Sentences with phrase «policy based just»

Buying a term life insurance policy based just on price may be a mistake.

Buying a term life insurance policy based just on price may be a mistake.

Not exact matches

Yellen just is making good on her promise to make policy on a meeting - to - meeting basis.

With the hopes ditching its image as a sucker, this summer the Seattle - based rugged outfitter REI, which customers have jokingly referred to as «Rental Equipment Inc.» «Rent Every Item,» jettisoned its lifetime warranty return policy — giving customers just a single year to return or exchange items.

Of course, just which matters ought to be left to judgment on a case - by - case basis, and which ought to be categorically determined as a matter of policy, is a hard problem for those who design institutions of all kinds.

No one is going to make any long term investments based on a policy that will certainly get reversed, just like the current relaxation of environmental regulations.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

This finding has important implications not just for the home bias literature, but also more broadly for the growing research and policy interest on Internet - based crowd funding, especially as a new channel for entrepreneurial financing.

Without going into the extensive limitations of such models or the longer - term implications for raising interest rates, we would just highlight that the impact of a 100 basis point move in policy rates in both central bank models are surprisingly similar in the short - term.

To generate consensus in support of trade policies that will benefit Canada as a whole will require transparent, evidence - based analysis of how trade agreements will impact not just different sectors, but also different provinces.

The public's perception of Obama's handling on foreign policy was not based on the idea that he was perfect, just that he was better than the guy who came before.

He just wants an electorate to vote for his policies / programs / etc, and a taxpayer base to pay for his secular proganda, as he so clearly stated in his own words.

Just don't base public policy on ideas which he gleams from an ancient text written by men who did not understand science.

If the answer to question 2 is «Yes» then the ruling is correct and the non-related benefits of the health insurance the company was giving their employees out of charity where the employee did not contribute is within their rights to modify and adjust based on any company policy whether it be faith based or just a CEO's whim.

The House GOP letter is good as far as it goes, but you can't base an appeal to workers below the earnings median just on immigration policy.

«The study of just 99 people should be kept in context of the evidence base when considering future policy settings on caffeine in drinks.

The anti-porn initiative is just another example of policy not based on evidence.

His policy is not based on deciding who he is going to get and just get them (like City and Chelsea).

Just like the moneysupermarket website, the moneysupermarket app is effortless to navigate around and offers a clear breakdown of what the different policies offer and the difference in price between making a single payment and opting to pay on a monthly basis.

Let us all hope that ministers like David Willetts are not just paying lip - service to the social sciences, and he — and his colleagues — are serious about making policies based on evidence not ideology.

As for more broad - base electoral policy change, there is just a lack of will to alter a policy of familiarity.

Research from the strategy, business, economy and policy consultancy company I head, RTC Advisory Services Ltd based on NBS data shows that poverty rose from just 27.2 % in 1980 to 46.3 % by 1985, just five years later; 60 % by 1995 and has progressively risen to 69 % in 2010, 71.5 % in 2011 and by 2014, 72 %!

But at the same time it makes longer - term assessment of performance possible — enabling just the sort of independent evidence - based policy for public management that governments constantly say they want.

I would just like to see a sane energy policy based on facts rather than misconceptions and lies.

Meanwhile a research and data report from the Empire Center for Public Policy, which describes itself as «an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank based in Albany, New York,» found that since the tax cap went into effect, school tax levies have risen by an average of just 2.2 percent annually — the lowest in any four - year period since 1982.

ALBANY, NY (05/28/2013)(readMedia)-- Just weeks after scathing reports about the abysmal failure of the Close to Home juvenile «reform» program diverting youthful offenders from state juvenile justice facilities to inadequate New York City based programs, the Cuomo administration is doubling down on bad policy and moving to close two more centers.

The policy group highlighted North Carolina's state community college system as having established a new mechanism to place students in courses based in part on high school performance, rather than just through testing.

As I have long argued, on the basis of plentiful research, the answer has relatively little to do with policy, and constructing a UKIPesque manifesto would be not just ineffective but counterproductive, putting off potential voters who might otherwise be attracted from other parties.

to improve the understanding of and support for Land Value Taxation amongst members of the Liberal Democrats; to encourage all Liberal Democrats to promote and campaign for this policy as part of a more sustainable and just resource based economic system in which no one is enslaved by poverty; and to cooperate with other bodies, both inside and outside the Liberal Democrat Party, who share these objectives.

That is just par for the course with enormous, contractor - based projects, says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org and a former director of space policy for the Federation of American Scientists.

The story is deeply researched and fact - checked, and is just the sort of evidence - based journalism we think helps support informed, thoughtful policy debate.

Now that Nintendo's «Corporate Management Policy Briefing / Nine Months Financial Results Briefing for Fiscal Year Ending March 2017» a whole ton of news comes along with it, so get ready to see a ton of articles based on its contents and this is just the third.

In New Hampshire's example, for those schools that have yet to move to fully competency - based systems, getting unstuck from the organizational structures and processes that guide them appears just as potent a barrier to innovation in some schools as the state's policies are a gateway to innovation.

Our study provides what we hope is just the beginning of a strong evidence base for understanding realistic budget and policy planning around personalized learning.

A better means of driving reform would be to reward states and districts based not on unenforceable promises but on specific, concrete steps to overhaul anachronistic policies like teacher tenure, now granted in most states as a matter of course after just a couple of years in the classroom.

«We need [Prime Minister] Malcolm Turnbull to back the full Gonski, not just stick to [Former Prime Minister] Tony Abbott's policy of ending needs - based funding after 2017 and cutting real funding to schools.

Everything we do at HGSE is grounded in the belief that education is the most pressing issue of our time, and that research - based education policy and practice have the power to create a more just and prosperous society.

That is just one of the findings of a national survey of school districts conducted between February and May 2011 by the Washington D.C. based Center on Education Policy (CEP), and released this... read more

With the latest NAEP reading results just in, we now have some longer term basis for assessing the effectiveness of that policy.

In contrast, the teachers made changes based on their individual professional development activities, but were often unsure just how those changes fit with the state policy.

* We should fully define «highly qualified teacher» for Texas not just in regulatory terms, but in terms of the qualities and performance that are expected, which will necessitate a re-evaluation of the strategic policy document, «Learner - Centered Schools for Texas: A Vision of Texas Educators», adopted in 1997, as well as the transformation of educator employment terms from «contract» to «at will», with enhanced compensation based on performance tied to student achievement.

Now, 15 states have policies that base teacher tenure partly on student test scores, up from eight just a year earlier, according to a report released Monday by the advocacy group, StudentsFirst.

Our database highlights not just the 50 state policies, but also whether they add to the stability, authority, power, consistency, and specificity of potentially successful implementation (though, the question still remains, successful according to whom and based on what metrics?).

Policy Points also reveals that 38 states use at least four rating levels to differentiate teacher performance, and just over a dozen states base 50 percent or more of a teacher's evaluation on student learning data.

In its submission to the review, the Centre for Independent Studies said: «Evidence - based policy is more than just anecdotes.

Again, the percentage is much lower if we look only at those who are teachers with just 21 percent of teachers favoring policies that base salary rates on student test scores.

ASCD's newest issue of Policy Points (PDF) also reveals that 38 states use at least four rating levels to differentiate teacher performance, and just over a dozen states base 50 percent or more of a teacher's evaluation on student learning data.

Since I'm so good at prognostication: I predict that state test scores, in New York and elsewhere, will continue to be used as a basis for important policy decisions, despite the fact that test scores tell us just a little bit about the things we care about.

Following policy pushes to encourage schools to be more involved in training, the proportion of postgraduates training through a school - based route has increased by more than 15 percentage points over just the last two years, meaning that for the first time nearly half (49 per cent) are training this way.