Sentences with phrase «other opportunities for development»

Associations played a crucial role in African American communities, especially during a time when racism excluded blacks from other opportunities for development and leadership.

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It's an opportunity for me and other producers to educate fans on the development process, the decisions we have to make and why.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

Employees also get the chance to learn from other professionals and expand their skillset, which opens the door for additional professional development opportunities — a benefit today's workforce values in an employer.

«Listening to what other people are doing can spark an idea or conversation, and other opportunities can arise as well,» says the CEO of Alpharetta, Ga. - based School Growth, which provides professional development programming for schools and school boards.

Other functionality that can be added to jump - start community development includes social facilities and entertainment; power generation for charging phones; cooling / refrigeration of vaccines; education opportunities; and much more.

Throughout the year, WBENC provides business development opportunities for member corporations, government agencies and more than 14,000 certified women - owned businesses at events and other forums.

«We are proud to join with other great American brands to broaden opportunity for young men and women and provide access to the training, skills development and experience needed to build a strong workforce and growing economy.»

The best institutional investors act as partners in that they bring in other investors, open doors for business development opportunities, help in recruiting, are objective in their advice as the company grows, act like coaches, and guide you through the inevitable difficult times.

Lead analytics expert technical consultant teams in delivering project implementations and configurations Strategist for Client Implementations of Adobe Marketing Cloud Products (AEM, Analytics, Target, Social, Campaign, etc.) Participate and lead internal brainstorming and creative thinking sessions that solve client / prospect digital marketing roadblocks, customer roadmap & journey strategies, technical integrations, and discover upsell opportunities Leverage digital marketing consulting skills to assess client's requirements in aligning proper resources and provide on - time delivery of the scope of work Key strategic member of sales and business development teams by providing expert solutions to prospects leading to purchasing content management systems such as Adobe AEM (CMS & Communities), Target, Campaign, Analytics and other digital marketing technologies and services Collaborate with all business units including: consulting, technical, sales, and marketing Developed acquisition & demand generation strategies via event, email and content marketing programs Establish excellent sales and client retention strategies and demand generation by providing guidance through evaluation of current technologies and sourcing of complementary products and services to recommend Created sales strategy to increase sales pipeline and focus on opportunities in both inbound and outbound marketing Co-Sell, Cross-Sell, Upsell & Strategize with Partners.

Gerecht in a sense speaks for all of these voices in lamenting the passing of an opportunity, forced by the army's and the protesters» impatience on one hand, and by Morsi's inability to restrain his movement's worst instincts on the other, for this split to have happened (and with it, organic development of semi-moderate Islamism).

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and econoDevelopment», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and econodevelopment and economic growth.

There were strong opportunities for extending the brand into other products and a specialist new product development unit had been established inside the business to accelerate this process.

The roster must be determined by development opportunity for these players and others, not by a desire to win 5 more games in a lost season.

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This will then provide the opportunity for your child to play with other children and gain social development.

She is inspired by the ability of others to draw upon internal resources such as strength and compassion during periods of transition and grateful for the opportunity to witness the process of personal growth, healing, and relationship development that is unique to open adoption.

Being around other babies and parents also gives them an opportunity for social development.

- strengthening the upper body and core muscles for other gross motor tasks - strengthening the upper body and core muscles to create a stable base for fine motor skills - developing stability in the bones of the shoulder joint (the ball and socket joints of the shoulders and hips are shallow and unstable at birth but are molded into stronger, more stable joints through weight - bearing)- visual development to quickly shift focus from near to far - hand - eye - coordination - providing plentiful early opportunities for motor planning (movement problem - solving)- refining balance - integrating the movement (vestibular), pressure & stretch (proprioceptive), visual and touch (tactile) sensory systems - learning to coordinate movements where two sides of the body are doing different movements - learning to coordinate upper body and lower body movements - developing body awareness and spatial awareness - fostering independence

WR: Research Team / Committee members have the opportunity to fulfill professional development and research activities by reviewing and selecting abstracts for oral and poster presentation, contributing to other committee activities, and making recommendations of evidence - based monthly resources for ILCA educational modules.

In addition, the Family Support unit at the Center for Schools and Communities offers supplemental PAT oriented and broader professional development opportunities to PAT providers and other early care and education professionals across the Commonwealth t hrough regular webinars, specialized workshops as well as annual regional or state meetings.

In an accompanying Comment, Frances Mason from Save the Children UK, Alison McFadden from the University of Dundee, UK, and other leading experts in the field write, «The omission of breastfeeding from the Millennium Development Goals, and the resultant lost opportunities to improve child survival, must not be repeated in the Sustainable Development Goals, for which the indicators will be decided in early 2016.

Like other governments reaching out to their diaspora populations, the Scottish government has been actively pursuing business people with Scottish heritage (or other connections), whose sense of «Scottishness» or kinship with Scotland could be harnessed to improve opportunities for international trade or development of skills in Scotland.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Drawing on the active participation of other LGBT and civil rights advocates, non-profits engaged in housing development and financing, and a top representative of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) has announced a bold plan to remake the housing opportunities andevelopment and financing, and a top representative of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) has announced a bold plan to remake the housing opportunities anDevelopment (HUD), Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) has announced a bold plan to remake the housing opportunities and -LSB-...]

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Seventeen months after outlining a bold plan to remake the housing opportunities for queer seniors nationwide, SAGE or Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders announced it has the financing in place to put shovel to earth on two affordable housing developments — one in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and the other on -LSB-...]

As a torchbearer of Africa's Political emancipation, the Ghana Beyond Aid vision resonates within Ghana and catching up with other African countries as the only sustainable means of reaching our goals of economic emancipation as a continent by using internal resources to create the needed infrastructural development and jobs opportunity for the teeming unemployed graduate youth.

«In addition to overseeing existing projects, he has also been tasked with exploring opportunities to partner with donor agencies and other development partners to secure funding and technical assistance for projects across all sectors in the state».

«We need to focus on the opportunities, as we partner with our development partners to create storage facilities to minimize post-harvest losses; and as we work on other exportable agro commodities, we are working on mechanized methods for the production of yam heaps to ease the burden of yam production and review its standards to ensure local improvement and global acceptability.

«I think that there is plenty of opportunity for economic development in the Syracuse and Central New York area, too, so I don't feel jealous about announcements for Buffalo or other places,» Miner said.

My eyes have really been opened, since joining MedImmune, to what other opportunities there are for scientists, [including] business development, project management,... [and] other things.»

The other, more popular explanation proposes that the advent of agriculture and the attendant development of human settlements in the Middle East around 10,000 years ago created scavenging opportunities for animals bold enough to exploit them and that wolves themselves thus initiated domestication.

Others echoed this sentiment, emphasizing the role funding will play as a motivating force for PIs who might at first be hesitant to encourage lab members to pursue career development opportunities.

Like Merck, Amgen has a Black Employee Network (BEN), which provides opportunities for networking and professional development, brings in outside speakers, and helps employees meet other professionals who share their ambitions and experiences.

Kezar said research comparing the working conditions of unionized and non-unionized adjuncts shows that those with collective bargaining power have better salaries and benefits and are more likely to have paid office hours, opportunities for paid professional development and guaranteed participation in governance and other faculty domains.

The program includes opportunities for career development, including mentoring and networking with others in HHMI's scientific community.

Through scholarships and internships, workforce development and career resources, national and regional conferences, science fairs, leadership development and other STEM focused programming, AISES is the leader in STEM opportunity for American Indians.

Increased understanding of the developing brain and how deviations from normal development can increase the risk of neurological and psychiatric diseases has created a rich landscape of opportunity for collaborations between leading academic medical centers and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies dedicated to identifying new drugs and other interventions to help children.

What Donkey Kong seemed to have over Nintendo's other characters were development teams that saw the ape, for some reason, as an opportunity to push for the highest - end graphics possible.

The Princeton, N.J. - based Woodrow Wilson Foundation offers fellowships for graduate study, professional development for teachers, educational opportunities for women and minorities, and other programs.

Other strategies LACES faculty has used include participating in district - supported site leadership for closing the achievement gap; designing opportunities for teacher collaboration around increasingly common assessments; and offering professional development for highly differentiated instruction, noted the California Best Practices Study.

«It's an opportunity to talk about social - emotional learning, moral development, responsibility for others, standing up and having courage, and also an opportunity to talk about the way schools function and what we are doing and not doing to prepare adults to connect to students and to be helpful to them around peer troubles.

88 per cent of teachers said they recognise that PE is as important as other topics, but 25 per cent said they did not feel qualified to teach it and 53 per cent responded by saying they would welcome more opportunities for professional development in the subject.

The program provides professional development and collaborative opportunities for its members who are then encouraged to further extend this network and reach out to other educators.

With successes like these to point to, one can't help but wonder why, when we provide many diverse professional - development opportunities for other professions in America, we can't do more for our educators.

According to Joe Costello, Minister for Trade and Development, «The Review of the White Paper, and the Irish Presidency of the EU in the first half of 2013, present us with an opportunity to draw from [the Busan, Rio +20 and MDG Review] processes, and — critically — to bring the various strands together — breaking down any artificial barriers that exist between sustainable development, hunger, climate change, human rights, gender and other priority issDevelopment, «The Review of the White Paper, and the Irish Presidency of the EU in the first half of 2013, present us with an opportunity to draw from [the Busan, Rio +20 and MDG Review] processes, and — critically — to bring the various strands together — breaking down any artificial barriers that exist between sustainable development, hunger, climate change, human rights, gender and other priority issdevelopment, hunger, climate change, human rights, gender and other priority issues.»

They also provide more opportunities for professional development and joint planning time with accomplished veterans, and generally pay teachers more in relation to other highly skilled occupations.

This indicates that, while SCORM is embedded in the industry and will be around for some time, development has stalled and other standards have an opportunity to step in.

By relating each stage of the process to the development of a computer game or other digital resource, pupils can begin to make specific links between the skills they are acquiring and how they relate to their areas of interest, as well as real world opportunities for scientists, engineers and games designers.

Education reform is an opportunity for professionals in gifted education to recognize what works, what does not work, where «hitchhiking» on the ideas of others is wise, and to understand the changes that are needed to assure excellence in learning and character development.