Sentences with phrase «out to the public at»

However, three candidates did not reach out to the public at all.

although you might argue that agents will evolve into «business partners» that help writers to sludge through the process of taking a book out to the public at large, i believe that that will become so easy that writers get quite comfortable doing it themselves, to the extent that we see no need for any «partner».

Our programmes reach out to the public at large, encouraging the celebration and appreciation of Singapore's art history and heritage.

Not exact matches

Ottawa's hawkish stance appears increasingly at odds with public opinion, creating an opening for politicians willing to come out on the legalization side.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Don't be afraid to get out there and show your face to the public, whether at a conference or just being out and about with friend on a Friday night.

As Bloomberg pointed out last month, Spotify's recent deal to raise $ 1 billion in convertible debt valued the company at roughly $ 8 billion and put additional pressure on the streaming service to go public.

They all seem to get along, at least while they're out in public.

Jing Daily looks at the intersection of luxury and culture in China: the ins and outs of business development there with an eye toward the upscale consumer market, as well as the business of culture — from auctions, museums, and contemporary art to performance, public events, and more.

At the very least, she said, the Department of Education should create a public awareness campaign to get the message out to current and former higher education students that there are programs available that can help them.

At public speaking events in recent years, he's often opened by thanking organizers for inviting a Canadian banker to speak — «In most places right now in the world if you're a banker you don't even go out at nights.&raquAt public speaking events in recent years, he's often opened by thanking organizers for inviting a Canadian banker to speak — «In most places right now in the world if you're a banker you don't even go out at nights.&raquat nights.»

«They never invited us for dinner, then at the last minute they realized that optically it wasn't playing very well in public for them, so they put out a statement that we didn't have dinner because I was tired,» Tillerson said, according to a transcript of the interview.

Written by Philip Auerswald, a professor of public policy at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy is due out in April, but you can get a taste of Auerswald's most optimistic take on the entrepreneurship and global economy with this video of an animated, 10 - minute talk he gave recently to lawmakers.

«I reached out to all relevant parties as soon as I was willing to be public with the news and basically said: «At some point around X date, I will disappear for an unknown amount of time.

Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined - benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days) compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.

Existing tax laws around equity - based compensation can even drive a company's employees to let their options go, and miss out on the future windfall when that start - up goes public or is acquired at a good price.

At the same time, as people increasingly consume magazine content online on their phones or on social media sites while out in public, Playboy readers objected to pornographic photos considered NSFW: Not Suitable For Work.

Meenan organizes around a dozen trips per year, buying several sections» worth of seats and then reselling them to the public at face value plus the cost of an outing T - shirt.

«My guess is pharma is waiting to see how it plays out and which side the public opinion goes,» said Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School.

The White House has not put out an official statement confirming the order, just as it has not confirmed that it has frozen grants and contracts at the age ncy, that the agency is not allowed to communicate with the public, or that the EPA will be barred from funding original science.

Not long ago, an out - of - state client of her California public relations firm needed her at a face - to - face meeting but had cut its travel budget.

State - sponsored hackers had a big year, the Middle East continued to spiral out of control, numerous beloved public figures died, and venture capital stopped gushing at its previous levels, among a long list of other things.

The stock has edged upwards ever since.Lütke's success seems to have broken the psychological barrier keeping tech founders out of the public markets: Several others have since accelerated or hinted at IPO plans.

Or as Jon Kingsdale, a public health professor at Boston University, told the New Times Times: «That's not enough time for most states to figure it out.»

That's a disservice not just to the public but to journalists across the world who go out every day and do everything within their power, sometimes at great risk to themselves, to get the story right.»

Ever since Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that the company is working on «autonomous systems» for cars, details have trickled out as well as a few public sightings of the technology Now, thanks to the co-founder of self - driving car startup Voyage, we're getting an up close look at — and some expert insight on — Apple's Project Titan.

The talk at that hearing in 2009 suggests that the SEC may not want its investigations open to public scrutiny out of fear that the regulator may end up looking sloppy at best and negligent at worst.

«We've responded to the competitive environment by focusing on industries that are currently out of favor with the public - equity market, like biotech, medical devices, and early - stage information - technology companies,» says Patrick Boroian, a general partner at Sprout, which is the New York City - based venture - capital affiliate of financial - services giant Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

After remarking he has always been «philosophically» opposed to going public, Karp explained that it is becoming increasingly difficult to let employees cash out their shares at a fair price.

It usually starts like this (at least this is how it started for me when I earned my scar tissue): you own or work for a startup that sells a product or service and are looking to contract out some work instead of hiring inside staff because, well, you're strapped for cash — things such as fulfillment, public relations and web design are all common applicants.

There are lots of dumb things you could do as a startup entrepreneur — like base your company out of Bakersfield, allow yourself to be acquired by Groupon in an all - stock transition, or pitch your growing U.S. - based startup to the Samwer brothers — but nothing could be more dumb than throwing your hard - earned venture capital money at a public relations firm.

If you have a fear of associating with people, you have to go out there and do it, and it's painful... When I was young and completed the [public speaking] course, I was worried I would lapse back... so I started teaching a class at night and, you know, you've got to force yourself to do some things sometimes.»

The Ballmers have yet to roll out a foundation or a public strategy for their giving, but they've been making some big gifts, most recently kicking in $ 50 million for a new funders collaborative that will channel at least a billion dollars to high - performing nonprofits that serve low - income youth.

Klass plans to build out its operational expertise at MaRS by expanding its talent program, which has placed over 100 people in Klass portfolio companies since 2013, as well as by developing its public relations capability.

The News Feed, though, came at a cost: while Facebook information had always been public to your network, 1 the fact that what you posted was being pushed out to people who were «Facebook Friends» but not necessarily real friends was a wake - up call to Facebook users.

«That turned out to be wrong, as a painful process of balance - sheet deleveraging — reflecting excessive private - sector debt, and then its carryover to the public sector — implies that the recovery will remain, at best, below - trend for many years to come.»

At least Europe's political system offers a way out: New parties can be formed to replace the old, and parliamentary representation reflects approximately the public vote.

On Tuesday night, at least 200 people came out to a high school to listen to Dr. Tipirneni, who spoke of her support for a public health insurance option, «common - sense» gun control, and robust funding for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Nonetheless, the ride - hail company — which is rumored to be looking at going public in 2018 — has managed its way out of all these previous public relations messes.

If you're out - of - state, that public school starts to look like more of a private school at nearly $ 25,000 for each year of education.

The starting pay for guards at public state prisons comes out to $ 12.50 an hour.

These individuals also emphasized that there isn't any «structured auction» or «formal process» at play.The potential of a transaction has opened a window onto a process that usually plays out in private, but was made public because the family needed to get a waiver for a Washington State statute.

USA Today's Donovan Slack reports: «John Ullyot, the VA's assistant secretary for public affairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out... The move was unsuccessful — but audacious since Ullyot is the secretary's highest ranking aide tasked with publicly defending him and the agency.

At a $ 131 billion net worth, Bezos is the richest human on the planet, averaging annual compensation of $ 6.5 billion a year in the 20 years since Amazon debuted on the public markets — that maths out to 230,000 times the median pay of Amazon workers.

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.

Canada Post claims to have carried out consultations, but they weren't public — attendance at these sessions was invitation - only, and comments had to be submitted in advance.

«The answer may be entirely innocent,» Mr. Denton said, musing on the question of whether Mr. Harder was paid by someone other than Mr. Hogan, «but I think in order for people to understand what's going on here, what the stakes are, I think it's important that it be out in public, or at least that he'd be asked the question in public.»

Arguably even worse for Trump, Giuliani's statement that Trump fired Comey over refusing to exonerate him contradicts both the phony cover story in the memo put out to the public (claiming that morale at the FBI was poor and that Comey mishandled the Hillary Clinton email matter) and Trump's own confession to NBC News's Lester Holt that he had Russia in mind when he fired Comey.

John Ullyot, the VA's assistant secretary for public affairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out, said both individuals, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation.

And although fiscal stimulus package «leaked» in the Nikkei Wednesday (JPY20trn, with JPY6trn of «real water») appears to have had a supportive impact upon stocks by weakening the yen, even at its most generous, the supplementary budget for this fiscal year is likely to total only JPY2trn, with additional stimulus spaced out over the coming years, and most of this dedicated to public works (which, many fear, runs the risk of turning into wasteful spending rather than a monetary - plus - fiscal stimulus powerhouse).