Sentences with phrase «opening joint meeting»

What we call «the opening joint meeting» has been the subject of much commentary in recent times.

Not exact matches

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan did try to prepare markets for higher short - term interest rates in testimony before the Joint Economic Committee a few days before the February 1994 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at which the tightening began.

Stung by the sudden collapse of an annexation agreement hammered out at a joint meeting with village trustees, Mokena Park District commissioners have decided to keep their Yunker Park development options open.

An increase in minimum wage will actually help create jobs because a person working two or more jobs to make ends meet could afford to drop one of them, providing an opening for another worker,» said George Harrigan, President Teamsters Joint Council # 46 in WNY.

At the Joint Commission on Public Ethics most recent meeting, commissioners discussed a proposal that could change New York's open ended campaign finance rules.

A joint venture involving ProCure, a New Jersey private - equity operator of three proton centers, has struggled to meet targets; at one center, which opened to widespread publicity and investor excitement in 2012, only one - fourth of all patients are coming for prostate cancer treatment, well below the expected 80 percent.

Said Dr Tom Evans, WCS Director of Forest Conservation and Climate and joint lead author of the study: «Even if all global targets to halt deforestation were met, humanity might be left with only degraded, damaged forests, in need of costly and sometimes unfeasible restoration, open to a cascade of further threats and perhaps lacking the resilience needed to weather the stresses of climate change.

Professor Nowotny will deliver her Gold Medal address during the opening session of the 2017 joint annual meeting of the Academia Europaea - ALLEA and the Young Academy of Europe, on 4th September, 2017.

The authors observed four shared strategies used by the groups in this process: 1) public conversations — open forums for deliberation among a range of stakeholders, leading to problem solving and commitments to action; 2) monitoring programs and policies — gathering and analysis of data to evaluate the effectiveness of improvement efforts; 3) participating in the public arena — building political will through get - out - the - vote campaigns and meetings with elected representatives; and 4) joint ownership and relational culture — developing «public» relationships that lead to collective action.

The Hard Rock just opened a new hotel tower with 500 rooms and suites, a new «Joint» is now rocking with up to 4,000 people for concerts, a huge conference facility is now available for meetings, and it is now home to a regular gig by the ever - popular Santana.

On the opening day of Frieze Art Fair, I left the crazy hubbub of Randall's Island and headed over to Bushwick to meet Brad at a burger joint.