fine.

The Court stated that an interpretation of the Act that considers only the «twin goals of investor protection and the deterrence of corporate misconduct» is too narrow.

In this latest piece, Bergstrom et al. work with the pricing of the subscription bundles of the major corporate publishers, which they were only able to obtain through the Freedom of Information Act.

The Board flags us to subsection 2 - 68 of the Act, which stipulates that a corporate director is only jointly and severally liable for unpaid wages «while they are corporate directors.»

In Builders» Floor Centre Ltd at paras 93 - 94, the judge affirmed the Masters finding that a corporate debtor acted oppressively when it transferred its only asset, a piece of land, to two related individuals.

- The general court shall have the power to act in relation to cities and towns, but only by general laws which apply alike to all cities or to all towns, or to all cities and towns, or to a class of not fewer than two, and by special laws enacted (1) on petition filed or approved by the voters of a city or town, or the mayor and city council, or other legislative body, of a city, or the town meeting of a town, with respect to a law relating to that city or town; (2) by a two - thirds vote of each branch of the general court following a recommendation by the governor; (3) to erect and constitute metropolitan or regional entities, embracing any two or more cities or towns or cities and towns, or established with other than existing city or town boundaries, for any general or special public purpose or purposes, and to grant to these entities such powers, privileges and immunities as the general court shall deem necessary or expedient for the regulation and government thereof; or (4) solely for the incorporation or dissolution of cities or towns as corporate entities, alteration of city or town boundaries, and merger or consolidation of cities and towns, or any of these matters.

Road Traffic Act Only Insurance differs from Third Party Only Insurance (detailed below) and is not often sold, unless to underpin, for example, a corporate body wishing to self - insure above the requirements of the Act.

Under existing bancassurance guidelines, a bank can act as a corporate agent and sell policy of only one life insurer and one non-life insurance company.

In TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that patent owners can sue corporate defendants only in districts where the defendant is incorporated or has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business.

In TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods, the court ruled that patent owners can sue corporate defendants only in districts where the defendant is incorporated or has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business.

Second, the tax affects only those individuals and institutions that are actually directly engaged in buying and selling bitcoins, and if Chinese Bitcoin exchanges only act as intermediaries and do not buy and sell bitcoins themselves they will likely be in the clear — although, of course, they will be required to pay corporate tax on the profits.

The integration of PBCs and land trusts [established under the Queensland Aboriginal Land Act 1991] into single corporate entities for suitable large - scale socio - geographic units (e.g. language - based tribes in the case of the Coen sub-region) would not only simplify arrangements and reduce confusion but also reduce as much as possible administration costs through a more effective (larger) scale of economy.

The trial court dismissed the allegations made against the Broker in his capacity as a corporate officer of the Brokerage and the court also entered judgment in favor of the Broker individually on the other alleged violations of the Act, ruling that Crank's actions could not be attributed to the Broker individually, only the Brokerage, because the Brokerage was a corporation.