Sentences with phrase «other interested public»

Mass Audubon stands with the affected communities and other interested public and private groups in supporting a strong EPA permit governing the implementation of this crucial environmental cleanup project, which may well affect Massachusetts and the Northeast for centuries.

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There was also the report recently issued by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre that found internet and other telecommunications services are unaffordable for a large number of Canadians.

A closer investigation is taken at the numbers behind the company; addressing the 2012 initial public offering (IPO) and other interesting statistics.

VA Secretary David Shulkin said that there was a «public interest exception» for giving Cerner the contract without examining other bids, especially considering that the system would better be able to communicate with the Defense Department's EHR tech, which Cerner also worked on.

Plank also promised in the letter that Under Armour will take «other public positions on legislation around the country in support of the interests of our teammates whenever policy conflicts with human rights.»

In a legal filing joined by other public interest groups and the consumer electronics trade association, the group said the justices should not become regulators of technology and «the court should not attempt to predict the future of television.»

While venture capitalists, mutual funds and other private investors can only see upside in a zero - interest environment where growth is hard to find, public investors would be skeptical of a public Uber, Smith explains, just as they've asked tough questions about companies like Twitter and Yelp.

While smart watches or other pieces of wearable technology are interesting concepts, the issue lies in getting a whole lot of people to see why they need these devices — and why on earth they'd be caught dead wearing them out in public.

But none of the broken things would be fixed by Donald Trump's proposed budget, which does away with federal subsidization of interest on student loans and eliminates the program that forgives loans for people who enter public service (including teachers)-- among other education - related cuts.

«The NY Fed should go back to the drawing board and draw from the deep, diverse, and highly qualified list of candidates provided to it by the Fed Up coalition (as well as surveying the views of other public interest groups),» the Economic Policy Institute's Josh Bivens said in a recent statement.

Meanwhile, other big digital newcomers to the media scene, including BuzzFeed and Business Insider, have also been slow to take up the public interest banner long carried by the likes of the New York Times and the Press - Enterprise (a small California paper that, as Liptak explained, took two free speech cases all the way to the Supreme Court in the 1980s).

«The other goes at the heart of what the media are supposed to be doing, which is informing the public about things that might be matters of interest to them but which corporate America might not be interested in sharing with them.»

Emma Boorboor, election reform campaign director at U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG), told me that in October 2015, she sent a letter to Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb and two other Vanguard employees outlining her concerns with the mutual fund company's voting policies with respect to corporate political disclosure.

NEW YORK, April 19 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday ramped up pressure on banks and insurers to revisit whether their ties to the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups harm their reputations and the public interest.

However, a budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as in the case of the post-September 2008 bank bailout, the Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.

co-ordinate and collaborate with other organizations devoted to the study of accounting and the public interest.

These are the practices that Eliot Spitzer's office took the lead in investigating when Pres. Bush's deregulatory appointees blocked the SEC and other government agencies from protecting the public interest.

Toward debtor countries American diplomats work through the World Bank and IMF to demand that debtors raise their interest rates and impose taxes and austerity programs to keep their wages low, sell off their public domain to pay their foreign debts, and deregulate their economy so as to enable foreign investors to privatize local electricity, telephone services and other infrastructure formerly provided at subsidized rates to help these economies grow.

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), ACORN Canada (ACORN) and National Pensioners Federation (NPF) today reacted negatively to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) rejection of their review of the CRTC's previous decision to deny creating a fund to ensure all Canadians, including lower - income Canadians, have equal access to broadband and other telecommunications services.

Playboy, which had gone public in 1971, was taken private again in 2011 by Mr. Hefner with Rizvi Traverse Management, an investment firm founded by Suhail Rizvi, a publicity - shy Silicon Valley investor, who has interests in Twitter, Square and Snapchat among others.

«The Deputy Commissioner made clear that Mr. Trump must divest himself not only of managerial control, but of all ownership interest as well,» Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland and three other Democrats said in the letter, which was made public on Wednesday.

At first they regulated the services that they performed directly — marriage and burial ceremonies, handicraft production via public guilds, and the prices and interest rates that merchants, public collectors and other professionals could charge, especially in serving as intermediaries between public institutions, local and foreign communities.

Investment volatility in these types of private real estate investments is limited to changes in net asset value and interest rate unlike public REITs, which are also subject to stock market volatility, which moves independently of the other two factors.

Therefore, in light of the SEC's guidance, we encourage investors, the media, and others interested in Icahn Enterprises L.P. to review the information that Mr. Icahn provides on the website and to members of www.carlicahn.com, and that he posts on Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter, and that he provides on the Shareholders» Square Table website and to its members, in addition to the information that Icahn Enterprises L.P. discloses using its investor relations website (http://www.ielp.com/investor.cfm), SEC filings, press releases, public conference calls and webcasts.

It's interesting to consider what this type of calculation would show about other shareholder proposals, especially this year where two proposals pertained to areas where Alphabet is facing public pressure.

Fifth, governments, industry and other interested groups should strengthen their efforts to build a national ethic of energy conservation and a clearer public understanding of the costs and benefits of various energy choices.

Other risks mentioned by the Report include fluctuations of interest rate and exchange rate; instable oil and commodity prices; deepening credit crisis; raising Sino - Canada trade friction; unfamiliar investment restrictions, laws and policies; crime and public safety, etc..

The company, which recently airdropped a massive cache of XRP into US public school coffers is hoping to stimulate interest in the creation of applications that use its currency and blockchain, which has attracted a lot of interest as a back - end technology in the banking industry, but has only been adopted by one other Coin thus far — the somewhat mysterious Allvor.

Although I don't pretend to understand all the «ins & outs» of banking, public financing, etc., it seems to me to be self - evident that if Canadian governments at all levels were able to borrow, at low or preferably no interest rates, to finance infrastructure projects and other issues such as health care and education, rather than indebting Canadians in perpetuity in order to pay big interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadians.

Answer The Public is a really interesting keyword tool and is based much more on semantics, or the rules of meaning, than other keyword tools.

Twitter's successful debut is likely to stoke interest in other up - and - coming consumer Internet companies such as ride service Uber, scrapbooking site Pinterest, accommodation service Airbnb and the payment start - up Square, all of which boast private - market valuations well north of a billion dollars and could go public in the coming years.

PSAC members working for Environment Canada, for example, inspect lakes and rivers and watersheds and habitats, among a multitude of other tasks — diligently and in the public interest.

To give such websites blanket immunity in the name of internet progress is antithetical to Canadian public interests, whether they be law enforcement, protection of content or other concerns.

Additionally, they wrote, «it is in the public interest for the pipelines to be in closer proximity to each other, so as to maximize monitoring resources and increase the efficiency of response times» with «issues that may arise with either pipeline.»

Since its creation in 2001, the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has raised close to $ 2 billion from a vast global network that includes corporate titans, political donors, foreign governments and other wealthy interests, according to a Washington Post review of public records and newly released contribution data.

It directly moved priests to other geographical locations to hide the fact from the public and put it's own interests over other children's safety.

Whatever agencies oversee non-profits, or other kinds of corporations and companies, and can respond to complaints when non-profits especially are allegedly not functioning within the public interest, or there are other issues with governance, conflicts of interest, inurement (use of a tax - exempt non-profit for the private benefit or excessive benefit of someone with insider relationships), misuse of funds that were solicited to be spent on a specific designation project, etc..

Just knowing the size, the cultural prominence, and the public influence of the evangelical community, I was particularly interested in what the emergence of the ECI and other creation...

The stress on virtue that we have already noticed — Jefferson's «love of others,» Franklin's «zeal for the public good» — is very close to the biblical archetype, while the stress on self - interest that is also common among the founding fathers suggests the powerful influence of the utilitarian archetype.

If religious people stay out of politics and other aspects of public interest then I would say they are free to do as they please, but when they want to push their beliefs on the rest us and completely disregard the facts at the expense of our health and our planet then they become dangerous and must be challenged.

The idea that society could be based on a mere coagulation of individual interests, that the pursuit of private vice could result in public virtue, was a radically new idea in the 17th and 18th centuries and one that did not sit well with other still powerful traditions.

The reading curriculum, drawn from Epictetus, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and Bertrand Russell, will explore the nature of happiness and its relationship with truth, religion, the public interest, and other important concepts.

Other than the Air India case, there hasn't been a large - scale attack on Canada so the media moves on to a better «story» to get ratings and the public loses interest Canada is very different as well than the US.

The press and other public media took a much closer interest in, and in a few years convey to the public quite a new image of WCC.

The reading curriculum, drawn from classic texts in the Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish traditions, will touch on major themes according to the classical understanding of freedom and its relationship with truth, religion, the public interest, and other important concepts (see syllabus below).

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

Hence their worship services and other «religious» activities have frequently been transformed as if they were means of upholding the morale of a group in society whose special interest is the maintenance of the ideal and program of the good life in the public affairs of the day.

Immediately after attaining liberty, the revolutionaries invoked «public virtue» more often than any other term, a virtue which they defined as the readiness to sacrifice self - interest to the common good.

Nonetheless, you are free to pray virtually whenever and where ever you wish, so long as your prayer activities don't encroach on other legitimate public interests.

I have known laymen to invite a friend who is or who may be interested; I have known other persons who just «turn up» because somehow an announcement has reached them or they have read about the school in the public press.